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  1. Re:How WWW Can Taint A Corporation on How P2P Can Taint a Career · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that I have no right to mess up the system? Is the system so perfect, so sacred, that none may mess with it?

  2. Re:How WWW Can Taint A Corporation on How P2P Can Taint a Career · · Score: 1

    But what if the ideology is part of the product? Would a Linux distro be the same, and would it include the same development tools, if Linux were proprietary?

  3. Re:Let's hope so on Man Convicted For Hacking Xbox · · Score: 1

    Others have pointed out that it is illegal to mod chips in the UK.

  4. Re:Designers/Administrators get paid on In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down. · · Score: 1

    Americans make Nike? Isn't it all produced elsewhere?

  5. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Oops, so does mine. I hadn't noticed that, thanks.

  6. Re:If Windows is so ugly... on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Two words: multiple desktops.

  7. Re:It's the UNIX way on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    I can't speak of vim, but what is hard about emacs? Open up a text file and type. The syntax highlighting makes stuff even easier.

  8. Re:Just an idea, but on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    I run pretty much a full version of Linux on my cheapo Averatec. OK I can't get the built-in modem to work, nor 3D acceleration, nor MIDI. However, those are nitpicks. What reductions in Linux did you mean?

    What problems are you having with power management?

  9. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    I have several browsers open all the time. What's the problem? Of course, KDE 3.3 allows for only 16 desktops.

  10. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Nice, but slower than bc.

  11. Re:Garbage on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Hmm. . . Or just use bc?

  12. Re:The registry on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    And this is easier than backing up /etc?

  13. Re:Simple on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    Ca is unwanted? But it does a body good!

  14. Re:Simple on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    It is actually possible to get "inert" gases to react.

  15. Re:Simple on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    I'd rater avoid the uranium. What about Cu + Ar = Au + Cr?

  16. Re:PHP editorfor Linux, anyone? on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but apt-get doesn't work on SuSE. Now where did I put that Knoppiz disk?

  17. Re:Fubon? on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 1

    Fouled up beyond our net (worth)?

  18. Re:Why bother? on The 12-minute Windows Heist · · Score: 1

    Some of us prefer competent software design over charity.

  19. Re:Wrong. on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    Ah, now I see.

  20. Re:PHP editorfor Linux, anyone? on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    It does? How does one invoke php mode in GNU emacs?

  21. Re:Wrong. on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    Then is it continuous?

  22. Re:Wrong. on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    Continuous firing? Isn't there a maximum rate?

  23. Re:Patent insanity on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    But if Y is similar to X, can it sufficiently novel to patent?

  24. Re:No more business from AMD on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was handed to them by IBM. Which is rather ironic, as IBM might not have handed it to Microsoft but for its own antitrust issues.

  25. Re:About time... on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    Maybe 2.6GHz? My Athlon 1600+ is amost 1.4GHz.