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  1. Open Source Pie on Red Hat Posts Its Best Quarter Yet · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    >Kudos to Red Hat.
    >They must be doing something right.

    Yeah maybe...
    But what I'm not sure about your Kudos is while RedHat is doing good how many others can play the same in the same boat.

  2. Re:Dont like this trend on Final Fantasy X-2 North American Preview · · Score: 1

    Then don't buy/play it. period. Or play FF11?

  3. In Japan on Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead · · Score: 1

    100Mbps optical fiber line is available for around $50-55US/month and it's fast growing now. Its real maximum throughput is around 30-40Mbps because of backbone ISP, but far more stable and consistent than ADSL that can deliver some 10+Mbps for 26Mbps service.
    ADSL services are at the lowest around $15US/month in Japan, but won't grow so much further because of optical fiber lines.

  4. MS did that in 80's... on Microsoft Dislikes Nations Trying to Escape Lock-in · · Score: 2, Interesting

    against Japanese TRON system to stop its penetration into PC market.

  5. When was Freenet scalable? on Ian Clarke, Ernie Miller On Free Speech, Privacy · · Score: 1

    >Freenet is a pretty effective and scalable
    >way to distribute large files and it is
    > immune to "denial of service" attacks,
    > so it is certainly useful beyond its
    > primary goal of permitting anonymous
    > information distribution.

    Odd, all I heard are contrary to this comment by Ian. What a spammer.

    Freedom of speech is absolutely good thing, if all those spam and flamebait and troll are gone.

  6. The Answer on How To 'Sell' Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Put it on some hardware then sell it. Period.
    It's obvious why consumer electronics makers
    are enthusiastic about Linux.

  7. robot maker on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Now this year's recruitment interview of heavy industries with robotic science department (Honda, Sony, ...) will be filled with geeks obsessed by unemployment nightmare.

  8. That device on Do It Yourself CD Changer · · Score: 1

    doesn't look like "a few bucks" cost for me to make it myself.

    I rather recommend you Beowulf cluster of CD/DVD drives, daisy-chained with SCSI or IEEE 1394 or something, as usual.

  9. It's about project management skill, not openness on Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? · · Score: 1

    Open source project getting better and better, but at some point original founder go away and new developper coming in, then code quality drops again. It's not different from closed-source. Why successful OSS projects are successful? Because they are successful, nothing to learn from that.

  10. And now service is free, too on Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux · · Score: 1

    All those Linux-involved companies (RedHat, IBM...) try to cook up service jobs out of Linux, but when all those 'volunteers' can install Linux onto hundreds of PCs, then who needs those OSS service companies? They'll be doomed at some time in near future.

  11. Non-US? on Hall On Worldwide Open Source Movement · · Score: 2

    Perhaps he doesn't know where Linus came from.
    The U.S. IS THE problem. Look between your own feet
    before talking about what you see around you.

  12. Imagine on Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked · · Score: 1

    Beowulf... no, imagine that one of those computers will come on your desktop or something in, say, 15 years. (2^15 = 32768)

  13. It began in 1876 on A Brief History of the Internet · · Score: 1
  14. Intentional /.ing on Dreamcast Web Server Running Off Memory Card · · Score: 1

    "micro_httpd is a very small Unix-based HTTP server. It runs from inetd, which means its performance is poor. But for low-traffic sites, it's quite adequate."

  15. This news suggests on Mac P2P Music Sharing with iTunes is Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    how much Apple is suffering now... Sell AAPL ASAP. Apple executives are doing it right now.

  16. We'll see them coming on Tim O'Reilly Points Toward Next 'Killer App' · · Score: 5, Funny

    O'Reilly - Amazon.com Web Services Nutshell
    O'Reilly - Essential BARWN
    O'Reilly - Hardware Hackers Pocket Reference
    O'Reilly - Online Gaming The Definitive Guide

  17. Mozilla Style on Mozilla Branding Strategy Clarified · · Score: 2, Funny

    Use those "codenames" for another 5 years until it
    reaches 2.0!

  18. Re:It would be nice if they would simplify them on Windows XP EULA Compared to GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >GPL: "Do what you want with it, but give
    >credit where credit is due"

    It's not GPL, but good old (not current) BSD license.

  19. Dual License on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 1

    MySQL offers you dual licenses of commercial and GPL. When MS gave away those products under their own dual license those bashers complain, and when MySQL does the same thing no one (but RMS himself) complain about that.
    But it's still interesting to know license document itself has no obligatory power on users, but something to publish and attest intent of those who give license, possibly at court. That MS gave them at conference, is implicit licensing.

  20. I have ++Tivo on TiVo++ from India · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's called "PC"

  21. Cell phone on Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution? · · Score: 1

    I bet games for cell phone are already growing as modest business.

  22. Butterfly.net on More on Grid Computing and Gaming · · Score: 1

    For those who are too lazy, here is
    Butterfly.net
    "Welcome to Butterfly.net! Our fully-distributed server technology is pioneering the use of open grid computing protocols in large-scale immersive game networks that support unlimited numbers of players and require the most demanding levels of service."

    If it's different Butterfly, sorry for that, thanks for Karma.

  23. Re:Does Sony market a MMORPG in Japan ? on Sony's MMORPG "Sovereign" Dead · · Score: 1

    It's very old view of PC in Japan as I know...
    Most of those slick PC, including those laptops
    and VAIO are all from Japan... For network,
    ADSL or optical-fiber is standard connection.

  24. So close to Sony on Sony's MMORPG "Sovereign" Dead · · Score: 1

    FF11!

  25. Re:Better stories... on Why Does Manga Succeed Where American Comics Fail? · · Score: 1

    So you express you have not read any manga... thinga you refer to are anime stuff, imported for children in the U.S.
    Manga is different, as Europian cinema differ from Hollywood productions.