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  1. Re:The US Navy Is Not Such A Secret on Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And ORP Orzel (modified Kilo class diesel submarine, extent of modifications is largery unknown, except new German batteries) "sunk" two US submarines during one war game...

  2. Re:So.. on Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base · · Score: 1

    OTOH resurrecting Energia is much more possible than Satuen V resurrection; large parts of it are even still flying (Zenit rocket evolved from side boosters of Energia)

  3. Re:The age-old joke on Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base · · Score: 1

    And who was bullied most in school?

  4. Re:Trend in other direction on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    Actually, "as evidenced" was mostly an expression which sounded good in context of what I wrote. Oh, and was chosen because...lack of better options, that's it (English is my third language; since grammar nazis haven't commented my original post, it seems that sometimes I'll say something roughly correctly...just with limited forms of expression)

  5. Trend in other direction on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    And now, as evidenced by intro of "Idiocracy", we have a trend in other direction...

  6. Re:Not good enough on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    To be fair to Concorde you have to also say that the crash was caused by neglect in maintaining an airpline starting before it...which was American ;P

  7. Re:Obvious one: Acorn Computers on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    Curious...do you mean by "hold down my right mouse button on a scroll bar to be able to pan 2-dimensionally at will over a window" similar effect to what happens with most modern browsers after middle clicking inside of window?

  8. Re:Only applicable for CRTs on Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy? · · Score: 1

    But the "default" state of the crystals in LCD panel is black/opaque; you have to use energy to keep them in other state. So...it has some potentiall, the bigger the screen the bigger impact.
    Miniscule anyway I'd guess...

  9. Re:Inflation of specs for student tasks on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    That's really a problem with Youtube than with anything else...I do need to select "quality->low" in flash plugin when viewing fullscreen (AthlonXP 1700+)...but OTOH I've stumbled on a few flash video sites which don't require this.

  10. Re:Inflation of specs for student tasks on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    There were also a bit higher clocked K6-2+ and K6-III+...

    Still, not anywhere near 700.

  11. Re:Inflation of specs for student tasks on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    Definatelly "bug" in Firefox...Opera (on AthlonXP 1700+) slows a bit in this scenario, but is completelly useable/"non-frozen".

    I think I've read somewhere how their implementation of tabs/javascript is multithreaded...

  12. Re:Whee! Monopoly Exploit Time on Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe · · Score: 1

    "How many websites you have seen that work only with Firefox?"

    All Google apps, sort of (yes, I know, they aslo work under IE, but that's pretty much given). They certainly limit functionality on Opera and KHTML (Webkit - don't know).

  13. Re:A Case Study on Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    I still can't forget a wall/building ad; seen 1 or 2 years ago. It was a totally standard PC with Pentium D 2,6 GHz. Yet, somehow, the most visible text was "5,2 GHz computer"

  14. Re:Is it really distant 3rd? on The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail · · Score: 1

    sigh...

    OK, so maybe an example:

    You can create Google account (and even Gtalk account) with your yahoo mail adress. Or msn. Or...any email adress you like. So the point that neccesity of having Google account to access Google services inflates Gmail accounts is INVALID.
    Yes, Gmail accounts come with Google account...but that has nothing to do with "inflating" numbers of Gmail users.

  15. Re:Is it really distant 3rd? on The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but so what? You can just as well create Google account (even Gtalk account) without creating Gmail account, that was the point about Google accounts not inflating Gmail numbers.

  16. Re:Nice indeed, but... on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 1

    Actually I think not only that's not the case...IE might have upper hand when it comes to "internationalization" support. And right at the start...because what could Firefox/Opera possibly mean for non-English speaker?

  17. Re:Languages? on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Irrelevant - IE is also localised, so is Opera (BTW, alternative browsers combined for my place, Poland, are close to 50% now...)

  18. Re:Why isn't this a DMCA Violation? on This is How We Catch You Downloading · · Score: 1

    You should finish what you started to say by adding:

    US law doesn't apply in Europe.

  19. Re:Please do it right... on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    Not sure why, but while reading your post I thought that HP calc with e-ink display would be nice...well, definatelly no funky colors.

  20. Re:crud! on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    That reminds me the horror I've heard recently...my girlfriend said, after seeing photo of HP calculator (the financial ones style) that after their grandfather died several years ago, she and her brother basically destroyed his HP calculator bevause "it was broken" (no "=").
    On one hand...I want to forgive her (after all she was just a child then), but on the other...HP calcs are impossible to get/very expensive in this country ;P

  21. Re:Voodoo 3 sucked. on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    Glide was a simplified (tailored towards games) subset of OpenGL (just look at the name...GLide), so there was much sense in not doing OpenGL the direct way...

  22. Re:Yes I do on Russia's War on Piracy/Malicious Software · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean "militia"? :P

  23. Re:But the open ones are good on The Future of Creative and the Sound Card Market · · Score: 1

    Since it seems you still want to use your Aureal card...

    Windows XP has good drivers built in. A3D works. Just don't update them via Windows Update - the newer version from there has hardware acceleration/A3D removed.

    For all the info (for example how to make Vortex control panel work) there's Quantex Zone: http://www.dayc.vispa.com/

  24. Other distros?... on Fedora Core 6 Hits 2 Million Installs · · Score: 1

    I would really like to see "total" stats, at least from other major distros...who knows what this data could change in mindsets of many people (that is, if they would be big enough...).

    I'm also curious about geographical distribution...

  25. Re:Walter Reed on Cassini Returns Amazing New Imagery from Saturn · · Score: 1

    Not disagreeing with you (actually I came to conclusion it's not worth to read the parent post you were replying to...). But...you might recheck your facts about CPU's. :>
    The most widely used architecture in the world is...British: ARM. In 2005, 1.7 billion chips were manufactured. And they're everywhere.

    Also there's Hitachi/Renesas...