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  1. Re:Here's an idea... on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Because that's the line Redhat is giving everybody (and enterprises) who still use RH. Just give them a million dollars and they'll figure out how to navigate their RPM Hell for you.

  2. Re:Not a very helpful benchmark on AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested · · Score: 1

    Then try Anandtech's analysis and benchmarks with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

    Summary, the Core 2 Duos still win with the X2 6000+s almost making parity with the E6700 cpus with 64-bit apps.

  3. Re:Flash and Plugins on Java's Greatest Missed Opportunity? · · Score: 1

    This blog link off that Wikipedia link of yours gives even more history of how .swf and Shockwave Flash came to be named.

  4. Re:Flash and Plugins on Java's Greatest Missed Opportunity? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many might not remember that Flash was once FutureWave Splash by the same guy who did that great oldie game Dark Castle and Beyond Castle for the Mac.

    FutureWave Animator sorta competed against Shockwave well that Macromedia bought them and renamed it Flash, and it's been "siblings" with Shockwave ever since.

  5. Dune on New Universes Will be Born from Ours · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the Worm and the sand trout, and the waking dream of the God Emperor. One formed shatters and scatters to form others which also form more unending.

  6. Re:government might want to step back on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Or engineer it properly so the light rail tracks never cross at the same level and crossing as pedestrians/cars like in other cities with heavier regular traffic. Japan for instance.

    Even Las Vegas moved pedestrians to their own elevated crosswalks so they never have to deal with vehicle traffic.

  7. shift numeric on DNA-rainbow, A New Vision of Human Chromosomes · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we have them represent base-4 numbers, nibbles of ASCII, or some other numeric base, we'll find a circle, or just a stereo-optic starfish image to cross your eyes over.

    Then, this would will be irrefutable proof of something, some sort of README.first, or just random gibberish for monkeys to type out.

    Contact.

  8. Re:Natural Selection At Work on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Driver licenses should work like this. If you can't drive through a moderate race course, or earn a B-license, bike or walk.

    This weeds fairly at all ages.

  9. Re:in CCCP on TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits · · Score: 1

    I LIKE the fact that I'm contributing to the Nielsen ratings, somewhat, so that the geek shows I watch will be less likely to get canceled.

    Although the satisfaction of building your own MythTV is very nice, it sure doesn't help you vote for the shows you like to keep them around.

    I think I'm correct in thinking that TiVo is still the only DVR company that can give playback/replay/most watched moments info of any show, such as the recent Super bowl or previously Janet's ugly chest, which is gold to the advertisers to tailor the shows/commercials better for you.

  10. Re:Whoa, A collection of FUD articles... on Gamers React to Vista Launch · · Score: 1

    That's what they said about what was "great" about winmodems. At least OpenAL is an open API that's actually cross-platform.

    Then hopefully it should be an easy recompile for people that use Miles or FMOD, if either updates to OpenAL.

  11. Re:Soft links? on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or a comparison with Google Trends

  12. Re:Soft links? on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel · · Score: 1

    Since using BSD from 1999, plenty of times. Hard links (ln), soft links (ln -s) aka symbolic links. It's been pretty difficult not to know. Maybe the Linux man pages aren't as clear?

  13. Re:go all the way on Harmonix Confirms New Company Project · · Score: 1

    Done by Konami's Bemania series with session-linking with Drum-mania, and Guitar-freaks, along with two keyboards with Keyboard-mania.

    Just hasn't been ported to home systems, and so GuitarFreaks never really took off like Guitar Hero.

    Funny enough, Konami also does Dance Dance Revolution, ParaPara Paradise, and Karaoke Revolution. Imagine linking all of these together.

  14. Re:Nail on the Head. on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    Mod this up. This is exactly why the iPhone is DOA for the rest of the world.

    Let the country-bumpkins shudder over the magical iPhone because it's all they got.

  15. Re:Right... on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Newflash, people all over the world who take pictures using their 3 megapixel and up celphones aren't looking for professional looking pictures.

    All they want is something that looks good enough to share around by MMS messages, archive as backgrounds on the phone, or something that could be printed out as a sticker.

    Otherwise, why do people even bother buying the 7.1 megapixel junk-compact cameras these days being pumped out by Canon, Panasonic, Sony, etc? SAME THING.

    Anything 7.1 and up and using a tiny CCD gets the same quality as a celphone camera. Obviously, they don't care about faster optics nor less noisy sensors.

