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  1. Re:Article is a schill of Microsoft. on Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability · · Score: 1

    Both cases Microsoft bought something like 25%. Not a controlling majority, but enough to call the shots, and in Corel's case, one requirement for helping Corel was that they dropped anything Linux.

  2. Re:Why EXT4 ? on EXT4 Is Coming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In enterprise.. Exactly!

    Note that servers with extensive mirroring and other hardware error-handling rarely need error-recovery from the filesystem. Filesystem errors happen on ordinary peoples harddrives when they grow old, and ext* have a million times more experience in the handling those than any enterprise FS..

  3. Re:What is this free form bullshit? on EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day · · Score: 1

    He is giving examples of when those ideas appeared on world scene. Even if Magna Carta only applied to England and is mostly revoked. The ideas it introduced are still governing us all.

  4. Re:PLEASE let MS call their bluff... on EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day · · Score: 1

    Those several states are: California in 4th and... no one else.

  5. Re:Slush! on EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day · · Score: 1

    If they ask you for tip, then they have recognized you as an american and you are truly fucked!

    Here is tip: Never tip people! ;)

  6. Re:Spare the rod... on EU Prepared to Fine Microsoft $2.5 Million Per Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words: It is the huge twisted tree of corrupt beaurocrats that keeps the EU honest?

    What a lovely irony if true :)

  7. Re:What a great idea on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 1

    First, I think our military might be sized right, but also might be underfunded. Why? We can barely keep an occupying force together in one country of 24 million.

    Of course you can. The problem here is the cost to do it. Military applied is more expensive than military at home. Therefore you are only applying a very tiny fraction of the US military in Iraq.
    Congress is not used to paying for these expenses as the expense of US led intervention have traditionally been paid by Germany, France and the rest of Europe.

    When you come right down to it. The problems in Iraq are not military, they are economic, and one of the reasons you a weak economy is because you spend way to much building up a military you can not afford to send in the field.

  8. Re:Britain isn't a major European economy? on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 1

    The japanese debt us 100x times smaller than the debt of the US. They just care more about the problem than the US does, and therefore consider it a crisis.

  9. Re: Wow on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    They did see 911 coming, and wrote reports about it. They just didn't do anything about it. Probably expecting the president to take action, but he didn't care at the time.

  10. Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    OMG! you're right. I actually went back to check if Nibbler was there, but didn't see him.

    Only by now going through it frame-by-frame is the shadow visible.

  11. Re:Welcome back! on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    No, it was not wrong. The ending was exactly the opposite of the ending in AI..

    In that way it is GOOD, and a really good commentary.

    Btw. Read some of the original H.C. Andersen fairy tales. Most of them end much more tragic than this. Very educational for small children.

  12. Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    Actually it would have been great if that was the case. Unfortunately Nibler is not present in episode 1 and is only added later.

  13. ADHJACS on Håkon Responds to Questions About CSS and... · · Score: 1

    I just don't think that name has the same hype potential..

  14. Re:2 F's down, 1 to go! on Futurama Returns · · Score: 1

    You can't compare those.. Family guy is neither fun nor exciting.. It's just mediocre.

  15. Re:The first on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: 1

    No they do not coexist. IPv4 clients can live in a IPv6 networks, but IPv6 clients will never work properly in a IPv4 network, they IPv6 routers and servers.

  16. Re:Not Asking Anymore on Microsoft Workers Prefer Google · · Score: 1

    That's not a good not to change. Google has the same kind of filters..

  17. Re:Included styles, aliases on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 1

    The reason it doesn't exists and is rejected whenever it is proposed (1 or 2 times a week) is purely dogmatic.
    They don't want to turn CSS into a programming language.

    Notice however the inconsistency with a property like quotes which is a variable...

  18. Re:Padding on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 1

    Opera, Safari, Konqueror and MS IE for Mac all support it by just using "box-sizing: border-box"

  19. Re:XForms on Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web · · Score: 1

    XForms is a horrible crappy standard. Don't anything but experimental Mozilla plugins to ever support it.

    There is a reason Safari and Opera are designing WebForms.

  20. Re:As someone who recently did the same thing.. on Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web · · Score: 1

    Grand-parent is wrong. All "not-ancient" browsers support all of CSS 1. Even IE7, in fact IE4 was the first browser with full CSS 1 support.

    It is only CSS 2 and friends which is an sorry state of implementation.

  21. Re:Lack of Change MOD PARENT UP on Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web · · Score: 1

    Firefox doesn't support display: inline-block. This means they can't line up DIV's on the same line without using TABLES, or floating.

    So yes they force you to use TABLEs for formating, since floating is much harder to control.

  22. Re:Grinding? Is this at least available to consume on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    It's the old cheaper technique, that isn't used anymore because it hard to redo when your eyesight changes.

  23. Re:That's why I hide everything by ... on U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    No it's just me mind-controlling him through the Budweiser implant.

    The rest of his post is accurate. I just love the irony

  24. Re:Can these these chips do any calculations? on Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually they can't even do 1GHz at light speed. But that's why we have pipelining, and current generation have between 10-20 pipeline steps..

    Next gen with 20+ like the Pentium IV have however already flopped.

    In theory you could have a 100GHz Pentium V with 100 pipeline stages. The problem is really that it most likely wouldn't be faster than a 2GHz Pentium M.

  25. Re:Ah! on Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It will glow just as much as current processors will microwave your brain!