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  1. Re:DirectX on Doom Creator Says Direct3D Is Now Better Than OpenGL · · Score: 1

    Their kernels are significantly different but they are in the same family. The OSes are very different, osx does not even use X for example. Xbox windows and windows are far closer together.

    I think you know far less than you think you know.

  2. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of an old adage "Fuck off, asshole". I don't work for free, and I doubt you do either.

  3. Re:HTML 5 on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    That is the goal of wine, not the current state.

    I would suggest you get a data plan via cellular wireless.

  4. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Nope, not much of a coder really either. I am a sysadmin which is what is sounded like he needed. My labor is not free, and he wanted help, meaning we could strike a deal. We call that capitalism.

    TCO is not really impacted as the $300 he spends is surely cheaper than antivirus and all the other BS that goes with a typical windows desktop.

  5. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    So go do that. You obviously cannot, or you would not have asked if it worked or not.

  6. Re:DirectX on Doom Creator Says Direct3D Is Now Better Than OpenGL · · Score: 1

    Which is running a PowerPC build of windows. Meaning that his statement still stands.

  7. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Then it would no longer be open source, since you can't show anyone the source to those things.

  8. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    I will be glad to try, I charge $150/hr with $300 minimum. Feel free to contact me about this.

  9. Re:HTML 5 on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Netscape Accelerator Software probably still won't work. You might want to upgrade to a real internet connection, or at least report bugs about it.

    If you want a clone windows why would you want to boycott MS?
    Windows is braindead in many ways, like not replacing files that are in use for one.

  10. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 2

    Nvidia seems to have no problems, you speak of things you know nothing about.

  11. Re:Where's the line? on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 2

    Where is the moral gray area?
    You are doing something that does not harm anyone as rice prices will go up no matter what you do.
    Taking money under the guise of charity and keeping it is theft by deception. That is both theft and theft of money that could have helped others.

  12. Re:T-mobile does this. on Clearwire Sued Over WiMAX Throttling · · Score: -1, Troll

    The expression is "champing at the bit" you illiterate oaf.

  13. Re:Its not called gas but its called... on Researchers Develop Biofuel Alternative To Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Gas is actually gasoline. People will end up calling it iso or something.

  14. Re:Enjoy. on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Which means I can't a dumb pipe in the consumer space. The dumb cunts at verizon claim to sell internet service and block port 25. How that is not false advertising I will never understand.

    The point is carriers should be dumb pipes, at the very least they should be prevented from also being content or service providers. No reason to let TWC use its monopoly cable business to put vonage out of business by making that service not work for their customers. Private organizations have to follow laws and regulations all the time, no reason to let them abuse their power now.

  15. Re:Enjoy. on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    What makes you think he is not a right wing politician?

  16. Re:Utah water supply on Town Expands To Boost Cooling For NSA Data Center · · Score: 1

    If only we could have more than two possible outcomes to this problem. If only we could somehow not waste the water on grass and not let it flow into the salt lake. It is purely foolish to think there are more than two possible choices to any problem though.

    That was sarcasm and you are an idiot. The water could well be stored in any manner of ways that do not require dumping it on your lawn.

  17. Re:compass, maps, and landmarks on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    So then why is that not a viable option now?

    I am confused.

  18. Re:Uh, no. on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    Clocks do exist. Even very accurate ones, they get pricey though.

  19. Re:Utah water supply on Town Expands To Boost Cooling For NSA Data Center · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you have lawns then?
    Having lawns in places that would need a lawn to be watered is a braindead idea.

  20. Re:I was talking to a friend in my CCNA class on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    I never have tried it. I was actually asking. So how did they do it before GPS and fancy inertial nav?

  21. Re:Uh, no. on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    No, it is just the next step down, after that you can fall back to stars or just landmarks, etc. Each step back gets you a little less accuracy and easy of use.

  22. Re:Silly. on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    I have ridden horses, I have made clothes and probably could make shoes, I have made fires with flint and tinder and the bow method. Why? Because each of those things taught me something, and it was fun to do. Plus I can fall back on it if I have to.

  23. Re:wait on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    People invent even without patents, I bet Uggs wheel was never pantented. I bet his buddy in the next cave over never got a monopoly on fire. Patents are a surely a useful tool but going without their protection for someone who cannot even afford a couple grand is not going to end all useful progress.

    That BY means this is the method to do that. Not that this is its purpose.

  24. Re:wait on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    Read that again:
    "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"

    That is the reason, the rest is the means to that end.

  25. Re:Uh, no. on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 2

    You need a compass and landmarks to determine where on the map you are. Maps are available both laminated and printed on water proof material. This will also be resistant to tearing. Not every map is like the one you got at disneyland last summer.