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  1. Re:Conspiracy? Yes. on Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK · · Score: 1

    Appantly not, because I say them on danish channels broadcasted from England, but they were banned in Denmark for being misleading. (some danish satelite channels are sent from england, because of more lenient advertising rules).

  2. Re:Doesn't look promising on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Other explainations are possible. Zion could be perfectly real. Neo's power over the machines is just that all machines are connected to "the source", not just thoose in the matrix (notice how he can only see machine constructs and not human constructs while blind), and Neo has power over the source. The self-mutilations of Bane, the comments of Smith/Oracle, shows that Smith doesnt delete thoose the takes over, he just dominates, making Neo less afraid of being taken over....

    But even if the movie can be explained, it still doesnt make any sense. At least not any more sense than making electricity from humans.

  3. Re:About the ending--**SPOILER** on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    Dont confuse the oracle and persephone. The oracle is the mother of the matrix, persephone is just another program with emotions. SPOILER: Emotions is just a word to imply a connection, all the programs int he matrix have emotions in some way. (What the hell is marriage between two programs?? (and what is a kid???))

  4. Re:Doesn't look promising on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've just been to the premier. The movie is not bad, at least not the first hour of it, but please for your own sake leave the cinema before the last half hour. There were several times during the end of movie, when I was thinking: "Now it can't get any worse", but I was proven wrong.

    At a supposedly really tragic scene by the end of the movie, the scene dragged on for so long that the hardcore fans present started to laugh, and when it dragged on even further, to shout: "Just die for crist sake!". I am not sure if is supposed to look like that, the scene seemed to loop 3 or 4 times.

    I end it self doesnt make any real sense, or rather it makes less sense than making electricity from humans.

  5. Re:Apple helping to improve KHTML? on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    You heard wrong. Apple kept the development of Safari secret, so the improvement to KHTML was not integrated right away, but when they announced Safari, they sent a rather large patch to KDE that took too long to integrate to make it for KDE 3.1. Since then it has apparently worked smoothly (I am not a khtml-developer though).

  6. Re:Kontact: how much like Outlook ...? on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not much at all. The applications in Kontact are not really integrated, they just live in the same window, sort of like tabs in konqueror and mozilla.

    The main improvement with Kontact have been to make the application behave somewhat consistently. The groupware functionality with exchange and kolab plugins will not be completed until after KDE 3.2.

  7. Re:Where I'd like to see KDE improve on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually the security problems in Windows lies in the applications (Internet Explorer, Outlook, Office) and not in the otherwise excelent NT-kernel. That ways is compares perfectly with KDE (Konqueror, KMail/Kontact, KOffice).

  8. Re:slicker on KDE 3.2 'Rudi' Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not ready. Not even it's backing developers are suggesting inclusion in KDE yet, so it is not up for discussion.

    I am smugly waiting for the kicker vs slicker vs .*karamba war for KDE 4.0.

  9. Re:AM radio range is? on Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you got it the wrong way. AM radio is the one with the long range. FM radio has a shorter range, because it takes more power and can only travel in straight lines. AM radio bounces, and can therefore travel beyond the horizon.

    For this reason AM radio is used on sea when satelitte-transmissions are too expensive.

  10. Re:Exactly on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Surry, doesnt always work. It is much safer to use the HTML-digraphs, or whatever you call them. (UTF-8 works somewhat better because it can be autodetected, but older browsers still suck)

  11. Re:Try again on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    Now we do. Earlier this year some medical company (forgot which) released a pill for men. It makes them infertile for the period they are taking it, and gives them their fertility back when they stop.

    So: No more excuses :(

  12. Re:Some thing that will never be scarce on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    I here I thought theft was mostly about survival, or abuse. Maybe I am not living in as rich a neighbourhood?

  13. Re:OpenOffice vs. other office products on Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why don't the KDE developer stop working on KOffice support OpenOffice instead?

    He is busy convincing the GNOME developer to just give up and support KDE.

  14. Re:Speaking of on Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually only the metadata (author and title of document) is formated in XML, all the rest is just in a new proprietary binary-format contained in XML.

  15. Re:The old dilemma on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you do with the polution. Currently most of it is "sold" to poor countries for safe keeping. Once they stop taking the crap the price of nuclear power will rise (also ensurance and security is expensive, but currently the military provides the security for free).

  16. Re:Pollution Free? on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Because the price of just operating the plant is higher than price of electricy in urban areas.

    I still havent figured how they are going to finance building the reactor too.

  17. Re:Heavy carpeting... on How Not To Install Computer Hardware · · Score: 1

    You were zapped not the RAM. If you dad had been the one to install it in the machine, he would likely have fried it.

  18. Re:PS2 Mice on How Not To Install Computer Hardware · · Score: 2, Informative

    The PS/2 Aux (mouse) protocol is designed for hotpluging. It just happend that older Windows version didnt support it (neither did XFree864.0).

    It you've fried your motherboard, it was something else you did.

  19. Re:Meaningless.. on SCSI vs. IDE In The Real World · · Score: 1

    Buying an addon IDE controller wont help you, I still havent seen an IDE controller with an independ processor and memory like SCSI controllers have.

  20. Re:at least it wasn't on Seven Years of KDE Celebrated · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be "KDE isn't a Desktop Environment"?

  21. Re:Was alpha really nice? How? on Alpha's Going Going Gone · · Score: 1

    It's wrong to call the simple ISA of the Alpha dumb. As seen with Itanium making a more complicated (in you logic clever) ISA is not helpfull as the compilers can not utilize it fully.

    The real shinny parts of the Alpha architecture is not in the ISA however (which was mostly a rip-off of MIPS), it lies in the memory and I/O system. Having writen and now tutoring kernel-programming on Alpha's, I've come to appriciate all the fine and clever parts of this beaty, like the PAL-layer and direct PCI-access (takes more than >32bit dedicated address-space so it is not doable on 32bit processors with 64bit-extensions).

  22. Re:Polls on E-voting Patches Skew Election? · · Score: 1

    The companies who deliver exit polls make a living out of polling. They use election polls as promotion, thus they have a big interest of getting the most accurate result.

  23. Re:Named after King Harald of Denmark aka Bluetoot on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1

    It is tooth decay. King Harald was famous for his rotten blue tooth, therefore the nicename.

  24. Re:Great quote: on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1

    Please do the research yourself. The CD only contains the original Linux kernel, and not the Linksys drivers (derivative product).

    So yes, they are violating the GPL. And PLEASE PLEASE dont accuse other people of not doing something you dont do yourself, asshole.

  25. Re:Base 2 on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 1

    A human can easily multiply 1000 by 1000 and know what the answer is, but ask him to do 1024 by 1024 and he's going to scratch his head. But if he knows that he's got 1,000 useful bytes/characters, then he doesn't need to know about how many bits are in a byte, and the powers of 2, etc.

    It has nothing to do with being human. I certainly wouldnt want to square 1000(decimal) in binary. Multiplying 1024(decimal) in binary however would be really easy for a human like me.

    Basically it's a feature of the base we have chosen for our numbers (I would personally prefer 12).