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  1. Hurrah Slovenia! on Genetically Engineered Machines Competition · · Score: 1

    For those who dont know, Slovenia is the northernmost part of Ex-Yugoslavia, and Thomas Jefferson got inspiration from the rules of old Slovenia (Caranthania) when writing the Constitution.

    Another Slovene team recently created a nanoparticles detector for Europes NanoSafe2 (French link).

    Back to topic: Slovenes are very hard-working but tend to depreciate themselves. Don't judge a book by the cover.

  2. Re:To all non-Europeans on Europeans Still Battling Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    <blockquote>P.P.S If you <em>are</em> an EU citizen, make sure your government knows what you want it to do at that November 10th meeting.</blockquote>
    Being in <a href="http://www.mei-idf.fr.st/" hreflang="fr-fr">politics</a>, this is what I'm trying to do.

  3. twice in one year... on AppleCare for PowerBooks - Worth it or Wasted? · · Score: 1

    My PowerBook 800 failed twice in one year. The problem seemed to come from the motherboard. And they changed the motherboard the second time (the first time, they did nothing just to check in and out even if I wrote a very detailled report shipped with the machine and have had contacted and Apple employee friend of mine).

    This happenned in the first year. My 1 year warranty is over since, err... yesterday. I bought AppleCare with the PowerBook. From now on, I'm on AppleCare Extended and, seeing what happenned in one year (two motherboard-related serious problem), I definitively says YES! to AppleCare (avoid distributors guarantee such as FNAC in France or, say, compUSA or others. They basically send the unit to Apple but you have to wait for the unit going from the vendor to Apple and back so it is longer and not cheaper).

    Plus, a laptop is an integrated computer, you cannot change a lot by yourself.
    A laptop is a fragile computer. A PowerBook is fragile even by laptop standards (contrary to iBook, wich is considered as robusts). Thus, a PowerBook is especially prone to problems. You can play odds with an iBook, not with an more expensive and more fragile PowerBook (look at the prices for PowerBook warranties, they are higher than for iBook, there is a reason)

  4. XML UTF-8 support on Browser Support for XHTML? · · Score: 1

    No browser on Mac (I did not check iCab) are able to support UTF-8 as an XML declaration

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

    Actually, I have to add an HTML declaration

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    Removing it will make my pages appear "hieroglyphic". So I conclude it is not supported yet. What about IE6?

  5. Browser integration on Chimera Developer Considers Dropping It · · Score: 1
    âoe2. Apple apps are uninstallable. This point is often lost on the Windows crowd. "Apple bundles a browser too! It's anticompetitive!" Microsoft tells you that IE is literally crazy-glued to their OS, as is WMP and others. Any Apple iApp is a single icon, that is tossable, without a fuss, without that wacky Install/Remove Programs nonsense.â

    Sure I hate IE dominance but the idea of integrating web web browser and file explorer is GREAT. If you ever used its specificities (not just clicking an icon but using the address bar as a [primitive] command line), I guess you would notice an increase in "productivity", as they like to say.

    What's wrong with MS and IE is not browser integration (KDE/GNOME do it also followed MS, BTW), it is closed-source browser integration.

    In a certain way, Mac OS X can be compared now to Windows 95 (without Internet Explorer 4). Don't get me wrong, I'm just comparing the UI navigation :)

    I'm waiting for Windows 98 ;) 10.3 ?

  6. Re:Don't take my Chimera! on Chimera Developer Considers Dropping It · · Score: 1

    "Safari can't render well. For the time being, it's not a good solution for people who need standards-compliance or good CSS support. Chimera is."

    You mean it doesn't parse well. Actually, Chimera is better at parsing (small-caps, indents...) and Safari is better at rendering.
    The way I see it, parsing is a KHTML/Gecko problem while rendering is a /Apple problem. And we all know how good is Apple for appearance...

    The best would had been Safari with a Gecko engine..for now. I hope KHTML will improve its parsing capability.

    As picture is worth a thousand word, I made a webpage (http://vrykolaka.chez.tiscali.fr/render_pars.html ).

    Any correction welcome.

  7. Re:We Saw This Coming... on Layoffs at WotC · · Score: 1

    I think they finally plan to create the meta-world of Dominia (and its main world of Dominaria) wich is the original setting for _Magic: the Gathering_.

    I wondered why they stucked with Krynn(DragonLance), OErth (Greyhawk, the old timer) and Albeir Toril (Forgotten Realms), now I come to understand...

  8. Re:This is not the firts time ... on FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam · · Score: 1

    Here's the address (in French):
    http://www.cnil.fr/init/spam/boite_a_spa m1.htm

    They have received 146 000 mails for now.