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  1. Re:The Chinese have a chance on China Readies Royalty-Free DVD Format · · Score: 1
    Why the heck do people always have to "embrace" open source? Why can't they just use it? What kind of sick love-fest are you guys running here? ;)

    It's just a religion, nothing new...

  2. Re:Black Market on China Readies Royalty-Free DVD Format · · Score: 1
    Read on about Standard Oil. It was not such nice company as you are trying to paint it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

  3. Re:Square or Curly brackets? on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 1
    Their example correctly uses Curly brackets, {}, but their text says square brackets []. That seems like a typo to me.

    I think somebody needs glasses ;)

  4. Re:smart pills on 10 Tech Concepts You Should Know for 2007 · · Score: 1

    I believe it would be easy to have discardable external 'skin' for pills. Use it, discard skin, put new skin on for another usage.

  5. Re:What Have You Yahoo'ed For Me Lately? on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1
    Planning for the future: beginning 2007, they will start charging for pings to their domain.

    NO, there will be advertisement in every ICMP answer!

  6. Re:what does yahoo do? on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1

    You paint a very nice picture - have you tried to make movies?

  7. Re:TV on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1
    For example type "washington, dc" in google maps, and it takes you there. Do the same with yahoo...you get a crapload of business 'map pins'.

    I've checked your words. They do not appear to be true. maps.yahoo.com just showed regular map without any pins. Perhaps you've setup it's interface to show everything there?

  8. Re:Holy shit on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    software tester from Dell??

    As I understand there are QA engineers who design testing plans and there are testers who punch keys and stroke mice without thinking. Apparently tester got test plan from that Bigfoot company.

  9. Re:Snake oil on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    For anyone who knows tcp, yes, sprinkle magic fairy dust.

    For example: once every window, ack a packet you have not yet received.

    For anyone who knows tcp magic fairy dust may help, but acking packet which have not yet received smells as bullshit.

  10. Re:Why? on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    What's name of Business Development Guy?

    I already know Hardware Engineer's name is Dilbert..

  11. Re:Bashing on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    Yeah, you definitely need to have a Cisco router with Monster Cable CAT 6 running between it and your computer to make full use of Gigabit. Anything less and you're dropping packet fidelity through crosstalk line expansion. Not to mention the undervoltage latencies.

    Cisco would not be good there.. It is industrial design router. It was designed for bulk transfer - like truck for example and you need something fast and agile like Ferrari..

    Perhaps nice guys from Bigfoot will come up with Killer router for you.

  12. Re:ONLY useful for world class gamers/richie rich on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1
    For example, what happens if you send the ack for a packet you haven't received yet.

    In case of TCP your opponent' network stack should have fairly big congestion window (cwnd) open. It shoots packets without waiting for acknowledgments (normally). Your box's stack should acknowledge every second packet which is just fine. It might be useful to turn off delayed acknowledgments.

    Those rascals claim they improved network performance INSIDE computer which is just OK for snakeoil traders.

  13. Re:Who has the power on Critical Review of the Zune · · Score: 1
    1) Promote the hell out of Indie lables and shift the whole market away from major players.

    Major players named "major" for reason - they keep popular artists. Do you mean Apple would like me and many others to stop buying from Itunes store and just buy CDs to rip?

    I care about music and artists - I do not care about Indie or major labels and Apple knows it.

    3) iTunes now ships with iTorrent integration!

    What it would be for? To torpedo it's Itunes store?

  14. Re:Did you see CmdrTaco's review of the Zune? on Critical Review of the Zune · · Score: 3, Insightful
    How is this flamebait? The GP is obviously a fairly well-informed technical person who tries to make intelligent choices about technology and standards and stuff... and yet, as the parent points out, the GP has chosen to keep all his music in a totally proprietary locked-down Microsoft format.

    No, Microsoft is his religion, you can't question person's beliefs.

