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  1. Because the Surgeon General is a liberal on Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration · · Score: -1, Troll

    and global warming is part of the liberal agenda.

    He wasn't censored, the scientific reports were questioned and asked to be verified, and he couldn't verify them or explain other scientific reports that contradicted what he was trying to say.

    Global warming is false anyway, what is really happening is climate change, only fools and idiots (mostly liberals) don't know the difference anyway.

  2. The first thing an IT manager does in the morning on First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning? · · Score: 1

    Check server status, complain to the SA and NA if they are down, check uptime logs. Check with night shift to see what issues there are to cover for the day. Check time sheets, see who logged in and who is late for work. Look at the project manager software and see who is slacking off and set priorities for things that are running late. Write emails and make phone calls about tardiness and missing deadlines. Try calling those who didn't make it into work yet, remind them that they need to be at work. Check email for priorities, sort out the important email and reply to it, move the less important email to a folder to be looked at later. Check calendar for meetings today, get notes in order try to think of questions to ask in meetings and answers for questions you are asked.

  3. Those that fail to learn from history on $499 PlayStation 3 Confirmed · · Score: 3, Informative

    are doomed to repeat it.

    Anyone remember the NeoGeo?

    Well anyway it was set to debut at $599 want to know why it didn't do so well? Due to the price. $500 and up game consoles don't sell that well. Sony needs to find a way to lower the price to $299 on the base model and $399 on the advanced model or else the Wii and XBox 360 will eat their lunch.

  4. Handwritten Apple II Code on Woz on Open Source, DRM · · Score: 1

    Woz wants to write a manuscript on the Apple II code he wrote by hand.

    It would be interesting to see how an OS and ROM were written in the "Salad Days" of Microcomputers.

  5. That is what the majority thinks on Captain America Buried in Arlington National Cemetary · · Score: 1

    about Bush and his administration.

    Captain America used to say that sometimes a majority can be wrong. Like when a majority of Americans supported slavery, or later when the majority of Americans supported segregation and discrimination of certain races.

    The majority that supports illegal immigration, identity theft, voter fraud and terrorism are liberals. On those issues they are wrong. If we do things their way the nation will fall apart like the Roman Empire.

    Bush was reelected because most Liberals refused to vote, sure they'll give Bush a low number on anonymous online polls, but in real life when the vote really counts they don't care and refuse to vote. Because of that they are bringing down the Democratic system.

    Captain America died for the sins of the liberals, Captain America became a liberal himself and didn't think of the consequences of his actions like most liberals. Captain America used Cloak to teleport everyone from an unpopulated area into downtown New York to get an advantage over Iron Man's army. Captain America's men destroyed several buildings and murdered 30,000 people in an event worse than 911. Captain America became a traitor and a terrorist and then a mass murderer, when that happened Captain America died for real.

  6. Re:To the author... on Captain America Buried in Arlington National Cemetary · · Score: 1

    Well first you need enough evidence to start an impeachment trial. So far the Democrats seem to lack that. At least they had that blue dress against Clinton with the stain in it that matched his DNA. What do they really have on Bush that is not based on opinions and hearsay?

    Captain America died, because Liberal Democrats forgot about due process and innocent until proven guilty for a US President. Liberals want to impeach Bush without due process.

    Captain America was a true Liberal Democrat, he fought the Civil War against super hero registration because he thought it was the right thing to do. To protect liberties. Instead in the end he learned that his tactics had destroyed several buildings in Manhattan and his people murdered a lot of people to fight Iron Man's group. Captain America saw that while he won the battle, he lost the argument. Super Heroes went on a rampage and did more damage than Stanford because they resisted registration. When that happened Steve Rogers took off his mask because he was not worthy to be Captain America any more. He saw that sacrificing a little liberty had provided security and that sacrificing security for liberty causes mass murder. This parallels 911 in granting liberty to the 911 hijackers allowed them to mass murder people. Liberalism is murdering this great nation, and soon we shall be like the Roman Empire and fall because we value liberty over security and the economy. Well will either all mostly die, or the nation will fail and fall apart.

