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  1. italy worst in europe? on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 2, Informative
    Italy was the worst European candidate with a rank 40.

    so is romania (45th) not considered part of europe anymore?

  2. Re:This just looks expensive. on Serial ATA Technology Explained · · Score: 1
    The author then goes on to note that the 'roadmap' calls for the 2006 version to run at 600mb/s, which fits nicely with my roadmap to world domination in 2005.

    He obviously never read a hard drive manufacturer's webage about their plans for developing them - check out seagate's page on ata and notice that their planned releases for 150/300/600 mb/s drives are all behind the 160/320/640 scsi ones planned for development/release

  3. Re:This is an issue! on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1

    in theory you can download all the patches that make up windows 2000 sp3 and apply them individually and be safe while still using service pack 2 - this is what I had to do since I have to comply with HIPAA where I work. It would be easier and less time consuming to patch the workstations with another service pack if they would just fix the EULA, but who knows if that will ever happen.

  4. Re:Hard to fathom on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1
    Find a *nix based CAD package that compares to AutoCAD

    I seem to remember a large number of people using ProEngineer on Sun Ultra 60's at school instead of AutoCAD

  5. Re:IDE vs SCSI on Tom's Investigates Hard Drive Warranty Changes · · Score: 1

    you forget about bus sharing commands that scsi has as a worthwhile advantage. I know normal computer isnt the fastest (1.4 Ghz), but it cant burn a cd faster than 4x and play mp3's at the same time, and cant burn faster than 8x and let me surf the web - or else i get a large number of coasters. Yet on my nice slow scsi machine (amd k6-2 300) - I can burn at max speed for the burner (4x), play mp3s and surf the web all at the same time without ever once getting a bad burn. For some people, that bus sharing feature is worth the extra cash

  6. Re:Tom Bombadil on LOTR Director's Cut Reviewed · · Score: 1
    He didn't really like them, but all he did was want to do whatever necessary to keep his people from being overrun by Sauron. He just saw thm as not as able to help his people as much as he would've liked. Eomer even has high praise for him (Boromir) in regard for how he would've done anything for a victory for Minas Tirith in the Two Towers.

    As for other changes, interesting how with no Tom Bombadil, they took out the only other character to wear the ring besides Bilbo and Frodo

  7. Re:Tom Bombadil on LOTR Director's Cut Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    . films need a lot more focus, and a long section that doesn't really affect the plot would put viewers off in droves.

    While I would agree, there is other little things they could've included that would've helped. I got a very differnt impression of Boromir from the movie compared to the book. They completely cut out the scene where they get trapped in the mountains and its the efforts of Boromir with the help of Aragon that they survive. All I got from the movie is he doesn't seem to care about anyone but himself. And then theres the whole issue of where they are going after Gandalf dies, Aragon does NOT say 'we must go on to Mordor', he is filled with indecision, and the movie kind of irked me when they changed that.

  8. Re:IDE vs SCSI on Tom's Investigates Hard Drive Warranty Changes · · Score: 1
    SCSI is great for servers and ultra high end workstations, but it has no place in desktop PCs anymore. The price/performance benefit just isn't there

    One of my friends who was a hardcore gamer would disagree. You may have to ask yourself, do I really need a 80GB drive? He went with a seagate 36gb 15K rpm drive and it flies faster than any other gaming machine I have ever seen, and face it, all most people use faster computers at home for is games

  9. Re:But whois thefreeworld.net? on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1
    So the owner is in the US, the site in the EU.

    looks like owner is in Brazil, notice the BR in the registrant's name - or just do a lookup on the city name and you come up with a bunch of brazilian websites

  10. Re:wolfenstein! on The Aging Gamer · · Score: 1

    i still play the old version more than return to castle wofenstien. I was pissed when they made rtcw so that all of the Germans decided to speak in English, I want to hear them scream something in German when I shoot them

  11. film comparison on Digital Camera Quality Passing Film? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Because the title asked if digital camera's quality was surpassing film, I would point this site out which does a great breakdown of the comparisons of the two formats:

    http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digital .1.html

  12. Re:SCA Version? on IDE to SCSI Converters? · · Score: 1

    How well do you think an sca version would work? Most computers I have that use sca drives barely fit in now, with an adapter on a hard drive at the end, I would think there is no way you could fit it in (at least the case with my ultra 1's and e450 wouldnt be able to hold them)

  13. one way to eliminate these frivolous lawsuits on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 1
    would be if the United States caught up with the rest of the civilized world and made the person who brought the suit have to pay the defendant's legal fees if the defendant was found not guilty.


