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  1. Re:Not Realtime on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should just call it Live Quotes

  2. Re:And so it begins.. on Scientists Build Mind-Reading Computer · · Score: 1

    Not only that. Even if 2 persons studied the same language, experience matter, i.e. the word "car" may create an image of a blue 4-door Civic parking in the garage to one, and a gray Explorer from TV ads to the other. I doubt the details are confined to one or two areas in the brain.

  3. Re:"This announcement has been long awaited ... on Mono's WinForms 2.0 Implementation Completed · · Score: 1

    Where's the other 4?

  4. Re:But give them credit where credit is due... on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 1

    It'd be beneficial to other readers and add more substances to the argument by listing examples of strengths and weaknesses of Eclipse/Visual Studio, then merely saying "yours sucks, I use mine everyday and it's way better."

    This applies to parent, GP, GGP, etc.

  5. Re:Quiz on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    6. XP
    So we should all move to Vista.

    Now where is my t-shirt?

  6. Re:One Question on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1

    Your parent, I believe, is a biblical reference.

  7. Re:Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Acid3 Test Released · · Score: 1

    58/100
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

  8. Re:Where's Assault Mode?? on Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo Now Out · · Score: 1

    and this beta demo has only 3 maps, so keep an eye out on the final extreme ultimate full version of the demo!

  9. Re:My only request(s)... on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 1

    >In particular, you should be able to build multiple unit production buildings, issuing build requests and they
    > are load-balanced between the two, i.e. if I want two marines, and I have two barracks, I should be able to
    > select both barracks, and ask for two marines. Both barracks would build one simultaneously.

    How does the game know you are only building 2 marines? What if you want to build 2 marines and 2 ghosts and you want 1 marine and 1 ghost to come out first? It still requires manual queuing. More options will complicate the interface.

  10. Re:This is the Aqua and Aero "equivalent" ? on No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of WindowFX? Yes it's technically not a plugin to Aero, but it does do custom windowing effects, and it works on XP.

  11. Re:Honesty.... on Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you read the article, that guy was hired to make technical correction in the Wikipedia entries. Why would you expect that only MS PR people should do it?

    The quotes around the work "Correct" in the summary headline is just another Slashdot spin...

  12. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    One the same page under specification it says "1,006 mm (39.5 in)"

  13. Re:Meh on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1
  14. Not exactly a dup on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Quite some time. on Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves · · Score: 1

    just a wild guess: don't we have not-so-a-prototype nanotechnology that can instantly copy photon information?

  16. Re:Virtual Dimension on Virtual Desktops on Windows? · · Score: 1

    I've tried a few virtual desktops, including virtual dimension and another open source one that has quite a few plugins. One thing I like about virtual dimension is the ability to change transparency for almost every window, but like most other virtual desktops on windows, it's not stable, and most of the time when a modal dialog pops up from another desktop the parent window of that dialog will either disappear (I can still spy on the handle, and make an api call to show it again), or simply lock up explorer.

    So, use those toys at your own risk.

  17. Re:the article may have some good points, but... on Windows vs Mac Security · · Score: 1

    "SYSTEM is the correct equivalent to root"

    Not quite. Last month I was trying to recover the administrator password on an XP SP2 machine through the Logon.scr trick. I was able to run cmd.exe as SYSTEM, but Windows still denied changing administrator password (and the old password wasn't empty), and refused a bunch of other accesses.

  18. Start here: on Running Windows Without Administrator Privs? · · Score: 1

    http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/categ ory/5785.aspx

    (Btw, I personally prefer "Folder Options->View->Launch folder windows in separate process" to MakeMeAdmin, because I remember that's the only way to properly run Windows Update from Internet Explorer as Admin from non-Admin account)

  19. Re:AntiVir on Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices? · · Score: 1

    I used to like AntiVir Classic, but switched to Avast Home because AntiVir could not be used to scan folder or a group of files manually.

    Also, none of them seems to be able to give me any kind of report after a manual scan (or the report just flashes away) by a non-admin user. Is it just me?

    I haven't tried AVG for a long while, so I can't comment.

  20. Re:For new users on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Middle clicking and context menu allow you to close any visible tabs and neither will activate the closing tab. Please, be better informed.

  21. Re:Search plugin order on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Fucking dammit.

    Because there are people who can't drag and drop precisely.
    And do you know if Firefox 2.0 allows you to drag and drop *in addition to* using move up and down?

  22. Re:first one up: on Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains · · Score: 1

    that's probably why you need noscript
    (with scripting on it prompts me for the gsetup.exe download)

  23. Re:Writely Vs Word on Google Enters Web-Office Market · · Score: 1

    Windows's Indexing Service is actually available to 2000 and XP users. I haven't seen any comparison to GDS though

  24. beta on Google Enters Web-Office Market · · Score: 1

    From the article: "To be clear, Writely is still in beta...

    I guess we all know that without someone making it clear...

  25. Exchange and about 150 users on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    We don't have limit on mailbox size, but do have a suggested maximum on attachment size. The users are not only encouraged but have to backup their own emails, because anything that's older than 3 months will be automatically deleted.

    (I don't know how that compares to other companies, but mind you that we allowed p2p software until recently...)