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  1. Nope on Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review · · Score: 1

    Has the crossover plugin. Well, the Deluxe Edition does.

  2. Uses the Crossover plugin on Another Xandros 2.0 Deluxe Review · · Score: 1

    Which runs MS Office.

  3. Cost, robustness on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 1

    The average vending machine has to endure much more physical abuse than the average printer.

  4. It's OK on Mac OS X -- The Missing Manual, Panther Edition · · Score: 1

    I only use one button when I'm on my Linux box. Well, when I'm not working from an xterm, that is.

  5. I don't think on Mac OS X -- The Missing Manual, Panther Edition · · Score: 1

    David Pogue (whom I was quoting) is a woman.

  6. Hmmmm on Mac OS X -- The Missing Manual, Panther Edition · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm told this over and over again by software manuals

    The manuals actually talk to him? I knew there was something strange about those Mac people. Obviously he's suffering from overexposure to a reality distortion field.

  7. The incident on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 3, Interesting
  8. I know the Secret Service reads Kuro5hin on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 1

    from the Lee_Malatesta incident.

  9. Old people on Internet Use Grows to 69 Percent of US Adults · · Score: 1
    Like my father. At 75 he uses the net quite a bit. For e-mail (mainly as part of his job, editing), purchasing stuff online (he lives in a small town, online is easier than driving three hours to the city), and checking out the news.

    He's also a New Deal Democrat.

  10. Old VeeDub on The Star Wars Car · · Score: 1

    But do you bear the Mark of the True VW Geek?

  11. Car Car Binks on The Star Wars Car · · Score: 1

    I think that's the one I abandoned outside of Kansas City 10 years ago after the engine blew.

  12. Re:Compare to Stanford's Policies on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    UVa works that way. The problem is that if you are suspected of cheating you get called in front of an honor board. Where there is no right to confront your accuser, no right of appeal, and you can be immediately expelled.

  13. Heh on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1
    What's next? Submit your work to a business which does the grading?

    Given that any non-State school is a business, and most State schools charge money to students, what do you think is going on now?

  14. destroying it's marketable value on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    What marketable value? Or were you planning to sell it to other students?

  15. Call a lawyer on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    and have him write them a nastygram demanding payment.

  16. However on The Software Monoculture · · Score: 1
    It killed millions because there was only one variety of potato, and most of the population was utterly dependent on it for survival. When that one variety turned out to be vulnerable, millions died.

    There was a socially constructed component. The British grain import laws that ensured that relief supplies weren't available.

    IIRC, it wasn't until recently that Ireland reached its pre-famine population.

  17. Weight on Spirit Rolls on Mars · · Score: 1

    Or, rather, mass. To get to Mars you first have to get into Earth orbit. At a cost of roughly $10,000/pound. That, mind you, is just low Earth orbit. Where the shuttle orbits. To get to Mars you then have to get to escape velocity (which is higher than orbital velocity), 11100 m/s. Add more cost.

  18. We already know the meaning of life on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    It's 42

  19. Yeah on IBM vs. Content Chaos · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  20. HTML is based on the XML model. on IBM vs. Content Chaos · · Score: 1

    Ummm. No. HTML predates XML.

  21. Not saying it's bad on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    I've done construction before. Some framing, roofing, wallboarding/mudding, and general unskilled labor. But I like working indoors in January!

    That said, it would've been a job working for a friend of mine, who makes decent money. But this is in the DC area, where the housing market looks the way the NASDAQ did three years ago...

  22. What other impetus is there? on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    Getting a wide-ranging education, perhaps? Otherwise ITT Tech, or some other trade school would be Good Enough.

  23. You've had the bad luck on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to graduate after the dot bomb. A large contraction in the number of companies in the tech sector 3 years ago means more people chasing fewer jobs. Especially in the areas that were the centers of tech. Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia, where I live. I was unemployed for nine months, and I have 10 years experience. Bank account gone, credit card maxed, was a week from starting a job in construction when I got the job I have now. Doing Python on Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux.

  24. They work well until on Army Looks at Robotic Dogs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some damned Rebel Flyer wraps a cable around the legs.

  25. Rocket-launcher-equipped donkey carts on Army Looks at Robotic Dogs · · Score: 1
    Seriously.

    ...attacked symbolically important and well-fortified buildings in Baghdad Friday, just hours after a top U.S. commander proclaimed progress in the military's newly aggressive high-tech counter-insurgency operation.

    The donkey-cart offensive hit the Sheraton and Palestine hotels here, ...

    Afterwards, the military ordered that all donkey carts be stopped and searched. Iraqi police then found two more battle-equipped carts, ...

    "They would certainly have an element of surprise by having a donkey cart," said Col. Brad May, commander of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. ...

    Troops returned fire, apparently injuring a donkey at the Sheraton and shaking up others. ... "They are alive but one is quite frankly pretty shook up. . . . All indications are that the donkeys will recover."

    Asked about the status of donkeys, Col. William Darley, another Army spokesman, said that while they are not "enemy combatants, " they are "deemed to have been co-opted to perform the will of the terrorists elements."