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  1. Re:Serving the diners or the cooks? on Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux · · Score: 1

    "oh, your app doesn't work? what? wine? HAHAHAHA.

    install the app on what it's certified for and maybe you can get the support you're paying for."

    You, umm, have no concept of the business IT world.

  2. Re:Cost comparisons... on Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms · · Score: 1

    We've used coal for years. And how many people have died from the coal industry yearly?

    Eventually, we're going to have to get a fear of the word nuclear...

  3. Re:Not the whole time on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Looks like some mod has an agenda and needs to read the mod guidelines ;)

    Just because you don't like the truth, doesn't mean you should mark it troll.

  4. Re:Not the whole time on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 1

    I could get XP on any model. It was a concern of ours since none of our apps are certified for Vista yet.

  5. Re:Not the whole time on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And yes, I mean through Dell.

  6. Re:Not the whole time on Microsoft to Allow PC Makers to Downgrade to XP · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is flat out incorrect.

    As a business customer, XP has never been unavailable to me.

    Furthermore, Vista (other than basic) OEM has always had downgrade rights as part of the license.

  7. Re:Question about ocean levels on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about that *floating* ice is that it is already displacing its liquid volume of water ;)

  8. Re:does it could as denial of service on Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS · · Score: 1

    That's supposed to be does it COUNT, not could.

    I can't type early on Saturday mornings.

  9. does it could as denial of service on Cisco Confirms Regex Flaw in IOS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if your own people have to do it?

  10. Re:The Kilogram is not losing weight on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does.

    but not like it does with temperature, and I was trying to just correct the original mistake :)

  11. Re:The Kilogram is not losing weight on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    I agree, but I was just correcting the claim that temperature didn't affect water density. I was just pointing out they were thinking about pressure which really doesn't affect it much. But you are correct, it DOES affect it. and as others have said, pressure involves mass, so you could never, ever use something like that for setting a kg standard.

    I was not advocating using water ;) That would be nuts.

  12. Re:The Kilogram is not losing weight on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you mean that the density of water is essentially invariant to pressure.

    It very much fluctuates with temperature.

  13. Re:Relativity? on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    This *could* be possible I suppose, but not really how you think (I think).

    I'm going to assume they are kept under a glass in a vacuum. If we suppose the glass sublimates in to the vacuum somehow, and then the glass is absorbed by the hunk of metal... The travel would make the travelling ones slightly older, and they would have had more time to absorb.

    Or more likely, they have to remove the protection to measure the items and since the standard probably is measured less often, it is less contaminated. (This has nothing to do with your post)

  14. Re:The Kilogram is not losing weight on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    hah.

    at what temperature exactly?

  15. Re:i said it before, i'll say it again... on Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush · · Score: 1

    wrong kind of troll

  16. Re:As much as i hate the RIAA.... on RIAA's "Making Available" Theory Is Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was under the impression that the burden of proof still lies with the accusing party. so i would imagine that the riaa would have to prove that you did.

  17. Re:File synchronization... If you must... on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    i suppose i am just . jaded due to all the deliberate misinformation that lives here. i see motive behind simple ignorance.

    2 wrongs don't make a right (and before someone thinks they are witty.... 3 lefts yadda yadda yadda)

  18. Re:is this story just flamebait? on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 1

    yes, i meant hdcp. i mistyped hdmi since the two are closely married in my head.

  19. Re:File synchronization... If you must... on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    This is blatant misinformation.

    They are techincally stored in a fashion similar to this (not really, they are split up so directory sizes don't grow too huge) but they appear in their normal folder trees. (you access them exactly as you would if you were network connected)

    Why post flat out deceptive comments?

  20. Re:is this story just flamebait? on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 1

    yes i meant hdcp.

    what you didn't get was the undertone of my post. i think the whole downsampling requirement is retarded, but it *does* exist. why people are surprised that vista respects that is what has me baffled.

    our legal system has shown to be friendly to those who implemented this system. again, i state, what do you expect the OS to do? ignore it?

  21. is this story just flamebait? on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since these things are required for them to be able to play blu-ray or hd-dvd content, what did you expect?

    Did we honestly expect the largest OS vendor to create their OS to ignore the built in controls with the HD disk formats?

    Get a proper hdmi supporting card and a proper hdmi monitor and you won't get down sampled output.

    I think the whole thing is stupid as well, but this is an integral part of the hd formats. Reporting that Vista respects what is required to play these DRM laden formats "legally" is just pointless. What did you think they would do? Can you imagine the lawsuits? If your DRM'ed HD content is sent through a non-encrypted channel it gets downsampled. Gee whiz, who would have thought that... It's not like this has been common knowledge for years. Oh wait... Yes it has.

    It's not like it will downsample non-drm'ed HD content.

    (I have taken the slashdot approach and repeated the same thing many times in this post)

  22. Re:No surprises here on France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying · · Score: 1

    Honestly, without a BES, there is no reason to use a BlackBerry :)

    You would be better served by another device. The strength/advantages of BlackBerries is tied 100% to being connected to a BES.

  23. Re:No surprises here on France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying · · Score: 1

    No.

    That is not the correct way to set up a BlackBerry in a corporate environment, sorry.

  24. Re:In other news... on Jack Thompson Sues Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It sure can be used to pluralize certain things.

    Your sentence has twelve s's in it.

  25. Re:iPhone not programmable. on AT&T to Target iPhone to Enterprise · · Score: 1

    BlackBerry

    Treo