    Hell, I shudder anytime I see a new tiny Cybershot or Lumix because I know how bad their sensors are.

  16. Re:World Of Disney on Disney Takes Aim at Movie Based MMOGs · · Score: 1

    Tell her to check out Toontown Online available NOW.

    Use an IE browser, for now.

  17. Re:Right... on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    Have you been to Asia, specifically Japan?

    Most of the phones there have minimally 3 megapixel cameras on them. Why? Because Japanese people use their phones as total convergence devices and take a lot of pictures with the phone to share with other friends, or even video. The RAZR seriously looks ghetto next to the other Japanese phones since ultra-thin phones came and went in Japan 4 years ago.

    The Japanese use their phone as the web browser and text messenger. It's brilliant on mass transit. Want to send a greeting card to a friend, phone. Want to use your phone to buy train tickets or food, as a charge card? Done. Want to figure out where you are or how to get somewhere? GPS on the phone and done. People barely use it to actually talk to each other by voice, where you can't always hear past the environmental noise, and ringing is banned on trains.

    How does this all work? UMTS 2100 aka 3G.

    This is why all the mobile games and content suck, and have no direction nor viability in the US. Not only are mainstream websites way too fat with flash and crap, and unless people are getting bored on mass transit, there's no reason to want (nor safely use) more functionality in a phone.

    Apple P0wn should seriously target Europe/Asia where multifunctional mobile technology is actually used, and not technology backwaters such as the USA. It better be flip too.

  18. Re:Trademark info on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    This is like the repeat of their touch-wheel where Apple did great hardware, but didn't bother to do any patent research on it until Creative said "HEY", as dubious as it was.

    They could just call it Apple Phone, or Apple Fone in the style of Apple TV.

    How about Apple Talkman?
    whoops.

  19. Re:So far, so good with Verizon. on Consumer Reports: Cingular, Sprint Bad Performers · · Score: 1

    So, UTMS is an advanced form of CDMA that happens to be also named GSM?

    So when does UTMS make it to the US, or it's going to just stay in Japan?

  20. Re:For running free software on Gamestop To Be Resupplied With PS3, Wii · · Score: 1

    First and 2nd gen Playstation hardware were really plagued with faulty drive units from PS1 through PS2 generations. Remember the drive unit melting/wearing through the plastic rails of the PS1 so you had to flip it upside down to squeeze a bit more life out of it?

    Remember the current big-size PS2 problems where the drive stops recognizing DVDs and well as PS2 games?

    I rather wait for 3rd rev hardware, or something later, that's not going to quit on me for these early adopter prices than pin hopes they're not going to sneaky-background-flash upgrade the firmware protection like their CD protection schemes.

  21. Bible on Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon · · Score: 1

    This is why the Bible says to not eat pork (besides the rampant parasites in them at the time)?

  22. Re:Yeah, but... on Nvidia Launches 8800 Series, First of the DirectX 10 Cards · · Score: 1

    Isn't binary binary large object kinda redundant? Nevermind.

  23. Re:I wish MS would come out with something like th on Apple Unveils Extra Leopard-isms To Developers · · Score: 1

    It is already so painful to even write code in Xcode. Sure the interface building is nice, but what's the point if you can't even get decent and relevant code completion and lookup that even begins to resemble VS intellisense 2002!

    Don't even get me started on Xcode's crappy debugger (gdb-based) that can't even automatically give me reliable and decent variable value expansion and such. Why does I have to dig to find what a CFStringRef, or any ref, points to what actual data, sometimes? Why do have to dig through layers just to know what my basic_string<> is? Why does the debugger sometimes map to no code line except the very bottom of some random file while I'm stepping? Why does the debugger act strangely and go off into lalaland if I'm off by a CFRelease or CFRetain? Why do I even have to deal with CFRetain/Release and CFStringCreateCopyWithKitchenSinkInsideTheTitanic in today's world of namespaces, constructors and such?

    Only thing that seems to offset all this hair-pulling is distcc for quick recompiles, with no such no easy alternative in MS world.

  24. Re:The four consoles on Consoles M.I.A. · · Score: 1

    More precisely, the PC-FX is the shockingly innovatively, (albeit logically) named sequel to the PC Engine, aka in the States as TurboGrafx-16.

  25. Re:Tabs! on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 1

    You know, Opera did it first with their MDI windows bar, and they're really not getting any credit for it now.