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  1. Re:Simple Solution on GPL vs. Skype Back In Court · · Score: 0

    Probably a marketing trick riding on the back of the success of the GPL.

    I do telco work and haven't used skype for a while. Some end user though, caught me by surprise saying, "Have you used the new skype business - you can do transfers now, which is really helpful". Sounds good for the small business crowd, or web designers :P

    Thanks for your comment Bruce

  2. Re:AMD has some great solutions on Why AMD Could Win The Coming Visual Computing Battle · · Score: 0

    True.
    I just bought a test machine with an AMD chip for $100 aussie dollars.

    That meant I could buy 8GB of RAM and do some Xen testing :)

  3. Re:missing the boat on Blockbuster Working on Set-Top Box · · Score: 0

    Is it possible for Blockbuster to use your "video membership card" as an encrypted storage device?

    1. go into BB
    2. make your selection from the titles
    3. hand over vid membership
    4. they put movies on it for you
    5. go home, insert card into set-top box
    6. ...
    7. Profit!!

  4. Summary: Microsoft + Complex Modelling on MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams · · Score: 0

    I stopped reading the summary...

  5. Re:dear god! on Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee · · Score: 0

    Fisher Price called, they want their GUI design back!

  6. Re:Card counting is overrated on The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Agreed.
    In my uni days, in Sydney, I used to go to the casino and play craps mainly, and if I won blackjack. Counting cards is waaaay over-rated as you say.
    Betting on 6 & 8 paid well 11 times in a row which had me up a small fortune. But on the 12th and 14th visit, I "did my arse" as they say. I wasn't overly greedy, maintained the steady betting rate.

    There are much better ways to make money if you are a skilled person.

    The vibe at a casino is generally a negative one too - always anxious/anticipating/waiting for the bank to win.

    These days, I don't enjoy gambling one bit. There are much more fulfilling ways to spend ones time. Work, do your work, then PLAYTIME!

  7. Re:My Ego and Me on Donkey Kong and Me · · Score: 0

    i wouldn't be all that proud of a custom pc case

  8. Re:The only way to peace is to make relationships. on Military Steps Up War On Blogs · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Off the top of my head, did you know that in the last 300 (or 700) years there have been roughly 23 years of peace?

  9. Re:But how did they do it? on Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World · · Score: 0

    hey suso,
    here is your original question

    P.S. Thanks for the ssh tutorial years ago on your site. I instantly recognised your name

  10. Re:Wrong POV. on Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo · · Score: 0

    Well if you turn the other cheek, you've got Apple.
    Intel/Apple AMD/Dell/Sun/Acer VIA, ARM, Cell ----
    Servers: Virtual / Real(Apple/Dell/Sun/HP)

    Google won't make an OS. They'll revive Be and call it Beagle for search...
    Nokia will sue because it infringes on the KDE desktop search trademark,
    which will put Android and Nokia at heads - whose common denominator is Linux
    Symbian will get together with Laszlo
    And Sun will pipe their stuff,
    while PHP gets shat on because it's still called that. But I don't really know for sure ;)

    The future looks bright!!

    (Disclaimer: I'm only just latching onto OO PHP, but then again I'm no longer a full-time coder)

  11. Quote from the bottom of the page on Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards · · Score: 0

    William Pitt


      On the 31st March, 1783, Pitt resigned and declared that he was "unconnected with any party whatever". Now out of power, Pitt turned his attention once more to parliamentary reform. On 7th May he proposed a plan that included: (1) checking bribery at elections; (2) disfranchising corrupt constituencies; (3) adding to the number of members for London. His proposals were defeated by 293 to 149. Another bill that he introduced on 2nd June for restricting abuses in public office was passed by the House of Commons but rejected by the House of Lords.


    After I googled for it. Lucky /. puts the year of the quote in too. There are a lot of William Pitt's in history :)

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRpitt.htm

  12. DotCom Is Biting Back on Apple, Starbucks Sued Over Music Gift Cards · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and then a million voices were silent.

    This seems reasonable enough to believe - prior art anyone? I bet there is plenty. Maybe it's the new money system. The Internet. Wow!!

    [Repeat 3 times]
    So let me develop it, sell it to your mates and make a bit of money from it - or maybe you just don't like my type. I probably don't like your type either, so what do you want me to do? Crush you? Nah - that's a negative thing to do. I could probably learn something from you - So...let me dev ...let me devell - ell-ell it -

    There was a brilliant post in the AMD dying piece. Some money decisions are best not left to geeks. But the ones that can string a few decent hits together - could probably top it in any kind of way.

