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  1. Re:GoDaddy and the like? on Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No but if one guy has two IP addresses pointing at his IIS server and the other one only one IP pointing at his Apache server, the server count would be IIS : Apache, 2:1 while the physical server count would still be 1 : 1. This can't be even acceptable as a means for counting Apache installations.

  2. Unicode URLs on China's Open Document Format Fight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    utf-8 URLs never caught on in Japan, actually URLs never caught on here. You can see much more people typing "google" or even "" in the search box in their Yahoo (!) default landing page, than typing the URL google.com (BTW Yahoos market share here is overwhelming).

    Japanese just don't type URLs they use Yahoo for searching. Many don't even use bookmarks. They just search. It's probably because they have a hard time remembering foreign name URLs in Roman letters, which except for "design" purposes don't play much of a role in Japan. It's much easier to type a japanese search term into a search box than remembering an alphabet resemblance of the same as a URL (there are two main ways of transcribing Japanese into the latin alphabets and everyone is intermixing them, so there's much unclarity about the "proper" roman letter spelling of words).

    Even print advertisements nowadays, rather than putting the company URL in big letters, they tend to have a little graphic depicting a search box and a button and give you a Japanese search term you're supposed to put in your Yahoo or Google search box.

  3. Re:Isn't that national? on YouTube Goes International · · Score: 1

    Considering that an English-only Youtube also means excluding many countries (whose people might not be fluent in English), adding languages usually makes a project an international one.

  4. Re:AOL Video Provides CC on Closed Captioning In Web Video? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No the lion's share is timing the text to the actual audio/things going on on-screen, while also editing the text, so the chunks of displayed text can be read in time. There's no point of capturing/displaying exactly everything that is being said, because most of the time nobody is going to be able to read along that quickly and still get a grasp of what it's all about.

    It's basically like subtitling, you just leave out the translation part. This is a lot of work, and unless there are already plans to subtitle/localize the program into other languages, I don't know whether anybody would really do this.

  5. Re:The results... on Music Listeners Test 128kbps vs. 256kbps AAC · · Score: 4, Funny

    The harmonics in brass instroments and symbols

    Is this higher maths?
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    Aah, you mean cymbals?

  6. Re:Public DNS is corrupt, but Private DNS is subli on DNS Complexity · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tuvalu's main motivation for selling .tv domains was to get the money together to become a member of the UNO so they can officially get a voice to be heard concerning their country (their islands) basically sinking into the ocean due to global warming and rising sea levels.

    So sometimes politics and DNS might be for a good cause.

  7. Re:Good to know on Storing Personal Music Online Is Illegal In Japan · · Score: 1

    I think the legal system is one weak point the bigger problem are the fucking lobbies and their incredible power.

  8. Re:No restriction on field of use on German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag · · Score: 1

    I'm don't want to keep people from using FOSS however they want to, go on build your nuclear missile guidance system to attack whoever you want with FOSS if you feel like it, but this is a... yes a branding issue.

    If "official" Linux events start to advertise themselves using very dubious and debatable politicians whose only image is "the guys who's unscrupulous enough to acutally make Big Brother happen" then I think they've completely failed at branding and they hurt the FOSS movement in a big way.

    This basically conveys the message: Schäuble supports Linux - and as long as LinuxTag officially doesn't dissociate from him - LinuxTag and therefore Linux supports people like Schäuble. Whether this is in reality true is a different story, but it will appear like that to the public.

  9. I'd still boycott it to set a sign. on German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would you like it to hear stuff like:

    This surveillance camera and its motion detector was brought to you by Linux!
    Or BigBrother 2007, it can't be evil, it's all open source!

    I don't want this fucker (Schäuble) to be associated with anything FOSS.

  10. Re:SCO on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    No that's not a re-run that's the sequel. Don't Forget this is the right order:

    DOS: The Phantom Menace
    Windows 3.0: Attack of the Mac OS Clones
    Windows 95: Revenge of the Sith
    Windows NT: A New Hope
    Windows XP: The Empire Strikes Back
    Vista: VI Return of the Penguin

  11. Re:What is this, another FUD article?! on Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess what's the most important activity of the 21st century?

