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  1. Re:There are more examples of outdates businesses on The RIAA and French Button-Makers · · Score: 1

    Wow, now that's a poorly written wikipedia page...

  2. Re:So now it's official on Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    You should be worried when the main confort you can get is from the fact that the talibans are acting in a more horrific way than your own troops.
    "See, we're not THAT bad".
    Uhm, OK then.

  3. Re:And... on Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us · · Score: 1
    4: enforce limits on the number of bookmarks that people can have, or charge for "premium" services (del.icio.us right now is unlimited bookmarks, free.)
    Based on what information? Oh, you're making this just up? Sorry, must've missed that.
    Well for one thing, it went from a 100MB upload limit per months on a free account down to 10MB, after the merge. I'm pretty sure there's been a reduction in the number of sets you can create too, but I own a pro account now, so can't say.
    5: and worst of all, make us merge our yahoo and del.icio.us accounts.
    Again, looking at Flickr, that didn't happen.
    Th merge started in August 2005, and will be enforced starting January 2006.
    And if it does, I'm not entirely unhappy. I don't want hundreds of online identities
    Well, I do. See, I like having choice, and Yahoo! does not leave me much here.
  4. Re:Mine on Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit · · Score: 1
    Do a search on deja.com to see all of the complaints.
    Hi, welcome to 2005. Let me introduce you to a promising start up company, name is Google.
  5. Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here. on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Right, because "inane, utterly frivolous lawsuits" never EVER happened in the US so far. Ever.

  6. Re:Quick! BAN BOOKS! on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except reading does require the ability to read, and some critic sense, which in effect means that a book have less chance nowadays to reach out most kids.

  7. Portable firefox? on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not sure I see the point here. Isn't putting your local profil on your usb key enough to have a portable version of the browser? Because if the only issue is to have as many bookmarks as you have computers, this certainly takes care of that.

  8. Re:"Consumers?"? on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    The Normans are still culturally distinct from the French? You realize this statement could apply to every single regions of France right? Thus leaving one wondering who can call himself French in the end...

  9. Re:Can't be on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1

    Thanks man, I dunno about Monday, but it certainly wraps it up for me today :)

  10. Can't be on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    My horoscope was very clear, I'm going to meet the woman of my life on Monday.

  11. Re:blog = mirror for narcissist?? on Microsoft Launches Blogging Site · · Score: 1

    I have a blog, not because I think I'm a fascinating person, but just because I figured it's an easy way to give news to family and friends. Before that I used to put a lot of time and efforts in e-mails (and before that, I even even used to WRITE regular mails, can you believe that), that only a few could read and forget right away.
    Now that I do that on a website, it feels like it's more worth it. More people will read it, and I always have some feedback. You could rightfully argue that there's not point spending so much time rambling about your own life, but I guess I need it. Put things in perspective, sorta.
    Just my 2c anyway.

  12. Re:Turnabout is hardly fair play. on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 1

    Oh please, who are you kidding? You can't pretend that travelling through the country you'll get to meet the same cultural diversity that there is in Europe or Asia. Not the same value system? We're talking about the most patriotic country in the world here! 99.99% of americans knows what the constitution is. And sure, you get some funny accents here and there, but it's the same language.
    In a nutshell, I respectfully disagree.

  13. Re:Marketing slime... on Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising · · Score: 1
    You know, we should try not to forget that politicians are also people in the 1st place. If you're not happy with what they're doing, and there's noone you'd feel like voting for, you might wanna considere getting in the game yourself.
    Of course, there'd be a point in doing that provided that :
    • you live in a democracy
    • this democracy is not bloated yet with various form of corruption (and no, I'm not thinking of some small African republic when I say that).
  14. Re:Go Team Go! on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    Apparently, moderators thought you were talking about your own post.
    Or maybe I don't get the humor there.
    I wish someone would have told me before that you just had to ask for karma to get some :)

  15. Re:I have one thing to say on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Talk about real life experiments... on Memory Card Torture Tests · · Score: 1

    Uh, you're right, I never owned a PS2, that was a PS1. Nice catch.
    The irony being that I never finished FF7 anyway. That game was just too fucking big for me I guess.