    [could someone regular express this]
    in any kind of way
    on any kind of day

    Cheers

  13. Re:Bank Patent #3 on Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks · · Score: 0

    In the first case, the bank and the bank's insurer, the bank's superannuation fund got screwed.
    In the second case, some banks superannuation funds got screwed as well.

    Superannuation is as twisted a system as the banking system.

  14. Re:sotware patents on Courts May Revisit Software Patents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey PatentMagus,

    Go smoke some pot, have a look at the way something in the world works, then conceptualize it and submit a patent. That's what seems to be work.

  15. Re:sotware patents on Courts May Revisit Software Patents · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

    Patents stop the next generation from thinking freely.

  16. Re:Sheesh... on Opera Screeches at Mozilla Over Security Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Probably not, but always a possibility.
    Evaluation though - that is immediate action when it comes to security.
    Wanna be sued?

  17. Re:Sheesh... on Opera Screeches at Mozilla Over Security Disclosure · · Score: 0

    With the two siblings posts here and the parent post, it looks like OSS Projects are well positioned to form some sort of guild/co-operative/etc/business-procudure

    Transpose this into another context:
        a) Border patrol catches a vessel - they notify other defense teams and work in a procedural manner
        b) A musician can hear something out of tune, go and let the other muso know

    Harmony. Utopia.

    Mozilla did the right thing. One day is enough for security announcements - I haven't RTFA - If Mozilla said, "we've got all these millions from Google - can we have a meeting in 3 hours time to discuss how to allocate it amongst minority browsers" - they'd be down there in a hurry....

    Just fix the damn thing.

  18. Re:iPhone in Japan on 3G iPhone on the Way? · · Score: 1

    Have you got any links to some of the hot japanese handsets?

  19. Re:Brainstorming broken? on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 1

    Mate, that is what is called premature ejaculation :P

  20. Re:slow freakin' news day on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    actually you're right!
    I didn't even go to work today ... but I've done some rehashing on my old coding skills.
    3.141592652589.....

  21. Re:All I can say is... on Affordable Workstation Graphics Card Shoot-Out · · Score: 1

    Do Matrox still make cards?
    All I want is excellent 2d dual monitor support under linux.

  22. Re:All I can say is... on Affordable Workstation Graphics Card Shoot-Out · · Score: 1

    Like flash 8 for linux or something or other...

  23. Dual Monitor Support For X on Affordable Workstation Graphics Card Shoot-Out · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have not struggled with an XFree86 config since I was a noob, and I think now there's x.org to check out.
    The only thing I want is dual monitor support under linux.

    I'm on osx most of the time except when I code.

    I have a spare P4 lying around and the only thing that makes me stop setting it up is that I don't know what the state of dual monitor support under linux is.

    I would like to know of an equipmentvoting website that answers to the point in forum style discussions simple questions:

    1. What cards are supported under X for dual monitor support? Free or non-free, then I'll get into the politics of it.
    2. How much memory is needed to run normal 2d stuff - like editors and IDEs on a couple of big screens.
    3. What's the difference for getting 3d into that same card, or it's higher up cousins?

    A timeline/graph on this fabled website would be great too, so I can know what the background of the graphics industry is like so I can consider what is hot in the next 12 months....

    Any pointers?

  24. slow freakin' news day on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Init?

  25. Re:Timing of the bid on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very interesting indeed.

    I don't know exactly how to say this but I'll give it a shot.
    The /. crowd knows the history of M$ and such. A lot of people don't however - probably what some other posters would call "the real world" or "in reality".

    I would consider though that, the M$ of the world gave us world-wide domination and monopoly powers. And some /.ers would call this A Bad Thing (tm).

    In my mind, I think America was a tremendous nation that led the world in many ways. It all seems to fall under a shade of grey though because it seems that some industries are trying to copy the M$ world domination ways. If you consider the MPAA/RIAA cases, it seems this petrol-headed, single-minded egoist corporate domination has contaminated free thinking. The Internet is about openness - it's a medium to communicate, to trade, to research and to create. It is a medium where a healthy economic lifecycle can develop.

    The parent's comment about the oversight of M$'s actions being diluted (or removed bar a couple of areas) is well observed. It may be a little over the top, but we'll see more clearly at a future date.

    What I'd like to know is if there is an economic meltdown during the spectrum auction and this M$ Y! takeover shennanigan, who will be most likely to come through in the end? The banks always win - and what I've been thinking lately is that telcos are as bad as banks. How much cash does google actually have??