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  1. Re:200+? on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 2, Informative
  2. We heard the complaint so many times here on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1
    Remappable Modifier Keys

    Remap modifiers such as control and caps lock for compatibility with Windows and UNIX keyboard conventions.

  3. Re:The IPod Killer the P2P pod? on The Sony/MP3 Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a device were you have to delete a lot of crappy music including voice SPAM somebody uploaded on it after your walk through town, that sounds like an iPod killer to me.

  4. Re:Please send beer on Satellite Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    Holy perspective mishap, Batman! That sight must have been stitched from at least 3 different images.

  5. Re:everyone is an apple fan at some point. on Windows Journalist Takes On Tiger · · Score: 1
    This guy is probably no different - he wants Apple to succeed, he just critizes what he believes are dumb things.

    You mean the guy who uses his site "Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows" to cheer every move Microsoft makes, only mentioning Apple when Microsoft is "obviously" better and was first to do something? Do you have a web site "Cleveland Indians Rock"?

  6. Re:mini Sales? on Apple Profits Up Due to mini and iPod · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why would anybody buy a Mac Mini instead of an iMac, when the iMac has just been updated 4 month before the release of the Mini.

  7. Re:Summary of why the stock price fell on Apple Profits Up Due to mini and iPod · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I was wondering about this too. Apple beating projections for the post-christmas quarter would seem to be a sign that they're doing pretty well right now...

    Well, that's why you are not a stock market analyst.

  8. Re:Things haven't changed in the stock market on Apple Profits Up Due to mini and iPod · · Score: 1

    Well, that's nothing new. Problem is, Apple is one of the first to report. For years the market made "educated" guesses that the others would at least have fared as well as Apple. And sometimes it even was right.

  9. Re:further stats: apple skyrockett while stock fal on Apple Profits Up Due to mini and iPod · · Score: 1
    Stocks Tumble, Sending Indexes to New '05 Lows
    Stocks slumped Thursday for the second straight day in a brisk, broad sell-off that knocked major indexes to new lows for 2005.

    Investors cited unease about the economy, pointing to signs that tighter credit and high energy costs are taking the wind out of consumer spending and corporate profit growth.

    Apple as a "luxury" brand is of course the obvious victim for losing the most, so the carefull know when to get out. Does this make sense? Well, this is the stock market we're talking about.
  10. Nice Tie-In on Amit Singh's Challenge: Find a Decade-Old Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    with the Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World Article - Winner is a Russian ;-)

  11. Re:Is it just me on BBC Apologizes To Who Star · · Score: 1

    He basically did the same with Cracker . An actor who enjoys playing different roles and avoids being typecast. He must be a complete moron.

  12. Re:-1 Flamebait on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody already installed some on your computer for you.

  13. Re:Makes you wonder... on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 1

    The question is: How many will try to use The Force to get ahead in the line?

  14. Even more frightening... on Water Spectacular in Episode III? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "previous image" shows a vehicle with wheels.

  15. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 4, Funny

    The bartender says: "Sorry, one dollar minimum charge."

  16. Re:Law Enforcement Ahoy.... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    A little Googleing found this.
    Dollar bills cost 4 cents to print. Dollar coins cost 8 cents to mint. But the paper bills have a useful life of 17 months. The coins last 30 years.
  17. Re:Wrong-o, and here's why... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Somehow I have the feeling that this is the deciding factor for most politicians.

  18. Re:Are they for real? on Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This interoperability issue is of concern to me since consumers who bought legal copies of music from Real could not play them on an iMac.

    Scew you, Lamer Smith. Get Real to open up their store first before you open your potty mouth again.

    And that goes for you too.

  19. Re:Layer 3 Switch? on Is the Distribution Layer Still Needed? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switch Evolution - Volume 1, Issue 2, September 1998
    Layer 3 switching is a relatively new term, which has been ?extended? by a numerous vendors to describe their products. For example, one school uses this term to describe fast IP routing via hardware, while another school uses it to describe Multi Protocol Over ATM (MPOA). For the purpose of this discussion, Layer 3 switches are superfast rout-ers that do Layer 3 forwarding in hardware. In this article, we will mainly discuss Layer 3 switching in the context of fast IP routing, with a brief discussion of the other areas of application.
  20. Re:FOSE is kind of like the GTC on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 1

    The original iMac was announced months before it was available to the public.

  21. Re:Science Fails on Open v. Closed Source-Climate Change Research · · Score: 1
    The whole point of the MM03 issue is that it took 6 years before the underlying errors (substantive or cosmetic doesn't matter for this problem) were uncovered. No matter whether MM03 is right or wrong in its larger conclusions, it's clear that nobody replicated MBH98 properly for six years all the while it was being used in the political realm to make huge changes in economic/environmental policy.

    So far nobody has been able to verify M&M's claims either. I can see why you are perfectly happy with that.

    I really can't comment on the reliability of unnamed authors with unnamed publications providing similar results that I can't check. You may very well be right but without any documentation, your comment is worthless in a scientific debate on reliability.

    Dummies guide to the latest "Hockey Stick" controversy

    8) So does this all matter?

    No. If you use the MM05 convention and include all the significant PCs, you get the same answer. If you don't use any PCA at all, you get the same answer. If you use a completely different methodology (i.e. Rutherford et al, 2005), you get basically the same answer. Only if you remove significant portions of the data do you get a different (and worse) answer.

    9) Was MBH98 the final word on the climate of last millennium?

    Not at all. There has been significant progress on many aspects of climate reconstructions since MBH98. Firstly, there are more and better quality proxy data available. There are new methodologies such as described in Rutherford et al (2005) or Moberg et al (2005) that address recognised problems with incomplete data series and the challenge of incorporating lower resolution data into the mix. Progress is likely to continue on all these fronts. As of now, all of the 'Hockey Team' reconstructions (shown left) agree that the late 20th century is anomalous in the context of last millennium, and possibly the last two millennia.

  22. Re:Disk-Jacking to put hard drives At Your Disserv on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse · · Score: 1
    though you forgot that data is regularly backed up if you have half a brain and knocking out a major system in your network could cripple it and cost a great deal of money

    How much good does a back-up do, when you can't access your hard-drive. Or hard-drives. Or your back-up servers hard-drives. You'll have to buy a new hard-drive to back-down your stuff.

  23. Re:Welcome to First Post Day! on Idle Loop Optimized · · Score: 1
    First of all: there is more optimization in that article than just that of the idle loop (even if the given reason speeding up the generation of that spinning "beach ball of death" is another joke).

    But that "idle loop" actually does something, it increments a counter - and thus calculates a lot of numbers. The optimized, vectorized loop does the same (yes, it does calculate the exact same numbers), just faster. Another victory for AliVec.

  24. Re:what would have been cool.... on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Hey, I think it works even better the other way around.

  25. Re:Science Fails on Open v. Closed Source-Climate Change Research · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about a typo. Others get basically the same results as MBH, even when using completely different methods. The only outlier is MM, who say everybody else claims 2+2=5.