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  1. Re:The Ultimate Universal Remote Control on The Ultimate Universal Remote Control · · Score: 2

    Easy to create: just combine mood ring, small digital camera+small lamp and universal remote control and some software logic - and volia! You have mood remote control!
    Interesting to figure out what this thingie will do if you are watching TV and it's programming to switch TV from the programs you don't like! Advertisement avoider!

  2. Nobody abolished Newton's laws... on Air Bags for Planetary Defense · · Score: 2

    So if this air bag hit the asteroid - the misery weight of that air bag against asteroid weight send that air bag with all constructions in it flying with very high speed, while asteroid will fly with almost unchanged path...

    --
    Newton laws are guarded by Newton Police
    (City of Newton, KS)...

  3. Re:Another way to look at it on Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality? · · Score: 1

    Longer hours -> if tasks are interesting -> normal motivation -> ok productivity.
    ONLY if you feel physically good and if you are NOT pressed by management to sacrifice that hours...

  4. Re:I made a new language on "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder · · Score: 1

    Ok... so Sun now have a right to sue Mandrake for
    its kaffe?
    It's "similar, slightliy incompatible version..."

  5. Can anyone explain me... on "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why Microsoft _should_ include _anything_ to its browsers?
    It's _their_ product...

  6. Re:Wake up..... on Is Win2k + SP3 HIPAA Compliant? · · Score: 1

    Doctors don't buy? Well, they will DO buy... after they found that they could be hit by lawsuits about their HIPAA noncompliance... or their insurance would require it...

  7. Re:Reencode to OGG. on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 1

    The problem with re-encoding from mp3 to ogg is that mp3 and ogg are lossful formats, that removes some "waste" from wave sound. And they remove different "waste". And if you reencode it
    you'll get
    -> mp3encoder -> -
    -> oggencoder -> -
    After re-encoding
    at least
    - > -
    which is slight worse than
    - ...
    So better if you encode OGG from original wav-s...

  8. Re:Monitor this :) on Network Associates Buys "Better Carnivore" · · Score: 1

    Is there any plugins that can browse freenet from explorer or mozilla? For example to be able to get
    freenet://topic
    ?

  9. Re:It's not just software... on Why are Businesses Willing to Spend More for Software? · · Score: 1

    I see at least two reasons of why they probably did that:
    1) Conceptual schema increases readability and maintainability. In case of support that database years ago by a different team that schema can probably prove its value.
    2) Security design of database becomes more solid.

  10. Baikal! on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout · · Score: 1

    (if you can get it in US, he-he...)

  11. Re:Riddles on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Wow! A great solution: make goat and wolf incapacitated (or dead) and you are in freedom of choosing whom to take in boat!

  12. Vserver as possible solutions - again.... on Linux and Public Access Computing? · · Score: 1

    http://www.solucorp.qc.ca
    Virtual linux servers, that can share space with main linux...
    You can allow people to be root there...

  13. Re:What I don't like in vim on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    A best solution! I think Vim should have this in FAQ... or at least Vim should have a FAQ first...

  14. Re:What I don't like in vim on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    Ok... I know they switch me to insert mode.
    I am talking about what happens next ,
    after I leaving insert mode. If they put cursor where it stayed - it should be better.

  15. Re:What I don't like in vim on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    May be you know what command writes to file yanked selection?

  16. What I don't like in vim on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    .. is a luck of a good man page on its commands .
    Internal help is cumbersome and annoying for unexperienced users because it's not flat and navigation requires knowledge that you can get only after reading that help.
    Block operations are too complicated and
    word star's ctrl-k-b - ctrl-k-k are much superior.
    I can't understand how in vi select some block of text and write it to some other file... (can someone reply me with explanations how to do it? )
    If I need block operations I switch to joe editor...
    One other annying thing: why when I press
    in insert mode, cursor on screen goes back one character? Is it possible to tune vim to not do that?
    But for all other stuff, semantical coloring and speed vim is great.

  17. Re:Gated Communities as a legal precedent? on ISP Bans RIAA to Protect Its Customers · · Score: 1

    only English (and American) legal system runs on precedents. In European law the text of law only has meaning, not precedents...

  18. Re:MySQL great for small databases on MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors? · · Score: 2

    If you need more advanced features then use Postgres. But as far as I know there is no Windows version so your market is smaller

    Are you spreading mysql-supporting FUD ? :)
    Here is how to install PostgreSQL on Windows:

    http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/faq-mswin.html
  19. Re:Call me ignorant, but.. on Five PVR Users Allowed To Join Replay Court Fight · · Score: 1

    ... another probable results of broadcasters' death:
    - we have only special channels on TV (the only ones what we want) for which we have to pay and they are without ads. (pipe dream?!)
    - people finally go outside to socialize and meet - revival of social clubs etc...
    - as a result of more people going outside and money withdrawn from TV ads market - we'll have more outside ads - as in sweet sixties...

  20. Re:Insufficient information on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article? They say they hold information,
    except in some small working cache, in encrypted state.
    When person is out - they need only to finish encrypting
    the cache. About 7 seconds...

  21. Is this thing patented? on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 2

    Can I use that feature for my own (commercial
    or open source) mail client development?

  22. Re:Just a second now... on Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries · · Score: 1

    Some people (as me) do not like Perl...
    for example for its global variables and weird (IMHO)
    syntax.

  23. Re:More importantly on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Lots of talking mouses! Lots!
    Is it really what we need?

  24. Re:Possible backlash... on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Completely agree. Support good project by not blocking its pop-up. If a project not worth it - refuse to go there.

  25. Re:Security on Is Today's IT an Undervalued Asset? · · Score: 1

    ... and (Bah!), he is now overworked, and apathy is in his mood, and he is reluctant to do the security, because he is forced to answer all the users' stupid questions, for which the usual answers were provided by old personnel...