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  1. Re:Mistake... on Macs Won't Boot Into Mac OS in 2003 · · Score: 0, Troll

    But apple makes their own hardware! this argument holds true for PC's because my DVD palyer, viedo card, sound card, ..., and operating system are all made by different companies. Macs on the other hand are almost all hardware produced by Macintosh.

  2. Go ahead and mod me but: on Macs Won't Boot Into Mac OS in 2003 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If MS did this (I know, I know they dont produce their own hardware) people here would be flipping out, I just hope we can show a little consistancy here. This is a crappy decision, it would be like dell producing computers that will not run 95/98 or older linux kernels..

  3. Re:NEVER? HAH! on Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops · · Score: 1
    And you seem to forget that most people want to use the same desktop at home (where they have a choice) that they have to use at work. And your statement that there is no end responsability with linux is plain false:
    1)RedHat offers support
    2)If you have worked in the field you know if your network goes down its your ass regardless of what OS you are using.

    You point about 'linux.inc' is equally moronic, there are several publically traded Linux companies, and redhat has more servers out there than M$.

    I said they can work twords it, not that they have achieved it. BTW I can take off my 21' and put on a 15 and X picks it up and adjust my resolution fine.

  4. Re:NEVER? HAH! on Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops · · Score: 1
    but the DCMA does not keep GNOME, KDE, and Apple from producing interfaces that are as useable as windows.

    M$ made it big in an economy that no longer exist (damn the torpedos err dollars). No companies / governments are looking to save money and open source is the best solution out there.

    Microsoft can no longer compete with the price model of linux (they have given up their FUD that they are actually cheaper).

  5. Re:We don't use our other methane sources on Undersea Deposits of Frozen Methane Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yea like keeping canadians out of our malls in WNY...

  6. Re:Who owns it? on Undersea Deposits of Frozen Methane Found · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hey moron canda was a front not the objective of 1812. You guys have never been important engough to actually fight. you were brtis then and we were fighting England (we won).

    I always love when Canadians bring up 1812 like we were at war with them, not England.

  7. Re:Good Start ... on Million-Dollar Donation To Fight Abusive Copyrights · · Score: 1

    You fight the battles that can be fought, once these are won (and the (c) law is a much easier fight) you collect your new strength and go after the smallest remaining fish..

  8. Re:Imagine this on Million-Dollar Donation To Fight Abusive Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Law are not there to protect people, theey are there to protect society (so they are a good thing). When however a segment of society uses a majority population, or a majority of the money to write the law to protect them more than society as a whole the law is nolonger functioning correctly. This is tollerable to some degree (it will never be perfect) but in its current incarnation copyright law is totally disfunctional, and does not protect, rather it is a club to attack.

  9. Re:Verify? on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1
    Yes, large as in that becuse the focal point for huble is very very far away! to look at an object as small as a US flag so close to the lense (and thus so far from the focal point) is not possible with hubble.

    If you dont believe me take a course in optics..

  10. Ok so I did not read the article.. on Plastic Optical Fibre: Cheap and Bendy · · Score: 1

    But it occurse to me that plastics are not yet to the point where you could put nearly as many modes through as traditional fiber..

  11. Re:Verify? on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1

    The problem is the lunar landing stie is too small for hubble to see. We cant see bacteria can we? There is a physical law which limits a tool like hubble to large objects only..

  12. Re:Great Field on Nanosecrets of Everyday Things · · Score: 1
    I did not so much mean defeat, as find another solution, obviously changing the quantum properties of an electron is not deseriable, but you "if" you can 1) find a way to compensate, or 2) find another solution which is not effected by the quantum nature of subatomic particles you can do things on the nano level.

    Much of what man has thought was impossible happens every day.. When we run into a wall we either break it or go around it.

  13. Re:Yawn, another fuckwit American... on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 1

    Wars usually break out when you least expect. I am not hoping for a war, but all it takes is one nutjob with a gun..

  14. Re:Yawn, another fuckwit American... on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 1

    are you as sure as the men who called WWI the war to end all wars??

