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  1. Amp Trademark? on The Zinf Project (ex Freeamp) Needs Help · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do I think that is bull?

    1) Amp is a generic term (short for ampere), and is in fact somebody's name.

    2) Winamp has it

    3) Which AMP are we talking about?

  2. Re:MS Mistrust on NVidia announces Cg: "C" for Graphics · · Score: 2, Funny

    nVidia doesn't make graphics cards, they make graphics chips. Its like saying Linux is an operating system.

  3. When I started playing quake3 again on Simulator Sickness Cures? · · Score: 2, Informative

    When I started playing quake3 again I had a problem with getting extremely dizzy. The problem was the bobbing, turning that off fixed it perfectly.

  4. Hmm... they don't mention on WebMail Beta II Available · · Score: 1

    filtering issues.

  5. Lack of 'flashy' options on Apple Offers eMacs To All · · Score: 1

    There isn't an option for DVD or even just a plain CDROM.
    Pitty.

  6. Removal of Shackles on Convincing Management to Migrate to WiFi? · · Score: 1

    I am getting an ibook soon and I am getting wireless (SMC barricade) because I don't want to be shackled to my computer desk. If they put in ethernet wiring then they are fixing the areas at X cost, but if they want to move it around, they may very well be paying to have new wiring installed.
    Wireless has no such relocation costs.

  7. Re:Suppose we all follow this advice... on Window or Aisle? · · Score: 1

    Catch 22?

  8. RIAA and CARP on Ask the Honcho of Internet Radio's SomaFM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you see the possibilities of winning against a CARP that smells of RIAA? Because RIAA has a lot of control over what traditional radio plays and control is what this is all about.

  9. Re:What about the Usenet archives. on Google vs. DMCA and Scientology · · Score: 1

    Submitting an article to Usenet should effectively put it in the public record, because most groups are public to begin with.

    Microsoft UseNet 2002:

    "You must buy a license to this entry before you can view its contents"

  10. Never used on Virtual Desktops for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I never use them, in Windows I always have lots of windows, but never found virtual desktops to be helpful.
    In gnome, or kde, I have never had any more luck with them. They always seem to get in the way.

  11. Where can I get a decent mac? on Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where can I get a decent mac laptop for under $2000cdn? Then I would probably get one.

    I run a p2/266 laptop right now (in addition to my 800mhz desktop), and want an upgrade, and mac would be kool.

  12. If this is what I think it is... i'll take one pls on Building a Digital Playing Desk · · Score: 2

    http://www.barco.com/projection_systems/downloads/ baron.pdf

    Let me get this straight - does this actually project a 3d image?

  13. Re:Give 'em choices! on Testing Kids' IT Skills · · Score: 1

    "Subjects to expand on: History and theory of computation. Computer Hardware. Networking. Programming."

    hmm... Sounds like the course I took over a whole semester (without networking, and hardly any hardware).

  14. Java is as generic as coffee on JavaRanch gets Cease And Desist From Sun · · Score: 1

    It is just like Windows is a plural form of something that predates microsoft by many millenia (i assume its been around at least for 1 millenia).

    I hate coffee, I drink tea. Specifically, Orange Pekoe.
    (2002: Company comes up with Language called Pekoe, and suddenly i am infringing...)

  15. Re:GLP and software availability on Open Source in the Military? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe you are possibly in error. The US military is an organization, and any software is published to the organization. You are not giving the binary/code to anyone but the military, not any particular person. The organization has access to the code, but they are only ones that have the binaries anyways.

  16. Re:It Hasn't Been Decided Yet on Canada to Raise Tariffs on Recordable Media · · Score: 1

    This isn't a bill, it is something set forth in the copyright board.

  17. Re:Truck Stops. on Low-end Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I used to sell laptops that looked like that. The ones I saw were P75 to P133.

  18. Re:Your Business should handle this on Telecommuters and Downtime? · · Score: 1

    At the college I attend and work at everybody has to pay for their own parking - even the teachers.

  19. Spreadsheet is data and app. on Are Spreadsheets Software or Data? · · Score: 1


    A spreadsheet that displays information is data. A spreadsheet that is user modifyable in an interactive way (i.e. like a payroll) is infact an application.

    It is no less an application because it requires Excel than a java applet is because it requires JRE/JDK.

  20. Re:Like IBM's. on What Were Soviet Computers Like? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The basic design that most computers used from 65 onwards was stolen by CIA 10 years before from the Soviets.

  21. Nero can do it on How Many CDs Can You Burn at Once? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nero can burn with more than one recorder at once.

    I have never used it personally for that, nor do I know the scope of its support.

  22. Re:Will this apply to X Windows? on Preemptible Kernel Patch Accepted · · Score: 1

    I do not know where you get the XCHat thing, i use it in windows and no problems that way.

  23. Finally some high up agency doing something on Australian Commisssion Defends Playstation Mod-Chipping · · Score: 1

    I doubt it would ever happen in the United States, which would also mean it probably wouldn't ever happen in Canada either.

    Pity.

  24. Ebooks ! on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 1

    I have only ever bought one thing from the animal publisher, and that was perl stuff. They are good books.

    I also have an ebook from microsoft in chm format for MFC that has been quite helpful for my MFC class.

    An oracle book in pdf format has been almost as useful too.

    The kinds of books I would like are programming books that are similar to the animal books in how they are written. Maybe use plants (invision... a venus fly trap on the cover of a .Net book).

    Give the option of buying the dead tree book or ebook. Always put the ebook in the dead tree book too.

  25. Re:Headline should be: Cheap Broadband! on Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs · · Score: 1

    We already have download caps.

    The bandwidth I draw includes about 500mb per week for every new enterprise episode, then about 1/4 of a month worth of 12k/s for Wolf FM 128k radio. Other than that it is the normal usage.