    Based on the most recent statistics of internet use:
    Sending spam and watching porn.

  12. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A) There is historic evidence that a wandering priest called Jesus Christ did actually exist. So for the human person of Jesus Christ we can be pretty sure that he wandered the earth. We can't really say anything about his wondrous deeds, however.

    B) The figure of Santa Claus has two origins one is Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra. But he was basically just used to "christianise" a much older pagan belief ( http://tinyurl.com/29sdow ). Anyway the Person of Saint Nicholas is a historic figure.

    C) The easter bunny is apparently just a human invention

    Why do you say it is just as irrational to believe in the easter bunny as it is to believe in Jesus or Saint Nicholas?

  13. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    However, with 6000 fingers I'm definitely sure that they represent a species higher adapted to masturbation than any other form of human life. This is the utmost irony of fate that their own existence seem to be proof for the evolution theory.

  14. Re:Competition for emusic on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 1

    OK this is probably one of the reasons big corporations actually might agree to publish non DRMed music. Getting mo' money.
    But don't forget those AAC are also quite a bit higher audio quality than their 128kbps AAC and MP3 brethren.

  15. Re:Yes, a machine. on Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux · · Score: 1

    We need a Beowulf cluster of Webcams, and maybe with the right angles set up we can not only shoot 3D photos but even 4 or 5D!!!

  16. Re:Birth of GUI on Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger · · Score: 1

    It was the first controlled POWERED flight. The first human flight was conducted by Otto Lilienthal in the 1870's or 80's (I couldn't find a clear year number, probably because he conductes countless flights in his days).
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal

  17. Re:one-button mouse world on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    There's another part of your body much closer to your hand that might work as well. At least it's longer than your nose (hopefully ;-). But it might only work when browsing certain sites...

  18. Re:Camino on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    That's what OmniWeb ist for (and many other cool things ;-)

  19. Re:Birth of GUI on Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is complete bullshit, when Apple visited Xerox and got their inspiration, Xerox merely had a bunch of demos, not even a complete system yet (that came later). Things like doubleclicking, click and drag, pull-down menus, the desktop metaphor, copy and paste are all inventions that happened at Apple not at Xerox.

    Xerox came up with an implementation of a new way to interface with computers, that had been talked about since quite a while, Apple made it into a usable system and came up with most of the way we interact with computers nowadays.

  20. Re:MP3 on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 1

    Probably your parent post is messing up the fact, that the MPEG-4 format was based on QuickTime, and so he thinks everything that constitutes the MPEG-4 format is an Apple invention, which of course is not the case.

  21. Re:Good job everyone! on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 1

    It's not that it's any kind of rocket science to support AAC, it's an open well documented format. So if there are few players supporting AAC it's really their problem, not Apple.

    You might as well say: "it's RMS evil plot to aks vendors to support ogg, because there are so few supporting it. This way he can make the whole industry look evil". Bullocks.

  22. Re:Nature of the beast.... on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    MS may decide to kill MS Office on the Mac for the same reason they killed IE on the Mac: Apple's development of a competing product, i.e., iWork.

    That's nonsense, IE on the Mac was a free product. Microsoft bled money giving it to Mac users, the only benefit was they could go on and break even more Web standards without too meany people noticing it. Funny enough IE Mac was one of the more standard compliant browsers in its time...

    Anyway since iWork doesn't even have a spreadsheet application and the Office compatibility is lacking at best I don't see how it could really hur MS Office sales. At leas at its current state.

  23. Re:XXX on Digital Big Bang — 161 Exabytes In 2006 · · Score: 1

    Nah, the other half is spam, I'd guess.

  24. Re:No on Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes! And Duke Nukem Forever will be preinstalled on it!

  25. Re:Moo on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Wow! Yet another low-life, non-contributing typo nazi.

    Wow! Yet another too-much-time-on-his-hands, non-contributing typo nazi basher!