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  1. Re:A Brief Explanation on Frame Dragging by Earth Reconfirmed · · Score: 1

    This is hooey. Even National Geographic's recent articles on the Phoenicians states what most scientists in this field know - ALL living man comes from one single man. They can trace all Arabs (as the example used in this story) to a single man living 30,000 (their timeline) years ago.

    Here is their online snippet:
    http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/ 0410/featu re2/index.html

  2. Photoshop 5.5 stopped working on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Photoshop 5.5 won't work with SP2 - at least not for me. Just sits there on the startup screen.

  3. Re:900 mhz! on 2.4GHz-Friendly Phones? · · Score: 1

    I just want a nice 900 Mhz 2 line phone but they aren't made any longer :(

  4. Re:Control on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    Easier to use than a Mac? What are you smokin ;)

  5. Re:nine months, eh? on Are PDAs Simply Finished? · · Score: 1

    Ultimate? No. The SideKick is a toy. A nice toy...one I do like. But its a toy. Its like saying that Barbie digital camera is the ultimate in consumer photo.

    The XDA II (not the original XDA which I hate), the Motorola MPX (not the MPx 200), or the HP 6300. Those are ultimate phones. Even better than the SE 900 because they are FULL PDAs that can run thousands of software apps. 128MB of RAM. 400 Mhz processor. Bluetooth. Digital camera for those times I want a pic and didn't think to bring my real camera. Works with my Mac or PC. I wish it was EDGE enabled, but I find GPRS just fine or with its SDIO enabled slot, Wifi at a hotspot is great.

    Now that's the ultimate - as of now. In 6 months, it'll be something new :)

  6. Re:Using it now on DVD Studio Pro 3 Review · · Score: 1

    The latest iDVD does let you have about 120 minutes of video using the DVD SP compressor.

  7. Re:probably on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    He said NEEDED to be rebooted. He probably has rebooted them for kernel updates and such, but that wasn't a requirement.

  8. Re:Still too expensive? on Red Hat Desktop Unveiled · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think you read the article. That's $5 per month INCLUDING full support. Not just software licensing - support.

  9. Re:What's really interesting on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    Not so true. Most of my emails are really threads that lead in many different directions. I may get an email from a beta member about X and discuss that in my email list. Then I'll email a few employees about X and get their responses. I then may email others about X.

    It would be great to be able to find a hierarchy by date/time of everything dealing with X. Much more useful than just subject based threading.

  10. Re:Remember aRexx? on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep. I wrote a full accounting package that filled in information in Professional Page and the Amiga Fax software in a completely integrated fashion. It was a complete office solution at a time when none existed at that a price small businesses could afford.

    Order management, full accounting, catalog creation, quotes, etc...

    I loved arexx.

  11. Re:They didn't win in one category they were in on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1

    Man you guys are vicious. I only said I THOUGHT I saw them lose one. My wife agreed with me, so I figured I'd post.

    Flamebait? My gosh - one tries to post a valid comment here and you guys attack like a left wing democrat on a centrist republican. Now THAT's flamebait.

  12. They didn't win in one category they were in on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I saw them in one category that they didn't win in...I'm sure of it.

  13. Re:Good idea that will never work on Ford Testing a New 'Traffic Monitoring' Device · · Score: 1

    I think Microsoft has enough of a monopoly. Lets not give them another one ;)

  14. Re:You know what? Who the Fuck Cares? on Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible · · Score: 1

    These modules could NEVER be distributed with Apache. Apache has NEVER had a GPL compatible license.

  15. Re:Fun and games with statistics on The World's Safest Operating System · · Score: 1

    I prefer to discuss how to keep Mr. Bush IN office. But that's besides the point. The thing here is that this survey was done on a very specific subset of security which affect loss of data to another person. Those worms and nimda stuff that affect Windows are _for the most part_ only extremely annoying, but not damaging in the sense of losing data to a competitor or saboteur. I personally have never understood why Linux has such a following compared to the BSDs, but frankly I'm happy to see my favorite platform set - BSD - get promoted security wise.

  16. Re:never mind on PalmSource Drops Mac Synchronization in Cobalt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering that Apple users have a higher proportion of PDA ownership than PCs...I doubt this is the case. Instead, I think PalmSource found that another company - MarkSpace DOES create Palm synching solutions better than their own. So instead of developing their own, they just licensed it to Mark/Space.

  17. Re:linux PDA? on Palm Changing OS Strategy · · Score: 2, Informative

    QUite a few Pocket PCs have a vibrating alarm. My XDA II does.

  18. Re:Longhorn on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    And then Apple would cease to exist since you just took away their sole form of revenue and you'd have to go back to Linux or Windows. Yeah...great idea. Leave the business side to the guys who know it.

  19. Re:People may hate Windows Media Player... on Microsoft Unhappy With HP's iTunes Decision · · Score: 1

    Choice of bad hardware is as bad as no choice at all.

  20. Re:Uh oh? on TiVo sues EchoStar for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. But I bet that pausing Live TV is a bit harder than you describe. Even today after Tivo has been around forever, Open Source and commercial apps are taking a couple years of development to get it right - with the user interface that makes it usable. They did patent a non-obvious METHOD that they spent a huge amount of time figuring out. I doubt you came close to coming up with something like this until after a few years that a Tivo was out and even then I doubt you could write up with the software anew today.

  21. Re:OSX Theme on Native KOffice for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    What would your opinion be if you saw Apple release "iWrite" based of kWord?

  22. Re:No, TivoRadio is what we need! on Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising · · Score: 1

    Yep - i totally agree. I've been asking people about this for the last year.

    The best I can find for this is "RadioShark" for my Mac which can then copy the recorded radio files to my iPod - which I can then listen to in the car. But I'd prefer if the car had something built in.

  23. Re:Yeah, only SPAM, sure. on BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would be bad. We use wildcards to ease our DNS duties. For example, we have a customer who likes to create daily new domains such as somenewcompany.theircompany.com somenewcompany2.theircompany.com blahblah.theircompany.com Instead of letting them change the DNS constantly we just setup *.theircompany.com to go to their server. Then all they have to do is manage their apache/IIS/whatever web server. So having BIND remove wildcard support would break us as well as I suspect MANY sites.

  24. Re:For me, there were other considerations on Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is that for Linux, NVidia seems to the best driver wise.

    For the Mac, ATI does.

  25. Re:Camera Phones on Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus · · Score: 1

    Its too separate companies. The people who will make your reception better is the phone company you use. The people who would add camera's to phones are the phone manufacturers who are totally separate.