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  1. Re:The next few years.. on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True, homeusers will probably switch to Linux for the same reason they use Windows now: it's what they use at work.

  2. Re:Since when.. on Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation? · · Score: 1

    If he released it onto Freenet it would be very hard for the US goverernment to keep it classified, but they could still punish him for relasing classified information, since not many people would have a copy of the information to release.

  3. Re:UDP != TCP on Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew · · Score: 1

    There's a reason for using UDP: less lag. With online games lag is often death, if not at least a disavantage.

  4. Re:Children have always learned from games. on Videogames, Learning, And Literacy · · Score: 1

    Someone would have to be crazy to doubt that you're learning something by playing games, if you're improving, you're gaining the skills the game requires. The question is what you are learning? Is it constructive? Learning to shoot people most likely isn't. Learning what is needed to build an empire or city and keep your people happy probably is.

  5. Overburning anyone? on CD Burners with Built in Compression · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why bother making the CD incompatible when you can just overburn to at least 900MB, and have it readable in almost all CD drives and get almost as much extra space?

  6. Re:That big a deal? on Appeals Court Sides With Microsoft On Java · · Score: 1

    If I understand the other posts correctly, it sounds like Microsoft argeed to bundle Java and then bundled MS "Java" instead.

  7. Re:Makes sense.... on Appeals Court Sides With Microsoft On Java · · Score: 1
    And how hard is it to include a runtime with your software?
    Thanks, but I'd rather not include a 20 MB runtime enviroment with my 300k .JAR file.
  8. Re:Quite on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    Either Apple expects no one to be using 1GB RAM or the motherboard does not support it. I guess we'll find out when the G5 comes out.

  9. Re:apple is it's own worst enemy on (When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? · · Score: 1
    And the fact is that the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 is going to be as significant as that between 2K and XP.
    So 10.3 is going to add a buch of useless eye candy and be a bit less stable than 10.2?

    (NOTE: I use Windows XP as my desktop.)
  10. Re:Maybe...but $$$ on (When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Windows has had drag-and-drop since at least Windows 98, but I admit I didn't know about it until one of my Mac-using friends asked "can't you just drag-and-drop it?".

  11. Re:Quite on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    8GB is the max of the computer, not the processor. It has 8 slots for RAM and each one can take up to 1 GB up RAM. I've never seen RAM sold in sizes over 1 GB.

  12. Re:the biggest concerns on Walmart to Push RFID · · Score: 1

    Any electronics are perminently disabled when close enough to a sufficently large magnetic field. :)

  13. Re:They don't need money on Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers · · Score: 1

    AIM alreadly has an option for people to enter their location and interests and let other people search for them. Of course, probably no one enters that info. The only difference I see is this searches automatically.

  14. Re:Amazing on Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers · · Score: 1

    But would it be (+1, Creepy) or (-1, Creepy)? ;)

  15. Re:CUPS also on LPD For Fun and MP3 Playing · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you want a Windows PDF printer you can use FreePDF which is mostly a GhostScript frontend that appears as a printer.

  16. Re:Forced copyright assignment on Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright · · Score: 1

    My (cable) ISP blocks port 80, so I run my HTTP server on port 83. Then I went to dot tk and got a free forwarding domain (it opens the page you tell it to point to in a frame). There: I have an easy to remember domain (no colon at the end) and it's running off my own server. (Link is my homepage)

  17. Re:pretty cool on Java for the Gameboy Advance · · Score: 1

    While we're wasting processor cycles on nested emulators, why don't we run that JVM on Wine on cygwin on wine on cygwin... ;)

  18. Re:learn your lessons NOW people on Forgent Networks Wins $25M from Sony for JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    PNG instead of JPEG? Try some size comparisons, I find PNG is usually at least twice the size of a JPEG of the same image. Of course JPEG is lossy, but you usually can't tell, if you can then PNG is worth it.

  19. Fourty-two... on The Googlewashing Of Our Language · · Score: 5, Funny
    42 Days
    Orwell would be amused, indeed.
    Orwell would be amused? What about Douglas Adams? ;)
  20. In other news... on Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream · · Score: 1

    In other news, felt-tipped marker sales sky-rocket.

  21. Re:Consoles on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    On Blizzard's Battle.Net disconnects are recorded along with wins and losses so it will be noticed if someone does that a lot.

  22. Re:Lazy Thinking - Major Cause of Blanket Statemen on Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology · · Score: 1

    Cracking hardware is easy. You just get a hammer and... wait... you meant cracking the overclock protection, nevermind.

  23. Re:news sites are all safe on Web Site Hacks Rise as War Rages in Iraq · · Score: 1
    how many of these hack attacks are exploiting known issues?
    I assume all of them: it's pretty hard to exploit a bug that you don't know exists.

    ... wait, did you mean known by the developers of the server software?
  24. Re:Dangers of "Opting Out" on First Test of Utah Anti-Spam Law Dismissed · · Score: 1

    I used to use the opt-out links on mails to my Yahoo account and whenever I opted-out, I'd never get any more mails from that domain, but I'd get spam that looked identical from another domain. Now I just delete all of it.

  25. Re:WRONG! on Compiling Under Wine · · Score: 1

    You can do that under Windows too, just nest enough copies of cygwin and wine until your computer is sufficently slowed down.