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  1. Re:But then.... on Drugs In Our Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod point.

    Kubrick is a genius.

  2. i wish i had mod points on U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever · · Score: 1

    roflwpimp

  3. Seems to be interresting but... on Joel Spolsky On How To Bootstrap a Business · · Score: 1

    Where is the text of the interview?

  4. gulp on Origin of the iPhone · · Score: 2, Funny

    This article reads like one from Reader's Digest.

  5. Re:quick, somebody stick that on a wiki somewhere on White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense at all to put it on a wiki.

  6. Re:Great on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    This may not be an option in your area, but Bell Canada, and others telcos around the world offers naked DSL. However, this service is not publicised and the company is reluctant to offer it.

  7. Re:Wow on Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Pay attention on Microsoft Flip-Flops On URI Protocol Handing Flaw · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since Firefox is an open source project, ANYONE has the option to contribute patches Don't be ridiculous. Most open source projects are run by groups of elitists who will ignore any contribution who don't come from them. The only way to contribute to a project is to fork it but then you will still be ignored by the whole world because you are not mainstream. Any attempt to integrate an existing open source project is an exercise of futility.
  9. Re:I have a theory... on Largest-Known Planet Befuddles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Christian are polytheist. They actually believe in three gods: the "father", the "son" and the "holy ghost". When a christian claims his religion is monotheist, it's because he talks newspeak.

  10. Re:Original NES on What is the Best Console Controller of All Time? · · Score: 1

    Atari 2600 has additional buttons on the console itself to supplement the lack on the joysticks. This was horrible.

  11. Re:Let me guess... on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 1

    > legacy instructions

    What are those legacy instructions? Real mode are certainly legacy but that's not a particular instruction. BCD instructions? Strings instruction? FPU? Some of these instructions take very few memory to encode. Reuse the opcode of these instructions for new ones could make x86 code denser. I don't know if someone on this forum can answer me but I have to specific questions:

    1) What are the instructions that are considered "obsolete"

    2) What instructions are used by modern compiler like say, gcc and wich one are left unused?

    Thank.

  12. Re:The beginning of any "democracy" on Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested · · Score: 1

    You don't understand what a republic is. A republic is a country where the head of state is not a hereditary monarch. Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's USSR, today's Cuba and China were/are republics and they were/are obviously not democratic. Canada, United Kindom and Japan are three examples of democracies that are not republics. Democracy don't imply a republic nor a republic imply democracy.

    This is semantic. It has nothing to do with being right-wing, left-wing, or mammal.

  13. Re:Thank god I feel so much safer now on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    Yes he is. And even if he somewhat manages to move elsewhere he will be subject to another jurisdiction where as an alien more of his rights will be denied to him.

    Face it, earth is a big jail for humans.

  14. Re:Those who give E-voting a bad name... on Quebec Bans Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    1) Faster to get the results.

    I worked in a number of municipal and provincial elections in Québec. I can tell you that counting a paper ballots and completing the related paperwork take between 30 minutes and 90 minutes. How much faster do you need it to be?

    In general, elections in Québec is fast, reliable and secure. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

  15. LOL on EA Signs Deal with Massive and IGA · · Score: 3, Funny

    For a momment I tough EA signed a deal with a grocery store!

  16. Re:Uh... on Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X · · Score: 1

    When you are working on your own project, fixing someone else broken code may not be your top priority.

  17. Re:not a worm or a virus! on Computer 'Worms' Turn on Macs · · Score: 1

    $ "rm -rfv /"
    -bash: rm -rfv /: No such file or directory
    $

    That's not cool at all!

    Must be some nerdy humor I don't understand...

  18. Apple won't switch to Windows. on Apple to 'Switch' to Windows? · · Score: 1

    A mac is both hardware and software. Replace OS X by something else and you no longer have a mac. Apple has no benefit in making standard PCs running Windows.

    But if OS X begin to work with normal PCs, that can be treatening to Microsoft who may then considers buying Apple and maybe killing OS X.

    I don't want this to happen but it look more possible than Apple switching to Windows.

  19. Re:Security through lack of reward. on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 1

    Homeless peoples DO get robed often. It's all matter of cost/benefit. It's far easier and far less risky to rob poor peoples than to rob a bank. Robbing a tramp don't put you in jail.

  20. Re:SpeedBump's Mini wishlist on The Odds at Macworld · · Score: 1

    5) Work with 30" cinema display

  21. Re:It's a copy on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Who could forget Mick Jagger wishing the body of Emilio Estevez

  22. Re:Interesting, trivia on OpenLaszlo 3.0 Announced · · Score: 1

    The only Laszlo I know is Laszlo Carreidas, "the millionnaire who never laugh" in Flight 714. The first link show him as it is hypnotized by aliens. Not the best album in the collection.

  23. Not new on ASUS Barebones: Multimedia Even Sans Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    This thing may have a DVD player in rom but my Coleco Adam from 1983 has a world processor in rom.

    The Coleco Adam is even better because you can add a rom cartdrige and have any application in rom.

  24. My experience on USB TV Tuner Recommendations and Experiences? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have an Hauppauge WinTV-GO. It's the cheapest of Hauppauge tuners but it works great for me under both Mandrake Linux and Windows 2000. The only thing is that I don't have a processor fast enough (500mhz Celeron) to record and encode on the fly so I have to save to uncompressed AVI. You have a better processor than me so you should be able to encode your shows on the fly and do PVR no problem with that low-budget card. Good luck!

    A final tip: find a video editing software to cut the publicity in the programs you want to keep!

  25. I Don't know for Dell on USB TV Tuner Recommendations and Experiences? · · Score: 1

    But AFAIK, my parents computer is a branded one and comes from a big national retailer. Opening the box to add cards or memory specificaly don't void the warranty for the remaining of the piece. The only thing that is specified on the warranty is that the warranty don't cover the cards you add or if the new driver cause instability to Windows. But it absolutly don't void the warranty.