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  1. nr 1 reason: Visual Studio on Dell To Offer Win XP On Consumer PCs Again · · Score: 1

    I'll keep XP because of several reasons :

    1) Nobody mentions this but Vista is incompatible with Visual Studio 2002/2003.
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853. aspx
    http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26 /772250.aspx
    http://www.techworld.nl/article/2436/problemen-vis ta-en-visual-studio-zorgen-voor-onrust.html

    Also, VS 2005SP1 doesn't seem to play nicely as it does on XP when you look at this laundry list of issues
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa964140. aspx

    2) XP just plain works! I develop on a latitude 810 and it would crawl under Vista.

    3) i'd like to install windows XP on my Intel iMac under Bootcamp. Vista is too unstable for that and as i'm only running it as a secondary OS along OS X i won't make the extra investment.

    there's probably loads of other things to consider but these were mine;)

  2. browsercaps on Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE? · · Score: 1

    Webmasters that force IE sould be fired. in ASP.net there is such a thing as a web.config file, where you can use browsercaps to detect and render for firefox, opera, etc.. http://slingfive.com/pages/code/browserCaps/ http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/browsercaps.asp if you use it, please give credit to Rob (@slingfive) Eberhardt because he did us a great service. cheers

  3. Re:Did Spamhaus actually pay? on Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming · · Score: 1

    err. UK

  4. Re:Did Spamhaus actually pay? on Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming · · Score: 1

    no. the suit is not receivable in Germany.

  5. easy on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 1

    make spamming illegal in the whole US. Apparently it's ok to spam according to some US judges :
    http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3

  6. not first on New Extended SSL Certs Make Online Debut · · Score: 1
  7. Re:All is new on Birth of an Island · · Score: 1

    OP thought he was original by posting stuff from august. BUT it remains cool though.

  8. Re:I spy with my rich eye. on Birth of an Island · · Score: 1

    a temp guy i work with (in accounting) quit his job last friday to go (back to) sailing again in his one-man sailing boat. he plans to get away 3+ years, cross the atlantic and go round tierra del fuego. we're going to track him on the map and were already betting as to how long he'll make it : cross here he was, cross there he stopped, cross there he sunk ;) ..

  9. that's wishful thinking on The Death of the "Cell Phone" · · Score: 1

    i use my cellphone 70% for speaking and 30% for SMS. i dont even know how to access this wap thing. i mean what's the sense in surfing on such a tiny screen. get real.

  10. Re:Developers and SQL on The Art of SQL · · Score: 1

    then make a few standard views and query on those. i'll bet your joins will be smaller.

  11. Re:something about a bridge in New York... on Hyperdrive and Space Propulsion · · Score: 1

    Exactly why we need to find a way to get off this planet faster. Earth cannot sustain economic growth as it is now unless we limit it (impossible), or find new resources. It's all about Lebensraum, mein Freund. "Kuwait's largest oil field has peaked and is now in decline," "there is serious speculation that Saudi Arabia's giant Ghawar oil field is either at peak or is very close," "Global warming is clearly a fact," "The antarctic is melting off at an uncomfortable clip not to mention Greenland" "Population growth continues unabated "

  12. Re:why the speed of light is not a barrier to brea on Hyperdrive and Space Propulsion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your opinion is yours. but it sounds awfully like the 19th century opponents of trains. "ooh the human body cannot sustain speeds in excess of 20 mph, it's just unnatural". Railway travel (general) "I see what will be the effect of it; that it will set the whole world a-gadding. Twenty miles an hour, sir! - Why, you will not be able to keep an apprentice boy at his work! Every Saturday evening he must have a trip to Ohio to spend a Sunday with his sweetheart. Grave plodding citizens will be flying about like comets. All local attachments will be at an end. It will encourage flightiness of intellect. Veracious people will turn into the most immeasurable liars. All conceptions will be exaggerated by the magnificent notions of distance. -- Only a hundred miles off!--Tut, nonsense, I'll step across, madam, and bring your fan'...And then, sir, there will be barrels of port, cargoes of flour, chaldrons of coal, and even lead and whiskey, and such like sober things that have always been used to slow travelling -- whisking away like a sky rocket. It will upset all the gravity of the nation...Upon the whole, sir, it is a pestilential, topsy-turvy, harm-scarum whirligig. Give me the old, solemn, straight forward, regular Dutch Canal - three miles an hour for expresses, and two rod jog-trot journeys -- with a yoke of oxen for heavy loads. I go for beasts of burden. It is more formative and scriptural, and suits a moral and religious people better. -- None of your hop skip and jump whimsies for me." Source: From the Western Sun of Vincennes, Indiana, July 24, 1830, as quoted by Seymour Dunbar in A History of Travel in America, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1915, Vol. III. p. 938. http://www.foresight.org/News/negativeComments.htm l Just keep your horse then...

  13. Re:Why can't they just have a regular guy... on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    Oh yes they can.. and do ! I guess you never saw Stargate then hmm? Samantha Carter, Phd, USAF Major, the brightest light this side of Pluto , and the hottest one too...

  14. there's always Ragtime solo.. on Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.ragtime-online.com/ it beats Openoffice hands down. just my ,02