    Right now Novak is suing a lot of the people cause it cost him little or nothing even if he loses and is relying on people to settle out of court because its cheaper for them to do that

  14. Re:PHP + MySQL is always broken under heavy load on IBM, MS Critique MySQL · · Score: 1
    But will someone explain to me why all the Slashdot geeks think Linux + MySQL is "the shit".

    Because they didn't realize they could run Linux + Sybase

    I've had a lot less problems with Sybase than I have had with MySQL. Not to mention the fact you get experience with a real enterprise database.

  15. Re:who should pay on HDTV and Its Impending Problems? · · Score: 1

    The push towards HDTV is more so that FCC can reclaim and redistribute the parts of the electromagnetic specturm that is used by broadcasting analog signals. I'm sure you'd probably feel much different if the FCC claimed the retaken parts of the spectrum could be used for wireless networking

  16. ic engines not obsolete on More on GM's New Fuel Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    I dont think the IC engine is obsolete, we just use obsolete fuel - powered by methanol it actually runs more efficiently and has little or no harmful emissions. Its also a replenishible resource, but seems the oil industry would rather push electric because of the patents they have on the fuel cells that were being used

  17. Re:Stupid question ... on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars · · Score: 1
    What can I do with a Cisco PIX that I can't do with Linux and IPTables

    triple DES encryption and act as a stateful firewall

  18. imap and ldap sure make it nice on Netscape 7.0 is Out · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm surprised to see netscape is still around

    Netscape Still gives a person the choice to have a browser that comes with a mail client that supports imap. Thats one reason we use it where I work as a sysadmin. Its easy to create and manage profiles for all our users in a matter of seconds, and has great support for using ldap for an address book.

  19. i paid because my klipsch rock on Turning Dead Drives into Speakers? · · Score: 1

    Why would you want something that doesn't sound good? I want to enjoy listening to my new lord of the rings dvd. Besides, I paid less than $500 for a nice pair of Klipsch Legend Series (brand new & included shipping, model KLF-10) and have yet to see a pair of speakers under $1000 than even come close.

  20. Re:Teen Driving habit facts on Black Boxes to Track Driving Habits? · · Score: 1
    driving 45 mph in 55/60/65 mph is completely legal

    That would depend on the highway, there are some interstates in NY that post a minimum speed. I've seen some that put 65 as the limit as 50 as the min, and also 55 max with 45 min

  21. my experience on Hardware IDE/SCSI RAID for Windows 2000 Servers? · · Score: 1
    I've setup a few raid servers for testing at work, had a software based scsi raid 5, hardware based scsi raid 5, and an ide one.

    The Hardware scsi was by far the easiest and best performing of all of them. The controller (adaptec 1000U2 series) had a nice simple menu and was the only one which allowed me to include the system partition in the raid 5.

    Our software raid 5 had to be setup once we had the machine up and running, so we couldnt include the system partition, and it ran very slow when do large file transfers.

    Our Ide one we did the least testing on, since by the time we got around to it, we had decided to go with the hardware scsi. It ran ok, faster than the software scsi one, though still slower than the hardware scsi. It also wasnt hot swapable either, but that was only a minor concern for us

  22. Re:Thanks Mr. Carrier!! on 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think its kind of odd that carrier invents air conditioners, yet when carrier crop. funds building of the Carrier Dome at SU, they somehow forget to install a/c

  23. maybe lucas needs to do what he used to on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1

    He should be more hands off - as he was in The Empire Strikes back. He wrote the story but let 2 other people write the screenplay version (Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan). He also turned over the directing and producing to others as well. Maybe this has some link to why its my favorite Star Wars

  24. Re:Digital is different. on File Swapping and the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    Kind of off topic, but it wouldn't matter too much even if they had the serial # that - there are other things too fine to even print on money. One example they showed on a Nova special on PBS about counterfeiting was the last $20 bills before they redesigned them, there is a 2nd line around President Jackson that isn't a line at all - it's words that say 'United States of America' over and over again so fine that they have yet to find a copier/printer that can even print it out and still keep it legible. On the new $20's you'll see that line on the lower part of the bill near where it says Jackson - take a look, its one of those weird things on them no one seems to notice

  25. Re:More accessible HCI-type books on Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millenium · · Score: 1

    Design of Everyday Things rocked. one of my more enjoyable textbooks for a class.

    Also had User and Task Analysis for Interface Design as book for a class, was pretty good