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  1. Re:But Apple on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    Except they still offer matte screens...

  2. Re:Whom is the better? on A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas · · Score: 1

    No. The ACID tests are for seeing how well the web browser follows standards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

  3. Re:assembler? on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Assembly is also a verb.

    No, it's not.

  4. Re:It's Open Source on Hands-On With Microsoft's Touchless SDK · · Score: 1

    Is there any reasonable person/entity that doesn't consider the MS-PL Open Source? http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source#Microsoft_Public_License_.28Ms-PL.29

  5. Re:serious question on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically VMWare is a visualizer because it executes the hardware instructions naively(except privileged instructions which require special handling). This makes VMware faster than emulators such as Bochs but virtualizers only provide virtual hardware that is roughly the same type as the host system. VirtualPC is an example of a product that is both. Virtual PC on Windows is a virtualizer. VirtualPC on the PPC Mac is an emulator. QEmu support virtualization but I think it also supports emulation as well for emulating say an ARM system on x86 hardware.

  6. Re:What about IE? on Acid3 Race In Full Swing, Opera Overtakes Safari · · Score: 1

    The tests have nothing to do with whether a browser is compliant. It simply points out particular areas where they aren't compliant. So having more Acid tests that test different things is a good thing.

  7. Re:Get FF3 out already on Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed · · Score: 1

    So if IE8 supports standards and is better than the alternatives, what's wrong with using it?

  8. Re:De-Orbit? on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 1

    If you throw the paper plane down far enough won't it still fall(just not straight down)? It would seem that the tangent velocity would not be high enough to sustain a lower orbit.

  9. Re:We don't all have this issue on Microsoft Insider Details Xbox 360 Red Ring Problems · · Score: 1

    Did it work on the day you bought it? Kidding aside. I wonder how many people are actually affected by problems like this. I haven't had my 360 for long, but it seems like a good product to me.

  10. Re:Live? or not.. on Microsoft Giving Xbox Live Users a Free Game · · Score: 1

    Yes, because other services never have technical issues.

  11. Re:EA Not Being Evil for a Change on One SimCity Per Child · · Score: 1

    C&C and Red Alert might be different "Universes" but they were related universes. General's is just out there. And if my memory serves me correctly(and it may not), I don't recall any of the westwood employees saying they were different universes or they weren't going to try to bridge them until around the time of Red Alert 2.

  12. Re:ESA providing transport? on NASA's Instrument For Detecting Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    Well there's a first time for everything....

  13. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where at? Hate the sin, not the sinner.

  14. Re:Firefox update broken ? on Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours · · Score: 2

    Or maybe they just haven't enabled the auto update, and are waiting until the demand goes down a bit.

  15. Re:YAY! on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With the new spellchecker they will also be introducing a new attribute to the input tag: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Controlling_s pell_checking_in_HTML_forms Is this a non-standard attribute? Are we going back to each browser adding stuff and hoping the other one stays relatively compatible? I'm not saying whether this is a good or a bad thing. I was just curious.

  16. Re:Sanctions? on North Korea Air Sample Shows Radiation · · Score: 1

    But in reality it is the people at the bottom who sanctions hurt.

  17. Re:wow, afraid to right click? on EU Officials Cautious on AntiTrust Issues · · Score: 1

    That's not possible to do with songs bought from the iTMS.

  18. Re:I love irony on GPL Price-Fixing Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should start writing legal documents in C....

  19. Re:is this a PR stunt? on 17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor · · Score: 1

    Who owns the mentioned company? It could be a startup by him and some associates.

  20. Re:In a way on Intel's New Slogan Clarified · · Score: 1

    Must be getting kinda close now then... :-D

  21. Re:rest of the article on Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea · · Score: 1

    You also have to pay the bus driver...

  22. Re:the funny thing is... on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    For a second I thought you were being serious....

  23. Re:What would be stranger on The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever · · Score: 1

    You joke now.. Just wait a few years until someone suggests something similar to create a massive wireless global network...

  24. Re:Wrong on The MySpace Generation · · Score: 1

    Agreed... I'm in college and I work at a restaurant as a part time job... It's a small restaurant so most of the times when I'm working I'm the only one there(so I have to do everything, etc.. Interact with customers, train people, etc..) People are generally stupid... Not just teenagers.. Yes, a lot of teenagers can be annoying in different ways than adults, but I dare say the majority of people are stupid in general... It's sad but that's the way it is.

  25. Re:ID on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    Okay.. I'm a Christian and I believe man and the Earth was made by God... That said.. The reason ID is not a scientific theory is because it's not science.. This is just something I copied from Wikipedia: "In various sciences, a theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a certain natural or social phenomenon, thus either originating from observable facts or supported by them (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations made that is predictive, logical, testable, and has never been falsified." In order for it be a scientific theory it should be based on observations, testable, predictitive, etc... ID is not.... This doesn't say that ID is wrong it's just that it's not a scientific theory. Just like the belief that all life evolved from a single starting point is not a scientific theory.. It's a belief.. There is no way to prove it. Evolution is a theory though.. It can be observed.. I'm not too up on all the science, but just the fact that bacteria evolve to become resistant to drugs seems like a simple example to me..