  7. What I think is Microsoft's plan on Linux on Microsoft Doesn't Care About Destroying Linux · · Score: 1

    #1 Accuse Linux of using Microsoft IP.
    #2 Make deals with Linux companies to license Microsoft IP to make Linux friendlier with Windows.
    #3 Develop Silverlight libraries and virtual machines for the Linux companies that want to license Windows technology.
    #4 Linux companies that didn't settle with Microsoft are denied Silverlight technology.
    #5 Silverlight allows Linux to run Windows and Dotnet software under the host operating system. Microsoft ports MS-Office, MS-Money, some games, etc to Silverlight to run under Linux.
    #6 Companies that refused to deal with Microsoft are shut out of Silverlight. Some agree to make deals with Microsoft.
    #7 Some corporations see Linux as a viable alternative as long as it has Silverlight to run the same applications as Windows and Dotnet support. Buy Linux distros whose companies made deals with Microsoft.
    #8 Companies who refused to deal with Microsoft are shut out of the desktop market.
    #9 Microsoft ports server applications to Silverlight, BackOffice, etc.
    #10 Linux companies not dealing with Microsoft start to get shut out of some of the server market.

  8. It is not paranoia if Apple has a history of it on FSF Rattles Tivo Saber At Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple settled with Xerox in that the Macintosh and Macintosh OSX violated the IP of the Xerox Alto system developed in the 1970's, way before the Macintosh was made.

    Eventually they agreed to settle and license the Xerox technology from the company that holds it.

  9. To the average person on Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth · · Score: 1

    that $300 Windows Vista Home Basic or XP Home PC is going to be good enough for them to use, and affordable as well. That $579 Mac Mini is going to look like it costs twice as much. They won't know that the Mac Mini has a dual-core processor, or a better video adapter, or a more energy efficient design, or a better DVD drive. All they want is something that works and fits their budget. Unless they got a $579 budget, the Mac Mini would not fit it, but that $300 AMD Septron powered PC with Windows fits their budget.

    Apple just does not really bother with the low end, and their lowest end Mac is priced to compete with those $499 to $599 PC systems with Intel branded dual core processors, ATI video adapters, etc. That is why the Mac is seen as being a better or same value as the PC with the same features and hardware specs as PC systems. There is no $300 Mac because Apple does not want to produce bottom of the barrel, low end, bare minimum Macs and use AMD Septron processors with a single core, Intel chipset video adapters with shared memory, generic DVD drives and memory, etc to cut costs so low that it fits that $300 budget. For a good reason that the cheaper technology is usually lower quality and has a higher defect rate, hence more expenses at the help desk and RMA levels.

    If you really want a Mac and cannot afford it, just save up some money each month into a savings account until you get like $600 saved up and then buy a Mac Mini, or save $1400 for a higher end Mac, etc. In some cases Apple can offer credit for a loan and you can pay a small fee each month until the Mac is paid off. Yet the average person wants a computer ASAP at the lowest possible price, and don't care what features and hardware specs it has, as long as it works.

  10. Re:Dell != PC on Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth · · Score: 1

    Who wants to use Mac OSX when you are forced to buy Apple hardware to run it, and Linux meets your needs?

    As far as notebooks goes, get a cheap $500 Name Brand Laptop with an AMD Athlon XP 2.4Ghz processor, 512M of RAM, 40Gig hard drive, Intel graphic chip, etc and reformat the XP Home or Vista Home Basic and put Linux on it.

  11. Re:Finally on Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Maybe it means that Windows will get EXT2/EXT3 file system support in order to read Linux partitions. Maybe it means that Linux will get a Microsoft approved NTFS file system support for Linux so it can finally write to NTFS partitions. Maybe it means that Microsoft can take the core of Linux and make it available as a virtual machine under Windows to run Linux programs under Windows. Maybe it means that Novell can write their own version of WINE for SuSE using Microsoft technology to make it run more Windows applications?

  12. Re:The cascade effect has started. on Microsoft and LG Electronics Sign Linux Covenant · · Score: 1

    He didn't misspell it. BSOD is blue screen of death, ms-bsod-import means that Linux gets code imported from Microsoft to give it a blue screen of death.

