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  1. Re:Layering is always good.. on Tear Down the Firewall · · Score: 1

    While I do agree with you. I can't help but think TCP/IP in general is too old school that it needs 3 layers of cake of protection. Some future IPv# version has got to address these complexity problems.

  2. Re:Study: -1 Troll on Nintendo Gives No Ground In Handheld Wars · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Nintendo is fighting Sony with 4 handhelds at the same time: Gameboy, GBA, GB color, DS. Not to mention, Nintendo will have the new Nes Micro handheld next year.

    Can you imagine 5 handhelds vs. the PSP alone. That's unbelievable competition. Keep in mind, the PSP isn't even Sony's flagship product. Sony's flagship product is the PS2/PS3. The flagship product usually have the best game for the company. The DS is Nintendo's flagship.

  3. Re:Don't you mean on Tracking the IT Job Market with a Bot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The bot concept does not make sense. Are we counting JOBS or POSITIONS?

    Some IT jobs make you the webmaster, network guy, database guy and janitor. Other jobs just leave you a single position and hit deep. How can the bot be intelligent enough to separate?!

  4. Re:Why will I want to upgrade? on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    You are biting the M$ bait.

    There was a software out there called NTswitch. M$ fought very hard and quietly underground to keep this program out of Internet's reach. With 1 click it modifies all the necessary keys in the registry and you get whatever version you want after reboot.

    Your link is a typical M$ defense using NT4.0 to prove different versions are different, because quite frankly NT4.0 WAS the last version that had a different architecture. That's why there was no NTswitch for NT4.0.

    Win2000, 2003, XP versioning is all the same shit, different registry keys. They bundle different garbage, so consumers can't tell skin deep.

  5. Re:The Gentle People on Genetic Research In The Heart of Amish Country · · Score: 1

    That is the single craziest article link. Most people would not have guessed the armish culture is this fucked up in policing themselves. I knew they were out-of-ordinary, but rape for breakfast is ridiculous.

  6. Re:blue? on Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux · · Score: 1

    I thought only Windows screens were blue.

  7. Re:I N N O V A T I O N on Ballmer on Innovation · · Score: 2, Informative

    #1. The first spreadsheet app.

    VisiCalc

    #2. The first use of a mouse.

    Xerox

    #3. The first GUI.

    Xerox

    #4. The first web browser/web server.

    Netscape

    #5. The first relational database app.

    IBM

  8. Re:SGI's Linux is for Itanium not MIPs on SGI Faces Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Their current Linux on Altix hardware is at least an attempt by the company to bounce toward the Linux direction. But the way they are doing it is unbelievably risky.

    They are taking the heart of the kernel portion, ripping it out and make it run on their SGI Altix hardware. In the end you really have nothing special but regular Linux and modified kernel. Basically you can now pay $$$$ for the same Linux OS on Altix hardware. Whereas the Linux x86 on PC is free. If PC become as powerful as Altix one day, they are toast.

  9. Re:Oil isn't the only source of energy. on Fuel-cell Vehicles for Americans · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nothing is going to happen while Bush and Chaney has dips in the political office writing giant tax-dollar-sucking unnecessary oil consulting projects for Halliburton. Well, somebody's got to say it.

  10. Re:Why will I want to upgrade? on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only difference between Windows Advanced Server, Server, Professional is 1 registry key.

    M$ is the same company that oversell you what you need. In theory they can just let you download a longhorn kernel to plugin to an existing XP box. But it's better business sense for them to charge you an OS monopolistic price at $200.

  11. Re:Jesus vs the Terminator on How Games And Religion Could Mix · · Score: 1

    Oh man that game would be a top seller. Can't wait till the sequel. What would the Add-on pack come with? New weapons such as chain whip with a morning star. Bonus stage in hell where you fight mr diablo himself.

  12. Re:Not that I'd ever side with MS... on Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know who to defend. M$ or the PHD grad? I have seen some of the smartest people from universities go work for M$ and absolutely just sit at the bottom of the pile.

    They have no real projects, assignments nor are they developing any real skills for their next resume. Whose fault is it that the PHD grad gets mad?? You be the judge.

  13. Re:Doesn't add up to me on Massively Multiplayer Sweat Shops · · Score: 1

    I am more worried that this becomes a new haven for the IRS to set online gaming taxes. It's the perfect place for IRS to start.

