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  1. Operating SYSTEM, not environment on Moore's Law Is Microsoft's Latest Enemy · · Score: 1

    For those of you just now getting out from under your rock; both the consumer and professional versions of Windows have been fully self-reliant operating systems (not a DOS-based "operating environment") since 2001 (XP release), and the professional line since the first WinNT release.

  2. Re:Required features on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 1
    Quoth the GGP:

    Please note that if your application exceeds 100,000 peak simultaneous users, you must implement Advertising as described below as one of your two options.
  3. Re:Required features on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, considering libpurple (Pidgin, Adium, and Meebo) has a user base somewhere around a fuckton, they'd have to put the ads in if they wanted to used the "blessed" protocol

  4. Re:that's funny on Jimmy Wales Faces Allegations of Corruption · · Score: 3, Interesting
  5. Re:You can't win this one, Linus on Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, OSX is not fully 64-bit, and probably won't be until the G4s and Core (1) chips are phased out, which will likely be either 10.6 or 10.7, 10.8 being a longshot

  6. Re:Convenience and Patronage on NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers · · Score: 1

    Radiohead didn't state any specific terms, and NIN licensed theirs under BY-NC-SA, which AFAIK, means you can't profit from your movie with their music in it

  7. Re:Good news, but how good? on NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers · · Score: 1

    They're all legally remixable under CC BY-NC-SA, it just happens that the 75$ package gives the music to you split up by track

  8. Re:Thanks... on D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    May your rolls always be natural 20s.... You're a bit late there... :)
  9. Re:uh on Lessons From the HD Format War · · Score: 1

    You're either confused or a troll. It's HD-DVD that's out of production.

  10. Tag it yourself on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's got a pretty open tagging system, use it.

  11. Re:Marketing on PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like IIS 7 (in '08) has something called FastCGI which they used to get the better performance.

  12. Re:2008 - the year of the VM shootout on Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers · · Score: 1

    You forgot the .NET CLR (IronPython)

  13. Re:DON'T READ SLASHDOT! on Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog · · Score: 1

    You must be new here

  14. Re:Maybe Apple should... on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Firefox3 betas come with a new very Mac-like theme, called Proto. I believe you can download it for Firefox2 as well

  15. Re:CPU Loading on Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that it is OSX. Watching an average FLV on a "Sawtooth" G4 PowerMac 500MHz, i'm lucky to get 3/4 speed. On my Eee (630MHz x86; Ubuntu 7.10), the same videos run just fine.

  16. Re:Sikorsky Aircraft? on United Tech Bids $2.6B for Diebold · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Technologies); United Tech (Sikorsky's parent) is based in Hartford, CT

  17. Re:Old News Crack on Pirates Find Proper Way to Crack Vista's Activation Schema · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, one of the side-effects of this crack is hallucinations. You've really been in a crack-induced haze for the apparent past year.

  18. Re:Obligatory Monty Python on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Netcraft has prior art? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 1

    In a way.

    I hear the lead singer of Disaster Area spent a year dead for tax reasons; but you can't exactly chalk it up to human error.

  20. Re:When do we get these affordable laptops? on Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom" · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd keep the xandros. However, there's also a custom Debian install called EeeOS (http://wiki.eeeuser.com/debian:eeeos:home), that you can naturally strip down to your heart's content

  21. Re:Is it the CPU power needed for the DRM? on Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries · · Score: 1

    It makes it quite a bit easier if you have a graphics chip built to decode MPEG2 and VC-1, like the newer Intel GMA series chips

  22. Re:OSX? on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The OSX theme is more Safari-style brushed metal, rather than Aqua. XP and Vista each get their own (slightly different) themes. And the Linux version adapts your GTK+ icon and widget settings, to where you'd be hard-pressed to notice that it's not actually GTK+

  23. Re:P2P? on EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard · · Score: 1

    One of a few reasons:
    1)Most/all markets have a duopoly (sometimes a monopoly) situation where the other provider (usually a telco) either isin't much better, or doesn't have the same capabilities
    2) While the telcos are required to allow competitors to use their lines at cost, cablecos are usually given exclusivity of an area in return for wiring the entire area (as opposed to only wiring the profitable neighborhoods), and have no such requirement to let out their lines

    Note that the cablecos in my area (Insight) are generally pretty good guys, besides the typosquatting (which is easily avoided), and the alternative (ATT, formerly Bellsouth) doesn't have anywhere near the pipes (10Mb from cable vs a max of 6 from ATT), and Insight isin't known for spying for the NSA or Comcastic MIM attacks. Also, they don't seem to be offended by my SSHd.

  24. Re:Makes some sense on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, it's "Those who fail to understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly" Can't recall the source ATM

  25. Re:P2P? on EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard · · Score: 3, Informative

    The biggest cable TV company in the US, known for horrible treatment of their customers and un-friendliness twoards P2P technology