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  1. Re:These aren't the big issues at all on Is Ubuntu a Serious Desktop Contender? · · Score: 1

    > 3) You can auto-tile or auto-cascade windows under MS Windows? I never found anything of the
    > sort in the 17 years that I've had a copy around.

    This feature has been available since overlapping windows were introduced in Windows 2.0.

    Try right clicking on the task bar, and look at the menu options.

  2. Re:Beware of what? on Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    In Britain, vegetable oil costs about 62p per litre, up from about 43p last year. This is food grade oil which has no taxes on it. Diesel is about 90p per litre, which includes about 61.8p in fuel taxes.

    To use vegetable oil in your car, you would need to add about 44.2p in fuel taxes, bringing the price up to £1.06 per litre. Also, you have to consider that you get about 15% less km per litre from biofuels than from mineral fuels, so the effective price for comparison purposes would be £1.25.

    When the vegetable oil was 43p and Diesel was about £1.05 as it was last year, and fuel taxes were a bit lower, it was possibly worth looking at. Now it isn't.

  3. Re:The bigger question is... on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    We presumably aren't talking about the same police force.

  4. Re:The bigger question is... on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    You can be prosecuted for dancing naked with a christmas tree in your front room while watching star trek films.

    Now, I do admit that anyone doing this is pretty weird, but surely not something the police need to get involved in.

    Having said that, if you ever try contacting the cops to report a crime, they just don't want to know. For all the really tough laws out there, they are completely useless.

  5. Re:correction on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    In Nu-Lab Britain, the definition of a crowd is 3 people.
    Terrorism is defined as any action designed to influence a government.

  6. Re:What browsers do they work with ? on 10 Web Operating Systems Reviewed · · Score: 1

    He pointed out that one of them didn't work with Firefox, so presumably he did test under that.

  7. Re:Seeme YOU are too dense... on Autodesk Suing to Keep Format Closed · · Score: 1

    For it to qualify as a trademark, it has to be something that uniquely identifies the company in question in their particular field of business.

    This is completely different from copyrights or patents, which is why lumping them all together as "intellectual property" is a bad idea.

  8. Re:This isn't about .DWG format itself on Autodesk Suing to Keep Format Closed · · Score: 1

    I would have thought that the measurements of the walls would come up the same in both products, but the text beside it saying what colour of bricks to use might be formatted a bit differently. I may be wrong though, I've never used a CAD program.

  9. Re:Zombie tradition on The Physics of Santa · · Score: 1

    Further evidence can be had from the fact it was the lambing season in Palestine at the time, about March/April.

    The new "star" over Bethlehem described in the bible also helps us determine when it might have been.

  10. Re:Roland on The Physics of Santa · · Score: 1

    I would add that he also doesn't visit children of Russian and Greek Orthodox religions. Grandfather Frost visits them on 7th January.

  11. Re:The HTML determines the rendering. on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 1

    The incoming server can check the signature before stripping the html, and mark the message as having a valid signature if appropriate.

  12. Re:As They Should on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 1

    I work as an accountant, and at work email includes lots of sage / quickbooks backup files, spreadsheets, scanned invoices in various formats and sets of accounts and tax returns, usually in pdf format.

    It is very useful to be able to communicate this stuff electronically, so if email is to be plain text only, how do you propose I do this?

  13. Re:not entirely on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 1

    Outlook 2003 does. If I remember correctly, it removes external images (such as , vbscript, javascript, flash, java and activex.

    However, there are still buffer overflow vulnerabilities from time to time, and plain text email is much safer in this respect.

  14. Re:SCO could use the insanity defense on SCO Asks Court To Reconsider IBM's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    This is true, but in England anyway, there is something called "lifting the veil of incorporation", which makes the people behind the corporation responsible in certain circumstances.

  15. Re:SCO could use the insanity defense on SCO Asks Court To Reconsider IBM's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Corporations don't do mad things. People do mad things. The people doing the mad things here are Darl McBride, the other members of the board of directors and their lawyers.

    I guess they could plead insanity and get the medical treatment they require.

  16. Re:Glad they're calling in the pros on The Google Phone? · · Score: 1

    They have already done it. Since TFA mentions Orange, I'll link to their offering - http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handset/orange_ spv_m3100/detail/pay_monthly . O2 and TMobile have identical offerings, except they are called XDAs and MDAs rather than SPVs. Vodafone have a fairly similar offering, but it is an IPaq rather than an HTC model.

  17. Re:Hype Killing Sentence on The Google Phone? · · Score: 1

    I pretty much already have my hands on one as far as I can see. It is from O2 rather than Orange, but Orange sell exactly the same thing with a slightly different name.

    It is a handset made by HTC, and I can get pretty much everything on it with the bundled Internet Explorer, including a lot of Google stuff, and for the sites that don't work on Internet Explorer, I have installed Mozilla.

  18. Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today on MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes · · Score: 1

    Often you don't just need the attachment, which will be copied to the smb server, but a record of who it was received from and sent to; and a history of how the document developed as it went back and forth. I can't think of a better way of storing these than in an email box somewhere, especially as many email servers link to a CRM database so you can get a full history of all communications by client and by project.

  19. Re:Is this a joke? on Robots Could Some Day Demand Legal Rights · · Score: 1

    Me: Do you think robots should have rights?
    Alicebot: I don't know whether or not I am should have rights. I am a computer.

    Conversation ended very quickly.

  20. Re:Activation? on Google Releases Customized IE 7 · · Score: 1

    IE7 is much less fused together with Windows than versions 4-6 were. For example, since installing IE7, if I put a web address in "My Computer", it opens the site in Firefox.

  21. Re:Hmm... on Google Releases Customized IE 7 · · Score: 1

    There game is to get people away from live.com and yahoo.com

  22. Re:How useful is this information? on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1

    Well they have a pretty good idea how many minutes each mast handles at particular times of the day, so you can work it out that way.

    The only time they might get it significantly wrong is if a mast was down, and during that downtime period there was a major event near the mast that brought lots of people to the area, or made them all want to make phone calls at the same time.

  23. Re:Who is your financial advisor? on 10 Tech Concepts You Should Know for 2007 · · Score: 1

    It won't be worth the same as what you paid for it. Ignoring everything else such as general technological advances, your solar panel has only 15 years life left in it, comapared with 20 years when you bought it, so it would be worth 3/4 of what you paid for it.

    Other things that affect the price include being able to get a more powerful panel for less money, and electricity prices going up or down.

  24. Re:And so the executive proves the rumors on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1

    Their financial stuff certainly, as you pointed out.

    Also their classified ads sections are pretty good, in the uk anyway.

  25. Re:Morons on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was in Britain. The shop in question was Debenhams. A british shop in euroland would give change in Euros.