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  1. Irrational behaviour and emotions? on AIBO Robot Dog Soccer Competition · · Score: 1

    As long as the robots can't do the irrational things human players do, it'll be a sterile thing. An elbow at the wrong place, a late tackle or similar things can add some charge to a game. Anyone who doesn't believe that should have seen last night's CL game between Inter and AC Milan. The emotinal factor made it a better game.

  2. Re:Propaganda on Mac P2P Music Sharing with iTunes is Online · · Score: 1

    stream to 5 PCs (with online purchased music that is reduced to 3)

    Technically you're correct, however those 5 can be any Mac anywhere , while the 3 for the purchased music have to be authorized machines. That's a significant difference.

  3. 2+2= ?? on First Matrix Reloaded Review · · Score: 1

    Who is to say that 2 + 2 = 4 is not itself a deception

    It is. Every kid knows 2 + 2 = 10. In my base 4 universe anyway.

  4. French and UK trains both on the left side on UK And EU May Make Unsolicited Email Illegal · · Score: 1

    There's no problem with the train and which side of the track they use at all. Both France and the UK have their trains on the left track. Just like Belgium and Switzerland. Germany, Austria and The Netherlands use the right track.
    The other track is for the opposite traffic ;)

  5. iPod does have USB2 on 60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod · · Score: 1

    The iPod has a bigger screen, but it can only use Firewire.

    The latest iPods (10, 15 and 30 GB models) offer both FireWire and USB 2.0. Just hook the iPod to your PC's USB 2.0 ports for speedy transfers.

  6. Re:This would be a good thing on Apple is Porting iTunes to Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wonder if they would force .mac subscription on windows users.

    A .Mac subscription isn't required for the Apple Music store. All you need is an Apple ID. That's the same ID you would use for the Apple Store. I see few problem for Win32 people getting the songs once iTunes 4 has been ported.

  7. Hindenburg == politician, Heisenberg == physicist on Top Physicist Advocates Scientific Self-Censorship · · Score: 1

    There has been a Hindenburg in German history, but he was a pre-Nazi era politician. Paul (??) von Hindenburg was Reichspraesident and his stepping down gave way for Adolf Hitler.
    You are refering to the German physicist Werner Heisenberg who was leading the German nuclear program. Calling Heisenberg not a theoratical physicist is a major error given his contributions to the Quantum Mechanics and the Matreix calculation.
    The allies never bombed Switzerland and Germany didn't have a heavy water factory there. Switzerland was neutral.

  8. XS4All in The Netherlands on Have You Really Read Your ISP's TOS? · · Score: 1

    I recently switched from Chello cable internet to a 128/768 ADSL line with XS4All as my ISP. I'm very pleased with them. Not only do they allow your own servers (both http and mail) but they put Sendmail security warnings on the helppages.
    And the don't care about NAT, etc. They even provide information to set up routers/firewalls and NAT.

  9. x86 source only on Duke Nukem 3D Source Released to GPL · · Score: 1

    This is most likely a release of the x86 source only. The 68xxx/PPC source is still owned by the porting company. So until we have someone port the game to PPC hardware or we have a kind a scummVM for this engine, it'll be x86 only.

  10. Get OS X Unleased 2nd Edition instead on Mac OS X: The Missing Manual (Second Edition) · · Score: 1

    I was looking at several books to have as a reference last year (still on 10.1) and I decided I preferred J&W Ray's "OS X Unleased" over the Pogue book and Jesse Feiler's one. There's a second edition out now also covering Jaguar and I can find little wrong in the book. It seems to be written for the more advanced Mac user, since it seems to assume certain GUI actions are known. Its section on the BSD core however is excellent. Although Apple made some changes going from 10.1 to Jaguar, most things in my book are still relevant and I'm sure the 2nd edition will have the updated stuff. (Apple switched from wget to curl at one point)
    If you're interested in OS X and using a mouse is a known thing, I'd think this book will help you more to get the BSD core. It includes chapters on Apache (including the webDAV and MP3 mods), sendmail, FTP and more very useful things.