    Personally I liked the AmigaDOS Guru Meditation Errors better than the BSOD. :)

  13. Like every other Sci-Fi series before it on Battlestar Galactica's End Officially After Season 4 · · Score: 1

    the serious will end, but Hollywood will continue to make movies of it, like the "Star Trek" series.

    I am guessing that they will have a show on the Adamas before Caprica was invaded by Cylons like one hundred years before or something. Sort of like the Enterprise series being before the original Star Trek. There can still be a series based on BSG, but it might have different characters, and might be a prequel. I think the new BSG series will end and then spin off into a few movies before they decide to call it quits.

    I recall FarScape ended and then they did a movie of it, but it ended up on the Sci Fi Channel instead of the theatres. Firefly ended up as the Serenity movie. So why wouldn't the tradiation continue after the BSG series ends in season four?

  14. Half the population on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1

    doesn't even know how the real world works anyway. Even schools and colleges teach them biases and try to pass off ideology and opinions as facts and evidence.

    A lot of the news is the same way, ideology and views and opinions are passed off as facts and evidence and the average person cannot tell the difference between them. Not only that now we got blogs being used as reliable sources of news and information and they are mostly propaganda and people on the news and talk shows are parroting what the blogs are saying as a source of their information. These days anyone can be an armchair expert and write a blog and pretend to have the certifications and credentials to be an expert.

    So if you are going to try to stop it at the news level, you must also stop it at the blogs and school and college levels.

    The danger here is that if you fool 50% of the population to support one issue using misinformation and propaganda, you basically can control what and who they vote for and elect to government. Then you only need 1% of the intellectuals to agree with you, and chances are good if they also try to mislead the public and run their own misinformation in schools, colleges, and on the blogs.

  15. The book is redundant on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1

    anyone with an above average IQ can spot the bias and non-news items pretending to be the news.

    At Uncyclopedia, we bring you UnNews that parodies real news to show how fake the real news companies have become. UnNews is your up to the minute source of news misinformation.

  16. I feel sorry for anyone wrongly accused on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    of being a sex offender when they are innocent. Like anyone named Brian Peppers who does not live in Ohio or something.

  17. But features are not patents! on Microsoft, Novell, and "Clone Product" Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    There are more than one way to put a feature into software without violating a patent. Suddenly this document makes features as patents, which is not even true.

    Microsoft's definition of a feature.

    Microsoft's definition of a patent.

    They are not even remotely the same.

  18. Life is filled with stress on Microsoft Cancels Major Developers' Conference · · Score: 1

    I had to deal with the stress of Visual BASIC 5.0 and 6.0 and using OLE/DDE to control MS-Word 2000 objects, and when VB closed the Word document, it locked up the Word toolbar. My code did not do that, it was a bug with Office 2000. I removed the close command and the toolbar didn't lock up, but the user had to close the document by themselves. Microsoft was aware of the problem but said that SP1 or SP2 of Office 2000 might fix the problem, and my managers wanted it fixed right away so they could migrate from 97 to 2000. They didn't understand that I didn't have the Word 2000 source code to fix the bug, and that the problem was not with my program, and Microsoft documented that it was a Word 2000 problem.

    Ah well at least Microsoft has an offer to get Visual Studio 2005 Standard for completing two virtual lab surveys, so this time I don't have to buy Visual BASIC 2005 Standard or use the clipped Visual BASIC 2005 Express edition that is free.

    I must say that Microsoft has a lot of free online documentation and eBooks that have helped out as well.

    I am glad I quit in 2002, I heard the .Net migration with Visual Studio 2002 was a bear. I was put on disability, but now I am trying to find a way to return to work.

  19. This sounds like a reverse WINE on VM Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps · · Score: 1

    WINE runs Windows software on Linux.

    LINA runs Linux software on Windows.

    I guess originally they would have called it LINE, but then changed the last letter to A to avoid being just like WINE?

