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  1. Re:AMD on Rambus Allowed to Continue Patent Dispute Case · · Score: 1

    I do not want to see AMD mobo's running with Rambus's insanely expensive memory on it.

    However, the inexpensive RAM is inexpensive because its design is stolen from Rambus (and priced below cost with the inention of damaging Rambus' position). When Rambus has their day in court, the guys that make your cheap RAM are going to have to pay. Hynix vs Rambus is the first in many manufacturer settlement trials. That case begins March 6. Seeing that Samsung is already guilty of price fixing and that the RAM manufacturers have been exhibiting cartel like behaviour, Rambus is likely to win.

  2. Re:why? on Milestones and Trends in Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    We should be encouraging car manufacturers to be test marketing more diesel cars in the US instead of hybrids, which are questionable in regards to ROI. It's a small step for them, they're are already building them for Europe.

    What about diesel hybrids? Wouldn't that bring the best of both worlds?

    Hybrid ROI may make more sense in the long term when they become fuel cell hybrids. The MIT technology review stated that Toyota and, I think, Honda, have fuel cell development programs. It was suggested that dropping a fuel cell into a hybrid will not be difficult. Comparatively, dropping one into a normal gasoline car design will likely fail.

  3. Re:Fell off the ugly tree and hit every branch. on Google Earth Beta for Mac · · Score: 1

    It looks a lot better than the old days when a big companie's Mac version looked like, I dunno, nothing, nada, and zip.

  4. Re:it's all just rumor... on Video iPod Oct 12? · · Score: 1

    but I think movies are involved bdsed on the red curtain

    >Actually, they're unveiling a puppet theater add-on for the nano.


    Actually, they're unveiling a sock puppet theater add-on for the nano.

  5. Order Form Instructions on DIY Electronic Paper Display · · Score: 1

    Orders can be placed by completing and printing out the order form, and mailing or faxing the form to E Ink.

    This is ironic considering what this company is trying to accomplish.

  6. Erroneous Posting on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    According to the link provided, dead cats were never used to make BioDiesel. I think its time to update this posting.

  7. Get with the program on Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs · · Score: 1

    If less than 21 percent of your employees are using OS X, you are behind!

  8. Re:eh? on Build Your Own Solar Powered Hotspot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Burning Man already has WiFi internet access. I've used it myself.

  9. Re:Codeweavers to Support OS X/i - why? on First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs · · Score: 1

    Visio was originally a cocoa app. What comes around goes around.

  10. Re:Does this mean - on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    PortalPlayer already announced that their next gen processor supports video. Its seems unlikely that Apple will abandon PortalPlayer. They choose PortalPlayer over other audio chips based on a lot of factors.

  11. Re:Does this mean - on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    PortalPlayer already announced that their next gen processor supports video. Its seems unlikely that Apple will abandon PortalPlayer. They choose PortalPlayer over other audio chips based on a lot of factors.

  12. On being a roach on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I suddenly found myself in madagascar with a huge piece of velcro on my back, headlights blinking into my eyes, a ball beneath my feet... I would try and run like hell too.

  13. Re:Haha... on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 1

    Wow! A sentence made from acronyms!

  14. Re:Why don't they just move the camera? on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 1

    (WTF! It's a public place with lots of people...

    The mall is not a public place. It is privately owned by a corporation such as Westfield. You are a guest in the Mall. For ATMs located on a public street your argument is more applicable.

  15. Re:wrong on at least some details on cassette stor on The Apple II: The Machine That Started It All · · Score: 1

    I remember my computer teacher telling us not to kick the legs of the table by accident, or we would interupt the Commodore PET's twenty minute boot sequence. Those audio cassettes were noticeably more unreliable than floppies or the TI-99 cartridges.

  16. Re:Imitation on Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying · · Score: 5, Informative

    So tell me why Apple remains stagnant at 3% of the desktop market and it's biggest commercial success in years has been the iPod.

    Simple, it's not stagnant.

    Forbes Magazine: The conversion rate of iPod customer base to the Macintosh platform from PC "implies two points of global PC market share gain for Apple in 2005," to 5% from 3%, said Morgan Stanley, adding that the conversion rate for iPod owners could track closer to the 25% range going forward from 19%.

    http://www.forbes.com/markets/2005/03/18/0318autom arketscan10.html

  17. Re:Safari Feature degredation. on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update · · Score: 1

    You can still specify an alternative to the Desktop... just go to Safari preferences and set the download folder to whatever you like. This still wont present the old dialog box though.

  18. Safari Feature degredation. on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I right-click an image in Safari, I am no longer able to specify which folder I want to save it to. The only option is "Save to Safari Downloads".

    This does streamline things... but I think I miss the customization options that a save dialog provides.

  19. Projector Mirroring... on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1

    Hasn't this been around forever?...most recently the f7 key on my TiBook

    Automatic Projector Mirroring
    Automatically mirror your presentations on both your Mac and an external projector.

  20. Run for the Border! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Taco Bell has just announced that they will be placing a large bulls-eye target in the pacific ocean. If the asteroid hits the target, free tacos for the whole world that day!

  21. Re:Preperations on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    What about a big trampolene or mattress at the impact point?

  22. Re:Good! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Let me be the first to risk life and limb in order to inseminate all of those martian women thus saving the human race.

    Can you say par-tay?!

  23. Re:Safari 1.3 on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.9 Update · · Score: 1

    One handed tab changing using command-shift-arrow is very awkward and impractical on my titanium powerbook... the new shortcut will be better for English layout powerbook users.

  24. Re:Burning Man on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    If you zom to the highest resolution and then scroll southwest of the detailed BM 2003 site. You can see the visible traces of two other Burning Man locations from years past.

    They are located in the lower left corner of where the map of Black Rock Desert becomes high resolution.

  25. Burning Man on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    There is an especially high resolution satellite image of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada where the streets of Burning Man 2003 are plainly visible.

    Search Gerlach, NV and then scroll towards the northeast.

    Cool.