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  1. Re:Handy Swipes(tm) on MIT Steals Comic Book Character · · Score: 2

    But who did decide to use the image "in the final ad" (the publicity release about the deal), MIT or the Army?

  2. Re:OSX + Fink = no need for a linux on Slashback: Galeon, Forgent, Platformation · · Score: 2

    So violating IP hurts our freedom and protecting IP hurts our freedom. And you don't see a conflict.

  3. Re:OSX + Fink = no need for a linux on Slashback: Galeon, Forgent, Platformation · · Score: 2

    Remember the recent story about [some Free Software writer] going all bezerk over [somebody else] violating the GPL?

  4. Re:TIROS I (1960) was the first weather satellite on Europeans Launch New Generation Of Weather Satellites · · Score: 4, Informative

    25 years after their first weather satellite, meteosat

  5. Re:Rethoric trick on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars · · Score: 2
    Personally I only pay software that is reasonably priced

    And all other software you just pirate?

  6. Re:First sale. Period. on Apple Uses DMCA to Halt DVD burning · · Score: 2
    Formac devideon superdrive
    Formac devideon superdrive is the world's first external solution to bring affordable DVD creation to the Apple Macintosh. The new FireWire DVD-R/RW & CD-RW drive is based on Pioneer's new DVR-A04 technology, and comes bundled with Formac's proprietary DVD authoring software.
  7. Google is undemocratic ... on Mr Anti-Google · · Score: 2

    ... because my page is unpopular.

  8. Re:software is physical on Apple Uses DMCA to Halt DVD burning · · Score: 2

    So change that physical software on the CD then.

  9. Re:SETI doesn't have a chance on Star Charts From A Strange Book From The Past · · Score: 2

    That's as silly as saying that if we can decipher a massage that was encoded so we couldn't read it, we could decipher anything including a message form an alien race.

  10. Re:My wife examined the actual Voynich Manuscript on Star Charts From A Strange Book From The Past · · Score: 2

    Because you summon a male spirit with booze and women, not with herbs and the stars.

  11. Re:iMicrosoft? on Review: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar · · Score: 2
    Well, are they that equal? Karelia says:
    Unfortunately for Apple, Sherlock 3 is not quite up to par with Watson in terms of speed or functionality, so we're not that worried. And soon, we will release some more tools for Watson that will continue to make it the market leader in Web services.
    OTOH, with Sherlock 3 there is at least the possibility that some of the features will work outside the US.

    Last but not least: If Apple wants to crush Karelia, why do they link to Watson in their Mac OS X - Downloads section?

  12. Re:Very Effective on Electric Armor · · Score: 2

    How are you going to ground the aircraft?-) Anyway, you don't have to use that shield on all sides of the vehicle, just turn it off on the back when that opens. When you are under heavy fire, it may not be a good idea to make a big hole in your armor anyway.

  13. Re:RPG's $10 and are extraordinarily widespread on Electric Armor · · Score: 2
    The Army also thinks RPG's are widespread.

    A Weapon For All Seasons: The Old But Effective RPG-7 Promises to Haunt the Battlefields of Tomorrow
    Among the production grenades are the PG-7, PG-7M, PG-7N, and PG-7VL antitank grenades with armor penetrability of up to 600mm of rolled homogeneous steel. The PG-7VR is a tandem warhead designed to penetrate explosive reactive armor and the armor underneath.

    600mm are about two feet. Though I don't think you will get that for $10 ;-)

  14. Re:Another article stolen from Kuro5hin. on Electric Armor · · Score: 2

    A projectile made of ceramics wouldn't penetrate the outer armor.

  15. Re:It Makes you Think on Virtual Genetic Evolution · · Score: 2

    Like in Daniel F. Galouye's Simulacron-3( aka Counterfeit World)? Basis for both 13th Floor and Welt am Draht / World on a Wire. That book is from 1964.

  16. Re:Could we use this to better estimate.... on Virtual Genetic Evolution · · Score: 2

    Probably not, because nobody (but the Creatonists, of course ;-) knows how life got to be on this planet, let alone one which is totaly different to earth. Remember, all these simulations start with sustainable life existing; also most (if not all) don't cover macro-evolution.

  17. Re:definitions of species on Evolution - Beyond the Popular Science · · Score: 2
    So you mean that these animals (like your different bears) are infact the same species, because they can crossbreed with viable young. While OTOH horses and donkeys are different species - that can have offspring but that will not be fertile. Well,guess again.
    "Since 1527 approximately 60 live births of foals to mules have been reported, in Europe, the USA, South America, North Africa and China."

    WHY ARE MULES USUALLY INFERTILE?
    Basically, because the chromosomes of horses and donkeys are different: "The donkey has 62 chromosomes (31 pairs), the horse 64 (32 pairs) and the mule and hinny each have 63 chromosomes - of which many pairs are unevenly matched. It is not just the number of chromosomes which is different in donkeys and horses, but their structure: they have developed slightly differently over evolutionary time....The donkey and horse chromosomes are almost completely unable to pair up."

    Of course this is all just a trick by either God or Satan.
  18. Re:Two sides... on Mac OS X Switcher Stories · · Score: 2

    The real question is: how much do you have to do now that you have the PCs? (I guess you didn't by twice as many just because you could)

  19. Re:Two sides... on Mac OS X Switcher Stories · · Score: 2

    The KVM switch at work doesn't support the middle mouse button (nor the scroll wheel). Guess how great the Linux experience is.

  20. Older Slashdot Story on the Tower on 1-Kilometer Tower Of Power · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:It's true even on the P4 Xeon level. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 2
    Oh, sorry. The Dell's drive also reads faster.

    As for why my post got modded up - it didn't.

  22. Re:It's true even on the P4 Xeon level. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 2

    It does? The TiBook's DVD/CD-RW drive writes 8X, from a Google-search I'ld guess the Dell's drive would be faster. But maybe they use a P4 compatible X scale ;-?

  23. Re:Hypercard changed my life! on Wherefore Art Thou, HyperCard? · · Score: 2

    Minor nitpick: LC stood for Lowcost Color.

  24. Re:This doesn't make sense on History of the Apple Logo · · Score: 2
    [...]but to list 10 sources of which 7 are websites (that could possibly be hobbist websites) is not really concise. Also the list did not contain any interviews the author might have done. A more responsible approach would have been to read evey book out there and amalgamate some conclusion.

    Of the six (not seven) websites

    1. - one is the poem mentioned (straight from a book, I guess).

    2. - one is the website of the McKenna Group, talking about who Regis McKenna, Inc. worked for (incl. Apple and all others mentioned - how can a book be more factual?)
      - one (referenced three times) is a webpage from somebody who worked at Regis McKenna, Inc. - IOW an eye-witness account. Again, how would a book be more factual?
      - one links to the image of an Apple add.
      - one basically is just a page that lets you download Apple Garamond - really usefull in a book.
      - the last is a page from AppleInsider about the Apple rebranding - again, putting that in a book would not make it any truer nor falser.
  25. Re:This doesn't make sense on History of the Apple Logo · · Score: 2

    You have the misconception that books are any more factual than the web just because they are books, that something in print must be true. Not so.