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  1. Re:Product Inflation on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's closed source, so not what you're looking for, but Opera's M2 claims "GMail-like functionality" (which is pretty much true - default settings, though, are kinda different...)

    However, that GMail-like functionality is for POP3 only - IMAP gets a really crappy, poorly integrated interface.

  2. Re:The Prius does have an electric water pump on When Hybrids Do (And Don't) Make Sense · · Score: 1

    Ford Festivas (also a 1.1L engine, but it's a four-banger instead of the 3 cylinder in the Metro) can do 50MPG.

    Now, my next car will probably be an old beat-up diesel Golf...

  3. Re:Which mobile phone company? on Mobile Phones Locked By DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, unlocking can mean CDMA.

    Sprint and Verizon's phones are locked, IIRC.

    Sprint will not accept a pre-unlocked phone - it must have been locked to Sprint when it was new, AFAICT.

    Verizon and Alltel will accept phones from any CDMA network, as long as they are unlocked, and (IIRC) Alltel will unlock a Verizon phone for you.

  4. Re:Wrong way on Integrating Weather Reports into a Webserver? · · Score: 1

    Weatherbug also gets data from installations, usually in schools, that only send to Weatherbug. The company that makes it usually pays the school to have the equipment installed, IIRC.

  5. Re:Finite this, finite that on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 1

    When I say $150, I shit you not.

    There are people around here who will charge that.

    Granted, $120-130 is more common...

    I would charge $60 AT MOST for a spyware cleanup... and that's a particularly nasty one involving the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor with manual deletion of registry entries and files...

  6. Re:So just to review on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 1

    Opera snagged tabbed browsing from either NetCaptor or CrazyBrowser, but they were the first to apply it to MDI (all other browsers, except for one IE shell, only allow tabs that are full size. Opera and this browser have sub-windows that can be any size within the browser's area.)

    Mozilla, seeing as they didn't implement MDI, didn't snag it from Opera.

  7. Re:So just to review on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 1

    Actually... how often do you need to be able to stop AND reload at the same time on the same tab? And, if you do, double-clicking the button is a lot faster than clicking stop, then MOVING to refresh and clicking again.

    Opera's the same way, and I prefer it.

  8. Re:Finite this, finite that on Firefox Momentum Slows · · Score: 1

    Well... what if it's a family member saving them from a $150+ spyware cleanup bill, and telling them that they must switch to Firefox or Opera, or they won't get any more free spyware cleanup?

    They switch then.

  9. Re:Wrong way around on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1

    Umm... why?

    If it WASN'T running the Microsoft or Apple-approved local code, it would determine that you're locked out. And, it'd be at the ISP level.

  10. Re:Security on TPM Security Chip For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Go read the agreement you have to sign before they give you service.

    "You are responsible for all calls and data traffic originated from your phone."

    Yep, you're not liable for that... Pshht...

  11. Re:Newsflash on TPM Security Chip For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I've installed apps on a Samsung SPH-A660.

    "This program is not authorized by Sprint. Sprint is not liable for any damage it may cause to the phone. Proceed?"

    (Or something like that...)

    And that's just a J2ME phone... no Windows Mobile anywhere near there.

  12. Re:I knew it on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 1

    OK, I found my link.

    First, I was wrong, it's not per line, it's per image block.

    http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html is a site demonstrating a 15-bit color GIF. The way it was done was by separating it into blocks that held 256 colors each.

  13. Re:Google Moon Apollo 16th... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 0

    Sheeze...

    There's only one theory.

    They're BOTH theories.

    Evolution is a theory.

    Creationism is a theory.

    Science lessons would be filled with hundred of teachers each having a chance to present their latest "theory" (eg, "The moon is made of cheese, and is pushed along its orbit by invisible space mice!").

    OK... umm... we're not talking about how the moon orbits Earth. We're talking something that there's at MOST three theories, one of which is a combination of the other two. Creationism, evolution, and a hybrid (in which creationism was the start, but evolution finished the job, or vice versa) are the only three possible theories. Come up with another one, and we can talk again.

  14. Re:Google Moon Apollo 16th... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 1

    And that certainly counts as what would work in my idea.

    FWIW, most of the Christian creationists are trying to go about it by proving the laws of physics themselves wrong. If they can do it, then creationism has a much stronger case.

    Myself, I'm a hybrid creationist/evolutionist. I feel that there was an initial creation of some sort, and then evolution went from there.

  15. Re:Google Moon Apollo 16th... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 1

    Hey, hey, hey, who said I was talking about Christianity?

    I am most definitely NOT a Christian.

    FSMism... It would fit under creationism, no?

  16. Re:Google Moon Apollo 16th... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 0, Troll

    *sigh*

    Why not just present both theories, and allow the students to make their own minds up?

    It would take two teachers, preferably - an evolutionist and a creationist - but it should make everyone happy, unless they want their theory to be the only one presented...

  17. Re:I knew it on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 3, Informative

    I prefer PNG, for a few reasons.

    First, GIF can only handle 8-bit (256 color) pallettes. Granted, each line can have it's own pallette, but it's still fairly restrictive, compared to PNG's 24-bit color.

    Then, GIF can have one of the 256 colors set to transparent. PNG has an extra 8 bits on each pixel for transparency. So, it can be applied to various colors at various levels, rather than GIF needing it on one color, and at one level.

    Also, at a color depth that GIF and PNG share, PNG is typically smaller when it comes to filesize.

  18. Re:Why announce 7th? on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    7 is a prime number? And prime numbers are badass, especially when you're named after a number?

  19. Re:same thing as Apple ... on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    He was trying to say that it was like IBM (who makes processors) using Intel's processors.

    Myself, I prefer this analogy: It's like Microsoft using Linux on the XBox 360.

    However, the OP's analogy is funnier, because it actually happened...

  20. Re:Style sheet question on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Here's a guide that's a little outdated, but should still apply:

    http://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Teaching/UserStyleSheets .php3

    That's for IE 5.x and Opera 4.x, so as I said, it's outdated.

  21. Re:Wrong way around on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 3, Insightful

    read a website

    Sorry, your computer does not support Trusted Network Connection, and is not allowed to access our servers for the safety of you and our other customers.

  22. Re:DRM is a pipe-dream on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1

    Well, even newer Sound Blaster cards will have to support PVP-OVM, or not work with DRM'd content at all. So, no more "recording what gets sent to it". Also, optical drives that have the analog-out will not get PVP-OVM licenses. Besides, that only works for non-DRM'd CDDA audio - even the simple DRM stuff they use now doesn't use DAE to get it to the sound card, it uses the IDE link.

  23. Re:if they're drm'ed, they're NOT CD's! on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1

    Portable Impenetrable Sound Storage.

  24. Re:I LIKE IT! What about us Palm users, though? on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Ah, OK.

    Ignore my e-mail, then, seeing as you've seen this... :P

  25. Re:I LIKE IT! What about us Palm users, though? on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    I had thought of that, actually.

    However, an RSS reader will only give me the first part of the article - read: what's on the front page.

    Also, no comments from RSS.