  15. Re:Great Field on Nanosecrets of Everyday Things · · Score: 1

    I dont think so (thats why I qualified it with get around).

  16. Re:Nanotech on Nanosecrets of Everyday Things · · Score: 1
    is your glass always half empty ;)

    But in the short term youre probably right, now in the long term I think you will see far more good comeout of nano tech than bad. Many of the supercomputers we use today for medical study (like the one they just put in at UB would not exist if not for the military and its initial interest in computing for crypto/artillery calculation 50 years ago.

    For the same reason I think money should be pured into NASA, somehting which may be developed and be way too expensive for people to use today will be the personal computers, velcro, felt tip pens of tommorow.

  17. Great Field on Nanosecrets of Everyday Things · · Score: 1, Interesting
    This is one of the coolest field of studies to date. and the applications are nearly endless, from fuel cells, to devices to help build bone in older people.

    I never got very far here, I went much more twords digitial circuit vlsi than materials but from what I do know is once they find a way to beat/get around the quantum behavior of electrons you will see a parade of innovations here.

  18. Re:Don't Blame Linux! on Microsoft/HP to Market Crippled Entertainment PCs · · Score: 1
    I use Linux and for standard equipment it works great. (had to have a friend help with x once because I had a new video card x had not created drivers for yet.

    The interface (except dirvers) is fine, and more tunable than anything else (I have not seen aqua) on the market..

  19. Useless on Microsoft/HP to Market Crippled Entertainment PCs · · Score: 1
    Yes, im going to go out and spend $1500 so I can watch TV through a PC but not have even the abilities a VCR provides. It would be cheaper to buy a decent PC (with XP), a capture card, and dvdburner.

    you dont need XP but dirvers on linux for someone my level (linux newb but pretty pc literate) are too dang hard..

  20. Re:Yawn, another fuckwit American... on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 1
    Europe was not united when world war 2 occured. Germany was the strongest military power in Europe at that time. European countries have a tradition of not budgeting so much weapons, in favour of things that their people gain from, but the european union has more people and greater monetary reserves than the U.S.

    You euros have been loging for the days of good old Rome for over 1500 years. Many have tried to strip away your nation identities through war, now the mega rich are trying to do it through trade but the result will be the same. Your like a buck of emotionally stunted adults longing for to be kids again, get over it and grow up.

    If you all want to surrender yourselves to an authority so you can compete with us, good luck to ya'. Youll learn the hard way... again..

  21. Re:speakers on Gadget Guru Builds High-Tech Haven · · Score: 1

    I would guess you would get ok long wave low freq stuff but the high stuff 1)either sucks or 2) he has them aranged near a vent..

  22. Re:Pontless... on Auburn University First To Offer Wireless Degree · · Score: 1
    Usually EM is taken late in an education (at least a 300 level class). To pass it youre going to need strong calc, and physics.

    As for will it be relevant, emag has not changed a great deal in the past 50 years. A strong understanding of the basics (now 'basic' emag is very complex) should be enough..

  23. Re:Practicality? on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be pretty good camo though. you would see only a distortion from a distance. One could take this a step further and make polygon dectectors / projectors giving you sides. I know it would not be perfect but you just want to make youself hard to see in combat.

  24. Re:Lewis + Paparazzi = Terminator 3? on Robotic Photographer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod this up...

  25. Re:Get your facts strait on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 1
    So what you are syaing is if they compleatly misinterprit the teachings of christ (and I am sorry but nowhere, I mean nowhere can you take mass murder out of his teachings) to call themselves something they are not, we will recognise them by what they are?

    Everyone is free to believe whatever thay want, but it does not make it so.

    Again: true, but irrelevant. These particular Christians were not violating their beliefs: rather they believed something DIFFERENT than you or I in the first place.

    Totally relevant, I believe like buddhist that all posestions are transitory therefore I should call myself a Buddhist and by your definition I am correct.

    The argument you put forth reads as follows: Find a teaching, prevert it to fit your needs. do not obey/understand it, not necissary, so long as you can twist it to your advantage youre now a member.

    Im sorry the thats the biggest pile ive seen in a long time.