  15. Re:Reading the artcle...... on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1
    I have no idea where did you get the numbers of "twenty brothers", in the battle on Chudskoe lake in 1242 were killed more than 500 knights (!) and no one knows how much normal warriors. As I said - 500 knights, and that's elite. I'm sorry for calling Chud by name of Ladoga, I was thinking about the conflict with Sweden.

    This information was just verified with the book "The history of military art in 6th-17th centuries" by E.Razin.

    In English - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Peipus
    IN Russian - http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0 %BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0% B8%D1%89%D0%B5
    Link from Russian Wikipedia to research - http://www.polit.ru/research/2005/04/15/poboitshe. html

    "...
    And the same is about war with Finland, I have no idea where did you get the information regarding Russia "loosing" that war.

    I mentioned loss of Finland for Russia as it happened in 1917.
    I did not mean to relate to USSR Pyrrhic victory in Soviet-Finnish War.

    I'm sorry, but your hatred to Russia won't change the history.
    It is sad that pointing on some historic factual errors means hatred of Russia for you. I did not criticize Russia, I just meant to point out necessity to check facts you mention in forum. It is so easy with Internet access now.

    And, by the way, I have the economical education :)
    Good, just please do not try to express complicated ideas in one sentence - only genius can do it.

  16. Re:Reading the artcle...... on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1
    Oh-oh. Lake Peipus (Chudskoye Lake) it was and by Livonian chronicle "Twenty brothers lay dead and six were captured" - those are Teuton losses

    Yes, they write in chronicle this stuff. But if Teuton losses is only 26 men, why did they run away?

    They did not count common people losses for sure. It was a victory but it's significance was overrated for propaganda purposes in Stalin time.

    You forgot war between Frederic the Great and Russia. Russian army under command of marshal Nikolay Saltykov takes Berlin.

    Yes, I've forgotten about Seven Years' War. It was war between Great Britain, Prussia, Hanover and Austria, Saxony, France, Sweden, Spain, Russia. Winston Churchill called it World War. It can't be called war between Russia and Prussia only. There were a lot of battles. And Frederick lost Berlin at least twice in the war including one in year 1760 to Russians under General Pyotr Saltykov and Austrians under General Lacy. Britain, Prussia and Hanover won the war. Result of war for Prussia - they lost nothing but gained influence. Result of war for Russia - they got nothing but some international recognition.

    ... So why some countries, like Belarus pay for oil substantially less than Ukraine and Georgia? Democracy?
    Because Ukrainian and especially Georgian governments (governments, not people!) have forgot about Russian help, Russian blood, Russian friendship.

    So they should be punished, right?

  17. Re:Polonium 210? on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1
    they pick an exotic and rare poison yet whose symptoms are ubiquitous and unique.

    Well, those are not unique symptoms. Those are radiotoxic symptoms. They was not recognized as Po intoxication for some time. My guess perps were thinking about faster death and for unknown reasons. Oh well, in Russia people die for unknown reasons, it is kind of usual there.

  18. Re:Reading the artcle...... on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1
    You probably have no idea what the history is, do you?

    And you are definitely don't, aren't you?

    If talking about west we talk about England, there were no conflicts between Russia and England.
    How about Crimean War (1854-56)?

    If we're talking about Germany, Russia had several wars with Germany, and won every one of them. Especially glorious was the victory on Ladoga lake, where German Teuton crusaders were wiped out by Alexander Nevsky.
    Oh-oh. Lake Peipus (Chudskoye Lake) it was and by Livonian chronicle "Twenty brothers lay dead and six were captured" - those are Teuton losses. By the way Germany did not have any relation to that conflict. It was crusade by Teutonic Order knights. You might heard about Battle of Grunwald (1410) but Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania won it, not Russia. First real war Russia had with Germany was WWI and it shattered Russian Empire. Do you call victory the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3 1918)? Russia lost Finland, the Baltic provinces, parts of Poland and Ukraine. Only on November 11,1918 Armistice with Germmany was signed.

