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  1. Re:Good news... on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 2, Informative

    And Kirk's Dead son was the drug addict in "Symbiosis" and Dr. Polaski was one of 3 times she was on The Original Enterprise....oh wait, actors some times plany different parts!?!??!

  2. Re:Good news... on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    Except that we all KNOW that the romulan war took place before phasers and photons and view screens (as Kirk said). So according to the trek history it's ALREADY happened! Also the Prime Directive which was supposed to have come out of the first contact with the Klingons (that started the First Klingon/human was) should also have happened in the Pilot Ep when we first met the Kilingons (and BEFORE the Romulan war). They have already mixed up the history set by the previous series!

  3. Re:James Bond of the Spam world? on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs · · Score: 1

    I wonder who owns the servers that their club's message board is on?

  4. Re:Just make them cheap enough? on Road Marker Marks You · · Score: 1

    And Boston is the only place that i've ever seen where the breakdown lane is a leagal travel lane durring rush-hour because no one breaks down (or has an accident) durring rush-hour!

  5. Re:Why this fails... on Flash Mob Gang Warfare · · Score: 1

    I agree that you can prove there are unsolved crimed, however just because a person got away with murder doesn't mean they had a hi-IQ. Some of them probably did, but some were probably just lucky. That's what makes this discussuion interesting (and never ending) is that it's impossible to know since they wern't caught.

  6. Re:Technically, you could. Practically, not possib on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 1

    Wow, so many things wrong with that statment.

    1) You COULD do this same thing with AGP what they are talking about here is using the 2 cards to process data for 1 display (not for dual head). You COULD do this an AGP because in most cases you would send the SAME data to both cards and since AGP is a multi-drop bus all the cards could listen to the same data, the bus won't take that much of a hit. The only bottle neck would be in returning data from card 2 to card 1 for display, but it wouldn't be that bad because all the processing has already be done, so that data's going to be small

    2)AGP didn't do this not becasue of the cost to MOBO makers but because it would require a lot of software and hardware support on AGP (a multi-drop bus).

    3) This article isn't about a chipset with 2 PCI-Express (NOT to be confused with PCI-X) ports, it's about a motherboard with them. The board pobabaly uses a PCI-Express switch to get the second port (so they are going to share the bandwidth).

    4) How dual AGP would present to the OS is easy. The hard part is how the two cards talk to each other, and I suspect that this will still be an issue for alienware.

  7. Re:Man am I out of the loop. on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since the PCI-Express spec defines switches (these are like P2P-bridges only they have 2 sub-buses) a mother board manufacturer could add 2 of 3 of these and get 4 PCI-Express Graphics ports (or 7 and get 8 ports) the problem is that every time you do this you have to share the total bandwidth at the highest level. Since PCI-Express does have more bandwidth the AGP 8x and 1/2 of that bandwidth is dedicated up the other 1/2 dedicated down. So the down-stream (where video cards use most of their bandwidth) is greater the AGP8x's TOTAL bandwidth. So this data path bottle next shouldn't be bad if you have 2 cards (might work well for 4 if they use the bus right).

  8. Re:What If? on GPS Cell Phone in Soda Can Form · · Score: 2, Funny

    We would like to give you this brand new SUV. Please excuse the 3000 miles we put on it getting here, and sorry about the spilled soda in the passanger seat, and thankyou for staying right here for 5 days while we got it here, sorry about have got stop for directions 10 times. Enjoy!

  9. Re:With Microsoft, wait for 2.0, with DRM, wait lo on Microsoft's Janus DRM Software Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Yes, Yes you are. Make sure you buy exactly the same one with the "DRM" update. You will also need to replace your DVD changer, and the 802.11b card (which of course requires a whole new computer). /end sarcasim/

    Most DVD players are flashable by putting in an "update disk" (many of which you can download and burn). Why would you think that they would not resign all their equipment that way (it's a lot better for their marketing guys if they can advertise easy software updates!)

  10. Re:So what? on Bill Gates Fined $800,000 Over Stock Purchases · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What we really need now is sig moderation followed with a healthy does of sig meta-moderation!

