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  1. Re:Marketing plus Sales on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    Yea, appearantly their marketing is failing because I had and really still have no idea what a "DS" is...

  2. Re:Advertisers in general are going insane on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    You think this way because you live in your own timeframe. Its the first time you called this person.

    But its the 100th call that person has received and their is no patience left. So i feel that "FUCK YOU BITCH" is the minimum to adequately express how one feels at this time.

    Yes, everyone has to make a living, and I have respect for people that call. Just like some people are jerks, some telemarketers are too. One can only take so much.

  3. Re:Sniff, our little browser's all grown up... on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Is this a fault with the browsers, or the scripting language?

  4. Been available for over 10 years now... on U.S. Govt. Stipulates Free Annual Credit Reports · · Score: 1

    Lol, I fear the OP does not get it. We have had 1 free credit report for as long as I can remember. You just have to write a letter with pencil and paper.

    It appears that they now will allow the request to be made over the internet. But I doubt if this is related to any government act, as the actual free report has been available for a long while now. At least 10 years.

  5. Re:RFID? Don't they mean RF? on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    The RF engineers at my job would prefer to call it LF, or low frequency as opposed to radio frequency.

    But yes, RFID is just an ID tag, it holds at most 200 bytes of data on the ones I have seen. Tag, not data storage, and certainly not a communication technology.

  6. Re:It wont really be any good... on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    REgardless, by the time they are able to develop this, people will have moved on past IRC. Then they will be trying to develop bots to monitor the next technology, maybe IM. When they catch up there, people will have moved on...

    Why always trying to develop technology to do what humans can do out-of-the-box?

  7. Re:Well, it can be done. But can it be done well? on Can People Really Program 80+ Hours a Week? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes i think so. I find that overworking mainly reduces my capacity to see the big picture. To understand the implications of each change I make.

    If the code is well architected, then my return past 40 hours does not diminish so quickly. But chances are if they are asking you to work past 48 hours, your management lacks management abilities, and are askin you to make up for their shortcomings.

  8. Re:Equally instable on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    You can get the same thing just working for a bigger company.

    Contract work is a farce, unless you are already retired or are the spouce of someone with stable benefits and income. No you don't make more money by the time you consider benefits, tax, and retirement. Its even, but with less job security. In a full time job they can't just up and fire you without the risk of being sued. Sue they can, but if you been working there 10 years, and they fire you before the guy they hired last week, they need to be certain they can defend that move in court. Heck, it may even be criminal offence, but IANAL.

  9. Re:Buy the second a year later on Dual Video Cards Return · · Score: 1

    This only works if the feature sets / API don't change. But video cards today always try to show what NEW technology they are implementing like vertex shaders and whatnot.

    So 1 year later you can add more brute force, but chances are that you will be behind the technology curve.

    They didn't work before. Nothing has changed since. They wont work now.

    Dual cards are just a way for the card sellers to make more money. We see them now ONLY because its easy to do on the PCI Express bus.

    What I would like form a dual card setup is this. For me to buy a a MB with built in video, and add an external card, and still be able to use both. I would love that, but otherwise I wont be doing dual.

  10. Re:TurboTax on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    I went through this same crap.

    I needed some tax documents from an older year. That year I had downloaded the program from the internet, but I no longer had a copy of it. I asked to download a new copy, but they want to charge me $10. WTF?

    So tell me again, what exactly have I bought?

  11. Re:And in related news... on Linus, Monty, Rasmus: No Software Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't be so quick to say that. IBM may make lots on software patents, but they are in a better position to make money without them, than most of their competition.

    And they strengthen that position every day. So I would expect that one day, when they feel the time is right, IBM will strike out against software patents.

  12. Re:Design Patterns on Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Yea, you gotta have that one on your shelf. And if your a Java programmer you need

    Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch.

  13. Re:Yes and no.. on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can imagine someone in her camp saying, "wow we can get caseydonovan.com.au, its free, can you believe it!?"

    Last time I registered an address, I checked the corresponding .com, .net, .org, etc. I would have hoped they would do the same...

  14. Re:Yes and no.. on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Open a page asking you if your sure you want to visit the pr0n site?

    This is the same thing the anti-abortion camp pushes in the USA. Trying to get doctors to present all sorts of information and extensive questioning to 'discourage' the practice.

    I know its not what you were thinking, but its a slippery slope.

  15. Re:Maybe its designed to sell more servers on LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE · · Score: 1

    Yes but this is also in line with the object oriented philosophy. Sure you can write it to run faster sequentially, but its much easier to manage if its OO.

    J2EE is about manageability too.

  16. Re:Systemic Problems on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Not without calling it a hybrid :P

  17. Re:Probs before PR on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 1

    You are presupposing a bug free OS.

  18. Re:Superior Linux Support? on NVIDIA Announces Intel nForce Chipsets Coming · · Score: 1

    I been using a NVIDIA nforce board for my linux box for a couple years now. They have had some driver goofs, but the recent installer is a gem and they continue to get better.

  19. Re:Oh deary me... on SBC's VoIP End Run · · Score: 1

    First of all I couldnt follow that article at all. it was so vague with its explanation of what SBC has done!?!

    Secondly, when the 2nd internet arrives IIRC traffic types will be labelled. At that time it will be easy to regulate VOIP 'traffic'. A bill could instruct any transmitters of live voice audio must tag it with said label so it can be regulated.

  20. Re:Perfect Example..... on Thin CRTs to Challenge LCDs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    yea, that is what they say, lcd is slow to refresh. That is why its good on your eyes, and why gamers are particular about them.

    But since i started using LCD I aint never going back. I have LCD next to CRT, and I still prefer my LCD. Both by same company, but LCD colors are better, no refresh related flicker. and i dont notice the ghosting.

    THey do have LCD that dont ghost already you know.

  21. Re:IsNot Microsoft? on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    I dont think the patent is on the words themselves as much as it is on a 1 symbol representation of is not. You can still do "is not" but the second you make it a 1 symbol job, you violate the patent.

  22. Re:Microsoft patents ones and zeros... on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    You think you can get away with that? Clearly "is maybe not" is simply an adaptation of "IsNot."

    Expect to be served!

  23. Re:Is this going to help? on Yahoo! Mail Now Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This favors heavily webmail and other in-domain authorized sending schemes.

    So now people will get the impression that you can now reject from addresses with domains that don't match the servers they were sent through.

    But have you checked headers? Only time from addresses match the server address is with webmail or other in-domain type of sending mechanisims.

    For instance, my domain is hosted on a remote server as a home user without mounds of $$$. But my smtp is comcast because that is my ISP. So the from will be my domain but the server will be comcast. So are we going to reject everyone else who refuses to use their ISPs email service but is forced to use their SMTP?

  24. Re:Count me as a fellow Lone Coder on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    The only part I disagree with is putting the GPL in the same sentence as P2P. Yes they can both make it harder to "sell" software, but for completely different reasons.

  25. Re:Huh? on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well since many people were acting like I was a fool for not being updated to SP2 (slashdot), I figured it was pretty safe. And since I bought XP for my downstairs box, and it seems cool I upgraded this weekend.

    It hosed my video driver. I couldn't see anything once I rebooted except a weird block for a mouse cursor. Took my all night to figure out to boot to Video mode or some such. Once I put in the new driver all has been well. Though the USB mouse is still slow in returning after sleep.