    Russia won a terrible war with Mongolia.
    That's interesting - Rus' principalities (no Russia) were beaten and were paying annual tributes to Mongol Horde for 240 years. There were a lot of battles, of course. But Rus still was paying. The Great standing on the Ugra river in 1480 stopped it - but it was just standoff, no battle was won.

    helped Greeks and Spanish to fight fascism in 30s,
    Greeks? Do you mean Greece Civil war 1946-49?

    USSR (read: Russia) won a war against USA in Vietnam and Korea
    Please read something. Soviet Union helped but did not participated directly (some pilots and technical support did but in small numbers). North Korea was almost lost but China military intervention save North Koreans. No victory for both sides. Do you know Paris Peace Accords was signed and USA moved out its troops from Vietnam by March 29, 1973 ? South Vietnam was won over in 1975 but without US participation.

    there is no such thing as "the west"
    Try read here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world

    That is capitalism, my friend, everything costs so much as you are ready to pay for it
    You do not know economics either. Your education should include some Karl Marx..
    It is a bit more complicated, seller also has word in price definition, right?

    And that is democracy, when good relations with leader of Russia will not bring you discounts.
    So why some countries, like Belarus pay for oil substantially less than Ukraine and Georgia? Democracy?

    You've got almost all your facts wrong. How could you make any conclusions?

  19. Re:USA-USSR & Gentleman's Agreement in Cold Wa on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You are forgetting about Stepan Bandera (killed in Munich on October 15, 1959) and Georgi Markov (killed in London on September 11, 1978). Both were poisoned. Those are two verified cases of famous people which were assasinated by KGB. There might be a lot more people died for "unknown reasons".

    BTW communists were not gentleman - they might appear to follow agreement for their propaganda purposes. Communists are gone (mostly) now and there is no reason Putin would pursue old days agreements.

  20. Scariest horror film??? on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1
    The scariest horror film of 2006 was a documentary.



    Oh boy, what is this?

    Please for you own good talk to psychiatrist about it.
    Horror film about science theory ??? Was you shitless scared?

    If not you lied to us then. You may consider nice career in propaganda field.
    Ask Fidel Castro where to apply.

  21. Re:Is it credible? on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Greasy marketing doesn't necessarily imply an inferior product. It could be that three college comp. eng. buddies developed the card, and the only marketing talent they could afford was that guy Jeff who used to hit on everyone while drunk at a frat party. The nice thing about network card performance claims is that they're pretty straight-forward to emperically test, once the hardware is out. I expect Toms Hardware will do a good job testing its claims, like they did with the recently released physics accelerator cards.

    The problem is they describe NIC in snake-oil terms. They try to bullshit people.

    The funny part majority of gamers should not care about NICs. Just anything should work if Internet connection at 1-6 Mb/s.

  22. Re:WRONG on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1
    The Chilean hackers blocked the flow of information from the websites attacked to the users wishing to access it. This is what the Chinese government is doing to their citizens.



    And if you get around their block, these Chilean hackers have the power to throw you in prison, right? :P



    It is completely different issue. Denying free information access is possibly only action which relates hackers to China government.

  23. Re:Question..... on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you kick a cop who is trying to arrest you for something that is not illegal, can you be charged with anything?

    I believe you can be charged for resisting police. Police could be in error arresting you and sometimes circumstances play a role in the arrest - "wrong time, wrong place". They usually free person soon and apologize if it was their fault - about that happened with Cruz. No apology though... Kicking a cop is worse then run away. That allow them forcefully restrain you, perhaps kicking you and beating with batons - do you want it?

    There is a difference between arrest and detainment, but it depends on local rules.

  24. Re:totally free markets will never work until... on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen against Network Neutrality · · Score: 1
    You're case is seriously lacking fundamentals and is wrapped in as much aluminum foil as your head.

    No, it's not aluminum foil - it's red flag. Basic Communist propaganda as it was in it's best Soviet/Socialist years.

  25. Re:sweet on Creative Sues Apple · · Score: 0
    Um, in this case Apple are the imitators and Creative are the "innovators".

    Creative lawers say that. Not proved yet.