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  1. Re:As Arab cities go... on Why the Middle East Is a Good Place For Women Tech Entrepreneurs · · Score: 2

    Beirut isn't very Arab. It's close to 40% Christian.

    I think you mean isn't very Muslim, not Arab. The Christians in Beirut are still Arabs.

  2. HTML Tidy on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    I once had to convert a large number of pages generated by Word into something that was at least close to validating and I used Tidy HTML. It took a little bit of poking around with all the arguments to get it to do what I wanted, but once I had I just ran it on all the Word exports and it popped out clean code. It even had a special flag (though I don't remember it off the top of my head) to specifically deal with Word exports.

  3. Narrows? on Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As far as I can tell, Yahoo has an on-line radio service, but not a music services system like MusicMatch. It's not so much narrowing the field as Yahoo was never really in the field to begin with. It's more like moving a player around.

  4. Re:Fuck it on Debunking the Trillion-Dollar Space Myth · · Score: 1, Funny

    If we send our unemployed people to Mars, then we have less here on Earth.

  5. Thats not BAD English, It't OLD English on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 1

    If you read other works in English from Chaucer's period, you notice that the spelling and grammar are very similar to his. The language changed over time, and that's how we arrived at the common conventions of style we have today.

    Of course, all too often people assume that "old" and "bad" are the same anyways.

  6. A Better Article, Some Clarification on Kazaa to Sue Movie, Record Companies · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article has way more details than the parent post. Sharman is suing because the RIAA used Kazaa Lite, an illegal replica of Kazaa without the ads, and for violating the license agreement by sending warnings to Kazaa users. Unlike the Recording and Movie industries, which allege that Kazaa is illegal because it could be used as a tool in copyright infringement, Sharman is alleging that the RIAA is using software which directly violates copyrights. Kazaa Lite explicitly states in the license agreement that it is illegal.

  7. Re:Anything like Lebanese style coffee? on Are Geeks in Saudi Arabia Just Like Us? · · Score: 1

    Lebanese Coffee is the same as Arab Coffee.

    It's also the same as Turkish Coffee, Greek Coffee, and Bedouin Coffee, but don't tell anyone, they all think it's their's.

  8. A bit of clarification on USB Menorah · · Score: 1

    Here is a bit of clarification as to the parent. First, I'd juest like to clarify that this theory is the one adopted by most conservative and reform rabbis, and at least some Orthodox rabbbis, so critiques of the reform movement are at best off-topic here. The original Chanukkah celebration had nothing to do with 8 days of oil. In the original celebrations (i.e. the Book of Maccabees), the Jews were celebrating the holiday of Sukkot (a harvest festival), which they had been precluded from celebrating earlier because the Asssyrian Greeks occupied the temple. Sukkot was one of the three pilgrimage festivals where the entire population would travel to the temple, so the temple's occupation pretty much nixed the whole holiday. Therefore, it was observed after it's liberation, and was simultanioulsy a celebration of the victory and the Sukkot holiday. This later celebration is what we now know of as the Chanukkah holiday. The Chanukkah Candelabra is called a Chanukkiah, not a Menorah, because a Menorah is 7 branched whereas a Chanukkiah, what is used an Chanukah, is 9 branched. The 9 branches came because of the 8 days, not the other way around. Sukkot, the aforementioned holiday, was an 8 day festival. The parent post got the idea right, just a bit backwards. The 8 days came first, the myth came later. As to the myth about the oil, I don't know about it's exact origins. I believe it has some textual origins, although I don't know how vague. My guess (remember this is a guess) is that it started like many traditions, in that a Rabbi began doing it, other people liked it, so they began doing it, and everyone passed it on to their children. Eventually, it spread throughout the community. I'm fairly sure that the 2BCE has nothing to do with this, but is probably something in the technical limitations of his calculations.

  9. Re:It is suggested on Microsoft Settles Be Antitrust Suit for $23.25M · · Score: 1

    Actually, a settlement is not a de facto admission of wrongdoing. Quite frequently people settle because the costs of pursuing the case (attorney fees, lost income, inability to proceed with plans because of injunctions) are significantly greater than an out of court settlement.

  10. Re:Canon on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I used to have a cannon with separate cartridges, a BJC-600, and while it was convenient to replace them one at a time, i noticed that they all usually ran out at about the same time. Also, the printer was plagued with slow, lousy printing and caused frustrations more often than it worked. Slashdot seems to consider the cost of ink as the primary cause of concern with printers, but the quality of printer is also a major concern, I don't want to buy a lousy printer just becuase it has cheap ink.

  11. Re:Can we see it? on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    As far as I know (I'm not an IP lawyer... yet) it means that the copyright office has the option of entering it into the Library of Congress, and therefore, in some instances, you can view it at the library. However, most registered items are usually discarded after the registration is granted simply because the library lacks the storage capacity. Assuming, however, that it is brought into the library (I don't know their policy on computer code/software), you would have to be physically at the LOC to view it because they do not usually post material to the web, and as a matter of policy do not allow material to be checked out.