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  1. Re:Trackball on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used to use the Logitech Trackman Marble (with the thumb-controlled ball). I used it through college, but near the end of my terms, I began to feel a bit of pain near the base of my thumb. To this day, I still feel that pain, even though it's been a few years since I swapped back to a normal mouse.

    It was nice when I used it, but now, I have to use a normal mouse for my hands.

  2. Re:Trackball on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    Does the one on MX automagically become freespinning? On the VX, I have a lever on the bottom I have to move to switch between the two modes....

  3. Re:OS X was finally my opportunity to learn UNIX on Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix · · Score: 1

    It was either that or the years of sedentary lifestyle coupled with unhealthy diet choices. Yeah, I'd go with your Nano theory too :)

  4. Re:practical? on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 1

    This process can take place anywhere, even in non-desirable desert lands that get plenty of sunlight. The land is cheap, not in competition with cities and other industries because quite frankly, it is a desert.

    I'm getting weird visions of Las Vegas being the next Saudi Arabia :)

  5. Re:Windows coders on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    How exactly are application limitations the fault of the OS?

    My employer has a program here that only requires elevated priviledges for installing itself a service. Otherwise, it's quite happy running anywhere it damned well pleases, whether that's C:\Program Files\ or \\some_server\some_user\proggie. Since it's optional to run this product as a service, it doesn't require the use of elevated priviledges.

  6. Re:When will pico ATX be affordable? on Shuttle SDXi Water-Cooled SFF PC · · Score: 1

    System form-factor the size of a Micro-SD card? You sneeze, and *poof*, your system is gone.

  7. Re:I call BS on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    We are already buying Japanese cars... your "pay enough" attitude.

    Except the Japanese cars tend to cost more, both new and used, than their domestic counterparts. Consumers are willing to pay more for perceived quality in large-ticket items as cars, but perhaps not for commoditised items like TVs?

  8. Re:Happy to see government agencies doing right on FAA Plans to Clean Up the Skies · · Score: 1

    vs. having fewer large aircraft in a hub-and-spoke: still slow due to fuel bits, still noisy and still cramped because you're sitting in cattle class, but now you have to make multiple flights.

  9. Re:100,000 feet is well within the atmosphere on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    So that article's "abuse" and this one's "funny walks"?

  10. Re:And on Mac OS X... on Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    trillian can....

    maybe trillian reverse engineered?

  11. Re:Simple solution. on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I was not clear, and for that, I apologise. In many Linux distributions I've encountered, many unnecessary modules are compiled in, and not as modules. My challenge was "easily remove compiled-in modules".

    BTW - your command-line has an error. It should be:
    rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/[type]/[name] :)

  12. Re:Simple solution. on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can completely remove all network stacks if you wish. Yes, remove.

  13. Re:Simple solution. on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. Can you do me a favour and "easily remove" kernel modules from any OS please. Meanwhile, removing the IPv6 stack from Windows is trivial -- just a few clicks of the mouse, and you're there.

    I'm not a Windows apologist by any stretch of the imagination, but this blatant misinformation needs to be corrected.

  14. Re:Very funny, but... on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    No, the GP is saying with this bug, there's even more resistance. He's not saying Vista will suddenly spur interest; he's saying this bug will quash what little interest there was will be smaller.

  15. Re:The obvious problem... on Copying HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs May Become Legal · · Score: 1

    (of course it is not hosted at disney.com, that would make too much sense)

    Disney owns go.com, and when you go to disney.com, you get redirected to home.disney.go.com, so I'm not quite sure what your beef is. Is it that you tried to google for it on disney.com?

  16. Re:The shipbreaking essay is pretty sweet too on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 1

    Actually, the link GP posted was from Bangladesh ;)

  17. Re:WTF on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 1

    It does come with EDGE.

  18. Re:It's there, and it works on The State of Open Source 3D Modeling · · Score: 1

    Sure he did. The post you reference was written by the same person who submitted this story.

  19. Just Discovered? on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a picture from 10 April. Look at #2.

  20. Re:Not exactly news on Russia's Floating Nuclear Plants Under Fire From Greens · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, there have been military Nuclear Accidents, some by the United States Military. While none of the US-based accidents are naval, one must consider if taken as a generator, are the amount spent on a per-MW basis by the US Navy competitive with other power generation methods? Since the Navy is not in power generation business, it is not something they quantify, but my guess is that they spend far more than a utility can afford to maintain their fleet.

  21. Re:Root Cause on Linux Systems and the New DST · · Score: 1

    So move to Kyushu, where the sun rises later and sets later.

  22. Re:is storage that big of an issue anymore? on MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain · · Score: 3, Funny

    256kHz and 512kHz? I can't hear much above 20kHz, nor do I think my computer can produce that sound in the 16bit-44kHz audio formats, given Nyquist limits.

  23. Re:plane-LAN to WAN? on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your signature sentence ends in an ellipsis, but you do not terminate it with a full stop. In addition, you use a comma where a semicolon is due. Please turn in your Grammar Nazi insignia ASAP.

  24. Re:"Follow the money"? on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming · · Score: 1

    How do you short it when you can't borrow the shares from your brokerage firm? It's not like these stocks have options you can trade, you know.

  25. Re:But they didn't upgrade it. on Upgrading Hard Drive in Sony HDR-SR1 HDD Camcorder · · Score: 1

    I think you need to adjust your settings a bit -- my IBM Thinkpad's LCd resolves the different shades and gies me sufficient detail.