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  1. Flag effectiveness? on pcHDTV Card Available, Legal for Now · · Score: -1

    Pardon my ignorance, but how can this flag actually stop a program like MythTV from recording shows? How can the video capture device interfere with software running on the computer?

  2. Use Links on End Run Around Pop-up Blockers · · Score: -1
  3. Re:So what? on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have before. I'm still owed close to $10k by web site advertising agencies. I continued to operate my web site in the red for two years. I was making money to do something I enjoyed.

    Despite being upset by having to shell out $400/mo for hosting, I did not throw a fit like this guy.

  4. Re:So what? on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 1

    He still could have done the rational/mature thing and used sourceforge for CVS and web hosting, then gotten a normal job and worked on grsecurity in his spare time. Intead, he chose to take the position that he was entitled to payment for something he gave away for free. That the corporation broke their promise is beside the point.

  5. Re:So what? on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 1

    Because if IBM ceased to be interested in Linux, development on it would suddenly halt?

  6. Re:So what? on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 0, Troll

    It sounds like what he wanted was employment. Being able to make a living off of a hobby is a lofty and unrealistic goal.

  7. So what? on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Since when is corporate monetary sponsorship necessary for an individual to develop open-source software?

  8. Ironic on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs said, 'The iPod already works with the No. 1 music service in the world, and the iTunes Music Store works with the No. 1 digital-music player in the world. The No. 2s are so far behind already. Why would we want to work with No. 2?'"

    Ironic such a thing would come from the CEO of the No. 2 home OS.

  9. Re:How is it the "King of the hill"? on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    Whichever card is released to the public first, I would imagine, would be deserving of the "king of the hill" title. Claiming that the competitor's card will be faster is really just splitting hairs. Since hardware reviewers are generally the ones who make these judgments, Hardware Analysis basing its review on the hardware available to them at the time seems perfectly reasonable.

  10. Re:How is it the "King of the hill"? on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The new top-of-the-line offering will always beat out the competitors' top-of-the-line offering. You can always say, "For all we know _____'s new offering will beat the new _____.

    The point was that the new GeForce is at the top now.

  11. Re:Open space on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    Again, Boston is not representative of the rest of the state. Such a house would be much less than $600,000 in most of the state. Not that the real estate market is great for buyers, and homes are still far overpriced, but if you get 20+ miles outside of Boston, you are looking at half of that $600,000 figure. There is a reason we have so many high tech companies with offices on 495 (the outer beltway). Off the top of my head, Sun, Cisco, and Oracle are there. Wang used to be out there as well. There are (or at least were) countless startups on 495 too. The location was ideal as it was within an hour drive of Boston as well as several airports. It also offered, as I've said, a significantly more favorable real estate situation than Boston does. There is also the huge draw of colleges. I used to work for a company where at any given time half the employees were MIT grad students.

  12. Re:Open space on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    Route 128 != I95. 128 follows the Yankee Division Highway from end-to-end. I95 follows most, but not all of it. The commuter rail goes right through Hopkinton, so what would the problem be? Not that MA has great public transportation, but like I said originally, there is plenty of open space which is accessible via public transportation.

  13. Re:Open space on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    I used to commute from Cambridge to 495 (Littleton) on public transportation. And, we like to call it 128, not I95.

  14. Re:Open space on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    Not really. There is a difference between Boston and the rest of Massachusetts. A decent sized office space can easily be rented for $2000 15 miles outside of the city. Even though one could go out to Arizona and get that space for half that, a company has bigger problems to worry about than the rent if $1000/mo is that big a deal.

  15. Re:One word: college on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about schools like WPI and UMass Lowell which rank quite well nationally in different science/engineering fields.

  16. Open space on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1

    There is plenty of open space outside of Boston, much of which is accessible via public transportation.

  17. Delete without viewing? on Nasty New Virus Variants · · Score: 2, Informative

    Disable the preview pane.

  18. Old news on The Power of Sewage · · Score: 1

    This kind of crap (pun intended) has been around for some time.

  19. Re:Linux on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs · · Score: 1

    They do sell Red Hat Enerprise and give out RH9 with small business PC's.

  20. A little bit late on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Eight years ago my ISP gave users name.tiac.net and user@tiac.net.

  21. Kind of redundant on Simpsons Fan Creates Real Tomacco Plant · · Score: 1

    Tomatoes and tomato plants already contain nicotine.

  22. Re:Tcl is good on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 1

    You don't have to embed HTML in PHP. Most decent PHP projects don't. Just as how you don't have to write perl code that looks like shit, but many people do it anyway.

  23. Re:Debian! on The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux? · · Score: 1

    Especially anti-zealot zealots...