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  1. Re:...none of the hassle...? on Apple's Response to Microsoft: Unix Ads? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    5 things:
    Word,
    Excel,
    Powerpoint,
    IE,
    Photosho p.

    There. That's 5 things I can get on OS-X but not Linux.

    Don't get me wrong, to me Linux is like heroin, I'm always looking for that nice, warm, fuzzy feeling I got when I installed Linux for the first time. The feeling I felt when I tried out OS-X the other day was the feeling closest to that very same warm fuzzy feeling I had 6 years back.

    I'm even for the first time in my life _seriously_ considering a Mac (if I would have known that 2-3 years ago I would have commited myself to a psychiatric hospital).

  2. Re:What's happening latley? on 11 Things About Spider-Man · · Score: 2

    Personally, I think that if a film/tv show takes place in a real location (i.e. not someplace like Gotham City or Metropolis) the producers should at least have the common decency of portraying the location accurately.

  3. Well, you've got to hand it to him... on Silicon Valley vs. Your Privacy · · Score: 2

    at least he's being frank about his intentions. I figure the only difference between him and Bill Gates is that Larry Ellison isn't exactly keeping his intentions secret.

    Personally I think that is a good sign.

  4. Re:I think they're smoking ABIT of crack over ther on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 2

    Well, us Linux folks had their usb mouse detected during their last installation of RedHat 7.2, so quit yer complaining get a newer kernel.
    Hell, I was even using a usb mouse _before_ the 2.4 series.

  5. Re:Prove it on PC Prices to Rise? · · Score: 1

    I think that was one of the funnier comments I've read here on /., would it be OK if I used it as my signature?

  6. Two points, on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    1) It's Swiss, not Sweden.
    2) An assault riffle is not as easy to conceal or carry around as a handgun, which is what causes most "accidents".

    And if you think it's impressive that the US has damn near "every friggin" culture in the world in one country, try London which also has just about every culture in the world, only in one city. Oh, and here's the amazing part, they play mostly nice with each other in the sandbox.

    ps. I'm getting sick of the argument "once you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns".
    If you banned them in the first place not even outlaws would have guns.

  7. Re:LGPL? on Qt For The Console · · Score: 1

    Well, the article was posted at 23.59GMT, thus making it LOOK legit.

  8. Let me get this straight... on Encoding DNA as Music for Copyrighting? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If my DNA sequence is identical to that of DNA encoded Backstreet Boys track, I may well expect a cease-and-decist letter from the RIAA effectively ordering me to commit suicide?

  9. Re:Corrective lenses make things worse on Monitors for People with Poor Eyesight? · · Score: 1

    So, I'm really just imagining things when I recall it being about 5-6 years since I got my last prescription?

    I started wearing glasses when I was 12 and got a new prescription at the ages of 14 and 17. I'm now 23 years old and am still using the same prescription I got when I was 17.

  10. Re:Ram usage doesn't matter???! on gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could have defragged your disk and then run pagedefrag from Sysinternals.

    It's usually best not to mess with the pagefile. Just let pagedefrag defragment it for you. The only catch is that you have to reboot to defrag the pagefile since pagedefrag needs full access to the disk. Oh and it also defrags your registry and other system files.

  11. Re:acrobat works fine in linux on Knuth: All Questions Answered · · Score: 1

    Well, then there's the PostScript viewer for KDE, it works pretty good too, with anti-aliasing and everything.

    You'll swear your PDFs never looked this nice.

  12. Re:Oh my... on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    Overhanded, it's the only way to fly^Wunravel.

  13. Re:Mythology on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    Almost correct, if you would have named your DB server Odin it would have been perfect. Since, after all, Odin knows all.

  14. Re:Hmmmm . . . on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    And like the Romans too will your empire collapse before you know it.

  15. Re:Justified Usage (yeah right) on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    How would you know? Have you actually interrogated each and every single last one of the socalled "enemy" inquiring about such logs?

  16. Re:Hmmmm . . . on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    So, why isn't the US friends with Cuba, Vietnam, the Taliban etc.?

    Afterall all of the above have caused american casualties.

  17. Re:Justified Usage (yeah right) on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    Yeah, all that hi-tech gear and quality training facilities and STILL you manage to have the highest score in the not-so-popular field of KILLING PEOPLE ON YOUR FUCKING SIDE!

    Only 148 people were killed in the Gulf, BUT A WHOPPING NUMBER OF 207 WERE KILLED DUE TO FRIENDLY FIRE and other accidents.
    You lost 4 tanks, ALL to friendly fire.

  18. Re:Hmmmm . . . on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on!

    The only reason Japan didn't reply with a nuclear attack off their own is because they DIDN'T HAVE NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES, jerk.

    If Japan HAD had nuclear weapons ready to do some damage they would not have hesitated for a SECOND after the Bomb hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    It's like if I punch you in the face and you answer by swinging a baseball bat in my face and I DON'T have a baseball bat, then YEAH! of course I don't try to punch you in the face again.
    Now if I DID have a baseball bat with me as well, then I wouldn't hesitate to strike that in the back of your neck.

  19. uh huh, on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 1

    And you don't think that the US cocking the trigger on their nukes will make other nuclear capable nations do the same thing as well?

    Geez, haven't you seen WarGames?

  20. Moderators on crack cocaine again... on U.S. Works Up Plans for Using Nuclear Arms · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really don't see how this can qualify as a flamebait.

  21. He also said once... on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 1

    "Icelanders are the smartest people on earth,
    they were clever enough to discover America and smart enough to lose it again."

  22. Re:Just how flexible is flash? on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2

    OK, I think I'm beginning to get the picture.

    But still, it doesn't get rid of the problem of maintaining a website efficiently.

    On your regular website, all pages are usually built around just a couple of screens.
    Most developers I know are lazy as well (often a good property) and create skeletons from these screens, then simple move whatever is common in these skeletons to a single file that's included at run/compile time using include directives in whatever language they use.

    How has Macromedia planned this sort of work?

  23. Re:Just how flexible is flash? on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why should I have to re-generate a binary file every time someone changes some content?

    It takes unnecessary amount of CPU power.
    Oh, sure ... you think it's very fast on your developing machine, but just you wait until it's been deployed and is perhaps being re-generated every 5 seconds.

  24. Re:Flash will always be Eye Candy. on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 1

    If I read this correctly this occurs by two means.

    1)
    There is a DB connectionstring in the flash file itself (Security, hello!?).

    2)
    A new flash file is generated for every hit, or every so many minutes etc.

    Both of these methods are fundamentally broken!

  25. Just how flexible is flash? on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How easy is it for me to change content within a flash script/image (what is the correct term anyway?)?

    With HTML I can make do with just about anything you can call an editor.
    Do I have that flexability AS A DEVELOPER/CONTENT PROVIDER?