  11. Re:School Janitors on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Well if you never look away they wouldn't have a chance to disappear!

  12. Re:Mac mice on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    Does the Apple Newton count? It had the same "press timing" kind of stuff.

  13. Re:Future "Pressing" Patents on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    Shirt pressed by Gravity!!!!!!

  14. Re:Prior Art on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    Or even a stop watch, press and release the button you get a lap time press and hold to stop the timer.

  15. Re:SMTP must die! on E.U. Employers To Be Held Liable For Porn Spam? · · Score: 1

    IANAL or a cop so I have no idea if just aliasing mail.domain.com to mail.doj.gov is legal, and if it is, i'm not sure if you could be charged with spamming for the mail that traverses that alias. I, however, am not going to try and find out. BTW I would bet in that case the DA would offer the lady immunity to testify against the drug dealer. The Cop's can't offer deals, only the DAs can do that. (Again IANAL so this is only as good as what I see on Law and Order!) :)

  16. Re:Actually I agree with valentini on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Just to nitpick, you didn't buy and pay for a copy of win 98, you bought and paid for a license to run those binaries on a computer. If you install a hardware emulator on your mac and run win 98 in the x86 emulator it will run and you won't be viloating the license (it will just run really slowly).

  17. Re:SMTP must die! on E.U. Employers To Be Held Liable For Porn Spam? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...that might a a good thing. Maybe someone needs to set up a domain and have mail.domain.com alias to mail.doj.gov. It would be a fun trap, let the sampers spam @domain.com. :)

  18. Re:Learn to barter for your services... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trust me I'm married and it's NEVER free.

  19. Occupation? on NASA Extends Rover Occupation of Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The durration of their "Occupation" isn't changing. They are there to die and be buried in dust. Their operation limetime has been extended!

  20. Re:Fines are often too low all-around on Microsoft's Long-Playing Business Record · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and i'm sure that the person making $20K a year and who is below the poverty line won't mind paying 28% ($5.6K) a year in taxes. it will hurt him just as much as the Dr making $200K a year who pays $56K a year. There's a reason that tax % get higher with higher income!

  21. Re:All of these criticisms on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    If I were more of a programer I would consider it. However I am a hardware designer and the progaming language I am most confortable with is Assembly (which probably wouldn't be a great chose for something like this). I was just trying to use the example the parent gave (apache) which i recently started using for a small personal webserver to show how even that, as good as it is, still has some of the short comings that the artice was concerened about.

  22. Re:Well, duh!!! on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Ok, so finding the IIS manager can be a trick, i'll admit that but once it's open you don't need to go back to control panel again to do ANY configs. Also the GUI dll can die without taking down IIS, the GUI just sets registry bits, which the service for IIS reads. (It's like killing vi while editing the httpd.conf, that won't kill apache). Why is wanting a GUI to make editing the config file stupid? Because YOU don't want one? I'll point out that there are 2 open source projects that are making GUIs (as I mentioned in my original post) however they still have a long way to go. I think you need to RTFA and see that this fits into one of their points.

  23. Re:All of these criticisms on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    As a person who used to run several large IIS webservers, i recently set up my own website on Apache. With IIS I had multiple sites with many virtual directories (with vastly different permissions per directory) up and running in about 10 min. It took my several hours of wading through the online documentation to get Apache configured! I am still messing with the configs for Webalizer (and still have to tweak Apache). I would have been VERY happy if there was a GUI that would have made setting it up easier. (Note: I did play with 2 GUI's that help with the htpd.conf but they both required me to know the options very well.) Why can't there be an easier way to configure apache? I CAN (and did) figure it out, but it took way more time then I would really have liked to spend just to turn on (and secure) a webserver.

  24. Re:No authentication leads to abuse... on Overseas Crooks Abuse TTY Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Here in CA they don't usually check signatures, but they REQUIERE ID. In fact when I first moved here I had some stores that reefused to take my CC because i was using out of state ID!

  25. Re:Labels - but not. on The Pure Software Act of 2006 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which also brings up the point of software you download...no packaging! Do they need to put the icons on the linking page? All linking pages? On the google search replies? MOST spy-ware/ad-ware software isn't purchsed or packaged!