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  1. Re:Iran? Uh huh ... yeah on US Tests New Missile Defense · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is a great example of extreme relativis, both sides are hardly equals. But anyway, we should support Israel because they're the modern, liberal democracy, because they're an ally of the US, and because we fight a common enemy such as Hamas. Their country also produces great minds and makes large contributions to society in science and technology.

  2. Re:too little, too late? on Mono's WinForms 2.0 Implementation Completed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm also very interested to hear what these platforms are.

  3. Re:Mono on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope · · Score: 1

    It requires DirectX for rendering graphics.

  4. Re:iTunes on TechNet Users Revolt Over Vista SP1 Unavailability · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given Apple's history of poor Windows software and the convoluted implementation of iTunes on Windows, I'd say its the other way around.

  5. Re:This is fake, mod article down (*sigh*) on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uhh, Windows 7 is just a codename, the version number always refers to the version of the NT kernel. Vista was 6.0, 2003 was 5.2, XP was 5.1, 2000 was 5.0. Apparently Windows "Seven" will be NT 6.2 signifying that it contains minor kernel changes.

  6. Re:Whats the runtime written in? on Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes · · Score: 1

    This source release doesn't contain the source code for the CLR, just the code to the class libraries. I would imagine most of the runtime is written in C++. The class libraries are mostly written in C#.

  7. Re:Looks rather clunky on Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has stated that the whole source will be available for download at once in the future.

    Anyway, you could argue that this approach has some advantages since you don't HAVE to download the entire source, or worry about what version of the binaries you have.

  8. Re:microsoft open source projects on Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source · · Score: 1

    You missed the Device Emulator: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=faa8c81d-7316-4461-a0ed-6c95b261ddcd&Displa yLang=en

    It has a nice ARM emulator with JIT recompilation if you're interested in that sort of thing.

  9. Is this new? on Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the source for WinCE has always been included with the platform builder. It's kind of necessary for getting it to run on obscure embedded hardware.

  10. Re:Zealots! on When Stallman is Attacked · · Score: 1

    Slavery and civil rights have nothing in common with software licensing movements. If you think they're remotely similar, your values are seriously at fault.

    RMS is a complete lunatic and I can't imagine why anyone would follow him. This is a guy who shove his hand down his pants, grab his balls, then shake your hand (I'm not joking here). Think you're being a nice guy opening a door for him? Nope he didn't ask you for your help! He's an asshole to everyone around him, I know this from first hand experience.

    IP laws probably aren't a good thing yes, it's a fine argument, but thats not enough for RMS. He wants unethical properitary software developers wiped from the earth, his words not mine. This is not the guy should be equating with anti-copyright movements or any movement that has any bit of rationality behind it.

    All zealots should not be treated equally.

  11. Re:It's only right. . . on IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team · · Score: 1

    The IE team was doing work on WPF (Avalon) prior to work on IE7, which was much more ambitious. WPF will have a large effect on the Web in the future, like it or not.

  12. Re:IE7 maybe not vulnerable? on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to get this vulnerability to work anywhere, on XP or Vista.

  13. Doesn't work on Vista on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    The exploit fails running on IE7 in Vista with protected mode.

  14. Re:Standards on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1

    I was referring to what this video says about XPS: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9805 7

    MS shows off their prototype XPS printers and mentions that major printer manufacturers are signed on.

  15. Re:Adobe is screwed on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1

    Spread some grease over the paper? It's alpha-blended between the graphical elements in the document, silly.

  16. Re: Adobe is screwed? Ha. on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah I'm reading over the specification right now and the color features are pretty extensive. There's support for storing color information in many different color spaces including CMYK.

    There's nothing in there for interactivity though, it's strictly a fixed document format.

  17. Re:Adobe is screwed on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1

    I don't mean 1-bit transparencies, I mean partial transparencies using an alpha channel, which Postscript level 3 does not support.

  18. Re:I love adobe on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not to mention installing a stupid pre-loader in your system startup and freezing the entire viewer when downloading data.

  19. Adobe is screwed on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 3, Interesting

    XPS support is being built into new models from all major printer manufacturers. It is lot more modern than PDF/PS and does a better job supporting fancier documents with features like transparencies and gradients. And now apparently its going to be open and standardized as well. It looks like MS nailed this one.

  20. Tomorrow is not accurate on IE7 To Ship With Windows Patches Tomorrow [Not] · · Score: 2, Informative

    The blog post the article is referring to says it will be pushed out via Automatic Updates a FEW WEEKS after it's available for download. And it's not available for download yet. Somehow I doubt they ment tomorrow.

  21. Re:I think i know what the EU means... on EU And Microsoft Clash Over Vista Security · · Score: 1

    No, EU competition law IS broken. Microsoft's competitors exploit the legal system for their own gains.

  22. Re:I think i know what the EU means... on EU And Microsoft Clash Over Vista Security · · Score: 1, Troll

    What the EU wants is irrelavent. Microsoft added security features to the OS in response to customer feedback. I think users should have a greater say in what goes into the OS not governments.

  23. Re:Well on the upside on Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    If you want better information you can open up the crash dump in WinDbg. An "analyze -v" command will give you useful information most of the time.

  24. Way too easy on New Super Mario Bros. Review · · Score: 1

    I beat this game the same day I bought it within a few hours. Lots of fun, way too easy. And most of the mini-games are from Mario 64 DS which I already own.

  25. Re:Microsoft's Version of Linux on Microsoft Makes Surprise CE 6 Release · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, its kind of necessary given the fact that CE has to run on some pretty limited and varied hardware. It's also very different from Linux in that it's a real-time OS and can run without interrupts enabled.