User: panta rhei

Re:"Mozart Effect"?

On: The Reality Distortion Field Is Real

If I remember correctly the Mozart effect is real, but it only lasts for a couple of minutes.

Anyone still using Outlook (Express)?

On: Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future

Gmail is the perfect example for making the desktop obsolete. There's no more money to be made from email apps. Eudora? Mailsmith? Notes? Pegasus Mail? Outlook? Dead as a dodo.

With Gmail I get a world class spamfilter, reliable backups, and access to my mail from anywhere in the world, all for free.

Where is the mailing list?

On: Unified BSD packaging system?

I looked around openpackages.org but I can't find a link to the mailing list. Did I miss something?


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Re:Different Circles == Different Interests

On: Systems Research Is Dead?

R&D expenses for the last quarter:

Microsoft: $990 million
IBM: $1,172 million
Apple: $90 million

So basically you are right. MS spends almost as much as IBM, but IBM has a much wider focus.

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Not the GPL please!

On: DivX Codec Port Contest

Why go through all the pain of reverse-engineering a video codec and then NOT releasing it under a truly free license? Why should the Stallman disciples have all the fun? Please, let's not infect the Mac platform with the GNU public virus! Make it available under the BSD license or a similar free license.

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Re:at risk of sounding trollish

On: Rumors Of MP PowerMac G4 Flying!

Not trollish, just stupid. The Mac has a much wider selection of OSes than the Alpha platform.

I am still hoping that someone will port Darwin (and by extension MacOS X) to the RS/6000 architecture. Those high-end IBM systems would complement Apple's hardware offerings quite nicely.

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Re:This will be so handy

On: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

I agree with that.

/pr

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