    Part of the reason why people develop for Windows are that the development tools are easier to work with than Linux and other operating systems, like Visual Studio, Delphi, etc. Now you have to use Linux development tools, I am guessing C and C++, and Linux libraries to make code to run on this LINA virtual machine based on Linux APIs and the Linux Kernel? The best thing you have in Linux next to Visual Studio is the Mono project, but the IDE needs a bit more work, and the Winforms translation library needs more work as well.

    I would like to try it out sometime and see what languages it supports for developing under LINA, when one does not have a Linux box to write the software on. I wonder if it supports the Python language and allows installing other languages on it, so we aren't limited to just C and C++ development.

  20. Re:Mono is not Visual Studio on Novell Goes Public with Microsoft Linux Deal · · Score: 1

    WinForms is a part of the .Net Framework according to Microsoft that is a framework that the C# and Visual BASIC.net language use.

    Next time, read the whole article before you quote things out of context. Mono does not even use the Microsoft source code for Winforms, but instead "Mono's Windows.Forms implementation translates the native system events such as X11 into Win32 WM_ messages and dispatches them using the WndProc mechanism. This allows applications that depend on overriding WndProc to get some features not exposed by the APIs to still run." So they did not really clone Winforms, but wrote a library that translates X11 messages into Win32 messages, so it is more of a translation library than a cloned library. Sort of like translating Latin into Greek, or X86 code into PowerPC code, or analog into digital.

  21. In the USA we have PBS on BBC Kicked out of School Over Wi-Fi Scaremongering · · Score: 1

    and instead of forcing us to buy a TV license, network TV is free as in free beer. PBS is free but lays out a guilt trip on you unless you donate to it. They are the channel that shows educational programs, documentaries, and also borrows from the BBC some shows like Doctor Who, BBC World News, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Black Adder, etc.

    Recently with the advancements of Cable and Satellite TV, for a monthly fee, we can see the Discovery, Science, Natural Geographic, Biography, DIY, BBC America, Sci-Fi Network, Animal Planet, etc that show the same type of shows that PBS shows with more variety, an option to use a digital video recorder to record the shows we like and save it on a hard drive for replay later, so we actually get more for our money with Cable or Satellite TV than PBS offered.

    PBS used to have Sesame Street and Electric Company for kids, but now we have Noggin, Discovery Kids, The Disney Channel, and even some Nickelodeon shows are educational at times. PBS only shows kids shows at certain times of the day, but the others are 24 hours a day.

    Yeah, you might say they show commercials, and PBS and the BBC don't, but with the DVR we can fast forward through the commercials.

    I often wonder if paying for a TV License and risking bad reception for network TV is any better than the Cable or Satellite TV with great reception for about the same price as a TV license but with more channels and more features?

  22. Are you sure she is not a mutant? on BBC Kicked out of School Over Wi-Fi Scaremongering · · Score: 1

    Did you call Professor Xavier and see if she registers on his Cerebo device as a mutant? If not maybe she was bit by a radioactive Wireless Router and gained its powers and she is a mutate instead?

    Does she go by the nickname "Wifi Woman"? Did she learn how to connect to a Wifi network yet to mentally surf in her head?

    You'd better hurry before Magneto or Doctor Doom tries to recruit her for their groups. :)

  23. Mono is not Visual Studio on Novell Goes Public with Microsoft Linux Deal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it was it would have had a much better IDE and GUI that resembles Visual Studio.

    Did you know that C#, Visual BASIC.Net, etc Microsoft gave the EMCA the rights to allow the standards for those languages to be given out to open source software?

    Not only is there Mono, but also DotGNU that does a version of those languages.

    They are not clones, but they are trying to make the languages available for multiple platforms. They also make Dotnet available for multiple platforms, because C# and Visual BASIC.net use Dotnet as part of their standard framework.

    The reasons why they aren't clones is because you cannot take Visual Studio code and compile it on Mono and DotGNU unless you modify the code and tweak it. That is because Mono and DotGNU are written from scratch and not actual ports of Visual Studio.

