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  1. Re:Even better, threaten to sue for false advertis on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    It's not a contract. It's a policy. Policy's are freely able to be changed without the expressed consent of all parties.

  2. Re:Anyone notice its VCD not Divx or DVD... on Investigating Online Movie Piracy? · · Score: 2, Informative

    8 minutes to rip the DVD to disk. 3 minutes to make the project file. ~10 minutes to do a test encode to test compressibility. 4-5 hours (typical 90-120 minute movie) for 2-pass encoding at a very good quality. All in all, less then 5 hours usually with GordianKnot. Once you understand what you are doing, it goes quite quickly.

  3. Re:The important question on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1

    Your getting into grey areas, but yes thge trustee would still look down on it. Trustees go by fair market value.

  4. Re:s/could/couldn't/g on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1

    Yeah I meant couldn't...

  5. Re:SCO has noticed the rope stopped moving on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1

    Right now the judge could care less about the goods. IBM is the one who wants to see the goods and the judge agrees that IBM should see the goods. If SCO doesn't show IBM the goods, then the judge gets interested in the goods...

  6. Re:Better Business Bureau - a paper tiger on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that even if there is a complaint, all the business has to do is respond to the complaint. Not solve. Not resolve. Just respond. At that point, the BBB marks it as satisfactory even though the business just sent out a form letter that did nothing.

  7. Re:The important question on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 1

    Assets transfered just before bankruptcy can be reclaimed by the courts to pay debts.

    If I have 10,000 cash and "give" it to my parents as a gift then file for bankruptcy, the trustee can go after my parents (whether they still have the 10,000 or not) to reclaim the money to pay my creditors. Depending on what Chapter they file, this can be a no-no.

    Debt restructuring may be different they just closing up shop. But after this lawsuit, if SCO looses, will anyone do business with them again? Their OS business has been drying up for several years now. Not much else left for them to generate income.

  8. Re:Still waiting and waiting.... on SCO Gives Notice To 6,000 Unix Licensees · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. On Dec 5th, the court rules that SCO had to respond in detail to Interrogatory Nos. 1-9,12,13 from IBM. They had 30 days from the date that it was entered into the books and the judge signed the order IBM prepared...Dec 12th I beleive. That makes the 11th the deadline. On the 23rd, the judge finds out if SCO complied with the order. Expect to see some legal filings on Jan 22 or 23 to delay the order since SCO hasn't had enough time to make up^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfind^H^H^H^Hdocument their case.

    The original interrogatories are here.

  9. Re:You know what this means? on VIA/Apex Game Console Details Leaked · · Score: 1

    If you log on to XBox Live with your mod chip enabled with a hacked bios, Microsoft can/will detect it and ban that XBox for life from XBox Live. Not exactly an ass-kicking...but does prevent illegal copies of the game from being played on XBox Live.

  10. Re:Radioshack 15-2116 on Recommendations for a Universal Remote? · · Score: 1

    The Radio Shack 15-2107 touchscreen remote is also something to consider. It origianally retailed at $100 but was clearanced last year for 29.99. It's a little large, lacks the button feel, and sometimes you have to "double-click" the button, but I have yet to encounter the memory filling after programming in 5 remotes with many learned buttons.

  11. Re:37.08 + shipping on Recommendations for a Universal Remote? · · Score: 1

    Do you get a comission for pimping Froogle. We get the idea that you can find prices there. You don't have to post links for every remote there.

  12. Re:A gig of RAM on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    2 sticks are better then one aren't they? You can run them in stripped mode RAID 0...double the performance!

  13. Re:Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread! on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I'll flat out give you mine. Actually, I'll pay you to take her. No. Really. I'm serious.

  14. Re:Question on ArsTechnica Explains O(1) Scheduler · · Score: 1
    Well, based on the description I could also argue the same for the old scheduler. Isn't 1*O(n) = n*O(1), with n being the number of runnable processes? In the end, they both consume the same amount of CPU time regardless of n. I was hoping there was more, so I could learn some magic (sufficiently advanced techniques), and because I feel it is misleading to call this O(1) without qualifications or explanation.

    In this case, the 1*O(n) = n*O(1) doesn't fit this example. If I underdstand everything correctly, with the old scheduler it would have to look through all processes to find the next process to run. If you had ten processes, it would take ten look ups. A million processes would take a million lookups. So to find one next process, it would have to search through n processes, giving it a O(n) runtime. Now with the new scheduler, it does the look up in constant time. The time that it takes doesn't scale up as the number of processes goes up. Since it is fixed, it gets a O(1).

    Your "equation" revised would look something like:
    O(n) > O(1) or n*O(n) > n*O(1). In each case the left is the old scheduler and the right is the new scheduler. n = the number of processes to be processed.

    Lets assume that there are 10 processes to be chosen from. With the old scheduler, you would have to look through all 10 processes to process 1, remove it, process it, then look through 9, remove it, process it, look through 8, etc. So you would have to look through 55 processes ultimately to process them all. With the new way, you only have to do 10.

    Of course, I may be completely wrong so in that case, ignore me. :)
  15. Re:No, Escrow can be complete and accurate on Source Code Escrow · · Score: 1

    What's are these things that you are talking about? Version control, CRC, QA?!?! You mean you don't keep one copy of the file for the entire development team and just randomly send out stuff that claim to be fixes. What a novel concept.

  16. Re:Best of show on Dish Network DVR-921 HD DVR Reviewed · · Score: 1

    But what would be more impressive...saying you won best innovation last year...or this year? Dish's competition won for 2004 with their HD PVR. Of course it's equally unavailable currently. The earilest it will be available will be summer...if not later.

  17. Best of show on Dish Network DVR-921 HD DVR Reviewed · · Score: 3, Informative

    The DVR-921 won CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Best of Innovations for 2003. Of course, it should have won it for 2004 since that is when they will actually be available.

  18. Re:GOOD IDEA!!!! on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 1

    I believe that the majority of SCOX stock is held by a single organization, Canopy at 51%.

  19. Re:Spoiler on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1

    Being 24 w/ 3 kids...I guess I'm ready to die.

  20. Spoiler on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1

    He lives. Bad guy dies/is captured. A little bit of romance is thrown in. Someone else can fill in the rest of the details.

  21. Re:my list included: on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1
    ...and free tickets to LOTR3.
    Yeah, cause those gift tickets that you have to pay for suck.
  22. Re:Please hook me up with your vendor! on Build Your Own NOC · · Score: 1

    More specifically, the string 5256375678 is found at position 9991 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

  23. Re:Gigabit on Rewiring Your Home Phone System? · · Score: 1
    when the time comes we'll punch down another four wires.
    You didn't get all 8 wires punched down in the first place when you had it installed? I would have thought it would have been much cheaper in the long run, and easier to boot, to just punch down all 8 at once. I know with our patch panels, you would have to contend with about a 1000 different wires in the way...and then you still wouldn't have great access with a punch down tool.

    I don't want to think of the extra cost to go around to the wall jacks if they weren't punched down as well...
  24. Re:How is a scroll wheel mouse not a three button? on 3-Button Mice - An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Many Logitech keyboards have a scroll whell along the left side of the keyboard as well.

  25. Re:Programming languages on Funny Things You've Seen on Resumes? · · Score: 1

    So does +C+ increment it while you are using it then?