User: halleluja

Re:from the article, price list

On: Windows Vista Prices and Release Date Leaked

FULL versions (all prices Canadian) Windows Vista Ultimate $499 Windows Vista Home Basic $259

But that's the CA_EN version; looking at the number of seeders, US_EN is much more popular, therefore will be cheaper.

Re:Another strategy to add to this

On: How to Win on Ebay: Snipe

example, if you want to bid $20 for something, bid $20.02 instead so if somebody else puts a bid of $20 on it, you still win.

Most experienced bidders are aware of this trick. The best option usually is indeed to bid as late as possible with some extra cents. The obvious point here is that bidding on an auction at page 11 only diminishes your chances to win the auction as you generate interest in the auction (no one wants wornout socks, yes they are offered).

Re:Interesting ploy

On: Symantec Sues Microsoft, May Delay Vista

Plain business. For decades MS has cornered Norton/Symantec products; remember PCtools, PCrestore, defragging utils, compression tools, firewall etc. Nobody buys antivirus solutions as soon as MS incorporates (incorporates, not necessary bundles) it into their OS.

Excellent quote

On: Ex-AppleCare Employee Describes Life Inside Apple

Perhaps OT:

If something is important to you, you spend money to make it reliable. If you cannot make it reliable, then you make it redundant.

Apple's official response..

On: Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss

Say what?!?

Re:Its just a ....

On: 19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot

Don't do the crime if you aren't willing to pay the time..

Great timing

On: Has Microsoft 'Solved' Spam?

Oddly enough, my Hotmail account filtered all spam automatically for me just until a week ago...

Re:An "Entertainment" disclaimer?

On: MythBusters - The Lost Experiments

Indeed, watching even a single episode shows that they have very little scientific or engineering background.

Adam acknowledged this deficiency and introduced babes in the later series.

Re:China is MS biggest fan

On: Microsoft Censors Chinese Blogger

Bill Gates pregnant??? Awww gawd, what abomination he will now drop onto the world??

No more anonymous abuse now....

On: Grokster Launches Fear Campaign

YOUR IP ADDRESS IS 127.0.0.1 AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.

Not really a whole lot of choice about this one.

On: Trustworthy Computing

Not true.

Re:Why not flying cars, then?

On: Stanley and the Conquest of the DARPA Challenge

Actually, the Boing 777 does land/take off automatically.

Thanks, just cancelled my reservation.

Re:Dvorak

On: Opera Purchase Rumour Control

Yes, if you rearrange the letters Darl McBride you get .. John Dvorak (!).

No? Well, Darl can.

Re:Is it a success?

On: Ubuntu: Desktop Linux's Success Story

Gentoo was new and different for a while, now it's not

Well duh, you have to run emerge --sync once in a while..

ABC goes Google!!

On: Guido Goes Google

Yes!! Finally we are gonna see web-enabled ABC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_programming_langu age/!

Evolution of a programmer (rec.humor.funny)

On: A Dev Environment for the Returning Geek?

From rec.humor.funny (manager section seems to apply in your case):
High school/Jr. High

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END

First year in college

program Hello(input, output);
begin
writeln ('Hello world');
end

Senior year in college

(defun hello
(print
(cons 'HELLO (list 'WORLD))))

New professional

#include <stdio.h>
main (argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv; {
printf ("Hello World!\n");
}

Seasoned pro (garbled to bypass lameness filter)

#include <stream.h>

const int MAXLEN = 80;

class outstring; class outstring { private:

int size; char str[MAXLEN]; public: outstring() { size=0; } ~outstring() {size=0;} void print(); void assign(char *chrs); }; void outstring::print() { int i; for (i=0 ; i< size ; i++) cout << str[i]; cout << "\n"; } void outstring::assign(char *chrs) { int i; for (i=0; chrs[i] != '\0';i++) str[i] = chrs[i]; size=i; }

main (int argc, char **argv) { outstring string; string.assign("Hello World!"); string.print(); }

Manager

/* George, I need a program to output a string
"Hello World!" */

Huh?

On: ZNet interviews Richard Stallman

"A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." -- American Heritage Dictionary

Extreme right? Odd. Hitler originated from the social workers party (NSDAP)...

Re:Translation

On: The Truth About Suprnova Shutdown

And them some more legal talk where he can get his stuff in 30 days.

You mean he has to pick up his computers by himself? Darn. They took it away, let them bring it back.

Ho Ho Ho

On: Hacking Santa

Finally. I asked a worthy article on Slashdot for x-mas :-)

Re:This should prove...

On: Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year"

Ah well, no person is pure evil. Gates just balances his good with the bad.

Re:NOT NEWS. DIE.

On: Software Predicts Movie Success

Go ahead mods, do yer worst. I refuse to swallow this tripe.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!

lots missing

On: 30 Years of Personal Computer Market Share

I'm missing the good old Indy etc. Not really a consumer computer, but neither was NeXT. No Sinclair either snif.

Re:First to market

On: The Next-Gen Odd Couple

Only the hardcore gamers bought the dreamcast.

Not true. I just made a $10 bid on a German DC.

Re:Huh?

On: A Closer Look at Google Adwords

Your remark w.r.t. freedom is insightful. I do not see *any* statement in the original question regarding force etc., rather some brainstorming and sharp questions.

So the questions might not fit your Google ideal, freedom is also about the right of criticism.

Really useful

On: Linux Boots on Treo 650

Exactly. Dead and old products are unsupported. But I do not want to buy a new product just because the old has reached end-of-life on paper.

I've lots of old hardware supported by Linux which have "officially" reached end-of-life. They are currently performing better than ever.