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  1. Wonder if Dell (and others) are positioning on Dell to Get Into Cell Phones in 2006 · · Score: 1

    for VOIP via WiMax. IMO fear of WiMax VOIP will push the cell phone companies to offer better bandwidth for IP traffic in order to compete. or are we gonna see the cell phone companies offering WiMax?

  2. Another option... on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Training class photo. These 60's hipsters know how to 'do the swim'.

  3. Gulfstream on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    IV with a hot tub and a couple of bunnies. Yep, that's gonna be one tough swim.

  4. This serves as notice on BountyQuest CEO Patenting Lighting Toilet Water · · Score: 0

    of my intent to patent bioactive toilet bowl lighting and intent to register the trademark.

    Psychedelic Toilet Zoo

    PTZ for the marketing weasels.

    Yes, you guessed it. Bio-engineered, bio-luminescent, zooplankton populated from a secondary waste reservoir, AKA they process cage,
    will iluminate both waste and and art forms one may whish to incorporate into the bowl. As an added benefit, the low-flush bane of man, problem is errrr eliminated through recycling of a portion of previous flushes from said process cage.

    Here is how it works.
    Sensors detect the presence of solid or liquid waste to control a proportioning valve which directs an appropriate amount of waste from the discharge line to the prerocess cage. Ths is necessaryto maintain the proper nutrituinal components for the zooplankton which breed in the cage. A linux(or other OS) baded micro-controller keeps track of plankton health and nutrition levels.

    In short. A flush feeds some fresh and some waste, in part to the cage and in part to the waste lines. Effluent levels are independent of inflow to afford a good volume for flushing while maintaining the legally imposed 1.6 gallon maximum fresh water flush threshold. Stirring the water by adding waste to the bowl activates zooplankton from the previous flush thereby illuminating the contents, art, or what have you with the fluid dynamics of the flush creating a burst of luminescent activity as ones waste departs.

    Talks are planend with municipal planning professional organizations in hopes of obtaining government subsidies for the PTZ as the zooplankton eliminate much of the downstream waste processing load. Other benefits include more colorful streams and rivers, fatter whales, and tastier crabs.

    Currently seeking first round funding. Only 6 positions available at the $US4million level. Missed out ong google, well here's your chance at redemption and the good feeling that comes from aiding the planet, the children, and art.

    Whoops.
    Gotta GO now.

  5. ziinnngggg..... on Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying · · Score: 1

    imagine a world with one OS vendor and it being a closed system at that. we'd all be discussing the latest app written in basic and lamenting the lack of any storage larger than a 90 minute cassette tape.

    i for one like the competition and don't give a rat's ass as to who put put in a supercharger or added spinners first. just look at all the mana drifting our way and at prices that a single vendor would never allow.

    the 'stuff' engine is driven by competition, not only for the $ but ego as well.

    so, rather than upsetting oneself over hats dejour, be creative. fan the flames of ego amongst these corporate size 12 skulls and even more cargo will descend from the heavens.

    Sample material:

    Hey SJ, have you heard BG's gonna bundle a child safe orgasmatron with portholes 2010?

    Hey BG, have you heard the newest Mac is gonna be a child safe ROBOT that can cook, make beds, mow lawns, suckle your children, and has looks and other 'features' that will have the neighbors stacking orgasmatrons for a bonfire come next full moon.

  6. I like numberscombined with names. on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    Most people are used to remembering phone numbers.
    It's ralatively to remember a name. An imaginary person with an imaginary phone number then makes for a long, easy to remember password. If a portion of the name or number is chosen in a way that relates to something memorable about the account, then it's pretty easy to remember.

    For example. Say you want to remember the password for your commodities trading account. Back when you were a kid you rode a school bus. The bus driver always smelled like bacon. Her name was Shirley. She was also a somewhat superstitious fundamentalist Christian with a nice figure. Your password becomes ShirleyBus4428360666.

    Easy to remember. Related to the account. Yes, it's four dictionary terms but it's still gonna take a machine a long time to guess as the machine will have no context.

  7. Bridge failure... on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Back when RTL was the hot new thing, buds and I were distracted to the detriment of our formal studies by bridge. Yep, the evils of CARDS. Protect your children from them at all cost lest the develop into gamblers and drunkards.

  8. In other news on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Tests of email using chimps reveal markedly higher intelligence when compared to their colleagues who favor termite sticks, howling, and ball scratching.

    Marijuana smoking chimps show no decrease in intelligence, in some cases increased skill in opening refrigerators, and a distinct preference for porn over favor demanding live females.

  9. Buy off. on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1

    Let the $ that would have gone to MS move elsewhere in the budgets of the office users a one time 'reward'.

    Or are you pulling a Dell (AMD - Intel) as a negotiating ploy with MS?

  10. That this will not receive the publicity the papal on Moore's Law Original Issue Found · · Score: 1

    transition did is proof positive that newsmen have no souls.

  11. "They get no thanks or credit or money... or anyth on Lack of Testing Threatening the Stability of Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ing," he said.

    Wait a minute here...

    I thought the whole scheme was structured thusly...

    I crank up the latest greatest kernel. I find a bug. I report it. My bug gets fixed. THAT's MY REWARD! The friggin bug gets squashed. What more could one ask for, with a clear conscience and a straight face.

