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  1. I'll cry for the Mother of Democracy on Election Day Discussion · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether America finally is able to perform a simple vote -- something which is not that very complicated, as even european countries are able to do. Landing on the moon seems to be a walk in the park comparing to presidential elections in America. 2000's lesson learned? We'll see and probably laugh.
    Why on earth are the very same people, who are particularly pecky regarding their freedom of speech act, so very unconcerned facing institutional fraud?

  2. Diplomacy a key role on Sony's MMORPG "Sovereign" Dead · · Score: 1

    Heck, we all know why Sony killed the development: It is all too obvious that diplomacy doesn't play a key role in real life, so why bother :-)

  3. Best thing that could happen on Microsoft To Acquire Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    because the world could and should concentrate on the flash-replacement SVG.

  4. Re:Most are already fixed on Mozilla: The Good And The Bad · · Score: 1

    If you have to go to unstable or even unofficial, where's the advantage of using debian in this matter?

  5. Legal issues? on Building A Community Wireless Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Since the idea is based on sharing ISP connection with your (temporary) neighbor, there are legal issues in several countries (at least european ones): Most often the ISPs forbid their customers to share the connection with others - sometimes even within the same household. So, while there's technically no problem here, legally it is. Any workarounds?

  6. Re:Not. on Yet Another Exchange Killer? · · Score: 1

    *You* obviously knew the difference. So why bother to force someone to learn English?

    Aren't non-native speakers allowed to express their thoughts?

  7. Re:This is non of your business! on More on the KDE League · · Score: 1

    You want to look Matthias and others like someone, who decided years ago in a way to get a job years later in a company still so very minor that you need a microscope to find it in the IT universe?
    How silly.

  8. Re:Secret fibres HK-macow on Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional · · Score: 1

    Actually, I *did* install Suse 8.0 on a 32mb/P100 successfully. Be splendid and give it a big swap partition. However, you have to be patient ;-)

  9. DEB? on SuSE Presents The YaST2 Package Manager · · Score: 1

    Does this reduce the functional insufficiencies of rpm compared to deb?

  10. Re:They will never have the money.; Money == power on Is Red Hat the Microsoft of Linux? · · Score: 1

    The live evaluation simply does not contain the bloat others are complaining about. It is fully functional, nevertheless.
    However, it does not turn up on ftp as soon as at the stores - you have to wait a bit.

  11. Unifying Desktops is more than matching the "look" on KDE Gets The Hat · · Score: 1

    Unifying by means of looking identical and stopping there is just silly: As long as the feel of apps is different, identically looking but differently feeling apps is even worse with respect to usability and learning curve, imho.
    To my knowledge, but i'm no developer, luckily there already exists a collaboration between G and K aiming at unifying the functionality (mime-types, drag'n-drop, shortcuts, menu-experience etc). RH would be better off if they would support the collaboration instead of simply pasting everything with a big red brush.
    If they do both, the better ;-)

  12. Re:How do you design a font? on Microsoft Typography Withdraws Free Web Fonts · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I think, this is a question of handicraft, so I'll try to share some observations I made by actually do typography (not designing fonts!):

    1st: Forget creativity. The most urgent need are fonts for everyday use. Be as boring as possible.
    2nd: Fonts are there to be readable. Let the principle of least surprise guide you.
    3rd: Don't try to be inventive. The best ideas are several hundret years old. Well, some of the worst, too.
    4th: You'll do the spacing wrong.
    5th: ...

    Sure, there are some more obstacles, even on the technical side (on which I can't comment), but hey! I don't want to hinder you! Go on ;-)

  13. Re:MCSE on General IT Books? · · Score: 1

    Currently I'm reading "Software Project Survival Guide" by Steve McConnel, published by Microsoft Press.
    Whilst I cannot talk about the quality (it is my first reading on that topic and I haven't finished yet), it can assure that there's no screenshot in it, no click-that-button track and even (as far as i read it) no MS-Project or MS-whatever-software hinting in it. Face it.

  14. Re:Dead Tree = Useless on General IT Books? · · Score: 1

    For me, the main reason of buying books is archiveability (good grief, where's my dictionary?).
    web sites move or vanish, representation techniques evolve. How many useful bookmarks do you have from 1995? How many useful books do you have from 1995?

  15. Re:Okay, I know I'm gonna get flamed, but... on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1

    > You're right that nuclear waste storage is more or
    > less a non-issue though. Just stick is somewhere.
    > Yeah, it'll leak. But so what? We've got plenty of
    > room (note for the geographically impaired: this
    > isn't sarcasm).

    This is the most dangerous nonsense I've heard in this context. Please get informed about the toxicalisation of nuclear waste and their life-cycle.

  16. Re:Maybe It's Just Me... on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1

    Wow, do you really think nuclear power to be *clean* ?? There is no such thing as clean power supply. Don't judge power technology by "what could be done" . Judge it it by "what actually has been done".

  17. Re:Broadband access is far more important on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1

    Yes, lets save the exchange of information first by not using those funny bulbs because there was no exchange of information before 802.11, right?