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  1. Re:After reading this article... on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but the United States is in border disputes with a couple of countries, including Canada, the CIA Factbook is a great place for info like this, granted our border disputes have nothing on the Kashmir disputes, but they're there all the same.

  2. Re:Would want these employees? on Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again? · · Score: 1

    How about offering religious services paid for by the company?

    I'd bet you'd object.

    Half the people at my office drink rarely or never, yet the company would be subsidizing the drinkers without giving any benefit to those who don't.

    Sorry, free beer is a pretty neat idea, but try to do something that benefits a larger percentage.

  3. Re:Windows of course! on Finding the Bottleneck in a Gigabit Ethernet LAN? · · Score: 1

    This guy is a complete troll, at the very least NT4 server and workstation are the exact same product with one very small difference, the registry is slightly different. for more info

  4. ttcp and jumbo frames on Finding the Bottleneck in a Gigabit Ethernet LAN? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just installed gigabit at my home network but sprung for a cheaper switch, the only problem with it is that it doesn't do jumbo framing, and here is a list of jumbo frame compatible hardware

    to test your link speeds you should not be using Samba, instead use ttcp (windows version,java version, or your favorite distro should have a copy, I know it's in the ports of FreeBSD)

  5. Re:Urban legend alert! on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    What part of my post had anything in contradiction to the link in your post?

    I posted real reasons Betamax didn't become popular, not the ones that are traditionally thrown about.

  6. Re:Sorry. I hate the RIAA on RIAA Continues Distributing Dud CDs to Satisfy Settlement · · Score: 1

    iTunes is a terrible alternative, artists still get shafted, cd's are more expensive than they are in the used cd stores and the quality is questionable of course don't just take my word for it. iTunes iSbogus and their parent site Downhill Battle have much more to say on it.

  7. Re:Gif is only good for animation on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    Beta had one crippling limitation, it's play length, Betamax was limited to 60 minutes where VHS allowed for 120 minutes, and could use a technique to make the video look worse but allow for a 4 hour playtime, which any movie could fit into, you wouldn't want to flip over your DVD in the middle of the movie, neither did people want to swap another tape into their Betamax machines

    Betamax did dominate the broadcast market where there are still many being used today. Sort of akin to DAT being used in professional studios.

  8. Re:Well, they do claim they can tell the differenc on Multi-Core Chips And Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    Windows XP and Server 2003 are based per socket/real CPU, each HT CPU counts as 1 CPU for the licensing so a dual Xeon with HT only counts as 2 CPU's.

    Windows 2000 on the other hand sees a HT CPU as two CPU's and counts it's that way against it's licensing, I guess they didn't feel like patching that yet/ever.

  9. Re:A strange move on That's Sir Tim to You · · Score: 1

    As soon as someone can convice England to pay reparations for slavery, I'll go along with it(they're the ones who set it up in the colonies long before the USA was a country).

    I like how that site you linked to mentions a bible quote "The Lord said to Moses: If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord... about something...stolen... - when he thus sins, and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner... Leviticus 6:1-5 (NIV)." and says this proves the bible supports reparations, but they completely fail to see the large sections of the bible where slavery is allowed and encouraged.

  10. Re:PNG's..... on GIF Slips Away From Unisys; Your Move, IBM · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed Multiple-image Network Graphics, basically animated png.

  11. Re:Books that changed my life. on Books that Changed Your Life? · · Score: 1

    Ay my high school Farenheit 451 was on the required reading list, along with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

    A number of other books were also required. The only reason I remember those is that they are listed on the The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

  12. Re:Unconstitutional Sentencing? on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 1

    Even if he did have the right to privacy, it's not in his home and the camera wasn't tucked away in a pocket, if they had quickly turned on the lights in the theater he still would have been seen using the camera to record the movie, this is not privacy rights at all.

  13. Re:Welcome to the present on Recent Grads and Experience Beyond the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it seems this guy is very poor at choosing a company to work at, and to boot insults them on his way out guaranteeing no good references from them and he goes on to explain that he continues to complain to everyone near him that he's right and everyone else is wrong, I'm surprised he hasn't lost more jobs in fewer months.

    I know I wouldn't hire him.

  14. Re:The business case sadly makes sense on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 1

    The reason I use Trillian? It supports multiple IM services. Yahoo isn't likely to add other IM client protocols into their software, so that's not a problem they can easily fix.

  15. Re:Holy crap.. on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    Sorry I was basing my info from "The Top 10 of Everything 2003".

    I'll trust the CIA Factbook more.

    Apparently, it looks like it's based from military expenditures per soldier, where Japan does come in at number 2, but that's not quite what I originally meant.

  16. Re:15-25mbps... on SBC Planning 15-25Mbps DSL Networks · · Score: 1

    Both my current (Optonline in NJ, part of Cablevision) and my former (Roadrunner in NY, part of TimeWarner) offer cable modem by itself, last I checked they both charge an extra 10$ a month if you don't get their "Family" package (around $40 a month).

    So yeah I'd say that in at least the northeast they'll happily sell you cable modem service without the cable TV.

  17. Re:Why should I care? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Sorry, North America has well more than 2 countries in it, your oh so enlightened country obviously has problem with basic math.

  18. Re:Holy crap.. on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    Yes, Japan, who has the second largest defense budget in the world, with a population half of the US and a land equal to about California.

  19. Re:Good for them on First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available · · Score: 1

    Great, in addition to the retards that say boxen, we also have the retards that moderate my parent post as funny and/or informative.

  20. Re:Good for them on First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's retard for plural of box.

  21. Re:I'd be a lot more convinced to run one of these on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G · · Score: 1

    And at the same time you start boosting your signal strength in the US will be the same time the FCC starts knocking on your door.

    Enjoy your cell mate Bubba, I know he'll find a use for you.

    (yeah yeah, I doubt they'd jail you over it)

  22. Re:Perhaps It is 'New Math' on Buy Second-Hand Games, Stifle Creativity? · · Score: 1

    But now you have an extra 5000 people to do support for which in the stated example is 50% more, and support is not that inexpensive, even if outsourced to India.

  23. Re:But... on FCC Call For Comments on a la Carte Cable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No one is going to pay for them, but cable companies are paid to carry them, enabling them to have lower rates overall. So under a la carta programming, you would get a discount for choosing to have them, of course everyone would sign up for them and just block them, at which point they figure it out and start charging you to carry them, no one chooses to do so and your cable bill goes up a couple of dollars.

    I'm not saying it's a "Good thing", but bundling isn't as evil as you thought it was.

  24. Re:I Have A Solution on A Plea To Game Makers To Act Responsibly? · · Score: 1

    And how would said parental block affect "your kid has a friend who has an older friend with this REALLY EXCITING game..."

    This older kid will either have the "code" or go onto the internet and find a keygen of some sort.

    My biggest problem with the whole "morals" thing is, your morals or mine?

  25. Re:Licenses and power limits... on Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy · · Score: 1

    And Circuit City and Best Buy and any number of other places will sell you devices to whisper with, they're the low power FM transmitters you hook up to your portable cd player/ipod/whatever so you can play them on your car stereo.