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  1. Re:Badnarik doesn't have the votes anyway on Libertarian Party Suit Could Mean A 3-Party Debate · · Score: 1

    The debates are not publicly funded so the Libs are bound to lose this case. The debate commission is an private independant nonprofit run by the Democratic and Republic parties. The commission is paying for everything involved with the debate including the rental of the building and for the debate to occur in and other security costs that would be incured. The state of Arizona is spending exactly 0 dollars in this whole operation.

  2. Re:Badnarik doesn't have the votes anyway on Libertarian Party Suit Could Mean A 3-Party Debate · · Score: 2, Informative

    The debates are not created by any sort of national mandate but set forth and run by the debate committee setup by the Republican and Democratic parties. The debate commission is can invite who ever it wants to the debate without anyone overrulling them. They've set the bar pretty high at a consistant 15% in the polls in order to bar any candidates from their party.

    If it was a national law there would of been no "negotiation" about how many debates and all the silly rules those debates entail and Buchanan would of been let into the debates in the last cycle because he was a federally funded candidate. (Probably Nader as well since he was polling higher than Buchanan).

  3. Re:no for both on eWeek Reviews Gnome 2.8 And KDE 3.3 · · Score: 1

    None of these options hold a candle to Rat Poison. Nothing is as simple or minimal as it.

  4. Re:more precise on 64-Bit Gaming Oversold to Consumers · · Score: 1

    Nope. Integer operations have twice the number of bits in a 64-bit, while floating point operations are the same 80-bits they've been in the 32-bit computers. The Althon64 FPU is faster, but it doesn't have more bits than its AlthonXP parent.

  5. Re:Say it isn't so on Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts? · · Score: 1

    On top of that, I would be legally prevented from taking a job with any of their clients or their competitors for two years after leaving the company, if that were to ever happen.

    While this language sounds nice, it's unenforcable unless they are paying you for the two years you cannot work for the competition. If they're not, then there's nothing they can do to prevent you from earning a living from whoever wants to pay you.

  6. Re:To Clear things up on Ultima X - Odyssey Development Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Probably just as likely.

  7. Re:To Clear things up on Ultima X - Odyssey Development Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Did you ever think that the games EA cancels aren't good at all, but are turning out so aweful that even EA doesn't want to put their name on it.

  8. Re:from cnn: on School Internet Program Audit Shows Fraud and Waste · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In 1999 the installation wasn't as easy or clean as it is today so it probably took a good hour. Drivers were buggy and sometimes Windows wouldn't play nice with them. The cards also cost in the neighborhood of $275-$300 to begin with. The price on those silly things has just come down in the last 2 years.

  9. Re:Possible Backfire but Great Idea on Sega Goes Cheap to Battle EA in NFL Game Sales? · · Score: 1

    They'll sell more copies, but at less than half the amount they used to make - that's a nice hit to their profit margins.

    I think your making the mistake that it'll cost them more than $20 dollars per copy. They'll probably still be pulling in a profit if the sold them at $10 dollars. The production costs of a game are quite low and the fixed cost of making the game drop quite quickly as you increase the number of units sold.

  10. Re:A point by point rebuttal. on Dvorak On The Future Of The Xbox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just be cause you don't believe it to be true, doesn't meant that the loss is false.

    Here's a story talking about MSFT's December Quarter of 2003. It talks about how they lost $394 million in that quarter. Here's another story discussing how they lost $273 million the quarter before that. Both of these stories were easy to find and based on MSFT's reports to the SEC.

    I always thought it was common knowledge that the XBox department was burning money like it was going out of style. Guess I was wrong.

  11. Re:Fat sucks on Windows Alternatives to NTFS? · · Score: 1

    It's limited though. Limited file sizes, limited partition sizes, limited file attributes, limited numbers of files in directories, no compression or anything like that. No journaling, etc. Those are reasons why people don't use it... performance is not one of them.

    All file systems

  12. Re:NOT the first full 64 bit on Gentoo/PPC64 Beta Live CDs Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Windows NT on Alpha ran in 32-bit mode. It didn't take advatnage of any of the 64-bitness of the Alphas.

  13. Re:64-bit performance revisited on Hardware Selection for AMD64 + Linux? · · Score: 1

    One difference between Solaris 64 and Linux 64 is that most programs running on Linux will include the source and not have difficulties switching between 32-bit and 64-bit because it'll all be compiled into 64-bits. The ability to recompile everything is an advantage Linux has over Solaris in the move to 64-bits.

  14. Hardware RAID on the motherboard on Hardware Selection for AMD64 + Linux? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of the RAID on the motherboards are really software RAID that runs in a Windows driver or Linux driver. Since each slot usually shows up as a normal PATA or SATA device, one could then just use Software RAID under linux and get the same effect as the "on board" RAID under 64-bit x86.

  15. Re:Seeing as they like history...... on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 1

    NT started with 3.0 because the non-NT version of Windows was at 3.0 at the time and they wanted to keep it insync.

  16. Re:PageRank on The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you check they're returning no results for the phrase "Nigruitude Ultramarine". So I doubt you're number 2.

  17. Re:Rainlendar on Looking for a Stand-Alone Calendar App? · · Score: 1

    It also runs only on Windows.

  18. Re:And for those who don't know on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    Ben Franklin (US $100 Bill) and never a US President, was a PRO British representative sent by the Congress to try to settle the matter. It was only after being repeatedly abused that He turned to the US Independence Cause.

    Was also told not to accept anything sort of solution to the matter short of full independence for the colonies. He was explictly banned from accepting a deal to give the colonies seats in Parlement (since the "no taxation" motto for independence wouldn't work if they were actually represented in the body. It's really had to negotiate a settlement if you have no power to negotiate.

    In the end the war turned out better for England, since they still got all the profits of the colonies without having to bear any if the administrative costs of the colonies. And taxes in the colonies after the war were way higher then the taxes the British were to levy under their rule. There was even another revolt, called the "Whiskey Rebellion" after some people realised that taxes were not actually lower after independance.

  19. Re:It'd be nice on Mozilla Foundation Meets The GNOME Foundation · · Score: 1

    Nautilus, Epiphany, Galeon, Firefox, and Mozilla are all the same browsers with different front ends. They all use the same Gecko rendering engine.

  20. Re:Security on Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs · · Score: 1

    It's more like the value of your property is directly related to the quality of the neighborhood. Using property taxes to pay for schools improves the neighborhood and would keep and/or increase the value of the property that paid for it.

  21. Re:Rebuild it all? on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some of the sets were slated to be rebuilt anyway before the fifth season started due to other problems like general wear and tear. In the end they didn't lose that much.

  22. Re:Amazing, but not for the reason you'd think on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 1

    yet Stargate SG1 is still going strong?

    Still going strong is a relative term of course.

  23. Re:Move On to Firefly !!! on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but there is a Firefly movie in the works. It's called Senerity at the moment at least.

  24. Re:Good scenes on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1

    Battlestar Galactica had some cheesy battles that were actually pretty good for their time.

    No, Battlestar Galactia had one battle that was good. All the others were re-edits of the same footage. I thought the remake had a cool battle as well (at the end when they were making their escape), I just hope there is money to do more battles in the future instead of re-editting that one.

  25. Re:Privacy Issue on Lawyers Using Databases To Grab Clients · · Score: 3, Informative

    Medical records, bank records, and military records are not covered by the Sixth Amendment. That is the reason for the difference, since the Sixth requires public trail for the accused. I'd rather have arrest records public so no one accidently disappears after being arrested.