  17. Talk about real life experiments... on Memory Card Torture Tests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    right, coz it happens to me all the time, to nail a memory card on a tree by accident...

    Note that I did had a PS2 memory card go to the washing machine, and it worked like a charm afterwards. Thank God, I was not going to start FF7 all over again :)

  18. Pretty much offttopic but... on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 5, Funny
    Remembers me of Friends when it was still funny:
    Monica: (to everyone) It's Chandler! (on phone) Are you OK?

    Chandler: Yeah, I'm fine. (trying to cover up what he is saying) I'm trppd in an ATM vstbl wth Jll Gdcr.

    Monica: What?

    Chandler: I'm trppd... in an ATM vstbl... wth Jll Gdcr!

    Monica: I have no idea what you just said.

    Chandler: (angry) Put Joey on the phone.

    Joey: What's up man?

    Chandler: I'm trppd... in an ATM vstbl... wth JLL GDCR.

    Joey: (to everyone) Oh my God! He's trapped in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre! (on phone) Chandler, listen. (says something intentionally garbled)

    Chandler: Yeah, like that thought never entered my mind.
  19. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Huh? Does tightening your fingers become a fist? And Huh again.
    "What becomes of your fist when you stretch your fingers ?"

  20. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Doing it in a test editor and command line ensures that I LEARN what code I writing, instead of being a brainless VS IDE knob who doesn't know anything about the code it spits out (not that all VS IDE users don't know the code).
    ...but on the other hand you're more prone to typos. Anyway, I know I'm more keen on rich IDE such as vs.net or eclipse that on text editors. Most functionnalities you find in those IDE are more that gadgets. I'll give you that most wizards in vs.net are far from brilliant.

  21. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    What the hell does J2EE have to do with struts?
    Nothing, blame the sentence structure :)
    Anyway, you're kinda puting the finger on my grudge toward web dev in java: it's all layers, on top of more layers.

  22. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 2

    you can have a .net compiler for free from ms.
    And you can use notepad or any text editor you like to code, or you can use alternative gui like Eclipse.
    Also, I never said that VS.net was crap, it's indeed a good product.
    finally, one last remark: WRITING IN CAPS DOES NOT MAKE YOU SOUND SMARTER.

  23. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1
    but [.net] is also way easier to use
    Just out of curiousity, in what way? (I presume you mean .NET without vs.net)

    And your presume well. I should put myself a disclaimer, lots more of experience with .net that java.
    My feeling is that basically .net is more flexible. Kinda dangerous too I guess, because it's also easier to make bad implementation choice.
    It's really kind of like windows. It's more accessible than other os (not saying that it's a good thing, or that it is so for good reasons). Wait for the script kiddies to go into .net, I'll bet it'll be a riot :)
  24. Re:Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is that .net development under windows without Microsoft tools, currently is not a lot of fun.
    As for J2EE, I was thinking about web project development. I've had the occasion to develop websites and web services in asp.net, small projects that is, about 100 day/men, and that was effective, fast.
    On the other hand, I'm for instance currently developping a website in Java, using the MVC2 model, with the struts framework, and just about everything is a pain to do. I find it neat that you can't really do Quick'n'dirty, but I wish I could do at least quick, without 5 years of experience.
    Better?

  25. Good news on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I didn't have the occasion to use Mono yet, but I'm very interested in this project.
    To me, to .NET framework offers most of the power of the J2EE platform, but is also way easier to use. To me at least, I'm not trying to lauch a flamewar. Being able to use the framework without having to buy vs.net or use iis would be neat. I know, arguably one can already do that under windows, but it ain't half as productive.