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  1. Re:More news! on Apple Music Store Coming to Europe & iTunes in China · · Score: 1

    Apple is only Guaranteed to have iTunes installed with the distributors that they make deals with. MS is Guaranteed every time a PC is sold. Why is it you must buy a pc with windows? Try getting a Laptop out of Dell without windows, or without WMP. I don't use either unless I have to. iTunes may ship with HP's but not Dell's. WMP will ship with both no matter what. Difference HP & Dell have a choice on whether to include iTunes, neither have a choice with MS.

    See the difference you have a choice. Monopolies prevent choice by default. No monopoly has survived choice. If you don't like choice then walk away as you won't understand any of the greater things in life.

  2. Re:XAML parent is flamebait?) on Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Netscape isn't mozilla, Mozilla looked at the 4.x range of netscape code and chucked most of it. Any history of Mozilla says this. Netscape 4.x sucked, and most people will admit it. Netscape lost the browser wars for two reasons, MS shoved them out, and Netscape 4 really was bad.

    Mozilla isn't netscape, the New Netscape Browsers is just a rebranded Mozilla. Mozilla started over, which is why it took so long to get up to speed.

  3. Re:Big heatsink on Apple Previewing New Power Mac? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No IBm wasn't at a brick wall, they just had probelms in the actual manufactoring processes. They were losing a large amount of chips due to defects. Those have been worked out a for a couple of months now.

  4. Re:It makes a lot of business sense to me on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 2

    >>branding Linux as 'the pirate's OS' pretty soon

    I thought SCO and ADTI were already doing that. That Linux was stolen by thieves for thieves.

    All I have to say though is

    arrrg!! It's a penguins life matey..

  5. Re:Why use Hotmail in the first place? on Hotmail Loses Customer Files · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I do as well.

    I have a free email account through Juno, that I have had for 8 years. One email account with my dialup access(backup). My dial-up and Juno accounts are what I use for all general access email. I get 20-30 spam messages a day. It's even worse since I forward the dial-up to the juno account.

    I have a hidden cable account. This is only used to- from trusted parties. No spam, none. Like I said it's secret.

    Then there is work, occasional spam, but mozila mail handles it quite well.

    You can stay off the spam radar if you use a buffer properly.

  6. Re:Maybe you are the problem on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    In a country that it's illegal to own firearms, and there are still 1,000 murders? What do people die buy??? illegal weapons? stabbings?

    Murder is going to happen, all you can do is limit it. The only reason why I would not have guns taken from the people, is because every once in a while a revolution is needed. The goverment get's to big for it's briches.

    Even England has changed goverments ever the centuries.

  7. Interseting but to complex for most people on Multidimensional Crosswords? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You would have to setup a java app,in order to pull it off.

    Just remember your words have to be 3D as well. Each letter would be part of three different words. Even a small cross word will be extremely complex. Even 10x10x10 will be 1000 squares. Now Each word has to intersect with 2 other words at each point. a word like mom would have 6 interconnecting words needed to go with it. And each of those six will have an equally exponential number of words that they interact with.

    Have you really thought the depth of this out? it seems a large task to setup.

    By the way if you manage to pull it off, send me the link I would love to try it.

  8. Re:Punishments go up, never down on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I was always told the world was a perfect example of God's desires, and God's perfect and the world isn't. Arrrgghh.

    Actually if the crime rate is less than 1 in every 1000 people I call that damn good. Example Murder Rate in Rochester, NY is 66 people last year up from 50(I think). out of 750,000 people . It means that it is still less than 1 person out of every 1000. And what's worst is that people are outraged it's so high. Noble goal aint gonna get there.

  9. Re:Windows Update on Microsoft Behind $12M Opera Settlement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because Windows Update uses those "security holes" in IE to pass the required information back and forth. Can you imagine MS accendently publishing a patch that broke Windows update by fixing a security hole in IE. How long would we laugh?

  10. Re:Microsoft Settling More Often on Microsoft Behind $12M Opera Settlement · · Score: 1

    Just the oposite of IBM's strategy for dealing with small companies. Crush and make an example of them. Oh wait IBM has traded it's secretive ways(almost) for honesty and Open Standards. If Microsoft switches what will we do then?

  11. Re:Sounds illegal on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 1

    Actually they are not. Think of Barter bucks as local credit. We do it all the time we give items out as credit, we keep tabs on who owes what, and at the end of the month they get a bill. Well here instead of getting a bill, it gets transfered to antoehr party to pay it. Nothing illegal about that, and a very capitalistic thing to do.

  12. Re:Konqueror on Future for Web Standards Pondered · · Score: 1

    Better option. someone port KHTML engine to windows. Just like Apple has doen with Safari.

    A native windows based port would be good. Sourceforge has one started but no one seems to have done anything other than start it.

  13. Re:You gave the answer in your question on The Best Linux Distro for a New User? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Suse let's you do a free FTP install.

