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  1. Re:Motive doesn't matter. on Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website · · Score: 1

    And 34th Street was (is?) the location in NYC of the big, flagship Macy's store. IIRC, it's a B&W movie, so he was a store Santa, not a mall Santa.

  2. Re:Just in from bash.org on Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP · · Score: 1, Insightful
    What's this CMD thing? Don't you mean a DOS prompt?

  3. Re:Yes sure... on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1
    So, if they can't find PJ, does it mean "she's" really at team of IBM lawyers?

    There seems to be logical fallacy lurking in there.

  4. Re:"PJ", very interesting.. on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1
    "Pfui!" (to quote Nero Wolfe)


    I'm involved in helping my high school class get together for its 40th reunion. Over the years, we've lost track of some people, particularly those who moved away from the area. The web hasn't been all that helpful in tracking them down.

    The vast majority of people don't have personal websites, don't have blogs, and likely aren't listed on the website of the company or organization that employs them. Maybe once in a while, they'll win "Employee of the Month" and their name will show up in a minor news story, but how do you know that "Peggy Sue Smith" that you knew in high school is now "Margaret Brown" in Accounting?

    And what name do you search for? Does she still go by Peggy, or Peggy Sue, or Margaret, or M. Susan, or ...?

    Or the name is so common (William Smith) that it's like doing a Google search for "computers".

  5. Re:A slight to EFF? on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1
    Well, Microsoft owned (created?) Xenix, a Unix for the 386. But they sold the product to Santa Cruz Organization. Caldera bought the product line from Santa Cruz, and renamed itself SCO.

    Or something like that, it's too early in the day to get all the specifics right.

  6. Re:This is silly on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1
    Didn't you hear? Those IBM guys know *a lot* about computers. Hacking the whois entry was a piece of cake, the hard part was coming up with PJ's personna... they still consider the Red Dress line to be one of "her" best.

  7. Re:Does it matter? on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1
    Sony rootkits, patents, OSDL... just all part of the elaborate cover story. Those boys up there in Armonk sure are clever.

  8. Re:Sadly he has extremely low chances of winning on Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband · · Score: 1
    Actually, I think WJC could run again. The limitation, IIRC, is for two consecutive terms, not a maximum number of terms. Since Bill sat out the 2001-2008 era, I think he could run again. I think he'd not have a chance, but who knows?

  9. Somehow... on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1
    Somehow I managed to get through 4 years of undergrad (BSEE) and two years of grad school (Masters) with just a plain old K&E. In fact, we probably sent a man to the moon with them.


    Won't do graphing, obviously, but you can fill that in by hand.

  10. Re:Don't be silly on GM Working on Feasible Electric Car · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Let's see... if all us rural folk move to the big city, will the corn, wheat, and (especially) the cattle and the hogs gonna just wander their way to your neighborhood supermarket? Is the coal going to march from Wyoming to those generating plants in the east and south, so you can run your air conditioning? Are the trees going to split themselves into nice 2x4s and just show up at the urban jobsite?

    I daresay that in the event of a really severe energy shortage, those of us out here in "flyover country" will likely fare much better than the city folk, hybrid vehicles or not.

  11. Re:Don't be silly on GM Working on Feasible Electric Car · · Score: 1
    Another big reason for diesel locomotives is that in MU operation, only one engineer is needed for two, three, four, etc. locomotives, whereas with steam locomotives, an engineer and a fireman was needed in each cab.

  12. Re:Wondering... on Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle · · Score: 1
    Just in time for all those thousands of new hams who were waiting for the Morse requirement to be dropped. Things should be hopping on 6 and 2 meters. Better start digging the foundation for that 100 ft tower tomorrow.

  13. Re:More math? on A Master's In CS or a Master's In Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    Carnegie Mellon requires 15 credits of math:

    Mathematics/Probability
    * 21-120 Differential & Integral Calculus
    * 21-122 Integration, Differential Equations, and Approximation
    * 21-127 Concepts of Mathematics
    * 21-241 Matrix Algebra (or 21-341 Linear Algebra)

    * one of the following Probability courses:
    o 15-359 Probability and Computing
    o 21-325 Probability
    o 36-217 Probability Theory and Random Processes
    o 36-225 Introduction to Probability and Statistics I
    o 36-625 Probability and Mathematical Statistics I

    Additionally, 4 science/engineering courses are required, at least one of which has a lab component.

  14. Re:Only the even ones? on NTP Sues Palm, Alleging Patent Violation · · Score: 1
    Especially since the story has now been revised to eleven patents.

  15. Re:Only the even ones? on NTP Sues Palm, Alleging Patent Violation · · Score: 1
    Grammar-po: "At issue are seven patents..."

  16. Re:YRO??!!! on NPR Finds XM's Achilles Heel · · Score: 1
    The low end of the FM band is reserved for non-profit broadcasters, college stations, and the like. That's why the NPR stations are clustered there.

  17. Re:BitTorrent links on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Spell checkers don't check usage. "new" is a correctly spelled word.

  18. Seven Bits??? on Future Eudora Based on Thunderbird · · Score: 1
    Five bits is plenty. See the Baudot Code.

  19. Re:Old School Solution on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1
    That's where the switches I didn't list come in. Have the XCOPY command CLEAR the Archive bit (that's one switch) and with another, tell it to copy only files that have the Archive bit SET. BTW, another needed switch is the one that tells it to copy all files, including hidden and system.

    Besides, if the target drive is >= the source drive, it'll never fill up.

  20. Old School Solution on It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky? · · Score: 1
    What about using XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /S ? (probably a few more switches needed, it's been a while since I used DOS.)

  21. Re:Altitude? Is this a flying car? on Computer Designed Car Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1
    And it seems to have surprised them that the elevation was 4000 feet. Didn't they check a map or Topozone before they left Germany?

  22. Re:Dontcha just love... on Linux Hardware Looks at Core 2 · · Score: 1
    I think the $1K I spent on a 425MB HD for my '030 Mac IIsi was perhaps sub-optimum... even for 1992.

  23. Re:Daily Mail on VW Raises the Bar for Self-Driving Vehicles · · Score: 1
    That would be Stanley, the modified VW that edged out CMU's H1ghlander and Sandstorm in last year's DARPA Grand Challenge.

  24. I bet... on FCC Commissioner Wants To Push For DRM · · Score: 1
    ... she's in favor of BPL too.

  25. Re:Avocates? on Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X · · Score: 1
    With the /. "editors", who knows what they mean?

    At least it's not a dupe!