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  1. Re:Buffering? on Video Scratching Goes Mainstream · · Score: 1
    Huh? Why couldn't it be read live? The average DVD seek time is 70, with 300 mSec for a worst case scenario. A good drive may be able to lower this seek time further, so it seems that there's little cacheing required for dvd scratching.

    DVD delta frames vary in length -- it's a per DVD choice, right? Maybe they might need cache for that, but there are drives fast enough to compensate for this.

  2. Re:possibilities on Blocking Pop-ups at the ISP Level? · · Score: 1

    Passive or active popups may both be legimate or illegitmate. For passive consider the current situation. For active consider a commercial site replacing every link with a javascript function that causes a popup and then redirects you to the correct location.

  3. Re:It's the little touches on LotR RotK Premiere Today In New Zealand · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Same here :)

    I took some photos, see Photos from ROTK premiere

  4. Re:I Am There! on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 1
    Nope, it's on the 1st of December. I thought it was open to the public on the 19th so the 17th sounds about right.

    I'm about 50M from the Embassy theatre, but they're also got all of Reading cinema booked for the event too (showing the movie in about 8 places, so that many of the people who worked on the film can see it at the same time and not just the celebs -- although it'll be the celebs at Embassy).

    Awful photos's from the Australasia premiere last year

  5. Re:Many are overpaid, even more then become underp on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1
    Prove that I'm in a privledged position, and prove what you're saying.

    Or don't, which is certainly easier.

  6. Re:Many are overpaid, even more then become underp on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    No proof, not insightful, but way to rage against the machine, d00d.

  7. Re:A challenge? on Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week · · Score: 1

    Jini.

  8. Re:Speed issues aside on Secure Programming · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    President of America: I will give you thirt..thirt... thirt... thirt... thirty million dollars for sustainable food resources in third world countries.

    Reporter: 30 30 30 30 million... 810 trillion dollars?

    President of America, embaressed, not wanting to admit defeat: Undoubtly yes.

  9. Re:Wow on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    See arstechnica.com - they did a review of MacOSX browsers in which Safari (khtml) did well, but not as well as Mozilla for compliance.

  10. Re:Bollocks. on Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but take Kismet or GStreamer for example - where's the Redhat 9 support? I'm not rudely demanding it, but it's not there, and so the vast quantity of software isn't available on a very popular desktop. They may not want to spend the time to support Redhat or Mandrake, but then people can't say the software is usable on these distros. It's a packaging/installation problem.

    With the R9 Apache GUI config tool busting my apache scripts... this was on a default box with everything installed.

  11. Re:Bollocks. on Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry, but are you implying that Windows 98 includes an Apache GUI configuration tool that doesn't break the config when you have multiple hosts?

    Obviously yes. I mentioned other software too, but yeah - take one sentence and then another and get angry over it, clownboat.
    If you're gonna criticize something, at least get your facts straight. Apache configuration has nothing to do with usability.
    The way people use a GUI tool to configure apache is affected by usability.

  12. Re:Bollocks. on Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I use Redhat 9 (and Windows 2K) and it doesn't deal with dependencies, let alone add a launching menu item to all the Linux desktop's menus. The makers of Linux RPMs don't include everything, it seems they regard statically compiled binaries to be rude. In practice it's a balance of static and dynamic, and in my opinion Linux gets the balance wrong (in that it's rare for software to just require one installation).

    Redhat 9 also comes with an Apache GUI configuration tool that breaks the config file when you have multiple hosts (though I've had no problems with the Network tool, and it's much better than Mandrake's).

    Software such as APT-GET (and freshrpm.net's aptget for rpm) are good, but see the list of software on FreshRpms and you'll see that it only has a few hundred packages (which is what -- 5% of Linux software having an easy installation?).

    The main argument for shared libraries, and only proving a piece of the puzzle, is that the pieces can be upgraded at their own rate. But if dependencies can't be resolved transparently as is the current case then it's safe to assume that most users won't be able to use your software (Kismet Wireless, GStreamer - for example).

    These days I hit into Linux dependancy problems much more than DLLs.

    Compare this to Windows '98 -- where it generally works.

  13. lessons learnt on Roomba Competitor Slightly Lacking · · Score: 4, Funny

    robots.txt keeps the spiders away

  14. Righto on Internet Computer from OEone · · Score: 1

    Yeah - and my mechanic has the gall to tell me what tyres to put on my car. I mean it's my car. IT'S MY FUCKING CAR!

  15. Re:big hairy deal on Slashback: Banco, Warez, Fiction · · Score: 1
    If you've got nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being tracked?

    Teehee.

  16. Fun at space.com on First Picture from Mars Odyssey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot Editors, I followed a link to find this strange caption... How queer!

  17. Re:Slightly off topic on Kernel Hacker Keith Owens On kbuild 2.5, XFS, More · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Smugness won't get you anywhere on Niche Operating Systems · · Score: 1
  19. 6 fingers. on Simsville Canceled · · Score: 2, Funny
    Having had to play through some real stinkers of games before, I applaud Maxis decision to kill the product, rather then try to release it on an unsuspecting public.


    When you insult SimAnt, you insult my family... now prepare to die!
  20. Re:WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM ??!! on Billennium's Over - Anything Break? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hell. Yes.

  21. Re:Contradiction on Review: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back · · Score: 1

    Curse me and my lack of moderation points.

  22. LOGO on Computer Books For A Library? · · Score: 1
    Mind Storms - Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas... all about LOGO - how it was invented and how it works - by Seymour Pappert (ISBN: 0-71080-472-5). Most people will know of Turtle Graphics, which is a part of LOGO.

    Seymour Pappert and his team at MIT made the first programming language for children.

  23. Re:Maybe they should wait on Petreley on Ximian and Mono · · Score: 1
    My lass and I were just reading The Project. She wants to date your sister! Whereas I guessed at your reasons for encoding all of your mp3s 52kbs, bar 'Imagine', which was encoded at 192kbs. This resolution goes to show something, though I'm not quite sure what.

    I will tell my friends, and please ignore the sig.

  24. Re:Yes on The Joys of HDTV · · Score: 1

    Colour television?

  25. Access Mozilla on Projects for the Disabled and the Needy? · · Score: 1
    Access Mozilla is a project to make Mozilla more accessible for the disabled. In doing this they're working on the abstracting XUL (the Mozilla GUI) into a more accessible form. However XUL is being written for Mozilla's use first, and generic use second.

    I email a few open-source projects each week if there are problems with the accessibility on their pages. HTMLtidy and a few acronym tags go a long way.