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  1. Re:Overpriced? on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    Yes. But as I have an OEM copy of Windows XP Home, I expected this to be usual. What percentage of OEM WinXP installs include PowerDVD? Does the VAR boxed version of WinXP include PowerDVD? Maybe I was just lucky, but mine was definitely a low-end laptop.

  2. Re:Is linux really priced the same as MS? on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    Of course, many users would just buy SuSe Pro 9.1 for $89. Note that includes multiple installs for (most) packages.

  3. Re:Overpriced? on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    That's odd. I could have sworn that I could play DVD's out of the box on my laptop in XP.

  4. Re:I agree... on Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome · · Score: 1

    More like 5.0, which I purchased in early 1998, one week after I bought my first computer.

  5. Re:EDUCATION IS NOT SCHOOL. on The Flickering Mind · · Score: 1

    But it's also easy to detect Internet plagiarism. Type in a few sentences and run Google. It's even easier if they forget to take out the hyperlinks.

  6. Re:85% of tangible assets are not negligible on Tocqueville Blames U.S. IT Troubles On Free Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course, if your company is not primarily a vendor of proprietary software, then how does it lose 85% of its assets?

  7. Re:The technique on "Decryption" of Bush Memo · · Score: 1

    But how is Babelfish (or whatever translation software) supposed to deal with it?

  8. Re:The technique on "Decryption" of Bush Memo · · Score: 1

    That's not a mistranslation. "An" is the French word for "year"..

  9. Re:its not lazy so much as training on Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem · · Score: 1

    If you are only installing executables (not libraries), you could do the install in a subdirectory of $HOME, at least if the makefile allows the user to make that change.

  10. Re:I wonder...[50%- nah] on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    No. If twenty percent of units sold are laptops and the rest of the units sold are desktops, and each laptop sells for twice the price of each desktop, then desktops will generate two thirds of the total revenue, and laptops will generate one third of the revenue. By the way, if Intel does so well on laptops, why does mine have an Athlon?

  11. Re:Still using a customized HP41CV on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    Is that the one on the Space Shuttle?

  12. Re:LAME... on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    Did he mean USB mouse support? Or USB support in general. Gee, I'd like to be able to attach my calculator to my desktop, laptop, printer, whatever. I just love the sheer geekiness of the HP 48GX, and something like the parent wanted would be fun. Would I need it? No. Does anyone need a Lamborghini? A Rolex?

  13. Re:Good for basic math on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    They're already here, to some extent at least. The HP48 does some symbolic manipulation, including derivatives and some integrals.

  14. Re:*calc are dying on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    So I'm not the only one! I wrote a function to generate pseudorandom noise, and have used that as an alarm. I'm not sure how well my HP48 keeps time , though.

  15. Re:Names? on People Feel Loyalty To Computers · · Score: 1

    I name mine after logicians. My main box (Linux) is Aristotle; the Windows 95 box is Frege; another Linux box is Boole; and my laptop (Linux/WinXP Home) is Ockham.

  16. Re:IBM and Microsoft on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If IBM collapsed, who would support its mainframes?

  17. Re: Next James Bond Movie! on Military Develops Liquid Body Armor · · Score: 1

    What foreplay test? Austin: I never noticed those before. Fembot: Why don't you try some foreplay? Or did I miss something?

  18. Re:German on WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing · · Score: 1

    Is Microsoft telling members of the Open Source Community to jerk off?

  19. Re:Next James Bond Movie! on Military Develops Liquid Body Armor · · Score: 1

    No, the Elizabeth Hurley fembot had machine guns, not armor in her breasts

  20. Re:goes both ways... on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yielding power? To what? Or did you mean wielding?

  21. Atlas Shrugged and the GPL on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but the actual software was written by Hank Rearden.

  22. Re:The smartest.... bah on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1

    That may have been what the grandparent meant, but that's not what he/she wrote. Do try to use better notation.

  23. Re:The smartest.... bah on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1

    Actually, 99-99% is 99.00-0.99, which is 98.01. Also 50-50% is 49.50, not 25.

  24. Re:The real "problem" with mainframes on IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Actually, one could mount the loopback device in such a way that only certain accounts (put in a group with no other accounts) can access the data.