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  1. so on Robots! · · Score: 1

    How do you know? How many do you own? I'm imagining uses that aren't common now, and projecting forward. Soon, GPS will come in all cell-phones, cars, cameras, etc. Not hard to imagine it as a stock component for a household robot...even if it won't work indoors :)

  2. Good news on Asia Opens Up to WLAN · · Score: 0

    I live/work in Korea...subscribe to KT, and travel to China several times a year. My iBook is Airport equipped, and this news means it will stay that way. Nice....

  3. Remember... on Robots! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    During such 'actions' as the war in Iraq, your fancy home robot, with GPS, will be reduced to having a spatial accuracy of 100 meters, not one. You might want to buy a unit that uses sonar and domestic region mapping, in addition to any GPS capability.

  4. Yes, I agree...MS is trash on Apple Releases Security Update 2003-03-24 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This patch is for SAMBA...which is a Windows file sharing protocal. Go figure.

    I know the parent is a troll. Last one I feed today, I promise.

  5. ummmm on Bluetooth + WiFi + GSM = Wanda · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest looking for another pop icon, perhaps better suited. DT, despite the video-watch, was all about 'tracing' clues to neighborhood bad guys...how old school is that?

    Flash Gordon, on the other hand, in his pursuit of evil, could move freely about the Universe (when not imprisoned on Planet Doom), and sported a ray-gun. Me thinks Flash is more the hero we need for tech stuf, not some guy in a trench coat & Fedora that thinks women are a PITA.

  6. reality check on Cell Numbers To Be Added To 411 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I don't about you guys but I personally do not want my cellular number to be made available so easily."

    Since when did what you want/not want become a primary factor with business today? I don't like it either, but I'm not naive enough to believe they have my interests at heart. I'm surprised at your surprise.

  7. cheese w/your whine? on Chi Mei Announces 20" Active Matrix OLED Display · · Score: 1

    Who said I live in America...and who said 'get GSM out of the lab"?....you've got a (pro-DSM hot-button) chip on your shoulder (hat's too tight, no raisins in your Raisin Bran, whatever) and your flame has nothing to do with anything I said in my comment...sorry for your stress...wish I could help, really.

    Oh, wait...actually...I don't care if your head falls off and lands in the toilet :)

  8. Re:It's still going to be useless for gamers... on Chi Mei Announces 20" Active Matrix OLED Display · · Score: 1

    hyperbole....anecdotal....not current...no longer true...BS.

    If you lined up one hundred PC gamers, and asked them if they refuse to use an in-production 17" LCD, you'd have a line of 100 PC gamers.

  9. Right on schedule on Chi Mei Announces 20" Active Matrix OLED Display · · Score: 2

    18 months ago, reports were that it would take 18 months for these to come out of the labs.

    Nice to see some industries aren't sitting around...now if we could only get Bluetooth, GSM, 802.g and fuel cells up to speed...

  10. C'mon on Dell Offers Curbside Computer Recycling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dell will hand this off to some contractor...the contractor will get part of the $15.00, and Dell will squander the rest.

    The illegal aliens that actually do the curbside retrieval will simply drive around the corner and chuck your old box into the dumpster behind the pet store.

    What is being touted as gleam in Dell's shiny good-neighbor smile is just another scam to polish a public image, gather personal info that can be sold to some marketing wonk, and make you pay for the honor.

    The odds of any equipment actually being properly recycled are as low as ever...that means next to nil.

    The only way to know that your old equipment is being disposed of properly is to do it yourself.

  11. do those things on Revealing Hidden PDF Services in Mac OS X 10.2.4 · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. answer on TRON + Linux = "T-Linux" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Silly question, perhaps...the news last month from Japan explained that the manufs. there are simply looking to be MS free. And since they've recognized that their own efforts have failed, while Linux is growing, they've bitten the bullet and moved on.

    Of course there are other reasons, but how much more of a reason should they need.

  13. AppleScript on Wrappers for MP3 CDs in iTunes? · · Score: 2, Informative
  14. So there... on Study Finds Tivo Less of a Threat to Advertisers · · Score: 1

    "... but they'd want to know either way."

    And they've given you exactly 48 hrs to do it.

  15. What are you talking about? on Wrappers for MP3 CDs in iTunes? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've never seen this kind of 'fault'....I think this is user error, and not related to iTunes.

  16. Should read more like this...[joke...] on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 4, Insightful
    • Windows XP running under VPC on Max OS X is best. Gee, not a choice from the original article? How rude.
    • BE OS, since it is no longer supported, runs best on the Wayback machine, so it runs best in my dreams..it merits second place. Every OS in my dreams is perfect, BTW.
    • KDE and GNOME, since I can tweak them as much as I want, and they are actually sitting on some un-mentioned Linux OS, get third, and any issues with them are my own fault, since how they are set up is more up to me than any of the others
    Some review, eh? Makes as much sense as comparing take-out with homemade, and frozen foods with greenhouse veggies. It's a load, folks, and only designed to start flame-wars and bring eyeballs to a webpage. Anyone thinking there is meat to that article is one deck short of a Carnival Cruise.
  17. Summary from the page...load of crapola, BTW on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1, Informative

    Final Rating:
    Windows XP 8.55
    MacOSX 8.33
    BeOS 8.22
    KDE 6.72
    Gnome 6.61
    [subjective....gee...what was your first clue? Maybe the list of target OSs, perhaps? Since when is KDE/GNOME an OS?]

  18. In other news.... on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 2, Funny
    The AC today announced his 5 second OS review:
    • OS #1 ...liked it
    • OS #2 ...loved it
    • OS #3 ...loathed it
    • OS #4 ...hated it
    • OS #5 ...liked it
    • OS #6 ...gave it a 75...nice to dance to, but I wouldn't by the album
  19. everything to do with it on Mac OS X Innovators Contest · · Score: 1

    I think it does. Strictly. Did you think about the process? If I have to explain it, you're perhaps not up to the task.

  20. DIY - Mac, iTunes, Home Theater & Wireless on Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta · · Score: 1

    Try something like this...and this page is over a year old.

    Consumer goods are just that...for consumers. You want something that matches your needs, and you're not a middle-of-the-road consumer, you know you're better off DIY.

    ./...the first stop for consumer reports?

  21. I think on MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs? · · Score: 1

    ...I'd like to see the stats where SQL (big boys) is oversold. In other words, where is it being used as clear 'overkill'.

  22. universal liquid on Flowing Water Discovered on Mars · · Score: 1

    The porosity of the bed would be as much a factor as the presumed liquid. Factor in an alternate gravity, etc., and I'd say the odds of neo-water are 50/50.

    My $$ is on the theory that if there was an alternate liquid, it wouldn't flow as much as pool, and stay put, meaning we'd see it.

  23. Of course....(think different) on Mac OS X Innovators Contest · · Score: 1
    Take a look at Move2Mac

    Move2Mac comes in two versions:
    • USB version: for Windows® 98, 98SE, Millennium, 2000, XP and PCs with a USB port
    • Parallel-to-USB version (available in Q4, 2002): for Windows 95, or PCs with no USB port.
  24. Screw the CD... on Apple and CompUSA Working on 'Software on Demand' · · Score: 1

    Load it onto my iPod and I'm out'a here

  25. joke, right? on Jupiter's Great Dark Spot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The image is artificial (composite of Cassini ultra-violet (UV) images)...and subject to artifacts. Squint and look to the left...that should soften it up just enough to make it look 'real'...

    c'mon...