    As for those guys who fix the stuff. Well sanity is a relative term as we should all realize in light of the Japanese influence and emergence of cargo cults in WW-2 Niu Guinea. AFAIK, most Linux users view the kernel developers as some mysterious force from which benefit is derived through clever creation of effigy's.

  12. I also like ot think of this Intel offering as... on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 1

    The SUV of CPU's!

  13. Re:It's all about the HylaFax on Fax Server Solutions for 2005? · · Score: 1

    If 24 lines isn't enough, cisco and extreme offer hardware that will let you fill an 45mbps or larger sized pipe with faxes.

    Your best research tool is the vendors. Shoot off a mess of emails outlining what you want to do and you'll have a wastebasket full of options, for sorting through, by the end of the day.

  14. Built in coffee pot! on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 1

    If the article is correct, Intel could build in a coffee pot for those long nights of full load modeling.

    "the XE 840 almost hits the 300 watts level under one"

    Another plus! Demand for dual core laptops should give battery technology a new push.

  15. Re:Newsflash... on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it just me or did the performance of the single core AMD relative to the Intel dual core in those benchmarks just scream out..."I want the AMD dual core!"?

    Seriously, unless you're application can run in the cache on the Intel parts, the AMD is gonna win hands down when running at the same clock rate which translates pretty closely to the same power consumption. AMD will yet be a tad lighter on power consumption just because the stuff is packed more tightly even though it has more active components. Equal 'wire' size + smaller size = shorter 'wires' resulting in reduced IR losses (for the same operating voltage).

  16. Hydrogen sulphide is used in packaging on Human Hibernation on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    bulk meat products for distribution.

    Puts the expression, "we're all meat", in a whole new perspective...

  17. Re:"promised to add Linux support" on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 1


    It's a card, not the poorly perceived reality.

    Why is MS so hot on VMs anyway?
    Is it the only route to multi-user windows on a single processor?

  18. There's a GUI? on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps beating on the GUI is the problem, not CUPS.

    You might visit the horses mouth:
    http://www.cups.org/

    where, IMO, things were reasonably clear into my third pass. My excuse, old, slow, and deep in the groove.

    Also see the SAMBA CUPS HOWTO.

  19. Suits, Suits, Yep, EMPTY Suits... on Paul Graham on PR · · Score: 1

    Yep, the empty suit makes the whole charade out to be what it is. For every thinking suit, there are minions of empties. They are the gladhand end of the industry. The guys who specialize in generating the aspect of vendor action(invoice justification, billable hours, "we need a MAN ON SITE"). Good 'people' skills, a sense of humor tilted toward denigration of the competition, but most of all, the projection of the corporate 'feelings' is their domain. Yep, the empty suit is a marketing angle. It may generate some income but in the end serves no useful purpose when it come to getting a job done.

    Some cultures recognize the value of the empty suit at a different level. The empty suit becomes an extension of the thinking suit. He relies on the thinkng suit to well, think. It's a nicely symbiotic relationship. The empty tosses compliments and under the table favors to the thinking. The thinking in turn gets a lot more work done by way of his legion of robot eyes and hands.

    For some strange reason the rolls in the USA are reversed. Here the empty suit rules. See Dilbert.

    Why is this so?

    Perhaps it is because the empty suits are the corporate front on both ends of a deal. By virtue of their position they are in control.

    Curious. How many companies out there let the engineers or programmers talk to their counterparts on the other side of a business deal, before it's done?

    How many try to come to an arrangement that will bring about the most benefit for both sides with the least amount of overall 'suit time' and dollars spent?

    Could our economy even survive a scenario such as this? What with 80% of the work force doing little more than washing each others suits, wouldn't a major shift lead to collapse in real estate, banking, and Wal-Mart?

    Damn. where did I put that string tie!

  20. Re:Chance for someone to karma whore... on AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed · · Score: 1

    Two dual cores on two socket MB.
    Or better yet, 4 ;-)

    Intel's dual core is like a dual processor MB using one socket.

    AMD's dual core has another bus, built in.

    Ultimately it's

    propagation time is dictated by wire length leading to a limit on how high one can go in frequency before adding wait states.

    increased wire length for a given wire size requires more power to get a signal from one end to the other (AMD vs Intel thermal specs say a lot between the lines).

  21. Re:Some time ago..... on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 0

    Even longer ago, Sun had an Sbus card with an X-86 on it so one could run Windows in a window under Solaris.

  22. "promised to add Linux support" on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is not the same as "announced suppot".

    Nevertheless, MS has cleverly played the...
    With MS you can run LInux but with LInux you can't run MS card...

    How to read this from a business POV?

  23. Reverse engineering... on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 0

    I'm a bit confused over what constitutes 'reverse engineering'.

    If I build to a spec, say a spec based on someone elses UI and functionality, have I reverse engineered anything?

    However, if I disassemble someone elses product and incorporate the same basic design in order to build to that spec, I would think 'reverse engineering' would be descriptive of the proocess.

    So, where's the line?

  24. "requires ... a personal login" on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 0

    So you can save your history at google, if you want to. This is handy if you don't use the same computer all the time. It's also good for google as it adds just a tad of stickiness to this class of user.

  25. Think of all the ancillary business opportunity on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 0

    Food, health, entertainment, contraband... and recruiting workers from small island nations. It's the rare soul who can last over 6 months at sea without a break.