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  1. Re:That's right on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Then they have to start the empire all over... wait, that is not possible anymore. The empire was built upon ruthelessness and a defintive military advantage.

  2. Re:The irony is..... on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Well, the Darth US did a good job to learn from their evil ancestors... Dunno if you sum everything up which country has been worse over time, the US or Britain, I think the crown if you just count the last 50 years definitely goes to the US (but you have to count in the crimes which have been done by US corporations under the hood)

  3. Re:Idiot. on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Well the distinction between the Germans and Austrians is somewhat between the distinction between the US And Mexico and the US and Canada. It is not as stron as the one between the US and mexico, but definitely sharper than the US and Canada. Although the borders nowadays are almost non existent and we have strong family ties to germany, the Austrian people take pride in being not German and having a sort of different past and different development (Keep in mind, that Germany was under Austrian control for almost 700 years and Austria under german control after 1200 only for short periods of time, the final split came during the Napoleon wars and only was fortified in 1866 with the Prussian-Austrian war) The third Reich was just a short period of something which nowadays nobody even would think of. A German Austrian unification (although we have open borders and sort of are united over the EU) is more unlikely nowadays than a Canadian - US one under Bush as president would be.

  4. Re:1984 on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Actually if Hitler was inbred I dont know, but not all parts of Austria are mountains, and definitely not the Braunau area, where Hitler was born and lived the early parts of his life (he went to School in Linz/Leonding)

    Braunau is definitely not mountainous, it is sort of a rural hill area with lots of fields and farms, not the flatlants (which are close to Hungary in the east) but definitely not mountains which are 200 kilometers to the south.

  5. Re:1984 on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    It was Austria nevertheless... I live near that part and believe me, if you live in Austria you always are close to some border. I live in a part where the tzech border is merely 30 minutes away, does that make me tzech although Tzechia was part of Austria for 700 years. No definitely not, although I have tzechian and german blood in me, I am definitely Austrian, being born there having most of my ancestors living in Austria. As much as I wished I could push Hitler to the germans, he definitely was Austrian, born in a part of the country which definitely belonged to Austria, having austrian parents (very likely a blend of german, tzechian or whatever nationality belonged to Austria, like every Austrian is) speaking german and going to school nearby where I live. I would love to call Hitler german, but he is not!

  6. Re:1984 on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    Actzally no, Hitler was one of my fellow countrymen, he was Austrian born in Braunau upper austria. After surviving WW1 on the frontiers, he failed to become an artist in Vienna and ended up being homeless and moved the germany, the rest is dark and evil history.

  7. /. layout bug on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    shouldnt /. fix the bug in the html code?

  8. Re:binary compatibility? on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java · · Score: 1

    Could be a good way to get rid of the deprecation bloat which the Sun VM has... For instance why even bother with Vector and Hashmap instead of just implementing the newer collection classes, same goes for the AWT, better just focus on Swing

  9. Re:Harmony could use Parrot on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java · · Score: 1

    Wake me up the day, when parrot is not vaporware anymore... Same goes for Perl6 which has been in the planning stage longer than has been Ruby existing.

  10. Re:MS-JVM all over again? on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java · · Score: 1

    You can add as many features as you want as long as you dont taint the core classes and core namespace. What Microsoft did was to dump their stuff into the java hierarchy and alter some of the core classes, so that the users over time will start to complain why Sun does not follow the standards. The classical we take over approach Microsoft does every time, by making things compatible from the outside, so that marketing has an easy going, and break things left and right so that the developers are bound to their platforms.

  11. Re:Version catchup..... on On the Horizon: an Apache-License Version of Java · · Score: 1

    Guess it is more a long term strategy to fortify the foundation of the jakarta project. Although very unlikely because IBM and others are behind the VM as well, if the VM goes down the drain the jakarta project will have another foundation to build upon.

  12. Re:So, what! on File Sharing Difficulties Frustrate Tiger Admins · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dont tell me, the PNG transparency bug in IE was reported 8 years ago, and finally it is getting fixed. Dunno if the CSS float command bug which basically makes CSS layouting impossible without hacking in a workaround, ever will be fixed.

  13. Re:Just like the samba benchmark on Red Hat/Apache Slower Than Windows Server 2003? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No... for that date definitely not, but things have gotten much faster on the linux side since kernel 2.6

  14. What those creationists dont understand on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    If you look at the universe as a whole it is much more than a story thought up in a time a few thousand years ago, when it was fashion just to make up a creationist story (every religion back than had this simply story of a being or a number of beings doing that one way or the other, some had it by describing the act of birth). The funny thing is, that the universe as a whole and evolution does not exclude god at all, even the Catholic Church admits that and accepts the first bang theory within the scope of the catholic view of the creation. Creationists just dont have the mental scope of being able to recognize that the universe and thus the creation itself does not exlude god, but is far bigger and wonderful, than what a tribal man around 3000 years ago could think of and thus ended in the Tora and Bible. Creationists are just stupid hardliners which try to find god by ignoring the greatness of gods creation by being stubborn and stupid, guess that sums it up best in their own words :-)

  15. Re:Close to useless... on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    Tried it, and indeed they fixed it... zerconf now recognizes the shared printers, does not help with non network aware (Canon) drivers however, but that is not Apples fault.

  16. Re:Great... on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes they did... tried it a few minutes ago... the printer finally is recognized by zeroconf, the main problem now is, that the Canon drivers are not network aware and thus refuse to print, not matter which protocol you access them (Canon pixima iP4000)

  17. Re:Close to useless... on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    Saw it already thanks, guess it is time to try Zeroconf again.

  18. Re:Great... on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    Does the printer sharing finally work without airport? Tried it a while ago and basically the docs said, if you want to have printer sharing enabled, you need airport up and running, which is totally idiotic, given the fact, that most of the time I dont even have wlan on the clients.

  19. Re:The Switch Marketing Myth on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about... apple sales have reached an all time high

  20. Close to useless... on Apple's Bonjour Available for Windows · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tried it a while ago, I enabled printer sharing on my mac, and yet the printer connected was not shown on the pc. I then read the docs, and basically they said that printer sharing over apples zeroconf was only possible over airport... The rest of zeroconf is rather pointless (who needs a list of http and ftp resources on the local net) More hype than anything else behind it.

  21. Re:Europe in a not so graceful decline on IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    To be accepted in the EU you have to make a clean case regarding your war criminals (sorry heroes)

  22. He deserves the award on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: -1, Redundant

    After all, he invented the internet, or was it Bill Gates?

  23. Re:you need vendors on The Dual-Core War - Is Intel in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Multi core cpus make lots of sense on the desktop, have you ever had a look at the process list on your desktop, all I can say, you would be surprised of how many running processes a desktop machine has. Add to that that developers, video people and lots of other people often need the extra power for a few hours without wanting the maching coming to a crawl and you can see a bigger picture.

  24. Re:I Disagree on The Dual-Core War - Is Intel in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Refocussing the strategy used to be the old way, nowadays if a company runs into trouble just the employees are kicked out of the company and the managemend does business as usual until the company is run into the ground.

  25. Re:windows cvs on KDE Switches to Subversion · · Score: 1

    Having compile SVN a while ago to get the javahl bindings (hopefully they will die soon) I noticed that you can compile svn without the libapr, it is just a matter of setting a flag in the configure...
    You need the libapr only if you want webdav and http access anyway.