    Current Knoppix is debian with a both kernel 2.4.6 & 2.6.6

    I think the only damn person being political here is you. As you won't go with what the better product is, but only be againist what someone else thinks is better. A completely political view.

  14. Re:Are there any... on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    Not that I have found most studies compare Red Hat Enterprise linux edition compared to Windows XP home for pricing. Then they compare knoppix runningoff the CD to Windows 2003 server for server tests. They are trying to attack Linux as an indiviual product not a combination of various distrobutions.

    Each Distro needs to be studied and then compared to the apporpiate version of Windows. Something I have yet to see.

  15. Re:The /. Lynch Mob. on Microsoft and 'An Open and Honest Discussion'? · · Score: 1

    Well when he comes flying in on his corporate broom that is labeled Microsoft, and crashes into a house because his broom turned blue. Yea it's an MS Witch.

    Beisdes it's fun playing with the minds of the Fascists.

  16. Re:Familiar pair for atheists. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    Well I said religion not just Judeo-Christian Each Religion has it's good points.

    If Jesus was supposed to be the emmisary of peace, when then did 1600 years later 400 solidiers in the name of God and Country conquer and slaughter South America? It apparently didn't work. For which ever reason it failed, He did not overcome our basic fears.

    That is a very logical aruguement for Dragons and one in which I like. I will have to keep that around.

  17. Re:Familiar pair for atheists. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of gravity???

    We don't understand it, all we know is that it exsists and some very basic properties of it.
    So do we understand Gravity or just it's effects.
    The difference is between using a gun, and building a gun, and the bullets. One any fool can understand, the other requires deeper thought. We haven't yet obtained the information on Gravity yet. So We don't understand it but we do know it's true.

    I never said Noah's flood was fact, Iactually like the view I heard on the history channel for that and it was the tigris that flooded and pushed him out into the persian sea.

    As for intelligence I was refering to the ablitiy to see a probelm from multiple angles and solve it, something chimps can't do, and we haven't figured a way to test dolphins.

  18. Re:Familiar pair for atheists. on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I always take the middle road when it comes to God. Somethings Science just can't grasp, and there are things that Religion can get right.

    I find the truth usally somewhere in the middle. I beleive that we were created in some one's image, and that the Neanderthals where chosen as the starting point for some unknown reason. It's why there is no missing link it's because there was a forced jump of evolution.

    I ask this of any really religous person, Why did God after 4,000 years of Fire & Brimstone suddenly stop using those methods and instead send one emmissary of peace???? In the 2,000 years since Jesus(yes a real person he was & he probally did die on the Cross) Why haven't cities turned to salt?, Why haven't the heavans drowned us sinners in a flood? Why did it cut off so abruptly? Or did it even exsist that way, and there are other reasons for each of those diasasters.

    Then agian Science can't explain how life forms(today), Science can't explain out of the billions of permutations that evolution requires why is there only one Intelligent species, Why hasn't another one exsisted? The probalities would say it should of happened.

    Why Science does every corner of the planet have a belief about dragons of all various sizes, yet man was 62 million years to late for Dinosaures?

    Somethings don't make sense, some need help from other points of view, and some never will. Expand your mind.

  19. Re:Real Ale on Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice · · Score: 1

    I believe it goes like this

    Amercians drink piss beer ice cold
    British drink Good beer piss warm.

    Canada seems to be the only sane country where they drink good beer ice cold. Then again since most of Canda is still frozen this time of the year it isn't hard.

  20. Re:geez-- employee of NASA?? on Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet · · Score: 4, Funny

    he said 93Miles 150 KM not 93 km. if minimum stable orbit is 350km what is it in miles?

    You must work for NASA right?

  21. Re:I would combine them. on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    Your reasons are only flamebait to the high schoolers that troll :-). My magic 8 Ball reading said "It is So"

    maybe I'm just special.

  22. Re:OT cause it's early on The Meaning Behind Intel Code Names? · · Score: 1

    I can't show you my cards until you sign the NDA but trust me I win cause I gots lots of money.

    All statements are said with a bit of sarcasm :)

  23. OT cause it's early on The Meaning Behind Intel Code Names? · · Score: 1

    Software poker

    I will see your BSD, with 2 SCOSource Licenses backed with and MS EULA.

    ps I can't actually show you the SCOSource Licenese without you signing and NDA,but you just have to trust that I have them.

  24. Re:Interesting Observation on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can blame the OS vendor when in the past the OS Vendor (MS) put the gun to the head of the hardware vendor(Dell). MS forced an agreement with DELL and though it isn't written that way anymore, most hardware vendors are wary that MS will cut them off in other areas.

  25. Re:BFD on Apple to Award Workgroup Clusters to Scientists · · Score: 1

    no that's Microsoft. No one but trolls are calling Apple innovative with this. It may get marked, but it's not innovative.