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  1. Re:Fun design. What's the point? on Bombardier's Hot Wheel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the cited 'website' they used the word concept about a dozen times, it is exactly that, a concept. A design tool to invite discussion, and induce comment. What would you imagine the advantage of having two driven wheels on a motorcycle might be, apart from to get you to the next accident more quickly?

  2. Re:you are gay on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does that arouse you?

  3. Re:This is funny on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    I'll take it you missed the "off the shelf" part of the first sentence. That means as opposed to bespoke, Mr, Walmart Pants.

  4. This is funny on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1, Interesting

    99% of off the shelf shopping cart systems now rely on this behaviour. This will surely alienate even more corporate customers, where the hell are Microsoft going?

  5. Re:A fine line on Imagine A UN-Run Internet · · Score: 1

    "the koreans would outlaw outlawing spam"

    Now that would be just too much, wouldn't it? 'cause so soooooo much spam comes from N. Korea, and there is zero from the US. Sir, there is no surprise that you wouldn't put your name to that. I guess then you're not from N. Korea, bigot.

  6. A fine line on Imagine A UN-Run Internet · · Score: 1

    Those mature enough, must accept that propaganda can come from California just as easily as it can come from Beijing. Your life is only as free as your perception of freedom, any nationalistic possession of the Internet must be fought with the same zeal as any internastionalistic ownership. Errr... is that communism?

  7. Re:I love SCO on SCO Will Pay You Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it cost more than 10K to maintain a Windows 2003 server for a 12 month period? Espesially when you take the absolute 'no mark' value on your Resume into account. Don't mod me down this one is serious.

  8. Re:Slightly over optimistic on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1

    Without an unforeseen technological advance, progress will be limited by simple mechanics so unwittingly your bricks analogy is almost apt.

  9. Slightly over optimistic on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1, Funny

    "During the past year, high-speed transistor records have fallen like dominoes on the Illinois campus."

    January: 382
    May: 452
    October: 509
    I'm no statistics expert but extrapolating those results I estimate they'll top out at 690 in June 2005

  10. Re:Remind me again.. on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1

    It is odd, bearing in mind that they purposefully crippled KDE on their distro.

  11. Statistics on Legal US Music Downloads Beat CD Single Sales · · Score: 1

    Don't most people buy CD albums? Multiply the sales of CD albums by 10 then you've got some sort of idea as to CD media song sales. The comparison here is ridiculous.

  12. Re:Why buy, when you can build? on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    They can't, they tried and failed. Windows does not scale well enough, and creating one using Linux would be admitting defeat.

  13. Re:Some people my not know... on The Linux Documentation Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    ooops. Forgot the tag for the humour impaired, sorry.

  14. Some people my not know... on The Linux Documentation Project Turns 10 · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...where it is. So here's a link.

    Whilst this is obviously a monumental community feat, and I would like to offer my thanks to all those who have contributed over the years, I feel it is sadly lacking howtos for ablution and girlfriend. Oh, and a securing-windows one for Bill too. Happy Birthday LDP!

  15. Almost on Superfast Optically-Based DSP Announced · · Score: 1

    I was almost impressed by this, until I read up on the technology on their website. It will have a pretty limited use as it only has 8-bit precision vector/matrix MAC which is where the 8 teraflops come from. This will be fine and all for just video but it isn't much of a quantum leap for anything else (besides having an optical core). I mean it has power, but there are other chips out there that do more with greater precision numbers.

    Deja vu?

  16. Re:Ouch. on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 1

    "why would they stop putting patches out so soon?"

    Because they want some really bad PR, SCO have had all the glory recently.

  17. Re:If Microsoft did this... on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 2, Funny

    But they will, they copy most things Apple do.

  18. Great news on More on Talking Shopping Carts · · Score: 2, Funny

    "and, by the way, it's been six weeks since you bought toilet paper"

    I just read a security report saying everyone stole it from their workplace. Surely this technology could be used to lock up all the inconsiderate bog roll thieves.

  19. Re:Supply and demand? on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    "Remember that only 2 million of Vietnams 80 million people have computers"

    Proof that cost of ownership with Microsoft is too high? Especially in countries that were , in the not too distant past, bombed back to the stone age.

  20. Supply and demand? on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "A pirated copy of Windows and Office goes for no more than $10"
    That's still a weeks pay for the average worker by their figures, Microsoft's greed seems inordinate expecting people to pay $140. Well, they seem to have totally priced themselves out of this market.

  21. Re:What do they mean by 'audit' here? on Microsoft Audits UK Council To Prove Cost Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    They mean that they going to catalogue all the instances of where Newham Council have breached licences and sue them, very dumb move by Newham.

  22. Isn't it great, on Microsoft Audits UK Council To Prove Cost Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    the mighty power of the buck, they've picked on one of the poorest and run down infrastructures in the UK, they're not stupid, only a totally incompetent company would fail this. Here's hoping.

  23. Re:so ? on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You must be bloc(k) 6."

    I must disagree.

  24. Re:so ? on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 5, Funny

    O.K. but I suggest the use of the word bloc instead, it has a more sinister conspiratorial ring to it.

  25. Re:so ? on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 1

    So what are the missing blocks that you do not list, or is this one of those unfathomable myseries of life?