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  1. Re:done already on Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"? · · Score: 1

    you can do that, but you can't search all AIM users' public shared folders at once.

  2. Re:This guy has no understanding of the marketplac on Computer Makers Cater to Big Business, IT Depts. · · Score: 1

    I had a GE VCR from 1983 that only just now died off. It actually came as two separate components, one of which was designed to be carried on your shoulder for use with a camera (not a camcorder, just a camera)

  3. Re:not a podcast on Pixar Art Exhibit at MoMA, with Podcast · · Score: 1

    General purpose words should not be tied to a particular product.

    Podcasts can be listened to on any mp3 player. There are numerous "podcatcher" programs. They aren't and have never been tied exclusively to iPods.

  4. Re:4th times a charm? on Site tracks F/OSS coding bounties · · Score: 1

    If you ever want to come back to the US (for pleasure, that is, not as a result of having been extradited), then yes.

  5. Re:Monopolistic? on Opera Purchase Rumour Control · · Score: 1

    Netscape doesn't count since it's a blend of Firefox and IE...

    That's a new one.

  6. Re:New developers on New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download · · Score: 1

    ^ is already taken by bitwise XOR

  7. Re:The Bloat Divides? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you're HP, not a small niche-market printer manufacturer that only has 3 engineers and 3 QA staff for the whole company!

  8. Re:The Bloat Divides? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was precisely the same problem with printer drivers. The nice thing about it is that there is now a way to quickly make drivers for MOST printers that doesn't require any code to be written. You just pass in config files to the Windows spooler. Unfortunately this requires the firmware to be totally debugged :)

  9. Re:The Bloat Divides? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's funny. Microsoft already did this with printer drivers. Windows NT 3.51 lived in userspace. In Windows NT 4 they moved into the kernel. In 2000, they moved back into userspace, but with a completely different architecture from 3.51. Windows Server 2003 still supports the NT4 model of kernel mode printer graphics drivers but that might change with Vista.

  10. Re:The real 90s versus outdated 00s software on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    Push client? What do you think RSS is?

  11. Re:Astonishingly.. lame on Macro Lens from a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    I imagine that a professional, or semiprofessional photographer is quite capable of having numerous unused cameras around, the same way that it's not hard to imagine that a guitar geek has numerous guitars and could part with one for a project, or a slashdotter has a spare machine to try out a new operating system.

  12. Re:Frederik Brooks on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 2, Informative

    The anniversary edition has some new chapters in which Brooks examines with principles did NOT hold true. Some newer practices seem to have taken him by surprise in terms of his "No Silver Bullet" essay.

  13. Re:Slashdot overrun by old fogies on The Podjacker Threat · · Score: 1

    What happened in this case:
    1.) Dude makes podcast
    2.) 2nd dude mirrors podcast RSS file and promotes their own duplicate feed through iTunes and Yahoo and the other 5 zillion podcast directories.
    3.) 2nd dude's podcast gets MORE subscribers
    4.) 2nd dude stops posting new files. The majority of subscribers get no more episodes.
    5.) 1st dude wonders why, stumbles upon his iTunes directory entry which displays the WRONG RSS file.
    6.) 2nd dude asks for money.

  14. Re:The light of a planet on Looking Directly at Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pssst, if your full name has an apostrophe when registering for xmoo, the server errors out.

  15. Re:Yes but on Intel Discusses Future Plans · · Score: 2, Funny
    But those are SPARCs.

    Imagine that Cray decides to make a personal computer. It contains 16 * 800MHz processors executing in parallel, has 800Gb of RAM, 1000Gb of disc storage, 4096 * 4096 pixel screen resolution, does 48-bit 3D graphics in realtime, relies entirely on thought recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $250. What is the first question the computer community asks ?

    "It is PC - compatible ?"
  16. Re:Biggest problem on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    if the united states didn't support taiwan, china would have taken it over already. see? problem solved

  17. Re:Animal Rights? on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    Oh and did you the summary where it states:

    reading your comments makes one accustomed to filling in missing words :P

  18. Re:Animal Rights? on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    Did you read the summary that says you can make it from animal innards and bones?

  19. Re:Automotive fuel on Utilizing Bio-fuel Beyond Experimental Use · · Score: 1

    or those who make biodiesel themselves (or convert their cars to run on vegetable oil)

  20. Re:These are serious.. but kudos for fixing them. on Apple Releases 'Highly Critical' Patch · · Score: 2, Funny

    notice that you didn't say "upgrade"

  21. Re:What? on John Seigenthaler Sr. Criticises Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    E2 started out as a similar project, which eventually evolved into a community with both community oversight and a set of editors and admins charged with vetting content. Unfortunately everyone decided that was too difficult and started writing stuff about girls and boys and poetry.

  22. Re:obviously on Next Generation of MP3 Glasses · · Score: 1

    What do you use to cover your face that doesn't make your breath fog up your goggles? I've never found anything good enough.

  23. Re:Arms on Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    It's 68K based but a lot is taken out

  24. Re:I was killed by Linux on Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    An effective ballistic missle defense system allows the owner to avoid the threat of nuclear annihilation. It woud probably be most effective against a rogue state with few nuclear weapons, or an accidental launch. This worries countries like China and Russia because it upsets the balance of power between the US and other nuclear powers. The US with a missile defense system could attack another nuclear power without the threat of mutually assured destruction.

  25. Re:Arms on Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    If ARM is standing, then so are MIPS, ColdFire and PowerPC.