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  1. Re:Does it run on IBM's Cell Processor — Not Just for PS3 Anymore · · Score: 1

    False. Early PowerPC chips had POWER compatibility (some support was dropped in later models, but it's still mostly there). The Macintosh's 68k emulation was provided in software.

  2. ACL on Suggestions for Company Wide Password Vault? · · Score: 1
    you can fake it with Linux and sudo (or multi-group support), or Windows ACLs.

    That's exactly what it was designed for.

  3. try a-Opener on A Replacement for the i-Opener? · · Score: -1, Troll

    a-Opener is a real eye-Opener.

  4. Re:Bulk erasure on Cheap Bulk Eraser for Hard Disks? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but then again, if it's something like medical records they potentially liable for big fines and jailtime. Assuming it's a private company. The above disclosure laws don't apply to governmental agencies.

  5. Re:Another interesting article by Rolland Piquepai on Robocabs Coming to Europe · · Score: 1

    ScuttleMonkey and Zonk are to blame, IMO. CmdrTaco has stated that he thinks Roland's "submissions" are shit.

    RoboEditors that posted links for popular digg stories would be more effective (and have less dupes).

  6. Re:NeXT did it! on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was due to the lawsuit and corresponding consent decree. After Steve Jobs left Apple and created NeXT, he hired away quite a few Macintosh programmers. Apple filed a lawsuit, and a lot of their agreement dictated certain UI differences.

  7. Re:Essentially useless information. on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, Objective C allows you to add new methods (or override existing ones) without access to the original source code. So you could compile the above code (well, override NSScrollView tile) into a .so and use the LD_PRELOAD variable to specify it be loaded. Thus,any Cocoa program would be modified. Carbon wouldn't be affected.

  8. Re:That's EASY! on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: -1, Troll

    which hand does she masturbate with?

  9. Re:MIPS is going away? on SGI Announces MIPS and IRIX End of Production · · Score: 1

    My assembly class use 8086 (with Microsoft's assember... I prefer nasm). I think 32-bit ARM is the cleanest real world instruction set I've used.

  10. My Windows Vista sucks on Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready · · Score: 1
    You know that My Mac Sucks troll about taking 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file? I was using vista yesterday with a friend of mine, trying to rearrange some files and folders, at it was that bad. Copying files, deleting, even exploring a folder. It was ridiculous.

  11. Re:More freedom ? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    The end user is in the same position [insert joke about bending over and grabbing ankles] if MS uses BSD code or if MS writes the code themselves. The original BSD code is still freely available to anyone that wants it. If the user wanted your "freedom" they wouldn't be using a closed source product in the first place.

  12. Re:GPL incompatable now means not free? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1
  13. Re:GPL incompatable now means not free? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1
  14. Re:More freedom ? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    Let's say Microsoft takes some BSD code. I'm no worse off. You're no worse off. BSD is no worse off. Nobody is worse off. And nobody has lost any freedom because of it.

  15. Re:Hosting on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. They need the 99.9999% uptime (6 9s) that only sourceforge can provide.

  16. Re:More freedom ? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The GPL provides restrictions that other free software licenses don't.

    If I write code under a BSD license, anyone can use make use it. GPL, BSD, CDDL, even proprietary closed source code. Everyone has freedom.

    GPL code is only free for use with other GPL code.

    GPL gives you freedom the same way segregation gives you freedom -- freedom for some, not all.

  17. Re:GPL incompatable now means not free? on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    Since the latest cdrtools packages look to be a combination of GPL'd code and incompatibly licensed code, Debian is removing crtools (not shunting it to non-free), because they feel they can no longer distribute the work.

    The official fsf position is that:

    1. CDDL is a free software license (but not copyleft)
    2. "there is a practical reason not to use copyleft. [Jorg Schilling] does an important job for the community in maintaining [cdrecord], and the benefit of copylefting our changes would be less than the harm done by a fork in development. So it is better to work with the [Jorg Schilling] and not copyleft our changes on these programs.
  18. Re:checkout on ScummVM Developers Barred From Using PayPal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google checkout has a fee structure similar to normal credit card processors. It's designed for c2b, not c2c. They do allow donations for 501c3 tax exempt organizations. It's not designed for sending a couple bucks to a guy living in his parents basement.

  19. Re:Why use static HTML? on What's in Your HTML Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    in that situation, server side includes are just as useful, but faster and more secure.

  20. Re:Worst idea ever. on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 1

    That explains David Souter, doesn't it?

  21. Re:CSS = ACID? on Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Released · · Score: 1
    Development work has always been done primarily by paid aol/netscape/mozilla employees. That's true of a lot of closed source/commercial projects which are open sourced -- SLASH, Firebird, blender, etc. Certainly, anyone can send in patches, but the amount of work required to understand larger, more complicated source trees prevents sandal-wearing volounteers from participating.

  22. Re:Really? on Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to say "IE7 is ripping off several FireFox features (tabs, etc.) that FireFox ripped off from Opera"

  23. Re:CSS = ACID? on Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    Mozilla foundation/corporation has revenues of > 75 million (from google and affiliate searches) and over 120 full time employees.

    hardly "a bunch of cowboys that do stuff for fun with a few paid employees."

  24. Re:what about winamp and xmms? on Apple Gives In to Absurd Patent Claims · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Winamp was first released in 1997. Ditto xmms (or rather, the precursor of it). The patent in question dates back to 1995 (or earlier).

  25. Re:Bugs on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 1
    The decision was made a long time ago to treat explicit CDATA sections like these in HTML as comments () instead of text. IIRC HTML 4.01 is silent on what to do with them. Do we want to reverse direction and display them as text? is one of those things that never really saw the light of day anyway in HTML UAs.

    Looks like they haven't fixed it yet. They haven't even decided if they'll fix it. They handle it better than IE, (which is completely broken), but Opera, khtml, iCab, hell, even lynx handles it correctly.