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  1. Re:What does "progress" mean? on Will Telecommuting Kill a Career? · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. If you are working on a project by yourself, the sort of size most of us like then great work from home. If you are on a larger project where you are actually designing and working with others then the most effective way of doing that is face to face. Sure, once you hit management you are expected in the office permanently but those who purely work from home will be less likely to be given lead roles or even collaborative roles on larger projects.

  2. NOT useless on Yahoo! Releases Firefox version of Toolbar · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The yahoo toolbar it not simply another search bar, and I have had the unofficial version along side the google bar for a while now

    I use it for the bookmarks, which are then common on any firefox or IE computer with the toolbar, but it also has shortcuts to useful Yahoo! tools like briefcase, calendar etc.

  3. Google maps directions from Kapaa, HI to San Diego on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1
    ...We could not calculate driving directions between kapaa HI and san diego, CA. We currently only support road-based driving directions.

    Damnit, they thought of that too!

  4. Safety on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1
    First, this is incredible achievement with a low budget - congrats.

    But let us not think that they have invented a wonder drug here. It is the testing and approval stages of new treatments that cost the real money. When the treatment is engineered from the virus itself that adds an extra level of risk, or at least of perceived risk. Who wants to be the first volunteer for an injection?

  5. Misuse? on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But I can see a the potential for misuse too

    Come on, do you really think that? How many deaths from intentional frying of heart pacemakers have there been?

  6. Mmmmm on Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up · · Score: 4, Funny
    This page last modified at: 2003/12/12 18:05:01

    Nothing new here, please move along.

  7. Politically incorrect on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Why do I get the feeling that their definition of "Politically incorrect" does not bear much resemblence to my definition?

    --

  8. Daltons on Happy Birthday, Atom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, isn't a dalton 1/12th the mass of a C12 atom? While very close to the mass of H1, they are not identical.

  9. Ogg Vorbis plugin on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1
    Is the vorbis plugin available for windows?

    All I can find is :this link for OSX

  10. Compared to first edition? on Practical C++ Programming, Second Edition · · Score: 1
    Anybody have any idea how this shapes up to the first edition?

    I already have, and love, PC++P, so why should I "upgrade" to the new version. It looks shorter, based on page count!

    Does it discuss some of the C++ features that never made it into the 1995 version, such as templates, STL, exceptions.

    Anybody?

  11. Re:Linux version of Real support? on Disney to Make Movies Available Online · · Score: 1
    Guess not

    ... Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following: You Need Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP

  12. Re:Strange math on Distributed Computing Economics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry, I don't follow your maths here...
    There are 2678400 seconds in a month (assuming 31 days...), so that makes 2678400 Megabits transmittable in a month, or 334800 MegaBytes. Each of your $100 buys 3348 MB, which is 3.3 GB - same order of magnitude as the author suggests...
    Perhaps you meant 2678400Mb per month.

  13. Asking for trouble on Bid On eBay To Speed Up Your Commute · · Score: 1
    Way to promote road rage:
    Jarrett envisions a color decal, three-inches square, in the righthand side of a car's windshield.
    Unless you can see the sticker from behind - people will get very angry with these SOB^HVs sitting in the HOV lane...
  14. The logic is flawed on Making Change · · Score: 1

    The article says he assumed all amounts of change between 1 and 99 cents have the same probability. I would argue this is not true - how many things are $X.99 plus tax, or similar?

  15. Re:BTDT on Europe Heads for the Moon in July · · Score: 1

    Don't forget too that you need to stop when you get there! It is all very well to accelerate at 1g the whole way, but stopping will require the same amount of energy as it did to get up to speed!

  16. So change the description on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The letter from Google says:
    We ask that you help us to protect our brand by deleting the definition of "google" found at wordspy.com or revising it to take into account the trademark status of Google.
    So why not just mention google is a trademark in the definition - that is all they are asking!
  17. Enough about the 32,000 games already! on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 2, Insightful

    32,000 games is about what there is available for PC. I think this will be a PC without a keyboard using a per-per-play system to download and play from broadband. Just about any game could be downloaded and played this way, if the license could be worked out.

  18. Re:Overfuckinglawyered. on Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human · · Score: 1

    Do you think it is possible that a case like this is just to get some publicity before release of the next movie?

  19. Re:Cloning again on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 1

    Doh!
    independent Not governed, self-governing
    independant Not a word, perhaps not a dependant, not a child of...??

  20. Cloning again on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 2, Informative

    The guy they asked to do the independant tests wasn't allowed access to the clone, so he has stated it is quite possibly a hoax. More can be found at google news

  21. Hyperthreading results on Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever" · · Score: 2, Informative

    The most interesting part of the reviews posted are the comparison between Hyper-threaded and normal mode. These nice graphs show that in all but one case, the speed is not harmed by having HT enabled, and indeed it improved the performance by up to 20%.
    This will not make a single process speed up, but will make systems seem faster, as it is rare that you are only doing one thing at a time.

  22. Too slow on Possible Big Boost in WiFi Range · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 20 microsecond delay would ruin on-line gaming. Wake me when they use faster than light protocols.

  23. Get out of trouble free card on Microsoft Antitrust Judgement · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Looks to me (IANAL) that MS have a simple get out of trouble free card with this exemption:
    J. No provision of this Final Judgment shall: 1. Require Microsoft to document, disclose or license to third parties: (a) portions of APIs or Documentation or portions or layers of Communications Protocols the disclosure of which would compromise the security of a particular installation or group of installations of anti-piracy, anti-virus, software licensing, digital rights management, encryption or authentication systems, including without limitation, keys, authorization tokens or enforcement criteria;

    They could slap that on just about anything!

  24. Is this anything new? on Tailor-Made Cancer Drugs · · Score: 1
    It was back in the late nineties I first heard about using PNA as a targeting mechanism for so called "magic bullets". Does anybody know what is new about this story? The major problems were stability of PNAs in the body and actually getting it to the right place, if I recall correctly.

  25. How about using OLEDs? on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 2
    Instead of nano paints, why not use this just-around-the-corner technology...

    Roll up tank camo?