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  1. want unedited anime? on Toonami Producer on Editing Process · · Score: 2, Informative

    encore's action channel quite often shows unedited anime. no, it's not *usually* a series (although they've been known to), but at least it's a step further than CN on the unedited scale ...

  2. Re:why the 18+ on Toonami Producer on Editing Process · · Score: 1

    even more bizzarre, i've noticed a few older episodes of space ghost, starting with the "no children under 18" bit, moving on to a TVY7 rating.

    not sure why though ...

  3. google's cheap on Google's Search Appliance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    for $40000, you can get a sun e220, and run altavista's search engine on it. even then, if you want to integrate it, you still need to do 30-40 hours of work to make it all work right.

    having something for $20000 or so is a godsend, especially if it comes with its own hardware (even though its hardware is probably not as nice as an e220)... throw in that they'll probably do the work when it breaks, and this is a no-brainer for anyone needing to index even as few as 25000 pages.

  4. Re:I know what someone should make! on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    do you mean like google aready does?

    not exactly sure when i started seeing it on google, but they appear to already have a "what i mean" system.

  5. Re:Uhh..naming? on Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually, klamath, deschutes, willamette, and yamhill are all rivers in oregon.

  6. Re:J++ v2.0? on Microsoft's CLR - Providing a Break from HW Vendors? · · Score: 1
    Look at UNIX, there has been decent source compatibility, but no binary compatibility (until the recent Linux emulation everywhere). Outside of software distributed in source form, nobody supports every Unix, just the 1-3 that are profitable for them.

    well, unless you count iBCS - the intel binary compatability standard - that was used by all at&t based unixes, and was even supported in linux for quite a while.
  7. water-sign? on Mars Odyssey Detects Signs of Water · · Score: 1, Troll

    as long as they don't find giant worms too, we're probably a-ok.

  8. well, duh! on Microsoft Offers A Modified Settlement · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's simply about microsoft looking out for their own interests. love them or hate them, they're a corporation, and it's in their best interest to be able to give out licenses for as much of the settlement as possible. why is this news?

    personally, i think that microsoft shouldn't be the ones offering the settlement proposal, but that's another post altogether ...

  9. easy way to get rid of the ads on Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    try a product like JunkBuster, or GuideScope

    both are easy to use, and should take care of those pesky ads. why whine, when you don't even have to see them?

  10. Final Fantasy 8 on GameCube Hits the Street · · Score: 1

    i bought a pocketstation for my grrl. there was a chocobo game on the US Final Fantasy 8 that worked like a charm on the imported Pocket Station. If you're interested, it was pretty much like the Sonic VMU game.

  11. solaris mp/threads, etc on XFree86 Drivers For Solaris · · Score: 1

    i've been running solaris for home use since 2.5, all on x86. i've also tried running linux. i keep going back to solaris. why? i'm not running a desktop machine.

    for one, i run mostly 2 cpu boxes (ppro/p2), on intel motherboards, with scsi drives. i've found that the stability way outweighs linux, and the snappiness is wonderful. where linux crawls in a 2 cpu situation, solaris takes off and allows me to run a ton of stuff with near 0 load. when i try the same thing on linux, everything slows to a crawl (same hardware).

    of course, when i'm running a single cpu, i get the exact opposite, linux is fast, solaris is slow.

    i also do a ton of java servlet development, and i have to say, the lightweight threads in the solaris kernel just plain kick ass.

  12. Tivoli on NYSE Goes To Linux · · Score: 1
    THe OS is not a competitive edge here; it's Tivoli and the custome software. IBM is much better off giving up its maintenance and development costs--and htis holds even if AIX is moderately superior to Linux for the task at hand.

    you're missing one minor point here. tivoli is owned by ibm. they aren't losing anything as far as maintanance/development, it's simply a shift in focus.
  13. This is news? on images.google.com · · Score: 1

    Sites like CreativePro.com have had search engines like this for quite a while:

    CreativePro.com Stock Photo Search -- (http://www.creativepro.com/eservices/imagegrabber for the link scared) ...

    Not to mention cool things like the Font Search -- (http://www.creativepro.com/fontsearch/results for the link scared).

  14. EULA on Gnome for Solaris 8 Preview · · Score: 3
    The nice thing is, instead of the standard Sun EULA, there is instead the following:
    This document includes several licenses relating to this software distribution:

    + GNU General Public License
    + GNU Lesser General Public License
    + Sleepycat License (covering Berkeley DB)

    along with the actual licenses ... amazing ...