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  1. OSS != noncommercial on Programmers Learn to Check Code Earlier for Holes · · Score: 1

    I've purchased copies of some Linux distributions (most recent, SUSE 10.0).

  2. Re:Blissful ignorance on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    What sphere? GSOs are confined to being over the equator at a given altitude. It's more like a hula-hoop than a sphere

  3. Re:Blissful ignorance on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    Space may be huge, but the portion of space suitable for geosynchronous orbits is not.

  4. Re:What about Biggs at the beginning? on Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD · · Score: 1

    Jabba had a palace on Hoth? Or did you mean Return of the Jedi?

  5. Re:Cripes on Easing Compatibility Between OpenOffice, MS Office · · Score: 1

    But MathML is XML, not HTML.

  6. Re:repo software on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1

    But what if the repoer works for the dealer? Would that make it simpler?

  7. Re:Another BS prediction on John Dvorak's Eight Signs MS is Dead in the Water · · Score: 1

    The per-unit price of Microsoft Office isn't that low, although it might not be commodity software.

  8. Re:Cripes on Easing Compatibility Between OpenOffice, MS Office · · Score: 1

    No, it wouldn't be nice if we were all using CSS/html. How would I write math?

  9. Re:Good. on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Why do you believe that the increase was "arbitrary"? The fact that people were willing to pay the higher price means that the increase was not arbitrary. If Joe didn't want to wind up paying $2.50 than he should have clicked earlier.

  10. Re:Good. on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    So first you insist on supply/demand analysis, and then when I suggest that more popular songs might have greater demand, you reply that only the supply matters.

    I will point out that musical talent is in finite supply. Also, is the price of a CD affected by demand? After all, it generally costs less to replicate a CD than its market price. Also, there is only a 1 to infinity ratio if copying is not rampant.

  11. Re:Can't be any worse than parts 3 and 4... on 'Revenge of the Nerds' Remake in the Works · · Score: 1

    didn't say it wasn't (or was). I was merely pointing out that there was a Part III.

  12. Re:Good. on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a more popular song have greater demand?

  13. Re:Can't be any worse than parts 3 and 4... on 'Revenge of the Nerds' Remake in the Works · · Score: 1

    Warning: plot spoilage

    There's a Part III. Lewis(?) is married to the cheerleader, the quarterback (Stan Gable) is installed as president of Adams, Booger is an ambulance chaser (literally), The administration plants a bag of marijuana in the Lambda house in an attempt to break up Lambda Lambda Lambda, etc.

  14. Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy on Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary · · Score: 1

    If you want to replace the frame, as opposed to the wheels, then you better have access to the source code. What if the changes you want can't be done by means of extensions? Also, if you don't want to change the frame, there is still no harm in having the source code.

  15. Re:Dual-booting with Vista IS more difficult... on Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? · · Score: 1

    I didn't edit boot.ini, as I installed Linux over Windows XP. Why can't one do the same with Vista?

  16. Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy on Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary · · Score: 1

    But what if you want to change Firefox or Apache itself?

  17. Re:Karnak joke... on Your Thoughts Are Your Password · · Score: 1

    Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson, as well as a former Budweiser spokesman.

  18. Re:This can't possibly surprise anyone on Viiv Falls Flat · · Score: 1

    But Doug McIlroy can make even pipe dreams come true :-)

  19. Re:One problem with SVG on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I wasn't really worried about icons; I thought that the original poster was discussing graphics in general.

    The problem with converting to bezier is that most graphs require having many small bezier elements, and this requirement leads to having larger SVGs than PNGs.

  20. Re:A designer's perspective on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    Given this statement, the existing option of using relative sized type that will scale relative to other type on the page and maintain that relationship... is only half of the equation.... the compositional layout still ends up broken, ie: the important graphic on the page no longer has the hierarchical and visual importance it was supposed to have in the design because all the text on the page is suddenly 2X bigger and the visual combination of text and graphic no longer communicates the message effectively and has become a cramped, chunky, messy version of what it was intended to be.

    And if the text is too small for someone to read, does that communicate the message effectively? If the site doesn't fit someone's display, does that communicate the message effectively?

  21. Re:pipedream on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    To what extent is it possible to adapt web sites to cell phones?

  22. Re:gets it half-right on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    One can set the dpi on an LCD monitor, but unless its the "built-in" dpi, the text won't look good.

  23. Re:One problem with SVG on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    I was speaking of the graph, not the text. And I might want to put such a graph in a web page.

  24. Re:gets it half-right on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    But can't the default font size be left to the browser instead of the site? I don't believe that the GP is complaining about font sizes in his *own* default settings.

  25. One problem with SVG on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    How does one graph y=x^2-5x+3 in SVG? One can graph it in LaTeX using PSTricks, and then convert it to SVG (I've written a script to do this). The problem is that such a conversion uses lots of small bezier curves to render the graph in SVG. One could get a smaller file by converting to PNG.