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  1. Re:Bad Logic on Less Is Moore · · Score: 1

    Wasn't NT4 faster than NT 3.51? Or at least, it had lower memory requirements.

  2. Re:Bad Logic on Less Is Moore · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really, especially in the days when you had Intel and AMD racing to be the producer of the fastest chip.

  3. Re:Bad Logic on Less Is Moore · · Score: 1

    The most popular SAAS application is webmail. People use that because it saves the hassle of setting up an email client, and they can use it from any computer by just firing up a web browser.

    I personally don't like it because I like to have my data stored on my own computer, although I do have webmail software installed on my own computer so I can read my emails when outside.

  4. Re:Developing markets on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Singapore is not my idea of an emerging market.

  5. Re:The reality... on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    XP is Windows NT 5.1, and 2003 is Windows NT 5.2.
    2000 was NT 5.0 for both workstation and server varieties.

  6. Re:Survey says.... on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Starter is the one where you can only run three programs at a time, and it has various other restrictions that make it completely useless.

    There is a Vista Starter edition as well.

  7. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    Norway is a member of the EEA, which is a kind of halfway point to EU membership. They voted against full EU membership.

  8. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    But Opera is made in Europe, and the other ones are not. That's probably the main reason why the EU listens to Opera at all. I don't remember Opera getting a look in at any of the US anti-trust hearings.

  9. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    And Netscape 6 was so unstable it was unusable. Netscape 4 wasn't much better. So you really need to think about the gap between v3 and v7.

  10. Re:Yeah, like that will work. on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    Windows Update for Vista doesn't use IE. It has its own program.

  11. Re:Leave well enough alone on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    So swapping your iPhone for an almost identical looking iPod touch is fine?

  12. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have a read at the problems faced in preserving the BBC Domesday project, and that's only about 20 years old.

  13. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    Who's going to change it? And what is the political case for making the change? How is it going to be sold to Congress?

    Unless someone can come up with some good reason why the Voltage should change, which more than outweighs the cost of making the change, and replacing every single electrical appliance in the country, I think the US will have 110V electricity until some new thing is invented to replace electricity.

  14. Re:As for preservation on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The main advantage of 220/240v is that everyone else in Europe uses it. The main advantage of 100/110v is that everyone else in the US/Japan uses it.

    Germany standardised on 220v and the US standardised on 110v. Everyone else pretty much followed one or the other. I don't think there was much thought in those days about what the optimum voltage might be.

  15. Re:Not that I condone piracy but on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 1

    My iPod only uses the front two speakers in my 5.1 set.

  16. Re:Requesting data on 10,000 people... on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    To get perfect looking £ signs, just type £

  17. Re:Good on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    Child porn cases pretty much always get reported in the papers, and as far as I'm aware, there has been at approximately one conviction in the past year, which was for a child murderer. I don't think there was any evidence of internet related stuff here, but probably it was one of the 10,000 requests.

    There is another abduction case going through at the moment, where he had been chatting with the girl for about 6 months on MSN and Facebook before taking her out of the country to France. The evidence for that came more from the police looking at her computer, and from the fact that her parents had already noticed it, but again, they probably did make a request to see if there was anything else they could find on him.

  18. Re:Not that I condone piracy but on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will I be able to listen to my mp3s while using the keygen?

  19. Re:Virus - Worms - Trojan on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 1

    A worm wriggles its way into your machine without any user intervention.

    Like for example the Blaster Worm. You could get infected with that by just plugging an unprotected machine into the internet.

  20. Re:Uninstall what you don't want from Windows too on Is Microsoft Improving Its Image? · · Score: 1

    Konqueror is used for both web browsing and ftp browsing, at least pre KDE 4.

  21. Re:Marketing MIA on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I disagree. We need to find out why people aren't using Linux, and address their concerns.

    If it's because they've never heard of it, then fair enough, you do lots of ads to tell people about it, but if it's because they think it doesn't do what they want, you need to either change the product to make it do what they want, or show them that it actually does do what they want.

  22. Re:Marketing MIA on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But nevertheless, if you use your competitor's product to do your sales presentation, it doesn't look very good.

    It may be fine of course if you are selling Linux as a server product which can talk happily with Windows clients.

  23. Re:But zeroing is so easy. on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    OK, invest in two Krugerrands then.

  24. Re:One wipe is not enough. on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    I do that too, but it does take more than one wipe of the sandpaper to remove the surface.

  25. Re:My wipe is better :-) on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    I rub the platters down with steel wool. Is that likely to work?