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  1. Oops on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    The principal benefit is not so much in simplifying calculations, but rather in that spread may be specifiable in contexts where angle is not.

  2. Re:huh? on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 1

    But "most" quadrances and spreads in the real plane would be irrational, so you could never calculate all of the decimal places.

  3. Re:Anyone against SVG? on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 1

    The author isn't clear about why they couldn't compile on Intel's Linux compiler. Yes, gcc is the usual Linux compiler, but how many Windows users have compliers at all?

  4. Re:Hilton hacked....isn't there a video of this? on Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of chastity belts?

  5. Re:Include IT issues as a KPI on IT Departments Are A Security Risk · · Score: 1

    K Personnel Issue? What does the "K" stand for?

  6. Re:Use the existing system for settlement of claim on Doctors Sue Patients for Online Complaints · · Score: 1

    Of course only medical specialists have the requisite competence, but do they have the requisite honesty?

    And how are such judgments publicized, if at all?

  7. Re:Use the existing system for settlement of claim on Doctors Sue Patients for Online Complaints · · Score: 1

    If no legal documents are signed, then how does a patient's entering a doctor's office obligate the patient to nondisclosure?

    The confidentiality that doctors owe patients is different.

    And these experts and specialists are physicians, no? Hmm. . . So people can only protest bad medical care to medical professionals?

  8. Re:Kernel vs User Mode for filesystem on Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser · · Score: 3, Informative

    The quote is genuine, but it is from Linus Torvalds. Gee, he really believes that Linux kernel developers do things because those things are right? How'd have thought that?

  9. You say tomato, I say tomato . . . on Microsoft Skips Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    So it's (Microsoft Windows)(Malicious ((Software Removal) tool)). Dang, I could have sworn it was (Microsoft Windows) ((Malicious Software) (Removal Tool)).

    Let's write it all in Lisp.

  10. Re:Longivity on A Look At MS's MA Talking Points · · Score: 1

    But it was a colony (with its own legislature and governor) before that (sometime in the 1600's).

  11. Re:Open Office on A Look At MS's MA Talking Points · · Score: 1

    And how is OpenOffice.org that much different to use from Microsoft Word?

  12. Re:T... F... A! on Microsoft Skips Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool? So Microsoft admits that some of its software is malicious, and that users should remove it?

  13. Re:word != layout app on Microsoft Lashes out at Massachusetts IT Decision · · Score: 1

    And what printer can't handle LaTeX? Would using ghostscript help?

  14. Re:It's not the software . . . on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    And Encase is Microsoft Windows only, so how would one use it on Linux?

  15. Re:Are You Kidding Me? on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Can they run those tools on non-Microsoft filesystems, such as reiserfs?

  16. Re:Word Viewer on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    I didn't see SuSE 9.2 in the list of supported platforms.

  17. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    Because only Massachusetts is home to the Free Software Foundation?

  18. Re:Inadvertant note about why OS X so nice to use on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    UNIX was the platform for which TCP/IP was first developed, but the Internet predated TCP/IP.

  19. Re:This is what amazes me on Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux? · · Score: 1

    If the number of people who need to set up a name server is really small, then why did you list BIND in the first place? Also, wouldn't people who need a name server know how to set up BIND? And if they didn't know, might they create a security risk?

    Your definition of "darkness" seems to be "anything requiring cognitive effort", which is unusual, to say the the least.

  20. Re:Sadly. on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I had lived in Denver before they built DIA, and I wondered why they just didn't pave over the waste. Well, at least Mayor Peña wasn't rewarded for that boondoggle by being named US Secretary of Transportation. Oh wait. :-)

  21. Re:This is what amazes me on Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux? · · Score: 1

    Linux is ready for my desktop, something that Microsoft Windows isn't.

    I haven't has those problems with k3b.

  22. Re:This is what amazes me on Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux? · · Score: 1

    And of course, all versions of Microsoft Windows include this software? Also, Yast allows one to configure DNS by means of a GUI.

    Additionally, how does Microsoft Windows store DNS configuration data? Does it store them in text files, or registry settings, or what? In Linux, the configuration data are stored in text files, which are as transparent as one can get.

  23. Re:Sadly. on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that DIA is smaller than Stapleton? I had heard that they could not expand Stapleton because of buried toxic waste.

  24. Re:DIA, a monument to the past on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    34,000 acres that might have been nice farmland? Are those acres any different from the millions of acres in Eastern Colorado?

  25. Re:Sadly. on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    And where would they put the runways? I can't stand how DIA is in the middle of nowhere (yes, I've been there), but space for an airport doesn't occur just anywhere.

    Or is my sarcasm detector on the blink?