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  1. Re:Just like TOS on Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final · · Score: 1

    X-Files probably didn't have that Slot from the beginning and it wasn't made in a time where series are cancelled before the first season had a chance to show how many people watch it.

  2. Re:TGIF is a bummer on Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final · · Score: 1

    The point of the OP was that TV is for the days of the week where you have to work the next day and the other evenings (Friday and Saturday) are for different activities, probably requiring you to stay awake longer. That means Friday or Saturday evenings have less people watching TV than other days.

  3. Re:I call bullshit. on Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final · · Score: 1

    Buffy had 7 Seasons when it was cancelled and the related Angel Series has another 5 and AFAIK hasn't been cancelled yet.

  4. Re:Sounds like a good deal on Music Industry Drafts Code of Conduct for ISPs · · Score: 1

    I'm curious. If you have never typed your filesystem encryption password anywhere how did your filesystem encryption driver know which password to use?

  5. Re:Global perception... on China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India · · Score: 1

    That works in the other direction too. If American house- and milk-sellers want to survive in a country where everyone gets lower wages they have to adjust their prices.

  6. Re:Just Maybe on China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India · · Score: 1

    Who says Planet Earth wants the USA (if the cost for having it is having MS too)?

  7. Re:Obviously they don't read Slashdot on People are More Accepting of Spam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are right. Spam is not comparable to rape or murder. But that doesn't mean 9 years for a spammer is too long. It means rapists and murderers get sentences far below what they should get.

  8. Re:OS included? on Free Software on a Cheap Computer · · Score: 1
    I run Linux on my desktop machine at home, simply because it's a bit older, and all of the stuff that came with it (by the graces of a few donating coders in the world) was supported. I knew if I got a laptop, I wouldn't be so lucky.
    I guess I must be hallucinating then. Here I was thinking the 2 1/2 year old laptop and the new one sitting next to me on the table were both running Linux exclusively with everything except the winmodem working flawlessly.
  9. Re:Another review on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 0

    "proud" as in "Proud he had nothing to do with the production of the movie"?

  10. Re:CVS? on Linus Drops BitKeeper · · Score: 4, Informative

    Subversion is basically CVS with some problems fixed (e.g. moving of directories is now possible). The Subversion people say they wouldn't use Subversion to manage the kernel...

  11. Re:What a surprise on Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to Life · · Score: 1

    I guess the "if they believed something when they had evidence of the contrary" part of your post is the one that religious people just don't get about science. After all that is almost exactly the definition of religion.

  12. Re:.COM is way too intuitive on ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's · · Score: 1

    Actually .com is a really good indicator which sites to avoid. Usually .net and .org sites are less corporate (as in: ads only and no useful information) and contain more useful information.

  13. Re:Bigger is better... maybe on Hitachi Goes Perpendicular · · Score: 1

    RAM as persistent as Harddrives is closer to your needs.

  14. Re:If you can get high before you watch this on Hitachi Goes Perpendicular · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am running the same (Gentoo AMD64 64-bit) and my Opera runs Flash fine. Perhaps you should use it instead of or as addition to your 64-bit compiled firefox.

  15. Re:Clarification on Precision Gene Editing · · Score: 1

    Theoretically (without knowing anything about DNA,...) you could administer it in an early fetal state where the number of cells is still low. This wouldn't help the parent but could rid the child of the gene.

  16. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 2, Informative

    With Windows you can have the drivers on HDD or CD or DVD or on a server in your network and it won't help you anything because it insists on getting them from a floppy. With Linux you can boot from almost every device and have a fully functional system to get the drivers to this system in a large variety of ways and load them into your running kernel.

  17. Re:true on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 1

    So you say your VS/Delphi working style didn't work in different IDEs and you didn't give them enough time to get over that "productivity drop after tool change"-phase...

  18. Re:Permissions - who cares - they need symbolic li on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    You misspelled 'inconvenience'

  19. Re:What? on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    I had ACL kernel modules and tools installed on my linux machine for a while but I never found any use for it. ACLs are good for multi-user-environments but for single-user (as in persons, not accounts) machines they are simply to much. If I want a program to just access its own files and nothing else I just make a new user that has only access to those. This is perfectly possible with unix permissions.

  20. Re:term papers... on Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier · · Score: 1

    But an opinion is generally more valuable than no opinion at all.

  21. Re:Wow, no US teams placed! on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is the same bullshit done in all academic testing today. I always use google or other electronic documentation when programming and why should I memorize every parameter list of every obscure function in a language? It is simply so far from practical use that you can not derive any information about real world performance of these students.

  22. Re:Not a single U.S. school on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And who are you to decide time is the most important factor in good programming? I would say the team with the cleanest and best documented code should win.

  23. Re:Why? on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    And probably less than half of that type of aircraft had accidents killing all people on board.

  24. Re:Sure? on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    I believe you meant 'Why fix something that is not broken?'

  25. Re:RTFA on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Simple: They shouldn't bundle lots and lots of independent fixes and updates into one big blob. Being able to install and uninstall individual fixes would make debugging the problems with third party apps much easier.