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  1. Re:How about... on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Running a compatibility layer for a compatibility layer, to get back to where you started. That's pure genius!

  2. Re:Looks like... on Accoona - How Does This Search Engine Rate? · · Score: 1

    I would say that it doesn't work nearly as well as google. Unless of course you mean by the speed of results returned, because that seems to be equal, its the actual results that you get that greatly affects how well a search engine works, and its seems to nearly equal google on some search sets, and fail horribly on others. It seeems like the more obscure thing you're looking for, the harder it is to find it.

  3. Re:same trick as msn search on Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon · · Score: 1

    oole.com

  4. Re:same trick as msn search on Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon · · Score: 1

    Thats probably becuase windows vista has deprecated the g key.

  5. Re:Only The Hype Will Die on Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite! · · Score: 1

    Actually, windows does have a decent toolkit for distrubiting stuff from you're computer builtin, assuming that you're using a cheap/free hosting service. Think about it: Notepad and Internet Expolorer is all you really need, that along with a credit card number is all you really need to distribute some content from your personal pc.
    Or if you really wanted to get fancy, with some free software, and some free trickery, you could serve stuff off your average cable/dsl connection. Just apache for windows, a dynamic DNS solution, a free dynamic dns autoupdater, (Which might have to include a port forward around port 80), and the average windows user could host a website.

  6. Re:Focus... on Google vs. eBay/PayPal · · Score: 1

    Who modded this interesting?
    Funny, I could understand, but interesting????

  7. Re:not for personal use... on Yahoo Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1

    If music was reasonably priced, and without DRM, there would be less pirates, as there would be many more people willing to pay, and then you could go after the individual pirates.

  8. Re:Isnt Taipei in China??? on The 2006 Taipei Game Show · · Score: 3, Informative

    It depends on who you ask.

    The government of China will tell that it is, the government of Taiwan will tell you that it is in Taiwan. The People's Republic of China has absolutely no control over any of Taiwan, so its generally accepted that Taiwan is a seperate country.

  9. Re:I had that misconception on What Do You Want in a Job Website? · · Score: 1

    And since when is New York a geographicly small state? Im sure someone looking for a job in buffalo would be pretty upset if they got results in Plattsburg or New York City

  10. Re:Lazy teaching! on Teachers Using Computer Games in Class · · Score: 1

    I read my first words in SimCity 2000.

  11. Re:Athletes? on Scientists Grow Blood Vessels Using Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    Already athletes will sometimes donate their own blood, let it sit for a while, and then have the blood re-injected into them right before an event, to increase the blood flow.

  12. Re:The only thing I found on Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego · · Score: 1

    Youve never driven in Boston. I can't believe the roads are intelligent if they can't be bothered to have street signs.

  13. Re:observations from a foreigner on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    Want to see dumbness, look no further than Roman Numerals. Think of trying to determine the sqrt(III).

  14. Re:Good on him on UK's Chief Scientist Backs Nuclear Power Revival · · Score: 1

    You have a really good point. Except you sort of left out that whole solar thing. Solar energy is viable now, and will be more so in the future (assuming new cheap ways to get into space). It doesn't require some big breakthrough to work.

  15. Re:Butterfly ripples... on Office + OpenDocument, Never Say Never · · Score: 1

    That means that other suites that are compatible with OpenDoc like OpenOffice.org, will probably be acceptable for dealing with those businesses.

  16. Re:Webcam on Google Hires Gaim's Main Developer · · Score: 1

    Gaim has a spellcheck tool built right in.

  17. Re:Mobile phones! on Building an Open Source "Clicker"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Very few of them have bluetooth capable phones though.

  18. Re:No use. on GM Claims Advanced Cruise Control By 2008 · · Score: 1

    If you fly into the NDIZ airspace the Air Force tries to contact you on 121.5(Ive heard them do this on several occasions), and then presumably if you turn back soon enough everything is peachy.

    If they have to scramble choppers(most GA planes are below stall speed of jets) to force you to land, you'll have to deal with the FAA. At least a suspension, but In the past some have had lisences completely revoked.

  19. Re:UK buyers screwed again? on Xbox360 Pricing, 2 Models at Launch · · Score: 1

    In my state we have an option to declare that we have no idea how much sales tax we should pay for online purchases and pay something like $40.

  20. Is it just me? on Best Language for Beginner Programmers? · · Score: 1

    or did he just describe a standard IDE, and give it as the main reason to use a language?

  21. Re:Just like K-mart/Sears on FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger · · Score: 1

    Those annoying walkie talkie like phones.

  22. Ask Slashdot Article on How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Id try posting an article on Ask Slashdot, and announce which city I live in, and then read the comments for people who would pick it up.

  23. Re:Some problems cannot be solved on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1

    Or install a decent scripting language onto all the PCs - ruby, perl, python, and all the rest would do well here.

  24. Re:Sustainable City ? on China Planning For Sustainable Cities · · Score: 1

    A better question is will they have chinanet?

  25. Re:PSU on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys · · Score: 1

    OLDED uses very little power, and none at all if it isn't changing. It could easily draw enough power off of USB.