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  1. Re:New Google search for SCO on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, if you search for "Santa Cruz Operation", the first link is the SCO homepage, with its science fiction title "SCO Grows Your Business". The next 6 or 7 results have the title "Copyright". Just goes to show you, Google is a good way to research businesses and their business models.

  2. Mod Story -1 Troll on Engineer Deconstructs Literary Criticism · · Score: 1

    Most literary critics do not engage in the "no one can prove you're wrong" kind of nonsense, just the avant garde Francophile critics.

  3. Re:Comcast on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Yes. 1.5M -> 3M downstream, 128K -> 256K upstream.

  4. Re:Not to flame, but "NO SHIT!" on Interesting Planet Apparently Heating Its Star · · Score: 1

    Because it's very, very hard to identify a planet as small as Jupiter. Jupiter is big for our system, but small compared to some of the behemoths that have been discovered (like HD 168443 c). However, if he looked at the list I just linked to, he'd know that a few rather small planets (probably still Jovians, but smallish ones) have been identified.

  5. Re:No Space in GarageBand on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1

    Look it up. Apple holds the trademark for computer software for "Garage Band". (Yes, I used the quotes, because that's what I saw in the trademarks DB). Garageband.com has it for ... garageband.com .

  6. Re:Jobs better watch his tongue carefully on Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media Center? · · Score: 1

    Netscape died because MS gave away a competing product for free and it required no further effort on the user's part to obtain it - it was bundled with the operating system on every computer they bought. I don't see that happening with the iPod.

  7. Re:And the confusion continues... on No More Leap Second? · · Score: 1

    The earth does not rotate around the sun. The earth REVOLVES around the sun.

  8. Re:Has the Poincare Conjecture Been Solved? on Has The Poincare Conjecture Been Solved? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody with mod points, please, I beg you, mod parent +1 funny. ROTFL.

  9. Re:Let's not on Best Albums of 2003, Scientifically · · Score: 0

    The Darkness is getting plenty of airplay in the US. And I wouldn't say they're "a little overrated," I'd say they're quite overrated.

  10. Re:Article is really bad on Quadrantids Source Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No. When a star explodes, its core is made up of heavy metals (e.g., iron). The remnant is usually a dwarf star or neutron star (or collapsar, i.e., black hole); it would not be a comet. I think the problem is that someone was talking to him about the idea of an exploding comet, and mentioned something like "back then it would have been a first magnitude star, but now it's merely a 23rd magnitude star" and the fellow took it too literally.

  11. Re:Don't you have to be English to be knighted? on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1

    Yes, much to my surprise at the time I posted it (you didn't see all the crap I deleted once I had reread the clause). The 1810 amendment might have been enacted at some point as a legislative law (rather than a constitutional Amendment); IANAL.

  12. Re:Real credit for www goes to on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1

    Mosaic was written by UIUC. Berners-Lee's original browser was WWW (source) and was written for NeXT (that's right: the 0 node of the web was a NeXTBox).

  13. Re:Don't you have to be English to be knighted? on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 4, Informative

    On Americans receiving honors from foreign states:

    US Constitution

    I.9.8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

  14. Re:From the linked thread on Encoding Data for Audio Tape? · · Score: 1

    Given the fact that two of those CDs are source, I'm not complaining.

  15. Re:There may be three reason no publisher wants it on Is Self Publishing Worth the Price? · · Score: 1

    King was publishing stories in small journals in college. And while there has been a lot of consolidation in the publishing industry, the publishing associations do not have the same kind of lockin that MPAA and RIAA do.

  16. Just another plus on Writing an End to the Bio of BIOS? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to using PPC hardware, that is.

  17. Re:crossplatform = external box on Cross-Platform Video Capture Cards And TV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    Not simultaneously. It has a switch on the front panel for digital>analog / analog>digital . Personally, I use the tuner on my VCR. Results are pretty good, though obviously (given the tuner) not maximum quality.

  18. In the Future ... on What Applications Will Drive System Performance? · · Score: 1

    There will be no grammar ...

    Foredecker : "Of course, every day computing don't require a Intel 3.2Ghz P4 with Hyperthreading."

    "Computing" is an abstract singular noun. "Don't require" is a contraction of "do not require", and "do require" is a plural verb. I assume you were going for "doesn't."

  19. Re:It's really "The Caves of Steel" on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    Nope, I think it's just a combination of several of the stories with a couple of minor elements from Caves of Steel. Dr. Calvin is very, very dead by the time of Lije Bailey.

  20. Re:'geeks' ??? on History of a Famous Star Wars Scream · · Score: 1

    "Geek" rhymes with beak, creek, Deke, eek!, greek, leak, leek, meek, peak, peek, reek, seek, teak, weak, week, and Zeke.

  21. Re:Apple ads? on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    I don't remember him mentioning any character's race.

  22. Re:WOW!!! on NASA's Mars Polar Lander May Have Landed Safely · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The source photos probably are available to us (including those who are professional astronomers); it's the analysis algorithms used by NIMA that wouldn't be.

  23. Re:Microsoft(ripoff artists) never invented anythi on Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG · · Score: 1

    Both MS and Apple got the GUI idea from Xerox, but didn't steal it. There were elements of the Windows GUI, however, which were not in the Xerox GUI but are in the Apple GUI which were subjects of a lawsuit.

  24. Re:tribal confusion on Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG · · Score: 1

    there's not much of Britain's original inhabitants left.....

    If you are referring to those who shared the same approximate ethnicity as Arthur, they are called the Welsh (and the Cornish, etc. ....). And the Angles and the Saxons were from Northern Germany, not Scandinavia. The Norse invaders were later than the King Arthur "events" (whatever actually happened). But there may well be common sources back when the Gaelic and Germanic groups first "branched off".

  25. Re:tribal confusion on Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG · · Score: 2, Informative

    Geoffrey's dates for Arthur have him dying in AD 542. More likely, the events Geoffrey is adapting took place in the AD 470s, though. Badon Hill might be 542, though; I seem to remember that some authorities think it was, others that it wasn't, related to "Arthur." Really complex problem. See the Penguin edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth, *The History of the Kings of Britain*