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  1. Re:unsuspectedly ... on Slashdot Moving To FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Just gotta LOVE a site that starts out: "If you're using Lynx, you can use the Text-Only Skin" :-)

  2. Re:I'll tell you what Freenet needs to do... on Freenet Project Taking Donations · · Score: 1

    Downloaded Freenet. OK. Went to Espra. The betatesting signup asks, "tell us your amazingly convincing reason to be on the espra betatest team". Truth be told, my lack of even a convincing reason caused me to kill the page. Such is life.

  3. Re:Language choice on The Fastest Web Language On The 'Net? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be more like the "disease vector"s that the NIH refers to? I'm think graph theory and linear alg. as much as stat.s

  4. Re:What's the point? on A PlayStation In Deep Blue, Or Vice Versa? · · Score: 1

    He says perception, and you talk of your senses. Not the same thing. Yes, you can see a leaf on a tree at quite a distance...but while you focus there you can't see the leaves on the trees next to it. I can see the ant crawling on the floor, but I don't notice the texture of the swirls on my wall while I do so. The problem is that our focus of attention shifts, and we want each area of the screen to be capable of the bandwidth of our complete attention.

  5. Re:Ahh, the power of marketing. on A PlayStation In Deep Blue, Or Vice Versa? · · Score: 1

    The IBM site said "teraflop" device...

  6. Re:relevant but not status que on Broadcasting HDTV On Analog Bands · · Score: 2

    The inventor didn't disavow. Rather the author of the article is bias slanting against any change in the status que. The only relevant info is that Bruce Franca from the FCC's technical arm, and Mark Richer, Executive Director of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), and each politely told him that there would be little-to-NO interest in his system at this stage of the game.

  7. Re:From the Aimster Page on AIMster Uses Pig Latin Encryption to Defeat RIAA · · Score: 1

    But they don't own any copyrighted works with the titles the pigifer produces...so how can they submit them?

  8. Re:Big Deal on MS Squashes SQL Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    they restrict my speech on what I can say about that software

    So how does this affect a Master's Thesis? Is Computer *Science* no longer science at all?

  9. Re:Linux is dying on Linux On Another New Architecture: PowerPC 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Except for the server market where linux is the only platform to grow faster(24%) than MS(20%). As long as we can "falter" our way to the front of the pack, then lets "falter".

  10. Re: That's why you need a damn good compiler on Linux On Another New Architecture: PowerPC 64-bit · · Score: 1

    SGI's, on the other hand, was redesigned from the ground up (starting with the gcc parser for compatability) to use all of the neat, theoretical tricks that you need to get ILP in this situation. TurboLinux has already gone with it and demonstrated good results (that's one reason why NCSA will be using Turbo for the second stage of their huge, new cluster).

    This sounds a bit like the apache patches SGI did for the Accelerated Apache project. The patches were submitted but aren't (apparently) going into apache.

    My concern is that as more and more code is given to us, will we refuse it becuase we didn't write it? And would that be a bad thing?

  11. Re:IBM on Linux On Another New Architecture: PowerPC 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Tell me...my school has one and the bastards use it for a *mail server*. Physics can't get dick out of "Office of Information Systems" because they all have MBAs and think Win2k is *the* answer. Oh the shame!

  12. Re:IBM on Linux On Another New Architecture: PowerPC 64-bit · · Score: 1

    So if the last two are correct, does this mean we've won? Has IBM waved its wand and made Linux mainstream? Heres one hopin' happy human.
    :-)

  13. Re:Cosmic rays? on Intel Claims 10Ghz Transistor · · Score: 1

    The manufacturing cost of weapons grade fissonables has little to nothing to do with the cost of said material.

    1. Consider the artifical scarcity. President Carter signed an executive order that specificly disallowed reuse of fissonable fuels because it would lead to weapons grade materials. US nuclear energy has never recovered. Perhaps the world is a safer place.

    Consider the storage costs. My university recieved fissonable materials for free, and now can't afford to store them or dispose of them.

    The "cost" is *not* one of manufacturing.

  14. Re:Linux needs better hype on IBM's Upcoming Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Ah but if MS, RedHat, and VA Linux all goe to $zero, then we win because Linux will still be developed and deployed! You who keep trying to use the apply the old paradims just can't see it, like the physicists who couldn't "get" quantum mechanics.

  15. Re:Why not sex, drugs and Linux? on IBM's Upcoming Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    Of course you really meant, "Sex, Linux, and MP3".

  16. Re:Can't see why not on HP Ditching WindowsCE for Linux on Jornada? · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to replace/supplement my HP-48, though. I'd like to interface (sample & control) test equipment, too.

  17. Re:But you are actually making a copy... on Sauce for the Gander: Aimster Uses DMCA to Its Advantage · · Score: 1

    What if I made a backup copy and gave it to a friend to store off site so that a fire here wouldn't destroy my backups? If that friend merely stored the data for me, then no violation occured. Likewise, if I take the CDs to my security deposit drawer at my bank, the bank is not in violation for keeping them for me. The fact is that the act of copying isn't illegal. The number of copies and the use made of those copies provides the context for determining the legality of the act. And perhaps the intent...lol.

  18. Re:Sure... on Sauce for the Gander: Aimster Uses DMCA to Its Advantage · · Score: 1

    If sales of singles were down that doesn't mean sales were down.

  19. Re:Walk, do not run, to your nearest HipZip. on Ogg Vorbis Changes (Just About) Everything · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but 40meg for $8 isn't cheap.

  20. Re:Vorbis FAQ on Ogg Vorbis Changes (Just About) Everything · · Score: 1

    Thats absolutely why I haven't "forked out the cash" yet.

  21. Re:See: I was right! on Ogg Vorbis Changes (Just About) Everything · · Score: 1

    More restrictive in that its design is more effective at promoting freedom. I can live with that. :-)

  22. Re:Very very cool on The DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 1

    But is the song available on Napster?

  23. Re:just out of curiosity on Balancing Third Party "Ownership" Against The GPL? · · Score: 1

    Maybe because the copyright was filled out in his name?

  24. Re:This is excellent. on Python Painfully Ported to Palm; Plan is "Peer-to-Peer" · · Score: 1

    Sed and Awk are there on the desktop. Use pipes.

  25. Re:Big Brother has a nasty bite. on USA Gov. Brief in MPAA vs. 2600 case Online · · Score: 1

    Lets buy a nice *big* island :-)