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  1. Re:Yeah, USB on the iMac was a good choice on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    Sort of. You install it, then install it again to "upgrade" it from itself.

  2. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    I do my backups onto firewire drives. Doing it onto USB drives would take much longer.

  3. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    You can get firewire hard drives. Yes you can switch to USB, but 480Mbs USB is painfully slow in comparison to 400Mbs Firewire.

  4. Re:Outrage! on A Brief History of Features Apple Has Killed · · Score: 1

    If you are doing music work, you aren't too interested in the display. You do have to carry it around, and be able to put it in a cramped space at the back of the studio.

  5. Re:A lot of my "liberal" friends seem to agree on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    One of the ideas of Capitalism is that if your business plan is no use, you go bust.

    A load of banks had a business plan which to lend to people with no income, no jobs or assets in the hope that some other bank would lend them even more money to enable them to repay the loan.

    This isn't a terribly good business plan, so they go bust.

    Bush's policies seem to be very similar to the socialist policies tried out in Britain in the 1970s, and they were ultimately a complete disaster. Pouring trillions of dollars of money into supporting lame ducks in America will ultimately be similarly disastrous.

  6. Re:Right-Wing Misinformation Alert on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    You can insure yourself against the risk of dying. It is called life insurance. Estate Tax is one of the things you might have to pay if you die, so yes, you can insure against that.

  7. Re:How long before it became corrupt? on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux works because if you don't like what Linus is doing you can fork it, or use one of the BSDs, or start your own operating system.

    For example when people didn't like what Xfree86 was doing, they forked the code to x.org, and now that's what most people use.

    It isn't so easy to fork your government if you don't like what they are doing.

  8. Re:just a symptom on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a "no restrictions on fields of endeavour" clause in the Open Source definition, which prevents commercial use restrictions?

  9. Re:You can number it wrong, but you will have to l on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    A) It is equivalent to our competitor's 6.3 release, so we are using that number for ease of comparison

    or alternatively

    A) It is an upgrade from our competitor's 6.2 release.

  10. Re:I was going to ask on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    And it might actually be true. For example, Sage Corporation Tax, one of the programs I use at work, was originally an in-house program developed by one of the big accounting firms. They then got together with Sage to sell it to other accountants.

  11. Re:It's just the opposite for me on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    There was an MS DOS 6. That was the last standalone version MS released. MS DOS 7 was the internal name for the Windows 95 bootstrap loader.

  12. Re:It's just the opposite for me on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    They were called OS/2

  13. Re:Pundit on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    It does, given that his co-inventor was Al Gore, who I'm sure is a committed Obama supporter.

  14. Re:This is different from the OFF button how? on Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving · · Score: 1

    I think talking to someone in the car is easier than on the phone because

    the sound quality is better

    and they also see what you are seeing, so you feel more able to break the conversation without them saying "hello, are you there" etc.

  15. Re:No 3g? on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    As I'm from Britain, I looked at Three, T-Mobile, O2, Orange, and Vodafone.

    The ones you link to are CDMA modems, which only work in US, Canada and one or two other countries. The rest of the world uses GSM based networks, and the modems for them are USB.

  16. Re:No 3g? on Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air · · Score: 1

    But all the 3g modems I've seen are USB, except for one which is Wifi.

  17. Re:Competition on YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, because France Telecom might object.

  18. Re:"Search engine"? on YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    video.google.com might be a search engine, because it can find videos from multiple sites, but mainly its own and youtube, but youtube is just a website with a search facility.

  19. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    No, but it was a point update as there wasn't really that much new. It was the first retail release with FAT32, but Win95 SP2 had it first for OEM release only. It also did a scandisk every time you rebooted due to a system crash - quite frequent in those days. It had some pretty new icons, and some of the stuff from the Windows 95 Plus Pack such as font antialiasing and scheduled progs now came as standard.

  20. Re:Isn't Seven lucky in China on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is lucky in China, but it is certainly a lucky number in Britain.

  21. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    There was a Windows 1 and 2 before 3.

    I suppose you could say that Win95 is 4.0, 98 is 4.1 and ME is 4.2, and get Windows 7 that way.

  22. Re:missing the point... on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 1

    Why not use the geothermal energy directly? It is much more efficient.

  23. Re:missing the point... on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 1

    Isn't it better to freeze the air and bury the stuff, or put carbon capture technology on the chimney of a power station?

  24. Re:what we need on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 2, Informative

    ( ) it requires more non-renewable energy inputs than the renewable energy produced by it (see for example american biofuels, but fuels from other parts of the world are more efficient).

  25. Re:Vaporware alert on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know an even better one. Plant a willow tree. Wait three years, chop it down. Then keep chopping it down every two years.