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  1. April *fool* on U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, an April Fool is actually supposed to fool someone. Nobody could be stupid enough to be fooled by this!

  2. Re:Cheap updates? on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Comparing the version numbering schemes between Windows and MacOS is down right silly.

    You're quite right. However, some people insist on doing it, and usually do it incorrectly. I'm just trying to point out the facts :)

    Personally I haven't had too much Mac experience, having started at 10.2.4 (and currently have 10.3.8).

  3. Re:Cheap updates? on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just to clarify: 2000 was NT 5.0 and XP is 5.1. So 2000 -> XP and Panther -> Tiger are both +0.1 upgrades.

  4. Re:Great! on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Officially, I believe that it needs built-in FireWire and a DVD drive. However, that may just be to stop people installing it on ancient 233 MHz models.

  5. Re:What about jewelry instead? on Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant · · Score: 1

    Instead of being a watch, it could be something of very little value, and therefore much less likely to be stolen. Something like this only costs a few dollars.

  6. Re:Uh... on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    You do realise that the Yoda reference is in his sig, not his post, don't you? :)

  7. Re:Better add World of Warcraft to the list then.. on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    I believe that one you click the Patch button, it stops uploading. Let's be honest, the vast majority of users are going to click Patch as soon as they can, and aren't going to bother with waiting for a 1:1 ratio or anything.

  8. Re:Apple supports Blu-Ray... on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple also supported DVD-RAM, and look where that is now.

  9. Re:Why people don't RTFA on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that DVD can actually store 720x576 (and I believe that still images can go even higher).

  10. Re:It looks like it's running through vmware on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1

    Hmm, just tried it again so I could see what the error was, and it seems to be working this time.

  11. Re:It looks like it's running through vmware on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1

    To me, Virtual PC is superior because VMware won't run on my system. Remember, one person can think something is great, while other people can hate it.

  12. Re:It looks like it's running through vmware on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1

    I noticed that too. It doesn't work with Virtual PC though.

  13. Re:Looks Slick on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, you're quite right about queuing vs listing. My mistake.

  14. Re:Looks Slick on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    3.4.2 (the Mac version at least) would queue up multiple downloads in one window. Is that new for the Windows version?

  15. Re:Irony. on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    StuffIt (essentially WinZip for Mac) was once distributed as a .sit file. :)

  16. Re:nobody should be at the front of the line on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Don't Mac desktops outnumber Linux desktops nowadays?

    Yes.

  17. Re:Statistics on Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think both sets of stats are accurate. Take the IE stats for example. 35.08% for IE6 and 37.6% for IE. To me it looks like 2.52% are using a version of IE other than 6. This seems to apply for all the listed browsers, remember that Firefox reports itself as Mozilla 5.0.

  18. Re:why is it piracy? on UK Leads in TV Show Downloading · · Score: 1

    I've thought about this a bit. I suppose it's technically illegal to download TV shows. I download a few (Lost, Alias, and occasionally Charmed), which are all free-to-air in my country. So personally I don't feel guilty about downloading free-to-air shows, as the show creators get paid regardless of whether I watch the show or not.

    Of course, this is the other way around from what you are suggesting - I'm downloading the shows instead of 'VCRing' them and sharing them.

  19. Re:The 3D game in the summary isn't Linux only... on Desktop Linux Summit Highlights · · Score: 1

    Ah, so the system does work after all :)

  20. Re:We wouldn't have much of this problem if ... on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 1

    Right now there are a lot of sites out there which work perfectly in Firefox and Safari if you set the user agent to IE. So it's not the browser that's at fault, it's just the server not letting you in.

  21. Re:We wouldn't have much of this problem if ... on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 1

    WTF? How? You think removing the user agent will force people to design to standards, just in case they're getting lots of variation in browsers that they can't see? Again, I think not. More likely would be that they'll design to work in IE, and have nothing to suggest that they should do otherwise.

    It'll get rid of the problem where sites say 'you're not running IE, so I'm not going to let you in!'

  22. Re:The 3D game in the summary isn't Linux only... on Desktop Linux Summit Highlights · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Troll? It's a completely true comment, and shouldn't offend anyone.

  23. Skype is not computer to computer only on Google Plans Free VoIP In the UK · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can also call a regular phone with Skype. It's not free, but you can do it.

  24. Re:Cool! on Cell Architecture Explained · · Score: 1

    The Mac Mini is not fanless.

  25. Re:Gnome 10? on Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek · · Score: 1

    OK, it's just a typo.