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  1. Re:Donations accepted? on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 1

    OT, but because of your post, I finally understand the significance of ^H. It's a backspace!!!

  2. Re:If you ever say PODCAST again... on Best Science News Podcasts? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or "screamcast". Yeah...that's sweet.

  3. Re:Nice on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Sweet signature.

  4. Re:enlighten me please on GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE? · · Score: 1

    Not true. This object model is the best I've ever worked with, hands down. The ease at which complex tasks can be performed is astounding. It may be 1990s tech, but every other framework has a lot to learn from this one.

  5. Re:What doesn't Eclipse do? on Using the Ruby Dev-Tools plug-in for Eclipse · · Score: 1

    I can't find one for Objective C. I've been looking.

  6. Re:Won't somebody think of the children? on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 1

    Specialize, and you breed in weakness.

  7. Re:Needs Shockwave on Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook · · Score: 1

    I wish I had some mod points, because I want to mod you down badly, you close minded fool.

  8. Re:Does that mean... on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    Dude, Ikea instructions rock. I actually feel excited about assembling something so that I can see the interesting ways they present the steps.

  9. Re:The Supreme Court disagrees on RIAA Sues a Child · · Score: 1

    You arrogant idiots. All you do is nitpick at everything. It's wrong, don't deny it. You're not paying for something that costs money.

  10. Re:Google Conquers all on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but I for one actually believe that...well, maybe not the uprising. Possible I suppose.

  11. Domain Names with International Characters on First Anti-Phishing Law Enacted in California · · Score: 2, Informative

    Including the part where it says "https://www.ebay.com" in the address bar?

    Actually, some phishing sites can do just that using international characters in the domain name. For example, a lower-case Cyrillic 'a' looks almost the same as the lowercase Latin 'a'. The only difference is the Unicode.

    This problem only exists with Firefox, and can be turned off easily, but it does exist.

  12. Re:Oh great, *MORE* advertising... on BitTorrent Gets $8.75M From Venture-Capital Firm · · Score: 1

    Try using BitComet. It's fast, doesn't consume too much memory and doesn't have ads. It has some nice features too (like being able to set priority on individual files within a download).

  13. Re:Do you really want to know? on Bad Reporting, Not Email, Worse Than Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about tobacco?

    For all you know, the dangers of tobacco are an inherent quality of the plant itself...although I must admit it seems likely that inhaling the smoke of any plant isn't too good for you.

  14. Re:really that bad? on Bad Reporting, Not Email, Worse Than Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I gave it up and quit. Haven't smoked in years, but all my friends still do.

  15. Re:I thought nerds were supposed to be smart! on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 1

    The swf file format is well-documented and available for download from Macromedia. Also, there is now an open-source compiler that can produce the swf bytecode from actionscript source. So, your last statement about no specifications being available is just flat out not true.

  16. Re:Long Road on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 1

    Actually, it can...quite easily. It's just not fast enough to do anything complicated.

  17. Re:Wireless Internet in Canada? Been there, done t on Canada-Wide Wireless Broadband Network Planned · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I used to have internet on UTM campus (live off campus now), and it was TERRIBLE. 10 gig download per month or something. I would sometimes kill my internet after a week.

  18. Re:Or learn a real programming language.. on PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice · · Score: 1

    Well, it's definately a nicer language to write (and VS.NET just makes it so FUN to code)...but to go as far as saying it's better? It's just another tool.

  19. Re:PHP vs. RoR? on PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, I know this is totally trolling, but FEARCE...bahahaha

  20. use mirrordot on Kurt Cagle's OpenSVG Keynote · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Perhaps not the right approach for the market on Google Instant Messenger all Rumor · · Score: 1

    It's said that a third of Canadians use MSN. Although those numbers are sure to be inflated (probably based on downloads, not actual users), there is some truth there. Everyone I know is an MSN user.

  22. Re:Booting Windows XP on Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record · · Score: 1

    You might be joking...but if not, it's called an indeterminate progress bar. It doesn't actually show progress.

  23. MSN had drag and drop way before Google on Slashback: Start, Trash, Explain · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, I like Google as much as the next guy, but Microsoft had this drag and drop business going with my.msn.com way before Google did, although it only works with IE. These were early applications of the new web parts framework in ASP.NET 2.0.

  24. my.msn.com on Slashback: Start, Trash, Explain · · Score: 2, Informative

    But microsoft has my.msn.com WAY before google, which had all sorts of column dragging stuff in it. It was kind of buggy though, and didn't work in firefox.

  25. Re:Don't forget the ways of Apple on What are the Next Programming Models? · · Score: 1

    You should check out ActionStep. It's an opensource ActionScript 2.0 implementation of Apple's AppKit.

    ActionStep on OSFlash