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  1. Original article from The Times on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Larry Tesler was never CEO. on Apple's First Flops · · Score: 1

    TFA also states that Bill Atkinson did all the graphics for Lisa and the Macintosh - he did a lot of the graphics development (notably the UI and QuickDraw) and Susan Kare was responsible for the actual graphics.

    Bill Atkinson, Susan Kare.
  3. Does not necessarily cover DeCSS on French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs · · Score: 1

    The guy would have been prevented from copying his DVD onto video because of the Macrovision copy protection.

    So if this goes ahead they will just require that any DVD player hardware sold in France does not have this copy protection system. (But the DVDs still are CSS encrypted).

  4. Re: What about a new format? on The Future of Digital Audio · · Score: 1

    The 2 streams was the approach Real used with SureStream.

    Vorbis can be "peeled" - in theory you can take a single Vorbis file and produce a stream with an arbitrarily lower bitrate. This opens up cool ideas such a a streaming server that will adjust the stream to fit your connection speed.

    This has more information

    As another poster pointed out I think, there isn't a usable implementation of this yet.

  5. Re:This says more about "trained readers"... on Indiana First With Computerized Grading · · Score: 1

    The same grammotron as the Grammaton Cleric? Would certainly make sure you got your grammar correct.. :-)

  6. Re:Windows alternative to Realplayer on Real Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 1

    Sorry, download link seems to be fussy about referrers.

    Try this page.

    Or this.

    Or this.

  7. Windows alternative to Realplayer on Real Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a lot of posts from people fed up with Realplayer. Give this a whirl:

    http://sn.hardnet.ro/realalt090.exe

    (Windows only). Comes with the Real codecs and MediaPlayerClassic (no relation to the proper windows one - it's a very good bit of software) so you can play Real files without needing Realplayer.

  8. Re:Flash won't get indexed by search engines on Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good but the search engine won't be able to link directly into a particular page of content in the Flash movie. Sure the search engine got them to your site but if the user can't find the content they were looking for easily then they'll get frustrated and may well end up giving up on your site.

  9. Flash won't get indexed by search engines on Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Phil and Alex's guide to web publishing makes a good point about flash - search engines won't index it (yet). So people are going to have a hard time trying to find your content online.

    (a copy of the relevant chapter can be found here. The whole book should be compulsory reading for any web developer)

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

    Well, not really.

    They will probably argue that running Linux will facilitate the running of pirated software.

  11. "The End Not As Near As We Thought" on Another Asteroid Close Call · · Score: 2, Funny

    Love it - this article was posted a couple after an article titled "The End Not As Near As We Thought"

    So which is it?