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  1. Re:Let's be clear on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 2, Funny

    That or the Planet Express ship getting sent back in time again...

  2. But the dirt must flow... on No Winner In NASA's Moon-Dirt Digging Competition · · Score: 1

    I guess we need sand worms after all

  3. Re:Why would anybody want Office-2007? on Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well · · Score: 1

    With this update you can import and export to Office 2007 formats with Office 2000 and above: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa milyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displa ylang=en

  4. Let Enterprise die, bring back the best... on 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? · · Score: 1

    Enterprise was never good to begin with, Deep Space Nine on the other hand was the best Trek since the original and in some areas much better. Give me a Band of Brothers-ish based mini-series chronicling the Dominion War from the infantry's point of view (similar to the awesome episode "Siege of AR-558") and I'd be happy. It'd be good to have some DS9 cameos in there too, but focus on new characters. Let Wolfe and Behr produce/write and Nic Meyers direct, keep Berman and Braga away from it. This could revitalize Trek.

  5. Re:Open Source almost there on Microsoft Names Linux its Number Two Risk · · Score: 1

    Under Win32 (XP especially) you can run any program (for the most part) that was written from the days of DOS, Win 3.x and Win9x. From 95 on, Microsoft has kept a pretty much standard GUI, with minor variations and tweaks along the way (some for the better, others for the worse).

    Comparing an application's file compatibility with another has nothing to do with the OS specifically, but of the programmer(s) of the application.

  6. Open Source almost there on Microsoft Names Linux its Number Two Risk · · Score: 1

    There's no way Microsoft can compete with an open source development as large as Linux. Microsoft will soon realize this and be forced to embrace it or fail, even with the amount of money they have in 10 years Linux will have an even greater amount of market share in the server and desktop environments, constantly improving upon itself meanwhile Microsoft will be struggling to keep up with the constantly changing computer world, as we have seen with Whistler and we will see again with Longhorn. Microsoft might as well just base an OS on Linux while they are developing Longhorn and Blackcomb, and see how it does, there would be a lot of aggression against, the Linux community would be skeptical about the hidden reports back to the Microsoft collective but it may bring about the standardization of Linux, which is what Microsoft was founded upon.

    I am a recently converted FreeBSD user, but I do have to dual boot because FreeBSD lacks some the features XP has, which are mostly driver issues, such as not being able to use the my 7.1 sound card in anything but stereo mode and the application compatibility, I'm not able to run the Linux binary of Maya for example.

    The open source community has come a long way, but it is still in its infancy, I hope in a couple years I'll be able to run one OS with the customizability of *NIX, the standardization and compatibility of Windows.

  7. Re:doh! on Quake 2 Source Code Released Under The GPL · · Score: 1

    You could just change the protocol number and only hand out the client programs with the protocol change but then you'd be limited to the number of users on your server.

    Another way would be to pass several variables between the server and the client, like the health, armor, etc so that the server controls the amount of health, armor,etc.