  11. The A300-600ST Beluga on Building the A380 · · Score: 1

    Since Airbus is a European consortium with production lines at various places they already have quite some experience in moving big parts. The construction major parts for A-340s resulted in a modified A-300 called 'beluga'.

  12. Re:xserve is good for lowend servers on Apple Updates Xserve, Announces Xserve RAID · · Score: 1

    What do you think IBM does? Take a long look at their site and see those shiny Power4 servers. Apple has no experience in high-end servers and OS X isn't mature enough IMHO to act as a high end server system. Apple hasn't build machines with more than 2 CPUs. It would take time and lots of money to get a decent intro into the high-end market which is already quite filled with SUN, HP, Dell, IBM.
    Besides I doubt IBM would like Apple stealing from the high-end server market. I'm sure that Apple could get Power4 CPUs, but expect the IBM stuff with the latest ones.

  13. In other news..... on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    the city of Hill Valley, CA has preemptively banned all hooverboards. We know they'll be a thread by 2015 and if we don't take appropriate action in time, we'll be flooded by youth gangs on these dangerous things.

  14. Re:Okay so how do I use this (n00b question) ?? on GTK+OSX for Mac OS X Aqua · · Score: 1

    I'm no expert in compiling on the Mac, but IIRC you can specify which framework to use when compiling in OS X. For instance compiling a file with the cocoa framework comes down to:

    cc -o name filename.m framework cocoa

    so if the anology works, compiling a file for the gtk-osx framework would be

    cc -o name filename.c framework gtk-osx

    I haven't installed it myself, but will do that later today. I may post a follow up if I get it working.

  15. Not Bundesbank, but ECB does interest in Eurozone on To the Moon and Beyond · · Score: 1

    It also means that central control of interest rates is essential. That means that the interest rates are controlled centrally for the good of europe (i.e. probably by the Bundesbank; which constitutionally has to act for the good of Germany, rather than the good of Britain, or even Europe; since it is by far the biggest bank).


    The interest rates in the Eurozone are NOT controlled by any bank related to a member state. They are controlled by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but are in NO way related to the Bundesbank.

    The ECB is free to make their own decisions about interest rates. In the last 12 months the ECB has cut interest rates much less than the Fed in the USA.

  16. How can I find out if my DVD is faulty? on DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy (Widescreen) · · Score: 1

    I got the PAL region 2 verson in a 1.85:1 format. How do I know if my DVD set has the incorrect frames? Is there any place to check this?
    Any useful links/comments highly apprciated.

  17. SCSI data is outdated on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    SCSI is a parallel interface standard used by Apple Macintosh computers, PCs, and many UNIX systems for attaching peripheral devices to computers. Nearly all Apple Macintosh computers, excluding only the earliest Macs and the recent iMac, come with a SCSI port for attaching devices such as disk drives and printers.

    This info is a bit outdated. Every Mac since 1999 comes with on board IDE instead of SCSI. The consumer Macs even had IDE back in 1996 (when I got a Performa 6300). Apple switched from SCSI to IDE in the pro-line when they released the B&W G3s. Today PCI SCSI cards are a BTO option in PowerMacs.
    SCSI was also used by graphics pros to hook scanners up to. Printers were more often on the printer port (a serial Mac port) or on a network connection.

  18. A-380, airlines, etc. on Boeing Sonic Cruiser Project Shelved · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Both the new Airbus A-380 and Boeing's sonic cruiser could have been useful additions to todays aircraft. There are people willing to pay a premium to go from LAX to Tokio in a 15% shorter time. Look at the Concorde between Heathrow/CDG and JFK. Obviously there's a market for fast aircraft.
    There is however also a market for large (450+ ppl) aircraft on inter-continental lines. Major players on the trans-atlantic route are: BA, Lufthansa and Air France and on the US side United, American, Delta, etc. They all have full planes on that route. If you can operate an A-380 at the same cost of a 747 or 777, you make more money. When I'm on my way across the pond, I could wish a 30% reduction in flight time, which I can't afford, or a plane with seats roomy enough to spend 7 hours in. I'd rather have the latter.

