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  1. Safari Solution (Mac) on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    In the same vane as the Firefox fix, you can switch Safari's user agent identification buy activating the Debug menu scrolling down to User Agent and choosing Windows MSIE 6.0. Apps that allow you to active Safari's Debug menu include: Safari Debug Safari Debugger Safari Enhancer Cocktail

  2. Re:Anime as real life ? on Power Armor For the Elderly · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Bubblegum Crisis myself.

  3. Some Points. on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 1

    RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, and Microsoft's proposed standard are all dialects of XML. This means each dialect is compatible with it's XML roots it may not be compatible with other dialects. If Microsoft actually honors the Sharealike thing it will be a good thing. If they do not honor it, which is not beyond the scope of their standard operating procedure, then they will likely screw up other formats. As far as there being no way to track or organize RSS feeds, my default RSS reader uses catagories where I can put specific subscriptions of my choice in. I can sort the individual stories by when they arrived, their title, their sources. I can search them using one or more keyword. I can flag them for later perusal and search. That's all I could ask.

  4. Sorry patents are going to stop the problems on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 1

    The video game industry is starting to get a little sterile (along with some of the other media industries). Proof of this exists exists in how many games are basically new skins layered onto existing engines and considering that at least half the time it happens the same company owns the rights to both the original game and the reskinned title no amount of patents will solve this problem.

  5. Re:Intel are more than just processors on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Truth be told. Apple has been using Intel chips for a long while. USB, PCI, PCI-E, & AGP were all Intel developments and there's little doubt you could find an Intel controller chip to one if not all of the the devices that have them.

  6. Re: iTunes Incompatibility... on Is Apple The New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Your argument starts breaking down in age of digital media. I can't be the only person to remember Divx DVDs. There are also Music CDs that refuse to work in all CD ROMs and Players. You are also ignoring the fact that while music from some the other online music services out there play on a greater number of players they also do not play on all players.

  7. Re:There is no first amendment issue here on Is Apple The New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    You are correct about that. While these situation do little for Apple's public image, walking the line between maintaining their public image and maintaining their product integrity is difficult. I love Apple's product as much as the next person but you wouldn't see me violating a NDA if I had one with Apple. You'd also never see me posting material which could obviously only be obtained through a NDA leak. Anyone with any sense sees how fast leaked Apple info get picked up and copied by every other company out there. I mean look how there were iPod Shuffle knockoffs within 2 days of the Shuffles being announced. Apple has every right to protect that information until they decide to release it to the public. I really have wonder how all you nay-sayers would protect that information if you were in Apple's position? How would you crack down on the NDA violators? I'd have a hard time believing you'd limit yourself to subpoenas for information like Apple is doing.

  8. Re:A class act on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the grease monkeys are the nerds with some sort of mechanical aptitude.

  9. The idea is okay if incomplete. on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    If I were able, I'd take the electrophoresis equipment & the hydrogen engine to make a hydrogen-electric hybrid. I'd leave the option for solar cells. I'd also route the exhaust back into the fuel tank saving on fuel. (Hydrogen forms water when combusted, meaning that if the exhaust is dumped back into the fuel tank the tank would just have to be topped off every now and then.) I'd use the energy generated from the hydrogen engine to charge the batteries for the electric motor and to assist in the electrophoresis.

    I'd use the electric motor to save on fuel usage. The batteries for the electric motor could be used in start the process of electrophoresis.

    With the solar option one could charge the batteries and/or convert fuel for the hydrogen motor.

  10. Business Arms Race on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 1

    DRM is unfortunately the future. Piracy is a legitimate concern and the only real solution to it is technology, and then only if its updated on the protection end to keep pace with the rest of technology. The RIAA's actions as of late should prove how effective things like lawsuits are. The trouble with the Real situation is using their own DRM and Real isn't providing Apple with enough incentive to add support for their DRM as well as FairPlay's & Audible nor is it willing to try to license a DRM which Apple already supports. Instead Real has decided to take a backdoor approach. You also have to ask yourself how serious can real be if it's not providing service to the smaller but historically lucrative Mac community. After all iTMS was consistently outselling all of its competitors even before it became cross-platform and it remains the only online music service that supports both Mac and Windows. Apple has made significant strives to support multiple media formats for both iTunes and the iPod. They both support AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV plus you can add Ogg Vorbis support under iTunes and the Windows version of iTunes handles unprotected WMA conversion.

  11. Don't know if it been pointed out yet. on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    Odds are the EPA was basing their mileage figures on those used in Japan. (Hybrid cars are actually used over there.) If so then they made a critical mistake. They did not account for the difference in the Japanese traffic/road system and America's. American drivers tend to drive faster and on more uninterrupted stretches of road. At higher speeds the gasoline engines on hybrid vehicles are used and usually those are no more efficient that their counterparts on regular cars. Secondly, while energy return system built into the brakes is very efficient, it is not sufficient enough to keep the electric motors power cells charged if the number of times which one stops the car is significantly reduced. Once the power cell are depleted to a certain point the gasoline motor is forced to kick in and propel the vehicle and recharge the power cells until such time the electric motor can be reliably used again. Both these principles reduce the mileage these vehicles are capable of acheiving.