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  1. Re:Glass is out for general purchase on For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up · · Score: 1

    "Join our open beta and help shape the future of Glass." https://www.google.com/glass/s.... I think it is too expensive for a "beta" product.

  2. Re:Focus Will Be On Economy on Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    So that should include people who work for the government, defense contractors, and people who pay taxes? How about senators and congressman? Everyone has a conflict of interest when it comes to the government that is why everyone gets to vote.

  3. Re:What's your actual problem? on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 2

    The witness server is required for automatic failover. The witness can run SQL Server Express which does not require a license. Standard edition will work fine for this and the mirror server does not require a license.

  4. Re:Paid Vs. Free? on Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate · · Score: 2

    The good thing about AD supported applications is the developer makes money if people actually use the application (not buy it). This should encourage better applications and improvements over time to encourage users to keep using the application.

  5. Re:Don't Necessarily Blame Them on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    I remember listening to the wall over and over in high school on a cassette tape. I was excited when CDs came out and I bought the wall because I could finally tell when each song actually ended.

  6. NTLM Authentication Support on Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile Now Faster and Sleeker · · Score: 1

    Firefox on Android supports NTLM authentication with websites which the built in web browser does not support. This is required to connect to some of my companies internal sites which are setup to use NTLM authentication.

  7. Re:so much for being open on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    No - I believe you have to root the phone to do WiFi tethering. But USB tethering is good enough for me and I can use Connectify to setup my Laptop as a hot spot If I need to.

  8. Re:so much for being open on Google Bans Sale of Android Spying App · · Score: 1

    The app store sells tethering apps that do not require rooting the device. I am using one now which works great and I purchased it from the Google marketplace.

  9. Re:Bad move.... on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    I hate when vendors do not support Linux - like using their own resources to produce a drive for Linux - oh wait... They are talking about Open Source support - they have their own drivers for Linux which will be supported.

  10. Re:Nice, but who has $1000 to pay on a CPU? on Intel's Core i7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    This can really save companies on software licensing. For example, SQL Server is licensed per CPU (not per core). So now I can have a single 6-core CPU running my database with one CPU license.

  11. Re:I'm sick fo CATCHA on Audio CAPTCHAs Cracked; ReCAPTCHA Remains Strong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmmm - Maybe a good idea for a Firefox add-on. It could "read" the CAPTCHA for you.

  12. Re:Some interesting highlights... on New Report On NSA Released Today · · Score: 1

    What if your last name was redacted. Wouldn't they look silly.

  13. Re:Views on Religion? on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    If they say "Oh my God!" this typically means they are not religious because most religions see this as taking the lord's name in vain. They will typically say "Oh my Gosh!" which to me sounds rather stupid.

  14. Re:Also.. XP SP3 RC1 on Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    Information on RC1 of XP SP3 can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx Looks like you currently have to be a Technet/MSDN Subscribers to get it.

  15. SQL Server Engine? on Postgres Engine for MySQL Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would have been a better joke if it was Microsoft adding a SQL Server engine.

  16. Re:Kudos to them on Adobe To Release Full PDF Specification to ISO · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most word processors, like Microsoft Word, are created on the WYSIWYG principle. They are designed to show you on the screen how the document will look when it is printed. This is why the printer affects how the document is rendered to the screen.

  17. Re:There goes my week! on Apple Goes After the Term 'Podcast' · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about McDowell's? With the golden arcs and two all beef patties, special sauce, on a Plain bun? My favorite part of Coming to America

  18. Hard drives without covers on More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    My favorite thing in computers in movies is when they show hard drives without their covers on in working computers. I guess it is more visually appealing to see the heads moving and the discs spinning.

  19. Re:Amazed they have included Adobe Reader on Google Unveils The Google Pack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Adobe reader V7 is fine if you can wait the 20 minutes for it to start up. I also switched to Foxit reader which starts instantly and work fine for most of the PDF documents I read. There are some PDFs the Foxit does not format correctly and I have to go back to the Acrobat. Foxit saves me a ton of time especially when you click on a PDF link by accident.

  20. Play games at work on White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users · · Score: 1

    My favorite was an old submarine simulator game (I think it was Gato) for the IBM PC. It had a special keystroke that would instantly change the screen to look like a spreadsheet application. This was in the days of DOS so the spreadsheet looked like 123.
    I thought this was a cool feature to help people to be able to play games at work. It also probably helped with sales because at this time not as many people owned home computers.

  21. OS X on commodity hardware? on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to see OS X become another choice for an OS for the commodity x86 hardware platform along with Windows and Linux.

  22. Microsoft did release MFC Source Code on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 1

    Microsoft did release the source to MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). This was a great help when debugging because you could step right into the MFC code while debugging. It was a bit of a let down when you found a bug in MFC but at least you knew it wasn't your code. I do remember seeing quite a bit of funny comments as well. My favorite was

    /* I don't know why this works - but it does so I am not TOUCHING it */
    This scared me a little bit.

  23. XML formatted documents are Big on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity I took a large document (116K characters, 71 pages) and saved in the XML format using Word 2003. The original binary document was 343KB and the XML document was 1,246 KB. The XML format was 3½ times larger than the binary format! While this format may be good for moving documents between applications it is going to put a serious load on file servers if suddenly all document grow 3 times their current size.

  24. Content Database on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It sounds like they have some type of database that stores what content to censor for a particular movie. I wonder how they are going to keep this databse up to date for new movies? It seems this would only work for DVD's and not live TV.