    The airlines with the highest profit margins are indeed the 'price-fighters' like Soputhwest, EasyJet, RyanAir. But unlike the big US carriers, the major European carriers BA, Lufthansa, Air France and KLM are not in the red as much.

    Companies like southwest, EasyJet and RyanAir are useful, but the often do land at the same big hubs trans-continental flight land on. If I want to go from Amsterdam to Columbia, SC, I tend to pick one airline to fly with. EasyJet may be the cheapest between A'dam and London, but since EJ doesn't land on Heathrow I'd have to spend time traveling through London. I'd rather pay $100 more to do it easy and have BA fly me from A'dam to Heathrow, to JFK to Columbia.

  19. London - Moscow pretty easy on Kiwi Geeks Seek Domain · · Score: 1

    London - Moscow is pretty easy these days. Just grab a EuroStar from London Waterloo to Brussels and tranfer there to a train to Cologne, change again in Brest and you're off to Moscow. London - Moscow in less than 40 hours. You can book right away.

    The URL gives a place to fill in your options, press 'Verbindung Suchen" to get the data.
    Those dynamically created pages suck when hyperlinking :-|
    Or try your favorite airline and find a direct flight.

  20. Medievel tactics used by the DA? on Sklyarov Case Opens Today · · Score: 1

    In December 2001, Sklyarov agreed to testify in the case in exchange for having the charges against him dropped. Actually, he is expected to testify for both the plaintiff and the defendant, said Judy Trummer, spokeswoman for both Sklyarov and ElcomSoft.
    The idea that you can only get away when you incriminate someone else is a tactic used by shoddy regimes since the middle-ages. Among them were Hitler-Germany, Stalin-Russia and the McCarthy-US.

    [sarcasm] It's nice to see such things still in use these days. [sarcasm]

  21. 24 hours, easily done on 24 Hours Of Beethoven's 9th Symphony · · Score: 1, Troll

    I just pop the CD of Beethoven's 9th in to my Hifi and hit repeat. Very easy to do, just buy the CD and listen to the real thing. It's absolutely worth it.

  22. Chimera or Navigator on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 1

    Somebody else just pointed out that the Chimera browser (Mac OS X/Cocoa GUI using Gecko rendering engine) is now called "Navigator" or "Chimera Navigator" but the project is still called "The Chimera Project". This apparently was due to threat of lawsuit there by some trademark holder on "Chimera".
    Most, if not all Mac users who use Chimera call it Chimera. The app itself may be called navigator in the Finder, but if you say: "The new Chimera is out." everyone knows what you're talking about. It may have a legal name Navigator, what would seem like a problem given Netscape's Navigator, but it's referred to as Chimera. Even on the Chimera site the word Navigator is no where to be found. Take this page for example.

  23. Re:My **AA fights... on RIAA, MPAA Instigate U.S. Naval Academy Raid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Verdi's Rigoletto may be in the public domain, but you're not downloading that. You're downloading a recording made by an orchestra and choir. And the rights for that recording are still in place.

    Bach's Goldberg Variations are also in the public domain, but Murray Perahia's recent recording on a Sony Classics' CD isn't. That one's still 22.50.

    You're paying for the orchestra and conductor, not the notes.

  24. Re:What were they THINKING! on RIAA, MPAA Instigate U.S. Naval Academy Raid · · Score: 1

    Given the appearent ease certain people have in accessing US Army servers, I'm sure the sys admin was more worried about his systems' security than monitoring incoming stuff the students used.

  25. Blizzard's Battle.net vs. bnetd on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember Blizzard's Battle.net service and all the fuss that came from a certain group after Blizzard went after the bnetd ppl? Blizzard shut-down bnetd because a number of users were using that servie to run their pirated copies of WC3. There were of course ppl there who had a bought copy and preferred bnetd over Battle.net. I can't believe that ppl are supporting MS's decision to ban modded xboxes which ppl bought and condemed Blizzard for shutting down bnetd which was widely used by ppl with stolen copies of WC3.

    You buy an xbox and then you can do whatever you want to do with it; it's your property. You buy a license to use WC3, the only real thing you buy is the CDROM on which it comes.