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  1. Replacing stuff with homogeneous crap on Microsoft Bans 'Democracy' for China's Web Users · · Score: 1

    Starbucks -- the Microsoft of coffee?

  2. Re:Now, I hate them on Chalkboards With Brains · · Score: 1

    But whiteboards allow for better contrast with more colors. Also, it's easier to hold markers sideways to write on the board while facing the students.

    Also, plain whiteboards aren't that expensive.

  3. Re:Inquiring minds want to know! on New MS Shell Will Not Be In Longhorn · · Score: 1

    What, no
    #include ?

    They couldn't spell "world" properly?

    Also, doesn't main return int rather than void?

  4. Obligatory BBSpot item on If Bad Software Developers Built Houses... · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the house be made of Macromedia Flash?

  5. Re:vaporware on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    If I set the default initial runlevel to 6, then I reboot with Knoppix and correct the error. Ah! Good old text files!

  6. Re:No Calculators Util College on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    What about trigonometry? Or should they solve triangles using trig tables?

  7. Not quite on Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they be numbered 0, 1, and 2?

  8. Re:It's the Peter Pan connection! on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 1

    No, I would prefer that the copyright terminate. I'm glad I live in a country where copyright is constitutionally restricted to be limited.

  9. Re:It's the Peter Pan connection! on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 2

    I don't disagree that it was an act of charity. I do disagree that it is an appropriate basis of law.

    I have a problem with treating charity as an excuse in such a case.

  10. Re:Red light cameras on Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed? · · Score: 1

    I remember that one. The perp (played by Dabny Coleman) had some stuff on his car (where the windshield meets the hood) that only came from one place in LA.

    And it was the absence of a shadow from the perp's nose that allowed Columbo to nail him. Columbo drove that road in such a way as to get a ticket photo (at roughly the same time of day) and noticed a shadow under his nose.

  11. Re:A file type by any other name. . . on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    I guess running ant isn't an option.

  12. Re:Or not on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    But you left out the provability part. The arithmetic of the integers may be consistent, but we can't prove it.

  13. A file type by any other name. . . on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 2, Funny

    I realize that *.hiv stands for hive, but I still believe that Microsoft could have come up with a better name. No wonder Windows is so susceptible to infection!

  14. Re:Do you understand Rand? on HHS Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell · · Score: 1

    But the government, in this case, is the consumer.

    As for the minus costs, oops. Still, given that software development is mostly fixed costs, this would have interesting effects.

    Also, why are we starting this now?

  15. Re:Dear ISVs: Steve hopes you like tasting his wan on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    What, no BSD? And what's wrong with Linux?

  16. Re:Or not on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    No. It's limited in the provability of completeness and/or consistency. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says nothing of correctness.

  17. Re:Also consider the ease-of-use on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Boot? I'll have to reboot to play a game?

  18. Re:Not at all... on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to make console games without having a license?

  19. Re:I highly doubt it. on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Xbox have USB ports?

  20. Re:Some games already support mice and keyboards on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    And if getting a game approved for Xbox 360 requires that it has mouse-style controls?

  21. Re:HHS is Directed by Leavitt on HHS Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell · · Score: 1

    But Novell's headquarters and principal executive offices are in Waltham, Massachusetts.

  22. Do you understand Rand? on HHS Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell · · Score: 1

    Given that Orren Boyle has three times as many furnaces as Henry Rearden, for each $1,000 that the government spends on Rearden Metal, it should give $3,000 to Orren Boyle.

    Perhaps we should not have an HHS. But as long as we do, it should not be "market neutral", but rather use the best product for its purposes. The government would be locking in a market leader simply because it led at this time, not because it deserves its lead.

    Also, the money that Novell gets is not pure profit, as Novell has to provide goods and services. Microsoft would just get free money (talk about socialism!).

  23. Re:The Touareg Uranium Caravan on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    The ocean route is better if you aren't blockaded. Also, the Germans might have attempted using trucks instead of camels (though if even Rommel couldn't get gas in North Africa, I don't know about a truck convoy).

    I was trying to be skeptical of such a possibility.

  24. Re:Great news on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 1

    Hmm. . . So my scripts for converting latex to gimp are now xxx?

  25. NiCD? on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    NiCD? Nickel-Carbon-?

    Or did you mean NiCad?