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  1. Fat Phones on HP iPAQ hx4705 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    They're already fat cell phones. Soon they'll be so full of features that they'll be the size of . . . Laptops!

  2. Cobol on Mono: A Developer's Handbook · · Score: 1

    I want to use Object Oriented COBOL.

  3. Pinball on Lucky Wander Boy · · Score: 1

    I started with pinball: Gone by the wayside.
    I moved to Space Invaders: Gone as well
    ... Now it's AC2: will be gone in 3 years
    Such is life, such is the way of world and all pop culture. What can I say Shit Happens!

  4. The Multiple Approach on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 1

    Don't focus on a single approach to spam elimination. 1) filter your mail 2) secure your MTAs 3) boycott businesses that us spam for marketing 4) block unsecured MTAs 5) spam the spammers and companies that use them. Dealing with counter-spam alone would make it too expensive to use spam as a marketing tool.

  5. C to S to W to E to H to E to W on A Hydrogen-Based Economy · · Score: 1

    Currently Hydrogen is NOT cleaner than Gasoline. Every transition between forms of energy cause a loss. Coal -> Steam -> Work (motion) -> Electricity -> Hydrogen -> Electricy -> Work (motion) Now before the solar/wind/geo advocates start: Solar is not viable during winter. Windmills are expensive, hard to maintain, and have problems with sand and ice damage. Geothermal is also geographic and a poor option in Kansas. I'm sure that California will be happy to send power to the midwest in winter.

  6. An Unholy alliance on MicroBSD Is No More · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe MicroBSD can get help from Microsoft in the patent fight.

  7. A better system! on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 1

    Instead of using their "tokens" we can use MMRP money. Once you get 5000 "pyreals" or "gold peices" you can sell them on ebay! Well, maybe there's no difference.

  8. Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky! on 65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz · · Score: 0

    You had zeros?!?!

  9. Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky! on 65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Prediction: This discussion will end up with someone wittering on about punch cards, paper tape, and front panel access to core memory. Then someone else will recall the Dilbert cartoon where the engineer boasts "I made a database entirely out of zeros because we had no ones".


    You had zeros! when I was young we didn't even have those!

  10. Re:More Gigahertz != more productive on 65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The DHCP sever for Indiana University (40,000+ students) use to run on a 486 with linux. I don't know what they use now. Just shows what a box can do if you don't use a GUI.

  11. Re:Nothing's so good... on MS Youth-Culture App Gets Gushy Advance Reviews · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know this is a pro-Linux, anti-Microsoft site (you can say what you like to disagree but the comments made by the owners are definately that way and the icons imply the same) but come on, if the requirements had been: Requires Linux 2.5.62 with KDE 3.0 and peer-to-peer upgrade. (with the subtitling that it doesn't run on windows) Would someone have made exactly the same comment?


    I would if i had to pay for the 2.5.62 kernel or KDE 3.0

  12. Barriers to market entry on Baby Bell Deregulation Bill Fails To Pass In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Deregulation of any sort means very little if, like my state, it is illegal to run your own cable/phone/broadband lines. The competition is a layer of psuedo corps covering the monopolistic entity that "rents" the lines. Try forming your own phone company and see what your local power brokers do.