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  1. Re:Spammers doing something illegal?! on Spamming Trojan "Proxy Guzu" · · Score: 1

    Don't tell the politicians, they will be arguing for decriminalising spamming to get rid of the criminal element :)

  2. Re:WTF on Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent · · Score: 1

    The difference is flight sticks use the thumb, which has a lot more movement than a finger. Mount this button on the side of the mouse and it will be more useful.

  3. Re:WTF on Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a rather cumbersome idea to me, try moving the mouse around while moving your fingers forward and backwards. Not easy, side to side movement is much easier for your fingers.

    They would be better placing a touchpad on the top of the mouse.

  4. Re:mandatory gentoo user post... on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 1

    As mentioned elsewhere, the optimisation settings are user defined.

    But if these settings are breaking the software then surely it's the fault of the gcc compiler or the software in question?

    Gentoo's ebuild are often just scripts, the actual software is often downloaded direct from the website of the actual developer of the software.

  5. Major drawbacks of digital on First HDTV Camcorder · · Score: 1

    Drawbacks of digital are that the formats change so fast it becomes hard for older media to be read.

    With film you can still scan the film if you want or easily devise a projector if they had all disappeared.

  6. Re:"Support"? on Crossover Office 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    WINE isn't a 100% compatible of Windows yet in terms of bugs and quirks. Some APIs are probably incomplete too, I guess Codeweavers concentrate on the bugs, quirks and APIs needed to run the "supported" apps.

  7. Re:Excellent. on Crossover Office 2.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many of the productivity apps supported are the only reasons many need a Windows installation. I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft try and buy them?

    Now all we need is a good WINE fork specialising in MIDI and audio work.

  8. Intel.... on The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Intel created a 64 CPU from scratch and it appears to be a bit of a turkey. Good design but not a real world solution, you can say the opposite about the Internet.

    If the Internet has protocol problems then fix the protocols, it didn't take that long for most of the web to adopt http resume.

  9. Re:Recordable DVD Drive a Deal-Breaker? on Rabid TiVo Fanaticism · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yyou can insert a NIC card into the TiVo and extract the video streams, convert and burn on the PC. That way you only need one DVD recorder drive.

    Is this what you meant?

  10. Re:Living Colour put it best... on Time to Face the Music · · Score: 2, Funny

    Elvis? the rich fat bastard who never wrote a song in his life. Just the ideal man to ask for advice on a troubled industry.

  11. Re:I don't get it.. on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    Well you can trademark anything if you're a big powerful company, if you're a smaller one then it's harder.

    If you trademark a common word then you will need to captilise the word, other wise I could for example trademark the word "and" and (TM) make lots of money from it.

    Also you need to actively use your trademark, otherwise you can't keep it. This prevents people trademarking the whole dictionary, waiting for someone else to use that name.

  12. Re:I don't get it.. on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    I thought trademarking words in the dictionary was frowned upon?

    Windows always starts with a capital letter, that's how Microsoft make the distinction between the trademark and the word.

    So call it "phoenix" not "Pheonix" and you'll be fine :)

  13. Re:T-Mobile's Sidekick on Nokia 3650 Released in US Market · · Score: 1

    Well I think line dancing sucks, so another reason not to use the word :)

  14. Re:T-Mobile's Sidekick on Nokia 3650 Released in US Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Queue is a clearer term than line IMHO, operating systems use that term eg. print queue. If you asked someone where their job was in the print line they might get confused :)

  15. Re:It's not just a phone.... on Nokia 3650 Released in US Market · · Score: 1

    PowerPC, doh I meant PocketPC.

  16. It's not just a phone.... on Nokia 3650 Released in US Market · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a smartphone, you made a mistake going with the T68i. The T68i is a toy in comparison, can't install new apps, can't write your own.

    The 3650 can run all kinds of apps, it's basically a modern colour PSION scaled to fit in a phone.

    Who cares if it's a little chunkier than a dumb basic phone, it has more functionality. You might as well say a laptop is too big compared to a PowerPC, this is the difference between a 3650 and a toy like the T68i, only the 3650 is only a little bigger.

  17. Re:Moore's Law on Pew Internet Project Study on Internet Non-Users · · Score: 1

    For a while I guess that was true, hence this study. But you will eventually reach a saturation point. As the population grows the percentage who use the internet will remain fairly constant. There are people after all who don't like TV and refuse to use them.

  18. Re:WinHEC on Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium · · Score: 1

    Buy a Sun?

    Don't upgrade?

    Take up another interest?

  19. Re:xbox media player can do all this and more. on Review: QCast Tuner for PS2 · · Score: 1

    PS2 has PS2Reality Media Player.

    It does DIVX, XVID too. It's also free software, based on FFMpeg.

  20. Re:"Firebird" is also taken on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1

    Was owned, I don't know what happened to them. Firebird spawned Rainbird. I remember Rainbird released Starglider and the programmer of that Jez San formed Argonaut.

  21. Re:Maybe their lawyers should ask me on AOL Sues Five Spam Companies · · Score: 1

    Or just use it as a trap to record as much information about the person using it to spam people.

  22. Re:"Firebird" is also taken on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was also the name of an 8-bit game company.

    I might knock up a Firebird software theme :)

  23. Re:No Wonder on Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Try saying it in a cockney accent for full effect :)

    Plus if it's wood it can burn?

  24. Re:What value are these new processors? on Intel's P4 3GHz w/ 800MHz Bus & Canterwood Chips · · Score: 1

    Seen Vapochiil before, but I would rather keep things simple and I would rather AMD and Intel worked hard to produce cooler CPUs.

    Currently I only have a CPU fan and a PSU fan running with a 2100+ Athlon XP., CPU is 46oC and case 37oC which isn't bad.

  25. Re:What value are these new processors? on Intel's P4 3GHz w/ 800MHz Bus & Canterwood Chips · · Score: 1

    Yeh, video encoding takes a while. Trouble is the codecs get more advanced and the filesizes fall resulting in more CPU power needed to encode :)

    Anyway, I always tend to stay back from the cutting edge as the heat generated is too vast to be cooled silently. When the cutting edge chips become the average ones the cores have gone through a few changes so run cooler.