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  1. Re:I've been looking.... on Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer · · Score: 2

    Look and Feel is one of those things which hasn't been sorted out. There have been cases which say you can copy someone else's look and feel, eg Lotus v Borland, which the 1st US Circuit decided that methods of operation aren't copyrightable. But Lotus won an earlier suit against Paperback Software, over the exact same thing. Apple & Xerox sued over Windows,NewWave, MacIntosh and Xerox Star. I think all of these suits were eventually settled out of court.

  2. Re:TV programming exists only to sell advertising on Broadcasters vs Producers on Content Integrity · · Score: 2

    Nova is among those which are co-produced, usually either with the BBC, or with Channel 4 (also British). Mystery isn't co-produced, it's just a rescreening of British series with an introduction tacked on.

  3. Re:Blackmailing Google? on Google Sued over Page Ranking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes they can.

  4. Re:Correction on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 2

    You can get a 0 byte version of true. An empty file will execute as a shellscript and return true, and this was the traditional true until after v7 Unix.

  5. Re:Humanitarian aid on One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm wondering that myself.

  6. Re:Humanitarian aid on One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL · · Score: 2, Informative

    CD's are plastic.

  7. Re:What about poor old Acorn users? on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 2

    Mainly BBS's were for the same OS user. You'd have an Apple BBS or a CP/M BBS or whatever.

  8. Re:New Newline Character? on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 5, Informative

    Each of them has a different function. 000A and 000D are for compatability with ASCII. 0085 is for a unified character to replace the 000D 000A pair used on some OS's. However, some programs (eg notepad) use line breaks when they really mean paragraph seperators, so Unicode defined two codes which mean REAL line seperator, and REAL paragraph seperator. This report explains it quite clearly.

  9. Re:Read the Unicode spec.... on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 2

    Yup, but the original posting suggested that 0085 was the only correct encoding in Unicode, when it's actually one of many possible correct encodings.

  10. Re:What about poor old Acorn users? on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Atom, which the BBC was based upon came out in 1979.. At that time there wasn't an IBM PC, and the world was very diverse. You could choose Apples (0D), CP/M (0D,0A), Unix (0A), Primos (8A), VMS - which is either records or 0D. Also, it was quite rare for files to be shared amongst different systems - a file created on an Apple would stay on an Apple forever. A decision which looks strange in 2002 looks as sensible as any other option in 1979.

  11. Re:Read the Unicode spec.... on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more complicated than that. Unicode has
    2029 - paragraph seperator
    2028 - line seperator
    000D - CR
    000A - LF
    0085 - NEL (Next Line)
    Any of these could be interpeted as the end of a logical line.

  12. Re:Product release schedules on Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be wiser to announce that they're not going to hold back their product released until MacWorld, and aalivate the problem that way? Then they would have no problem at all, instead of a yearly one (And a yearly problem would probably be a deeper problem that their existing 6 monthly one).

  13. Re:Event Horizon on There's a Hole in the Middle of It All · · Score: 2
    But an expanding universe, even an accellerating one, says nothing about the universe being open or closed.

    To give an analogy. If I was to ride a bike up a hill in the early part of the climb, I would obviously be riding uphill, and could be accelerating as I do it. However, if the hill is steep enough, I would still eventually slow down, then roll backwards.

    We need to know all the forces which can operate on the matter in the universe, and their relative strengths, before we can have a final answer.

  14. Re:Needs to review his genetics on Your Genome Scanned While You Wait · · Score: 2

    Of course he should be using triplets, not pairs. Two bases on their own are meaningless,3 bases mean a particular amino acid (or stop). Going from CGA to CCA would result in a alanine being replaced by a glycine. Going from GCG to GCC would result in arginine either way, so would be harmless.

  15. Re:Passport for Linux? on Passport for Linux On the Way · · Score: 2

    There are. Out of the 3 admins I've hired in the last 2 years, 2 of them are women.

  16. Re:Passport for Linux? on Passport for Linux On the Way · · Score: 2

    Assuming a system which supports PAM, eg Linux, Solaris or others, then pam_smb may be what you want. Pam really is rather nice for allowing the administer to setup the authentication she wants.

  17. Re:Oh.. the pressure! on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I then had to spend a long time fixing hte document so it looks right in OO.

    But then, I've had similar problems when opening documents in Word, just a different version or different print driver to the original authors. The problem is that Word is an awful file format.

  18. Re:Learning Source on The End Of Minix? · · Score: 2

    Solaris is not a microkernel. It's a standard SVR4 kernel with extensions.

  19. Re:urr on Apple Is Buyer of New 64-Bit IBM Chips · · Score: 2

    Yeah, Apple could never move from one chip to another.

  20. Re:Wrong way to look at the problem. on Constructing Accessible Web Sites · · Score: 2

    Actually most accessibility features are quite cheap, especially if they're done at time of construction. Average cost for a new home with basic access is $200.

  21. Re:Why a link only to Amazon? on Reflecting Fires · · Score: 3, Informative

    I see a link to Xlibris. Click on Reflecting Fires.

  22. Re:Nice... on More on Microsoft vs. Lik Sang · · Score: 2

    Don't blame hatred of Mulroney & the federal PC's just on the GST. There are plenty of other reasons to hate him, including Meech Lake & Charottetown accords, NAFTA, and the deficit.

  23. Re:Cars? on When Alcohol And Airplanes Make A Good Mix · · Score: 2

    Brazil tried to convert to 100% ethanol fueled cars. It nearly bankrupted them, because there simply isn't a large enough supply at reasonable cost, so they had to import from the US.

  24. Re:Nice... on More on Microsoft vs. Lik Sang · · Score: 2
    possibly less opportunity.

    Very easy to argue this. Many western countries have had a female leader by now, the UK, Canada, France, Ireland, and New Zealand have. Even non-western countries such as Philipines, India and Pakistan have. For the US, the closest they've come is in fiction.

  25. Re:The Legacy of Einstein on Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People · · Score: 2

    It was both. There were experiments done before which couldn't be explained. He made theories, which explained these experiments, and suggested further experiments. These further experiments gave the results that Einstein predicted.