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  1. Re:Oh My God. on Science & Industry 0.97b Half-Life Mod Release · · Score: 1
    "Half-Life 2 when it comes out"

    When is that anyway?

  2. Re:FM SPec. on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 1

    yes, the tinfoil hat.

  3. Support Lifetime for Desktop OS on MandrakeSoft Publishes Support Policy · · Score: 1

    I only care about a product support lifetime if it's for a mission critical server. Since Mandrake is mostly a desktop distro, the support lifetime is of little concern to me as I change my desktop Linux distro about every 6 months anyway. All of out Mandrake installs are less than a year old. In contrast, we still have many Solaris 5.6 and Red Hat 6.x servers.

  4. Re:It might werk. on RealNetworks Sues Microsoft Over Antitrust Issues · · Score: 1

    This is a good point, unfortunately the only one player I know of that plays .pm files is real player. I won't even view .rm files becasue I feel realplayer is to intrusive.

  5. Re:Helping the world benefit on Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold? · · Score: 1

    If you can't afford the extra $5 to afford it I am sure some cherity or welfare orginazation would throw in the extra money. There is nothing wrong with medical patents. It may be wrong to sell it for 5 million yes, but even at 5 million it is better than not being available to anyone at all. Ask yourself, if this guy didn't have the option to patent this would he have spent the money and time to discover it? The answer is probably no. My guess is that this will be LESS expensive than frequent kemo visits. I honestly don't see why you have a problem with it.

  6. Re:Helping the world benefit on Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold? · · Score: 1

    If you invented a cure for cancer why should you not make money on it? Even if you made $5 for every person that was treated you would be a millionare. If you had cancer would you argue paying an extra $5 to the person that made a cure possible?

  7. Re:FM SPec. on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Cadillac XLR has an adaptive cruse control. You can set a following distance for the vehicle in front of you. If they slow down, you slow down etc.

    It's a good thing I can't afford the 76G to play with it, I would be testing it behind my brothers commaro at 150.

    Caddilac give the disclaimer: *Adaptive Cruise Control is not a substitute for the driver's personal responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. lol

  8. Re:They are switching to something cheaper? on City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    Open office is not new, and neither is its Star Office codebase. The fact that OOo is free and someone actually using it is front page news is not a good sign no matter how you slice it.

  9. FM SPec. on FCC Approves Highway Radiosystems · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does someone have a decent brakedown of the FM freq allocations? It seems like that space is getting crowded.

  10. Re:Inexcusable, /. should use open cache or .torre on 3D Modelling From a Sketch · · Score: 1

    They admins probably can't connect to the box to figure out what's causing the problem.

  11. Re:Makes you wonder.... on Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not just code they are looking at. Windows and Linux use entirely different kernel architectures. They are looking at development methods.

  12. Re:They are switching to something cheaper? on City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    The fact that someone actually using Oo0o o is front page news says the product has a long way to go.

  13. Re:Too bad though... on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines · · Score: 1

    What wireless company is selling broadband?

  14. Re:Oh come on on SCO Not Lying About DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Uhm, go here --> SCO.com

  15. Re:mixed bag on VoIP Gets A Big Backer And Another Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    They have a "free" plan where you buy the equipment ($75) and you can call anyone also using the service. Has anyone else tried their service?

  16. Re:HowTo Exploit on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    The bug does not seem to work on my system with a standard hyperlink. I only work with a javascript button.

    <button onclick="location.href=unescape('http://www.google .com%01@www.yahoo.com');" style="font: 8pt verdana, sans-serif;">

    %00 will mask the mouse over URL though.

  17. Re:If only... on AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology · · Score: 1

    Exactly! They started to hype the Athlon 64 like 1 1/2 to 2 years ago. It still won't be out until late 2003 (maybe). Samples have been available for over a year but still no dice. 30% is a big deal now but it might not be in 2006.

  18. Re:Universal Service Fund on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    Rural health care?? It costs money in overhead every time money changes hands. Why are we going to tax a fraction of a % of cable internet revenue to fund rural health care? The government needs to defrag its taxing structure. I have heard that in order for a government to operate at peak efficiency it needs to be overthrown every 300 years. Maybe what the constitution lacked was a mandatory 200 year partial overhaul (defrag).

  19. Re:Isn't this called UDP? on Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers? · · Score: 1

    You do receive X packets at once. The number of data that you receive before "stop and wait" is called the receive window or RWIN. If you are on a fast connection with relatively low packet loss it is usually a good idea to manually raise your RWIN from your operating systems default. You can do this in both Linux and Windows pretty easy and it can eliminate quite a bit of the transmit overhead usually associated with TCP. dslreports.com and speedguide.net have more info on tweaking your TCP settings.

  20. Re:Good Riddance on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not to mention that the OICW costs $35,000 (on top of being more fragile). The only thing the weapon adds is a laser range finder which is nearly useless when you consider the trajectory of 5.56mm rounds. Depending on the grain of the cartridge the round is dead on at 200 meters and only drops a couple inches at 300 meters. I just can't see the need for all that electronics crap just so you don't need to aim 4 inches higher. Not to mention that you now have to laze to the target before you fire on it and you can easily get a bad range if there are shrubs in the path of the laser. I can see the need for a laser range finder on a tank but not when you are engaging targets that are only 350 meters away. Want accuracy? Rechaimber an M16A2 for 7.62, reduce the 40mm size of the M203 grenade launcher so it can be fired at a greater velocity, and fit the weapon with a M4 carbine style tactical scope instead of the M16A2 style open sight.

  21. Re:Value-added on Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program · · Score: 1

    I know more people that use Kazaa Lite than Kazaa, if you combine the download statistics of K-Lite with that of Kazaa I am willing to bet it has already surpassed ICQ.

  22. Re:Understand networking on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 1

    Yes, TCP/IP Illustrated is a great introductory book for new computer users.

  23. Re:I have one thing to say to this, on SCO Drops Linux, Says Current Vendors May Be Liable · · Score: 1

    "Does talking about cold dead harddrive fucker holder bother you?" - Eliza

  24. Re:Not the first time they did that on Windows Server 2003 Is A Small Step Forward · · Score: 1

    What about Linux distros like SuSE shipping and charging for a version release every 6 months? Compare that to the 2 year release schedule of Microsoft and it starts to put the price into perspective.

  25. Re:Direct link... on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 1

    I would rather Flash than Quicktime.