    OpenOffice.Org is not a clone of MS-Office either. It was written from scratch. The only thing it has in common with MS-Office is the MS-Office format files it can save as and read, and possible some primitive VBA support.

    Mono and DotGNU are open source "alternatives" to Visual Studio, not clones.

    OpenOffice.Org is an open source "alternative" to MS-Office.

    Linux is an open source "alternative" to MS-Windows.

    Tux is an open source "alternative" to Mickey Mouse.

    Linus Torvalds is an open source "alternative" to Bill Gates

    None of them are clones of the other.

  24. Re:He is a domain squatter on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 1

    I have seen him own some domains that expired. My parents have a small business and I think he owns a domain that is the same name as their business. Some other company owned it that had a similar name, and it expired, and the guy who took it over parked it on an advertising web host with a "for sale" sign on it. He wanted like $4000 for the domain name.

    I often find that most web sites that I used to visit, that went out of business and expired, have been bought up by some squatter wanting thousands of dollars to sell the domain name.

  25. Other dead skills on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Turbo Pascal, phased out with Delphi and Free Pascal/Lazarus replacing it. I still know people who know Turbo Pascal and I learned Turbo Pascal in 1985.

    LANTastic, I recall some people were experts with this network. I can recall when Windows for Workgroups came out and had built in networking that LANTastic went on decline.

    DBase and Clipper, I can recall porting databases and code written in them to MS-Access in 1996-1997.

    Wordperfect 5.0/6.0 macro writing. I know some small law firms that still have document templates automated with Wordperfect 5.0 for DOS or Windows. Hardly anyone else uses Wordperfect and has moved to MS-Word and used VBA for Macros.

    AmigaDOS/AmigaOS it used to be the bee's knees for video and multi-media in the late 1980's, I am one of the few left that still has Amiga skills on my resume. AmigaOS reached 4.0 quite some time ago, but hardly anyone uses it anymore except in Europe for various niche markets.

    ProDOS, AppleDOS, I think the Apple // series is long since dead and buried, but still alive in some poor school districts that couldn't afford to replace them.

    Mac OS9 and earlier, I think Mac OSX is the top dog now. The Classic MacOS is no longer in demand, and 68K Macs are only used in school districts that couldn't afford to replace them.

    BeOS, despite trying to bring it back from the dead it using open source, BeOS used to be popular in the late 1990's and used to run on PowerPC Macs and Intel PCs. I can recall some of my friends used to develop software for BeOS, but not anymore.

    Wang, some people I know still list Wang skills on their resume. It used to be in high demand, but once Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server came out, there was a mass migration from Wang, after Wang got shrunk and almost went out of business. They did have some Visual BASIC graphic tool called Wang ImageBasic, but I think Internet Explorer 4.0 or 5.0 broke it and so did Visual BASIC 6.0 break it. I think Leadtools replaced it.

    8 Bit Computers, nobody really uses them anymore. Big Businesses only used the Apple // or CP/M systems and the Atari, Commodore, Sinclair/Timex, etc were used in the home mostly.

    The Apple Newton, the Palm Pilot and Windows CE devices replaced it.

    Arcnet and Starnet cards, Ethernet replaced them. Token Ring is almost dead, but some die-hard IBM Fans still use it at their companies. Anyone remember making twisted pair and coaxial cable network wires for Arcnet and Starnet networks? I do.

    MS-DOS 6.X and Windows 3.X and earlier, like OS/2 they deserve to be mentioned. I think some older charities non-profit organizations still use them on old 286/386 systems that cannot run even Windows 95, and they use a Netware 3.X server to share files with them.

    MS-Foxpro, does anyone still use it? After MS-Access got upgraded, and MS-SQL Server had more features added to it, MS-Foxpro became redundant.

    Assembly Language, Machine Language, remember writing native code for the 8088, 68000, 6502, 6809, IBM Mainframes, etc? Hardly any company wants us to write in Assembly or Machine language anymore. It seems like only hackers use these to do exploits and write malware.

    FORTRAN, I think BASIC and C sort of replaced it, and then C++ and Java replaced them. FORTRAN got NASA to the moon, but NASA uses Java or Python now.