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  1. Re:W...T...F...? on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles? · · Score: 1

    *Lots*. Including me.

  2. Re:pfft... on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 1

    and NT 3.51 and CE (or whatever MS is calling it these days).

  3. Re:Linux wins because the OS isn't as important... on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 1

    The first link in your Google search takes you to sco.com...

  4. Re:One up for Linux and Alt OSes!!! on Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    It only effects Windows boxes where the autorun feature switched is on. Not hard to circumvent.

  5. Re:Same for hard drives on Data Still Left on Storage Devices for Sale · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that not all platters are made of a brittle material. In the past I've destroyed drives by hitting the platter with a hammer, shattering them. But the last drive I tried this on had proper metal platters. The best I could do was to bend 'em out of shape.

  6. Re:I'm seeing a pattern here. on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It works for the Mac!

  7. Re:Architecture change on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 1

    Lots of registers has nothing really to do with RISC. x86 is just a shit design!

  8. Re:How to buff out the scratches? on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    Supposedly on mobile phones you can use metal polish like 'brasso' which is a mild abrasive. I've also heard about using cigarette ash (!). YMMV :-)

  9. Re:Where's the FM tuner??? on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    True, but at least in the UK there is a lot of sport broadcast on AM.

  10. Re:Nuclear Fusion on Linux Five Years Away From Mainstream · · Score: 1

    While I agree somewhat with your Linux comments Windows versions have hardly been well marketed. i.e. 1, 2, 3, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and not forgetting CE (or Windows Mobile/Embedded or whatever it's calling itself now).

  11. Re:yeah... on Katrina Delays Shuttle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some wise words from Churchill come to mind: "The responsibility of government for the public safety, is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact the prime object for which governments come into existence."

  12. Re:My point of view on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 1

    No stored procedures

    You're kidding, right? I mean, seriously, no SPs? Erm, no thanks!!

  13. Re:Another question on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Erm, MS SQL *is* scalable. Do you have at an iota of knowledege or experience on the subject? How much does pay you to post these lies? Come on, at least provide some detail for your arguement! MS SQL is perfectly scalable here for me.

    I'm normally MS fan but MS SQL is an very good (if expensive) tool (but then, they didn't write it, but that's another story).


    Escuse any typos, I'm drunk...

  14. Re:That's a long wait. on Blu Ray Drive Will Cost $100 Per PlayStation 3 · · Score: 1

    They said that about the Amiga once!!!

  15. Re:It all works out on The Greying of the Mainframe Elite · · Score: 1

    Agreed. My Software Engineering course had a large chunk devoted to analog electronics (mostly theory). Oh what fun and joy!

  16. Re:I hate offshoring as much as the next guy . . . on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: 1

    Before 1988 they were seperate vacines!

  17. Re:Health care conspiracies at work on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Funny thing is I was just reading here: http://www.cdc.gov/nip/diseases/measles/faqs.htm

    If the chance of the diseases is so low, why do I need the vaccine?

    It is true that vaccination has enabled us to reduce measles and most other vaccine-preventable diseases to very low levels in the United States. However, measles is still very common -- even epidemic -- in other parts of the world. Visitors to our country and U.S. travelers returning from other countries can unknowingly bring this disease into the United States, and if we were not protected by vaccinations, it will quickly spread causing an epidemics here. The disease is very contagious. We should be vaccinated protect ourselves and our children. Even if we think our chances of getting measles is small, the disease still exists and can still infect anyone who is not protected.


    And circumcision? Man, that's sick. God/Evolution (delete as applicable) put it there for a reason. But I think it's common in the US. Everywhere else in the world it's only done for medical or religious reasons.

  18. Re:I hate offshoring as much as the next guy . . . on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: 1

    Aren't we inocculated against measles when you're maybe six years old?
    That's exactly what I was thinking. We certainly do in the UK (well, except those who refused to give their kids the combined MMR vacine). And it seems that the Measles vaccine doesn't need a booster later in life.

  19. Re:Just don't have the robot bat fly into my house on Robot Bat With Echolocation · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were someones lunch?

  20. Re:Windows 95. on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Windows NT 3.51 was pretty stable too.

  21. Re:What about Gizmo on Yahoo Readies New VoIP Service · · Score: 1

    The UI looks hideous! Some kind of iTunes-like brushed steel effect. Why these apps make non-standard looking UIs that stick out like a sore thumb is beyond me...

  22. Re:done. on More Mac OS X on Plain Old x86 Boxes · · Score: 1

    It's in the newsgroups too...

  23. Re:"Come here Watson. I need you." on Podcasting from Space · · Score: 1

    "In 1883 Bell invented the graphophone (an early type of iPod), the first practical system of sound recording. The laboratory also experimented with flat disc records, electroplating records, and MP3 digital audio encoding".

  24. Re:Overpriced high street.... on Digital Cameras Force Film Off Dixons' Shelves · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the staff only earn commission on the warranties, not sales.

  25. Re:This isn't new on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    It can also be translated as 'Foundation':

    http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,7 79530,00.html