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  1. Never had much to show for it? on Saga Of TriStrata · · Score: 1

    Barksdale managed to eeke out a little something from Netscape. A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money...

  2. The free version does not really work on Intervideo LinDVD 'To Be Released' · · Score: 1

    Its a proof of concept, you can't actually use it to watch and listen to movies.

  3. So who is Clive Longbottom? Phil Roberts? on 'Experts' Back To Claiming Open Source Insecure · · Score: 1

    Clive Longbottom is internationally recognised in the provision of advice on foundational issues, covering hardware, operating
    system and collaborative technology issues as applied to today's dynamic businesses. Coming from an end-user background...
    Stop right there! Dodwell is elsewhere listed as a marketing
    manager, hardly someone to speak authority on
    this subject.

  4. Save human jobs, boycott space alien tech on IBM 75G Hard Drive Ready · · Score: 1

    You don't want one of *those* solid state drives...

  5. Re:More disk we can't afford to back up. on IBM 75G Hard Drive Ready · · Score: 1

    Just send the second disk to a friend across the
    country who has DSL or a cable modem.

  6. Re:Call me paranoid..... on Intel Giving Away Free Computers To Employees · · Score: 1

    Its hard to imagine how Intel will monitor what you're doing after you've wiped the hard drive and installed a new operating system.

  7. Makes sense to me on Intel Giving Away Free Computers To Employees · · Score: 1

    I guess the idea is to get folks to waste time on the internet when they're at home rather than at work.

  8. Re:Let's hope on Red Hat Teams with Real Networks · · Score: 1

    Of *course* its the same. And last time I checked the Realplayer 6.0 had a busy wait that makes it pin my CPU meter whenever its playing.

  9. "Open the source to competitors" on Will Microsoft Open Windows Source Code? (No!) · · Score: 1

    I wonder who Bill considers his competitors? Not me, I'll bet. This doesn't sound like they're going to give the source away, just let `competitors' have a peek.

  10. Borland dilutes Corel? on Corel to Buy Inprise/Borland · · Score: 1

    Since Borland has 2.5 times Corel's revenues I'm not too worried about the dilution.

  11. Re:Java OfficeSuite on Red Herring Looks at Corel's Linux Strategy · · Score: 1

    That's far from obvious since they have been at it for almost two years.

  12. You should also read "I Cringely" on the subject on Why Time Warner was Forced Into AOL's Arms · · Score: 1

    At PBS.

  13. Re:my 0.02 on What are Share Options Worth? · · Score: 1

    Its more like For every RedHat or VA there are ten companies that tank.

  14. The Gotcha on What are Share Options Worth? · · Score: 1

    One Gotcha I read about in Charles Ferguson's book "High Stakes, No Prisoners" is that some companies (e.g. the old Pixar) put in your contract that that they have the right to buy your options back at the strike price (i.e. virtually nothing) whenever they want. Watch out for stuff like this. Other things to think about is how the interests of top management might conflict with yours -- if the company gets sold to Microsoft how much Microsoft stock will your shares be worth? Its pretty much up to Microsoft and your CEO.

  15. Re:I'd be interested if xmms treated symlinks bett on XMMS Plugin Competition Closed - Voting Started · · Score: 1

    I program, indeed, I have done a great deal of work on such projects as rpm, bigloo, xawtv, STk, and Crystal Space. I just don't have time to delve into this one at the moment, particularly since I have found a workaround: gqmpeg. I have tried to report this problem to the developers but I haven't gotten a sense that they have noticed.

  16. I'd be interested if xmms treated symlinks better on XMMS Plugin Competition Closed - Voting Started · · Score: 2

    As it is it always canonicalizes your path -- if you organize your music directories using symbolic links it forgets which symbolic link you navigated into a directory by and puts you in the "real" directory. So I can't poke around all my romantic period music, it always dumps me back in the "by name" directory.

  17. Bank of America + DLJdirect on What's the Best Online Financial Solution? · · Score: 1

    I use Bank of America for on-line bill paying and (because I'm now in CA) ATM card. They had a nice web site when everyone else was deploying windows-only systems. They have an associated on-line brokerage, but I prefer the less expensive DLJdirect.

  18. Re:Is it obvious? on Google (Patent Pending) · · Score: 1

    Patent panic *did* begin in the earliest days of the web, its just that those patents are just being issued now.

  19. Yes, there is an open source solution on Yahoo & Broadcast.com Dumping Real Audio for MS · · Score: 1

    Go to www.shoutcast.com, www.mp3.com, all the streams there can be played by xmms.

  20. Theft of $87,000 is easy death penalty in china on China Sentences Bank Cracker/Thief to Death · · Score: 1

    Many many crimes are punishable by death in china. Family even gets an invoice for the cost of the bullets.

  21. Don't you guys get tired of new computers? on Geek Christmas Ideas · · Score: 1

    How about one of these babies!

  22. Re:The FIRST video game??? on Spacewar! Lives Again · · Score: 1

    I played this game on an Evans and Sutherland LDS-1 (Line Drawing System) connected to a PDP-10 around 1972. I imagine there were similar displays back through the sixties, but without the hardware matrix multiplier. Its not a progressive scan display, the computer controls the vertical and horizontal deflection coils and drives the dot to exactly where it wants, thus drawing lines.

  23. Not a computer graphics company, but... on Visual Effects Companies in NY and Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    The NYPD.


  24. Re:The idea is not art by focus groups on Focus Group Art · · Score: 2

    The point is that there are a lot of artists who are seriously out of touch


    That is most emphatically NOT the point. You are missing several layers of irony.

  25. Re:Java was initially designed to be standalone on How do you Define "Operating System"? · · Score: 1

    Don't get so upset! Just because you don't consider something to be part of the OS doesn't mean you can't have it.