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  1. Re:It's not "free music" on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    And these companies, therefore, refuse to hire taxpayer supported orchestras to record music?

  2. Re:Disappointed on The Floating PowerBook · · Score: 1

    But if you were using Knoppix, would you need 40 gig of CF?

  3. Re:Problem Number One: on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Archimedes was a scientist in the 3rd century BC.

  4. Re:Problem Number One: on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Would the smart girls want to be Miss America?

  5. Re:Diagramming Sentences on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    But can one make English grammar sufficiently formal?

  6. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    I believe he mentioned his degree not to be pompous, but to show that we wasn't being antitechnological. Hey, if an someone with a degree in educational technology opposes computers in classrooms, that might mean more than if an average citizen (or a technophobe) took such a position.

  7. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    Why do scientists seem to insist that God has nothing to do with creation? To take a quote from Laplace, they have no need of that hypothesis.

    Science may not be able to explain everything, but can religion explain anything?

  8. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    And if the student doesn't have a class after lunch, then how would attendance levels drop?

  9. Re:a few starting ideas on Improving Education? · · Score: 1

    if foo, then blah blah blah. The comma before th[e]n is correct.

  10. Re:Bias in the player too? on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    In South Carolina, it's only a misdemeanor, but cockfighting is a felony. Go figure.

  11. Re:Look, out, John... on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    I was merely trying to say that breaking and entering could get you an additional sentence, over that which you would get for trespass/robbery.

  12. Re:Look, out, John... on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Forcing one's way into a house is breaking and entering, which is a separate crime from merely walking into a house whose door is open.

  13. Re:WAREZ suck. Use Linux on 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers · · Score: 1

    Grandparent said for Linux. And there is proprietary software for Linux, such as Railroad Tycoon II and Oracle.

  14. Re:I run Linux on Non-Technical Users Talk Malware · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter? But it's not simply that no single Linux browser is as buggy as Internet Explorer, it's that there is no single Linux browser as dominant (in Linux) as Internet Explorer is in Microsoft Windows. Even if script kiddies could exploit one browser in Linux, users could choose others, and competitive pressure would force the developers of the exploited browser to fix it or lose users.

    And what principle are you talking about?

  15. Re:You'll never get rid of it. on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    And if what the person says has no meaning? Am I just supposed to be polite and act as though it has meaning?

  16. Re:A question of trust on Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception · · Score: 1

    One of the criteria involved the software not showing an End User License Agreement in the user's normal computer experience. What is the software doesn't doesn't have an End User License Agreement?

  17. Re:The GPL helps Microsoft on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    The original poster said that one couldn't sell GPLed software.

    As for SUSE, it may now be subsidized by Novell, but how did it exist before then? And without the software, would it get the subsidies?

    If Red Hat didn't have the software, then what services could it sell in the first place? And how much does it cost Red Hat to produce GPLed software? It employs some kernel developers, but does it spend that much on development?

  18. Re:How does transparancy improve my productivity? on Windows Longhorn Beta Screenshots · · Score: 1

    There are minimize buttons on Linux desktop windows. Why the GP doesn't use them, I don't know.

  19. Re:wanna guess who the 3rd party was? on Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab · · Score: 1

    Linux isn't going to figure out what it wants itself to be because Linux is a product, not a company. Also, why is it a conflict to offer a choice between a GUI and a CLI?

  20. Re:No, No, No. on Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab · · Score: 1

    I'm perfectly happy paying $90 for SUSE. I'll probably buy SUSE 9.4 (10.0?) when it comes out.

  21. Re:I run Linux on Non-Technical Users Talk Malware · · Score: 1

    And what Linux-compatible browser is as buggy as Internet Explorer?

    Also, a program might require libfoo.so.3 and the user has libfoo.so.2. Some software won't compile.

  22. Re:ROMs on Ballmer on Innovation · · Score: 1

    When did Microsoft lead before the IBM period? And on what machines? Were those machines IBM compatible?

  23. Re:I run Linux on Non-Technical Users Talk Malware · · Score: 1

    You made a similar claim, as I asked why a compiler would help the script kiddies, and you replied that executables might not be compatible across platforms. OK, but the requisite libraries might not be compatible across install.

    Many Windows users trigger viruses/malware by browsing with Internet Explorer. How are going to do that in Linux?

  24. Re:A very incomplete list off the top of my head on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    And Microsoft shows a developer using emacs? And 10-15 what?

  25. Re:ROMs on Ballmer on Innovation · · Score: 1

    So if IBM had used another chip and another OS, people would not have bought their computers?