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  1. Re:a Better headline would be on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 1

    I am a fan of Mozilla, but Opera had both popup blocking (I think) and tabbed browsing first. Mozilla did innovate as well, though: best support for standards, XUL, etc.

  2. Re:Make it dillo compatible on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    CVS Dillo renders slashdot fine now, due to some changes to the parser.

  3. Re:Finally another Linux partner on Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE · · Score: 1

    I was wondering that myself, actually.

  4. Re:Finally another Linux partner on Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE · · Score: 1
    Emphasis mine:
    The licesne for YaST doesn't meet the three major definitions of "free software"
    Err, *four* definitions. You would think that somebody so concerned about FSFreedom would know this.
    Apparently one of them is minor.
  5. Re:Dissenting views on Science? on The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online · · Score: 1

    Actually, the scientific method is not built upon logic. Induction is empirical. It deals with both induction and deduction, but ultimately it is empirical. Deduction should not trump induction. That is a common mistake of religions where deduction is encouraged fanatically so long as the premise is scriptural.

  6. much better on New FreeBSD NVIDIA Drivers Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is much better. The first one recommended that I recompile the kernel, and X with no optimizations, but I tried it anyway and it didn't work as expected, but this one seems to work okay (a few bugs, but no show stoppers) even with these optimizations in make.conf on -stable:

    XFREE86_VERSION=4
    CPUTYPE=i686
    CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fexpensive-optimizations
    CXXFLAGS+= -O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized -fexpensive-optimizations -funroll-loops

    The install was pretty painless, too.

  7. Re:Wow! They'd get $100,000! on Linux Xbox Project Seeks Microsoft Signature · · Score: 1

    The console market is dominated by Sony, not Microsoft. Microsoft has monopoly in personal computers market.

    But it is evidence that they are leveraging their monopoly.

    P.S. Note also that monopoly itself can't be illegal. It is abuse of the monopoly which is illegal.

    Exactly

  8. Table layout? on The J.R.R. Tolkien of the Web · · Score: 1

    Why is Semanticweb.org using tables for non-tabular data?

  9. twins already know this on Cloned Cat Not a 'Carbon Copy' · · Score: 1

    I have an identical twin, and I could have told you the outcome.

    BTW, I never complain about duplicate articles.

  10. damn... on APC Recalls 2.1 Million UPS Units · · Score: 1

    I just bought one 5 days ago. :(

  11. Re:I don't ever use gnutella, I use giFT on The Gnutella War: Free vs. Commercial · · Score: 1

    Plus: You have to compile it from CVS, which prevents idiots from using the network.

    # make install
    ===> giFT-0.9.7 'Does not currently work'.

    Apparently, it prevents more than just idiots.

  12. Re:jail != chroot on Chroot Jails Made Easy · · Score: 1

    Theo thinks that things can be secure only if he can understand them ?

    Well, at least he isn't putting something in the kernel that he doesn't understand. :)

  13. Re:how does this affect openbsd/freebsd rebuilds? on CERT: Sendmail Distribution Contained Trojan Horse · · Score: 1
  14. Trust on Apple Shuns DRM Efforts So Far · · Score: 1

    Sure, that's why the MPAA/RIAA will be sure to release DRM protected content which allows consumers to use the content in the ways in which they want to use it.

    They tried that already. It is called "non-DRM technology". Your arguments clearly show that you understand that the technology is not the issue, but rather it is what they will do with it. Can we trust them? How much do you trust them when you are buying a CD for $15 to listen to one track?

  15. Big "if" on DRM: How To Boil A Frog · · Score: 1

    The problem, obviously, is that people do not expect the protection to be "reasonable".

    I also compose music and software, but apparently for different reasons than you.

  16. Re:huge strides on Are You A Friend of Gnome? · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried it, but there is a Blackbox for Windows. Although it is a clone, not a port.

  17. Re:Let's see... on Russia Wants to Launch Manned Mission to Mars · · Score: 1

    The role of the goverment is to do the expensive, ground-breaking research. Commerce should be what makes things cheaper and commercially viable. The government needs to do the type of research that commerce will not.

  18. Re:90%+ for IE still on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 1

    Although he did say "roughly".

  19. Re:Huh? on Selling Your (MMORPG) Soul · · Score: 1

    I am still working on the BSD license.

  20. Re:It is explained in the small print. on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 1

    It seems to me then, that economy means to be more efficient at the main function. Economy cars and flights cover the same distance for less, econo-lodges cover the same amount of people for less. So therefore, an economy ink cartridge covers the same amount of paper for less.

    HP is supposed to make the product more economic by removing unneeded packaging, or even using cheaper ink, but not needed contents. When you remove the whole purpose of going economy, that is wrong. Economy doesn't mean "less of the product", it means "less of not the product".

  21. Re:It is explained in the small print. on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Oh, so that economy car in front of my house is a "jumbo"?

    It has "jumbo" MPG.

  22. Re:Nifty engine, but sound and music need work on At Long Last: Stable Version of FreeCraft Game Engine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that we wouldn't have such diffulty if the MIDI standard were more discrete. I would like to see a new draft that defines patches by aural primitives rather than by instrument. Look at how game developers deal with video. Games use visual primitives all the time, and it seems to have worked pretty well. If OpenGL were designed like MIDI, you would have to draw all of the monsters out of trees and rocks, and the weapons would never look the same.

    MOD could be used as a decent default until the standard is adopted, kinda like Quake's software rendering. You could even texture aural primitives just like in video. I don't mean like soundfonts, but more like envelopes, reverb, and other meaningful effects.

  23. Re:Nifty engine, but sound and music need work on At Long Last: Stable Version of FreeCraft Game Engine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, great music is more addictive than cool graphics, although it is much more difficult to produce. Why not use musical works that are already in the public domain? I am sure that I could make a lot of good loopable MIDIs extracted from Bach's "Art of Fugue". Of course, I would love to submit my own loopable MIDIs, but I have always felt that there is already so much stuff that is perfect for gaming. Baroque music is great because it doesn't require a strict instrumentation, and is therefore very "cross-platform". Portability is an art whether it is in computers or music.

    I am definitely going to look more into this.

  24. Re:What do you expect? on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    If Lockheed published all the plans to their aircraft, and they were available to unfriendly nations, do you think the American government would purchase said aircraft?

    If there were hundreds of U.S. aerospace engineers designing it for fun, from the ground-up, and they could patch it, firewall it, and work around it as easily as with software then I think they could probably get away with it. The analogy ends before your point.

  25. Re:What about beer? on MSNBC on Infinera's Optical Chip · · Score: 1

    Yes but when will they have microchips than can control the flow of beer?

    You don't need any particular chip, just the right protocol.