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  1. Re:just how many.. on More SpaceShipTwo Details · · Score: 1
    If people are willing to pay more for faster speeds then eventually someone will find a way to make it financially viable.

    Tell that to Concorde. It never made a penny.

  2. Re:High altitude == better efficiency on Energy from High-Altitude Kites · · Score: 2, Informative
    No wheel in the sky, just kites that change their angle of attack when they reach the top, and so start to decend.

    Drawing of the system

  3. Re:Please learn how to make links. on Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced · · Score: 1

    But doing it this way breaks if the link has spaces in it.

  4. Re:Please learn how to make links. on Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced · · Score: 1

    1) Install the linkification extension.
    2) Highlight the link (with or without spaces)
    3) Rightclick and chose 'Open selected URL in new tab'

    It's as easy as that - in Firefox. I don't know if the extension works in Mozilla.

  5. Re:BSD vs. GNU again on The Semantics of Free Software vs. Open Source · · Score: 1
    No, you have missunderstood.

    "If you include the MySQL server with an application that is not licensed under the GPL or GPL-compatible license [and that application requires MySQL to run], you need a commercial license for the MySQL server."

    Your second quote is the equivilent of the bit I added in bold above.

    I recently had to look at the MySQL licence to see if we needed to be worried about its terms. As far as I could make out, you only need the commercial licence if you have some non-GPL code that requires the end user to use MySQL.

    Your example of Apache, the end user does not have to use MySQL for apache to work. So the commercial licence is not needed.

    (If I'm wrong, let me know as it may be important!)

  6. Re:Rutan is my hero. on Burt Rutan On Future Of SpaceShipOne (and Two) · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about 1990 'The Two George Bushes'

    Doesn't that mean he's in there three times now?

    But as someone said, Hitler was in there once, and Stalin was included twice.

  7. Re:Yeah I can just move on Microsoft EU Monopoly Appeal Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    No, you just move to another power company.

    I don't know about the US or elsewhere, but here in the UK there are literally dozens to chose from. All without having to move further than the phone.

  8. Re:Congrats to everyone make it happen... on Poland Blocks European Software Patent Vote, For Now · · Score: 1

    But they'll keep trying, arguments or no.

    It took the labour government here in the UK 3 tries and 7 years to pass a law banning fox hunting, but they did it in the end.

  9. Re:The first Test on Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!] · · Score: 1

    It was dealt with 10 days ago.

    "The researchers said that Google had responded quickly to their alert last month and had begun releasing a corrected version of the program on Dec. 10."

  10. Re:Nothing, but.... on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    GPS, yes. Galileo, no.

  11. Re:EU 1984? on EU Moves Forward with Data Retention · · Score: 1

    You second paragraph makes me laugh. You sound as if the royalty and 'nobles' are a ruling elite. All the countries I can think of in the EU that have a monarchy have a constitutional monarchy. The monarch is purely a ceremonial figurehead. As for the nobles, it's just a title. Our landlord is a 'Sir Charles' and it means nothing.

    I happen to think this is a better system than that in the US where the head of state is also the head of government. This way we can revile the government without being called unpatriotic and having mobs burn our cds and send us hate mail.

  12. Re:African Market? on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    Swahili is used in East Africa, not South Africa.

  13. Re:I think it's "Hakuna" anyway on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    Not quite, 'kakuna matata' is swahili. Accoona is just a made up word derived from hakuna.

  14. Re:What a name. on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Except Accoona is from Hakuna, which means 'no'. By any account a strange name to call a search engine.

  15. Re:Swahili lesson on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself, I know, I know...

    In all the above, I forgot the funniest part of the name. Accoona, from hakuna, therefore means 'no' or 'there is not'.

    A strange thing to call a search engine, though it maybe a nod towards its censorship role...

  16. Swahili lesson on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 1
    "Accoona takes its name from the Swahili phrase, "accoona matata," for "no worries," popularized by Disney's film, "The Lion King."

    The phrase is actually 'hakuna matata', and while it means much the same as no worries, I've never heard 'matata' actually translated as worries. It's more usually problems, or troubles.

    A bit more useless/interesting information:
    Simba, is of course, lion.
    Rafiki is friend.
    In 'The Lion King 2' Scar's son is called Kovu, swahili for scar.
    An anagram of Simba, msiba, translates as disaster/calamity/accident!

  17. Re:I don't think so. on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    I know nothing about Lieberman, but your comment merely says he is committed to his religion, not that he is a fundamentalist.

  18. Re:Sounds good to me. on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    An admin error that lasted for weeks? Now I can believe that, but not for something as high profile as this was.

  19. Re:Deep linking still works for me... on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 1
    Well, here's a single article from a multiarticle thread.

    All you have to do is click on 'show options' and then 'show original'

  20. Re:Baby motion sensor on High Tech Baby Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    My parents bought one of those when I was born. It was a few decades ago, so presumably less advanced. It didn't monitor breathing, only movement.

    They got rid of it after a few days as I could go for longer than 20 seconds (or whatever the time was) without moving. The moment of dread when the alarm went off got too much for them.

    Hey, I'm still alive.

  21. Re:a good step in the right direction on HP Markets Cheap 4-User PCs To African Schools · · Score: 1

    No, I don't really agree with you there.

    Of course, there has to be a limit on the age of computers exported over there, but if it works, it's fine.

    You've never passed on an old computer of yours to your parents? Are they less than a full human?

    If it's usable, someone will want it. Every Internet cafe I saw in Dar es Salaam used old computers. Are you saying that the residents of Dar should go without Internet access/computers until such time that they can afford to buy new machines?

    Because that's what it sounds like.

  22. Re:Nah, that's M$ parking, HERE'S linux parking on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 1

    Fried Green Tomatoes is a chick flick? /me takes it off his shelf.

  23. Re:Um, Wrong!!! on FCC: Only We Can Regulate Unlicensed Spectrum · · Score: 1

    They can kick you out for using it, yes. Not for just having it.

  24. Re:It's Gone Beyond Science Fiction into Mainstrea on Open Source Life? · · Score: 1

    So farmers in the US can't tell the difference between a plant and non-consensual sex?

  25. Re:TOS on Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice · · Score: 1

    No, but it was someones money.