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  1. Re:Grumbling or grassroots? on Everyone Still Rumbling About PS3 · · Score: 1

    "Component video is capable of producing signals such as 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video/

    What limit? The picture just doesn't come out as nice as with a digital signal.

  2. Re:But they've still got a low end on Everyone Still Rumbling About PS3 · · Score: 1

    Or, they might just hold onto their money hoping for a price drop on the PS3, meanwhile, Sony sells nothing to them.

  3. Re:It's a conspiracy... on ESA Cryosat Launch Reported Failure · · Score: 1

    So, they launched it via ICBM? Like the kind the national missile defense is supposed to defend against? ;-) How about that? It really works!

  4. Re:Does this mean - on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) takes care of this.

  5. Re:Bloat? What do you know about bloat? on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 1

    I like to consider them speed suggestions. Give or take 20 mph, usually on the plus side.

  6. Re:Went to the supreme court this morning on Supreme Court Takes Hard Look at P2P · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were they publicly performing copyrighted works? Did they have permission to do so?

  7. Re:At this point ... on EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows · · Score: 1

    Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

  8. Re:Why? on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what generics will clean up? Instead of having Arrays of Objects you can have it know that they're ArrayLists.

  9. Re:Might eventually be completely free on Microsoft Offers Beta of Visual Studio 2005 · · Score: 1

    That's what they're planning with the "express" versions of the compilers/IDE. VS Express

  10. Re:Shot down? on Supreme Court Rejects RIAA Appeal · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court does not have to make a ruling on a case. It has a limited scope of cases it can see, usually those dealing with Constitutional matters, and usually only sees other cases via certiorari. In this case, it has decided not to hear the case, which it can do. There is no guarantee that a case will be heard in the Supreme Court, and most cases are decided upon by the lower courts.

  11. Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions? on Windows Fails 8% of the Time · · Score: 1

    The IEAK allows you to lockout features of IE. I just don't see it used often by IT departments.

  12. Re:Not true on Big Brother In Your Front Seat · · Score: 1

    Most people probably carry the minimum amount required by the state. Here in NM it's something like $25,000 per person/$50,000 per accident of liability. If the accident costs more than that, you're screwed anyways.

  13. Re:Other paths to "computer science" careers on Fewer Computer Science Majors · · Score: 1

    Strange, I worked as a software engineer at a company doing avionics and telemetry without a degree. I dropped my engineering major after 3 years. The chief software engineer there had a PHD in Psychology.

  14. Re:"Water"-cooling on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    That's its boiling point at 1 atm of pressure. If it were in a pressurized container, it might be possible to keep it from boiling.

  15. Re: This is a great idea for drag racing on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 1

    You know how you can never seem to find a red light to race the other guy at? Just get in front of all the other cars in both lanes, speed, get your red light, and now no one can claim the other "jumped the gun." I love it! ;-)

  16. Re:From sSomeone who pitches those PHB's... on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the Bud Ice commercials? Penguins are vicious.

  17. Re:$45 is a steal on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    I can buy OEM versions of XP Pro for $138 and XP Home for $90. I'm sure that large companies like Dell can get volume discounts that will reduce their costs.

  18. Re: I live in New Mexico on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Besides our legislature, police officers, and city council members, most of the people caught for drunk driving are driving cars that they've owned forever and wouldn't buy a new car, one with the device installed on it. I don't see how installing this device on new vehicles would solve the problem anytime soon.

    There is already a law on the books that allows installing a device like this in the vehicles of drivers convicted of DWI. The judges need to be less lenient and start ordering these be installed in those vehicles. Meanwhile, we have people who've been arrested multiple times for DWI that haven't served more than a few days in jail.

  19. Re:Software Patents (6,466,967) on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Patent# 6,466,967

    Looks like it should be easy enough to block:

    TABLE 1
    ADVERTISING TAG
    <SCRIPT SRC=http://unicast.com/loadad.js>
    AdServer="http://AdManagement system"
    </SCRIPT>

    One portion of the advertising tag (SRC=http://unicast.com/loadad.js), when executed by the browser, downloads a JavaScript file (named loadad.js) from the agent server. This file, in turn, is then interpreted and executed, as a script, by the browser. The effect of executing this script, as symbolized by block 200 shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, is to substitute applet tags, dynamically written by the script, into the referring web page in lieu of advertising tag 40 so as to form a modified web page, here referring content page 35', residing in the browser disk cache. The script, by invoking a feature associated with dynamic writing, completely hides these tags from view should the user then display HTML source code for page 35' with his browser. This, in turn, hinders the user, to a certain degree, from readily ascertaining the source of the agent and ad management systems. Collectively, these applet tags form Transition Sensor applet 210. This script, as described in detail below and is reproduced in Table 2 below, when interpreted and executed by a Java virtual machine (Java interpreter) resident in the browser persistently loads and then instantiates the Transition Sensor itself which, in turn, loads and instantiates the remainder of the agent in the client browser.


    TABLE 2
    TRANSITION SENSOR APPLET
    <applet code="com.unicast.adcontroller.tools.TransitionSen sor"
    codebase="http://www.unicast.com/java/classes/"
    align="baseline" width="0" height="0" name="TransitionSensor"
    archive="adcontroller.jar">
    <param name-"adURL"
    value="http://www.unicast.com/media/fireworks_01_a d_descriptor.txt">
    <param name="cabbase" value="adcontroller.cab">
    </applet>