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  1. Re:http://www.openoffice.org/ on Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, not true, because now they're giving special treatment to users of their own service.

    Slightly less net neutral than before.

  2. Re:Is this needed? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    Right, but it's STILL hard to get kerosene/Jet A to light off.

  3. Re:Is this needed? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    That's another point.

    Jet fuel is essentially kerosene... which is also non-flammable! (Not as non-flammable as biodiesel, but it still is.)

  4. Re:Finally. on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    My Miata goes even better in the snow if you're not afraid of a little power oversteer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VS4__2mHuRs ;)

  5. Re:Finally. on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    By unstoppable, I didn't mean literally. ;)

    It stops fine. ;)

    I'm in central Ohio as well, although it's a bit hilly where I am.

    The tail will come out very easily when it's icy out, but it'll also come back in very easily. Knowing how to handle a RWD car beyond the limit, and having a car that handles well beyond the limit helps.

  6. Re:Finally. on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    I drive a Mazda Miata.

    2070 pounds, RWD.

    Snow tires make it unstoppable in snow.

  7. Re:Beta in production environment. on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    Home replaces the 95/98/Me line, Professional (now Business) replaced the NT Workstation line.

    Server has always been the server. ;)

  8. Re:I don't get it on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Uh, what?

    Opera has been ad-free free(beer)ware since September 20, 2005.

  9. Re:I don't get it on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs proves that at least Windows XP can have IE unbundled...

  10. Re:a few years late on Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the cheaper the BMW, the more BMWs.

    I say 128i. Or, if you're in Europe, 118i.

  11. Re:Yeah, but, but ... on The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Just because it's a storage device doesn't mean it doesn't have firmware, though...

    And, also, didn't you say that production ended in 1961, and then Torvalds was born in 1969? How is that the same year?

  12. Re:Storage costs... on The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Out of the box, no TI calculator works in RPN. ;)

    (I say out of the box, because there's at least one RPN simulator available for every TI graphing calculator with support for downloading programs.)

  13. Re:ATTN comment posters: stop citing Wikipedia on Cannabis Compound Said To "Halt Cancer" · · Score: 1

    Or at least manually link to the revision that you're posting, that way you at least know you're posting what you intended to post. Click on History, then the first date listed is a link to the current revision - but a permalink to THAT specific revision, so it won't link to any newer revisions.

  14. Re:Really.... how? on Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated] · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try putting Opera Mini on it.

    Much faster.

  15. Re:It happened before on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, Road Island not existing, but Rhode Island existing. ;)

  16. Re:Well duh on Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites · · Score: 1

    It's killall -KILL mozilla-firefox.

    Helps if you're using the correct filename. -KILL is equivalent to a kill -9, rather than a regular kill, so it'll kill the process instantly.

  17. I learned on both BASIC and LOGO. on Forty Years of LOGO · · Score: 1

    When I was 6, I was reading an old Apple //e manual that was lying around, learning BASIC out of it. Around the same time, I found the Apple LOGO II disks that my parents had had.

    I got bored quickly with turtle graphics, though, and found that BASIC (Applesoft in my case) did what I wanted better. Besides, I didn't even have to boot into an OS to play with BASIC.

    I ended up going for an associate's degree in computer programming. "Learned" VB, C++, RPG IV, and properly learned HTML and JavaScript.

    That's not what I've found the most useful.

    What I've found the most useful is Python, which I taught myself out of the back of an old RedHat 6 book that I got for $0.25. And, from what I've seen, it's probably the best modern language to teach someone, and probably better than the old languages - even the teaching languages like LOGO and BASIC.

  18. Re:No, they are laughing at me on Unreal Tournament 3 Performance Revealed · · Score: 1

    It actually CRASHED trying to start it on my 1.6 Core 2 Duo with a... uh... GMA X3100...

  19. Re:hands up on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    Since August 28, 2004, with the only deleted messages being spam...

    You are currently using 151 MB (4%) of your 3083 MB.

  20. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    Also, pickup trucks didn't get the 3rd brake light requirement until... I believe 1985.

    (Cars got it in 1986.)

    But, most states don't require that it be functional - just that all model year 1986 cars have it.

  21. Re:Who cares? on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5 · · Score: 1

    Hell, IBM resurrecting OS/2 would make more sense. Already done.
  22. Re:If you dont like it... on AT&T Silences Criticism in New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Vanilla ADSL... which is offered through... wait for it... the phone company. Wait, that won't work. ;)

  23. Re:Poll Idea: on Nasdaq to Delist SCO Sep 27 · · Score: 1

    Let me just put it this way: It's what MS-DOS began as a clone of.

  24. Re:Everyone knows to skip an MS generation on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    There was, although it's very rare.

    Also, I know someone who claims to have floppies of Workgroups for Windows - basically, installing that on a Windows 3.0 system effectively makes it Windows for Workgroups 3.0.

    As for plain Windows 3.11, that was what I usually saw distributed as an OEM version.

  25. Re:Everyone knows to skip an MS generation on Is id Abandoning Linux? · · Score: 1

    Single biggest leap the DOS-based Windows has ever made.

    I would argue that the leap between ME and XP Home was bigger - you're taking your mainstream OS from a DOS-based shell to a completely different OS - granted, one designed to be 100% compatible, but this is a leap on the scale of... oh... OS 9 to OS X in the Mac world.