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  1. Re:how long to ship on Apple Ships Xserve G5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    my mac mouse has 6 buttons and a scroll wheel

    Huh. My mouse has a replica Concorde dashboard with 2520 switches, 28 levers, a control yoke and a drooping nose canopy for landing visibility.

  2. Re:Price Comparison on Apple Ships Xserve G5 · · Score: 4, Insightful


    if(apple_price > dell_price) most_important_thing = price;
    else most_important_thing = some_other_feature();

  3. Re:But but on Adobe Kills FrameMaker for Mac · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Adobe doesn't care about FM on OS X. They are aggressively pushing InDesign on OS X, so FrameMaker would simply fragment their market and distract them from the pursuit and slaughter of Quark XPress.

    Of course, whenever a Mac app is discontinued it's an invitation for the haters to start trolling, but FM was never in the game on OS X.

  4. Re:Sun: Last people to design a UI on Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D · · Score: 2, Funny

    do you always know what CD you want to play? i've got one of those big CD sleeve case things that stores about 100-odd discs. often when i'm in the car i'll open it onto my lap and flip through the pages until something i see catches my eye and then in the CD player it goes.

    Taken to its logical conclusion this interface would simulate things like the wrong CDs being in the wrong boxes, missing inlay cards, and that stack of CDs that you couldn't get back into the cases because you were all bonged up.

  5. Re:Uh, CompUSA? on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    Those 5th Avenue stores are specifically set-up to gouge naive tourists (remember, this is New York City). They specialize in 'bait and switch', where they offer a great deal on something you know and then suddenly come up with some reason to get you to buy something terrible for the same price, relying on the buyer's momentum to close the deal.

    (I'm not sure what they would switch for a Dull though).

    Unless you want to appear on Fox 5 Problem Solvers avoid those stores; go to J&R instead.

  6. Re:Easy answer on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    This might be more convenient, but a shipping company will declare the goods at customs & excise and send you a VAT bill.

    If you import things yourself you are extremely unlikely to be charged VAT; they really don't care unless you are carrying thirty or forty boxes of equipment. I've travelled between the UK and US dozens of times with new Macs and never had a problem. I'm pretty sure most customs seizures are based on tip-offs.

    If you want to be extra-smart, you should go somewhere without sales tax - I have the vague idea that Delaware or Virginia has no sales tax, and could save you an extra 8.25% on New York prices. Use a retailer like CompUSA* or Circuit City* and make sure it's ready to be picked up when you travel.

    * I know.

  7. Re:This is why I hate slashdot on Why Programming Still Stinks · · Score: 1

    Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

  8. Re:no way on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    Warning: When constructing your spacecraft remember that Velcro is explosive in a pure oxygen atmosphere.

  9. Re:More meaningless Darl soundbites on SCO Aims For The Feds · · Score: 2, Funny

    You seem to overlook that fact that windows does not cluster, has low processing thoughput, is riddled with security problems, and is unstable.

    You misspelled "works as intended".

  10. Re:Nonsense ! on Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties · · Score: 1

    Just try and learn a little of the local language.

    Try that in Paris. Parisians are incredibly rude to foreigners speaking in French, to the extent of deliberately refusing to understand them. It isn't much of an incentive to use the language.

  11. Re:Take the red pill on Apple Tests Well in Education · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please inform the Mac developers who are reading of the Windows applications that are not available (or have equivalents) for Macintosh. You can be specific or describe categories.

    Seriously, it would be very useful. I've been researching this for the last two weeks and have still yet to find a good market niche. If on the other hand you are simply trolling, please excuse my reply.

  12. Re:What is it with Forbes and inaccuracy? on Computer Associates Pays Off SCO · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think Forbes supports SCO as a Microsoft proxy. The article is full of statements which don't really make sense.

    I particularly liked this part: "Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury,"

    So the score is SCO 4 GPL 4,000,000.

  13. Re:so... on A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053 · · Score: 1

    I imagine 100 years from now a PDA will have a baseline of 1TB of memory.

    You're thinking too literally. In the future, high-end computers will have just one byte of memory, but it will be exactly the byte you need right at that moment.

  14. Re:Apple on A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember, it begins with the phrase "nondeterministic behaviour" and ends with your office full of sacrificed animals.

  15. Re:Don't rule out the cow! on Did A Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought the cow story was made up by a reporter. It is a 19th century urban legend.

    It was probably that goat again.

  16. Re:*laughing* on Spyware on One in Twenty Computers? · · Score: 1

    The risks of smoking are massively exaggerated, not least because many public health advocates feel that exaggerating is acceptable because of their conviction. Circular logic never had it so good.

  17. Re:I manage a 50-user corporate network. on Spyware on One in Twenty Computers? · · Score: 1

    BRIAN: We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!
    EVERYONE: The Judean People's Front?!
    BRIAN: No, no! The Romans!

  18. Re:Frameworks on A History of Apple's Operating Systems · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also known as a bundle.

    Frameworks aren't quite the same thing as a bundle.

    Framework bundles use a bundle structure different from "modern" bundle structure used by applications. The structure for frameworks is based on an older bundle format and allows for multiple versions of the framework code and header files to be stored inside the bundle. Supporting multiple versions allows older applications to continue running even as the framework binary continues to evolve.

    The system identifies a framework by the .frameworks extension on its directory name and by the Resources directory at the top level of the framework bundle. Inside the Resources directory is an Info.plist file that contains the bundle's identifying information. Your actual Resources directory does not have to reside physically at the top-level of your bundle. In fact, the system frameworks that come with Mac OS X put a symbolic link in this location. The link points to the most current version of the Resources directory, buried somewhere deep inside the bundle.

  19. Re:Pity about the os9 GUI on A History of Apple's Operating Systems · · Score: 3, Funny

    I vote for the word "imprefections" to be added to the English language.

  20. Re:Wow on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 5, Funny

    From a business standpoint it makes sense.

    From a business standpoint the Mafia makes sense.

  21. Re:Programming challenges for Mac Developers... on Programming Challenges for Mac Developers · · Score: 1

    With that statically allocated NSTextfield your compiler will barf first.

  22. Re:bleh?! on Programming Challenges for Mac Developers · · Score: 1

    Cocoa browser is more nicerer, as it shows the documentation, not just the header, and is hyperlinked.

    Of course the real hidden XCode easter egg is to switch on the ultra-fast compiler by holding down the command key and typing "quicker".

  23. Re:Faith? on Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    SCO is no longer claiming any code was stolen from their product and inserted into Linux. They are claiming that IBM developed AIX and Dynix from Unix System V (as licensees) and then ported routines from AIX to Linux. The code in question never belonged to SCO or their predecessors.

    SCO is arguing that the code that was contributed to Linux is derivative of their Unix, because it was originally developed for Unix. It's a very optimistic approach to the law, on their part.

  24. Re:Apple can never die on Apple Plans to Grow to $10 Billion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Last time they almost did, Microsoft bailed them out.

    And then they found the hook in the car door handle, proving that the story was true.

  25. Re:Good to see... on Germany Muzzles SCO · · Score: 1

    You are falling into circular logic.

    Suppose we believe that cigarette smoking is statistically linked to cases of lung cancer (which is reasonable).

    Then we argue that smoking causes lung cancer (which is a hypothesis).

    Doctors (who accept the hypothesis) then diagnose cases of lung cancer as smoking-related.

    Then, because of all these cases, we argue that our hypothesis has been proved, when it has not. It's still circumstantial evidence, however compelling it is.