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  1. Too strange? on 2006 Nebula Awards · · Score: 1

    Have you read Magic For Beginners? Strange and Norwell are pure normalcy compartively speaking.

  2. Re:Interesting.. on Yahoo Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1

    BAH! If you purchase a burnable copy of a song from Yahoo- it doesn't have DRM and can be in any format you like (including OGG Vorbis). It's only the Yahoo Music Unlimited music jukebox that has the DRM restriction.

  3. Re:Quick and Easy way to beat iTMS on Yahoo Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1

    If you purchase a burnable copy of a song from Yahoo- it doesn't have DRM and can be in any format you like (including OGG Vorbis). It's only the Yahoo Music Unlimited music jukebox that has the DRM restriction.

  4. Re:I was a subscriber, happened to me... on Netflix Throttling Heavy Renters · · Score: 1

    All the time it's happened to me- and I'm not even a high user. And no, I don't have a DVD burner. When I try to contact netflix, I get weird generic responses that have nothing to do with what I sent.

  5. Re:You just had a baby on Netflix Throttling Heavy Renters · · Score: 1

    Anyone that has ever actually had a child *knows* that a newborn infant sleeps almost all the time.

  6. Re:I'm actually working on something like this on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Naw, not trying to trick anyone. It's actually something that I was hesitent to mention anywhere. And then I see this slashdot article and think someone's beaten me to it. Thank god they haven't- the project mentioned in TFA sounds a lot more obtuse than mine. I guess I brought it up out of relief that so far- this is still somewhat new ground.

  7. Re:I'm actually working on something like this on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Your belief is not really important. Nor does it really matter. I could say wait a few months- but I think this project will take the better part of a year before coming close to even a beta stage. But, the idea is sound. And right now, that's got me working on it whenever possible.

  8. Re:I'm actually working on something like this on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 1

    No, I mean that it will be out under a Perl artistic like lincense. That, the users can tinker with the source how they want to, but they won't be able to sell derivatives, or call the end product the same name as mine. Not *all* OSS is free as in free beer, or GPL based.

  9. Re:2 months to copy gmail with it?? on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Yeah I was thinking just the same thing. Two months? I doubt the google team took that long. Here's the problem I have with most Visual IDE environments- they can either expediate development or slow it down to a crawl. Sometimes theier ease of use goes against them, and makes things much more complicated than they need be.

  10. I'm actually working on something like this on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I plan on making a PHP Visual IDE for PHP+AJAX applications. The whole concept will be something like VB (more like Delphi, since it will be OO) and runs in a browser. So far, it's in the basic beta stages, but it works really well. It uses PHP objects to represent CSS tags and HTML tags, and each "object" has actions that will call PHP code (the idea is to take learning an extra language out of AJAX programming, and to create a visual environment).

    So, you'll be able to drag and drop and place visually images, text, text boxes, etc. Be able to code these objects to have key events, mouse over events, etc. All from the web browser.

    And yes it will be open source, no it won't be free as in free beer, and yes there will be a single site evaluation version for people to use (either with only one site, or to just try out).

    right now, the code name is FireFly.

  11. What you mean like GMail? on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 1

    NO TEXT!

  12. Don't use Coral Cache on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1

    As I've said before, most corperate firewalls don't let you have access to it.

  13. Coral Cache on Marc Andreessen's Social Platform: Ning · · Score: 1

    Yes, but some of us are at work behind a firewall which blocks coral cache. It may seem *nice* to the people behind the site, but to those of us on slashdot who actually work in the corperate sector appreciate the straight links which work for everyone, and not to just a limited few.

  14. How is this a nightmare scenerio? on Microsoft's Nightmare Scenario · · Score: 1

    Isn't this what Gates "Road Ahead" book was about? Wasn't Oulook Exchange Online the first AJAX application? Didn't they originate the XML http request that most AJAX applications use?

    Nightmare? Hell. This is Microsoft's wet dream. Watch. They have a plan. They've had one for far longer than anyone else. Why do you think they put Netscape out of business? Because they're just mean?

    No. It's because they know that the web is the next platform, and they want to 0wn it.

  15. Well, that makes sense, his dad was an astronaught on Lord British on Personal Spaceflight · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yup. He was one of the first men to orbit the earth.

  16. Is Google the government? on The Ham and Spam of Weblogs · · Score: 1

    No. They can censor all they want. Freedom of Speech is something that the government cannot infringe on. Individuals can infringe all they want. As long as I can get the information elsewhere and not through the almighty google, no right has been violated.

  17. Re:So is this movie actually good? on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 1

    learn to read! from TFP: British - How many times has Robin Hood been made into a movie? Not to mention Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, etc, etc, etc.

  18. And how many monkey butlers will they have? on Inside the OpenSolaris Source Code · · Score: 1

    I remember when I was doing some temp coding at this one place, and we had to basically create a whole bunch of GUI stuff by overloading this base class for buttons that the main guy had wrote. Now, if you didn't change the label on the button it said "Click on me".

    Being the rascally weasel I am, I opened up the main source tree and changed the default text to "Click on the Monkey Butler" and recompiled it. Needless to say, someone forgot to change the default text....and hilarity ensued. I tried not to laugh too hard, fearing it would give me away. But, damn, that was funny.

  19. Re:So is this movie actually good? on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 1

    Umm, I think he meant wolfman and dracula, who really aren't super heroes in even the loosest sense.

  20. Re:Maybe consolidation is good on Mandriva Buys Assets from Lycoris · · Score: 1

    "The folder layout of Linux systems is user-unfriendly"

    Don't you mean usr/friendly? (and also- no it's not, sit any joe schmoe user in front of a hierarchy of folder with bin, sbin, usr, local, etc and watch them get confused fast. That's why OSX hides these system files)

  21. I think the difference is on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    Like all Americans we are half-breeds, mutts. I have Romani descent, but I also have Irish and Germanic.

  22. Show me studies to back this up. on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It sounds like Urban Myth. Like using a cellphone at a gas pump can cause an explosion. A well accepted Urban Myth does not make it fact.

  23. Re:Dont bother clicking the link... on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    There a lot of Romani descendents in America. I'm one of them.

  24. except the origins of Gypsies are unkown on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've heard the immagration from India bit yet, but I have heard the "descendants of egyptions" line(which is were the word gypsy comes from- much like how canada stems from the french word arcadia). True Gypsies call themselves Romani, and don't give any credence to what you Gajo pigs say, or what slang you give us.

  25. Watch the making of for Conan on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    They show you how the special effect is done. The director even said "So you see actors on those horses? The actors aren't dead. The horses aren't dead. It's a stunt" They were rubber pikes. Idiots.