    - Lots of chaos
    - Lots of money
    - Lots of young people with no idea how to fend off IRS
    - Lots of people doing this for a living.

    There is no online tax now, but this shit gives congress plenty of Ammo.

  14. Re:ATI troubles on The Price Tag of Exclusivity: ATI and Valve · · Score: 1

    Yeah I saw all those HL2 and ATI compatibility and I flocked out to get a 9800 Radeon 128MB way before the game came out.

    I am on my 3rd replacement under warranty now since it fried so many times on me in 1 and a half year. Had I known Nvidia would have had equal performance, I would not have rushed out like this. This is probably my last ATI card EVER due to extreme disappointment with the stock fans overheating.

  15. Re:FC4 was released too early? Wait for FC5 on Fedora Core 4 Reviewer Finds It Bloated · · Score: 1

    I am pissed that Eclipse didn't work out of the box for fedora core 4. Apparently checking out different forums, many people got the OS to crash completely from running Eclipse.

    How the hell did redhat become as unstable as windows nowadays. Dare I say "enterpri$e" edition.

  16. Re:Console games are overpriced on MS and Nintendo Won't Go Budget · · Score: 1

    Ok, when a company tells you they had a staff of a million people working on games, it's total BS.

    Game companies like to tell you these things so you feel "SPECIAL". Like your product took the efforts of thousands, and you feel great. In reality, some intern highschool kid added a 1 line of comment, and he could have been considered +1 to the headcount.

    Look at the game credit for ANY GAME, that's where the real count usually is. Marketers always tell you this game is bigger, badder, had a huge workforce working on it. They count publishers, people minting CDs, people catering lunch etc etc etc.

  17. Re:Cynical on Firefox Ported to Mac OS X for Intel · · Score: 1

    While firefox is great, I still think they should address the memory leak bug before porting it so many places. Does anyone else see their CPU skyrocket to 100% on certain websites?

  18. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! on Behind the Faked Revolution Video · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Man! That video was bad ASS! After watching that, I said I don't give a fuck if it's fake. I want a revolution now!

    Music was fantastic. It wasn't lame like every other real nintendo Ad. It had style, pumps you up, it wasn't targeted toward 5 year olds. This deceptive marketing needs to be done more often. I was sold, and nintendo marketing need to sit in a classroom and learn from this artist.

  19. Re:Mandatory overtime on In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down. · · Score: 0, Troll

    Employers are not right, but neither are the father/husband.

    Why should your co-worker who are "single" be satisfied with working 80 hrs? Being a husband/father should never be an excuse for you to work less. YOU chose to be one, no one forced you to make your own life difficult.

    Working 80 hrs a week is not good, but being a father shouldn't get special treatment. Everyone knows you're not taking your kids to baseball games every night. Instead going home to watch TV and have a beer.

  20. Re:You seem to be carrying some unfortunate memes. on Grokster Case Aftermath: Busy times Ahead for EFF · · Score: 1

    To blame napster for poisoning the well is just too much. Shawn Fanning was just some 19-year old college kid on a pet project. I don't think anyone looked that far ahead.

  21. Re:PS3 in Spring 2006? on Revolution May Launch Last · · Score: 1

    Every console launch from Sony has been delayed at least once by some small degree. PS3 should be no different.

  22. Re:everyone need to get IPV8 ! on Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv9 China is already working on IPv9? I don't even know who to believe anymore. Why not just wait till IPv100 at this rate.

  23. Re:Popular perception on Cartoon Network Acquires Neon Genesis Evangelon · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter what channel they show it on.... as long as they don't butcher it. US basic cable channels have a nasty habit of modifying contents to some lame degree.

  24. Re:Trust on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 1

    Of course Gates is against Borg implants.

    He can't dominate a world where people's brain are always in Beta mode, buggy and always crash.

  25. Surveys are Meaningless on SAGE 2004-2005 Salary Survey Announced · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter if we punch in $20,000 or $50,000 or $100,000. The only important thing anyone needs to know out of the result... you are buying less for your dollar in 2005 than in 2004. Most U.S salaries including non-ITs are absolutely unportional to the economy.

    Average joe need to spend almost 70-80% of the their paycheck to maintain the same standard of living. Of course that is unless you got rich in the .com boom or spoiled the real estate market at your investment expense. In that case, none of this applies to you. Happy 4th.