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  1. Re:There is another thing to consider. on NPD Group Says "Wait! HD-DVD Isn't Dead Yet" · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the UK, I recall seeing this on the Beeb (six o'clock news) and I'm pretty sure Sky news. Mainstream media may be slow but something like this is quite major.

  2. Re:windows7 on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 1

    WinFS was initially conceived in the Microsoft Cairo project ... in 1991.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

  3. To respond to half the complaints here: on Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data · · Score: 1

    1. You can't remove shared items easily.
    Yes, you can. Settings -> Friends -> Clear Shared Items

    2. Your friends can see everything
    Only things you share, yes. But whats the point in "sharing" them if no one can see them?

    3. Your mom might see your shared items.
    Block your mom from doing so, Settings -> Friends -> Hide (Next to mom's name)

    4. You're affraid of Google Reader
    Well, export your subscriptions and use another product. Simple.

  4. Why am I not convinced? on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, it will inherit Microsoft's stellar security and perfect programming. Besides which, its a closed network unlike OpenID so it will be about as popular as Google's Account Authentication which does the same thing but with Google Accounts. Even OpenID isn't that widely used, and it's an open system.

  5. Re:Why tags? on Labels Not Tags, Says Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually, Google Reader only refers to them as tags on the Settings page, on the rest of the site they're called folders

  6. Re:What about XMLRPC? on Google Deprecates SOAP API · · Score: 1

    because it is (and was) more fun to spend time working through the code then it is to use packet sniffer

  7. Re:What about XMLRPC? on Google Deprecates SOAP API · · Score: 1

    i cracked the ajax api to get the exact request uri for that reason ( http://mpwebwizard.com/free_stuff/google_web_api has the url to query google web search)

  8. Re:Google - Please fire Eric Schmidt! on Google and Apple Finally Teaming Up? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eric Schmit is Google's second CEO, previously it was Larry or Sergey. It's thanks to Eric Schmit that Google is as great as it is today. Larry or Sergey wern't very keen on the whole buisness aspect and wern't interested in making money out of there search engine (they mainly wanted to sell it but failed). Eric helped make Google it's billions with AdWords and AdSense.

  9. Windows Vienna? on Vista the Last of Its Kind · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this already presumed, I mean, Blackcomb/Vienna was supposed to be completely different ot the current Windows system including Start menu?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vienna

  10. i remember a similar story on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    i remember a similar story like this on television once (in the uk) where a girl (for some reason) had an empty hole in the centre of her brain. basically her brain had adapted around the hole and functioned normally when the doctors said she would have serious brain damage.

  11. Re:Outlook Web on What is the Best Calendar? · · Score: 1

    orignal, maybe (i'm not sure on this) but let's face it, Google CL2 is free, MS Exchange Server is not.

  12. Re:Ask.com Maps and Directions on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 1

    sadly they are only us, no way they will take on Google with US only products

  13. Re:One big difference on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 1

    the international versions of ask don't have a different background colour and have '%% Web Results' randomly placed above the back/forward links. They also have an affiliate accounts with Lycos, Yahoo! and Excite which they link to.

    eg.http://uk.ask.com/web?q=mortgage&qsrc=0&o=312

  14. Re:not about "quality" per se on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 1

    the difference being Google was new technology.

    AltaVista had no ranking system, just results return which were often not accurate.
    Yahoo! was a directy managed by humans and thus limited to sites.
    Google was the first relevant search engine with many more sites that the others.

    Ask.Com doesn't really offer new technology or anything special that isn't already in existance in one form or another.

  15. Re:WARNING - Link Redirect on Google Pages Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    maybe he's contacted the FBI to start shutting the net down after Reg didn't do much

  16. Re:It didn't work for me. on Preview Google's New Search Results Page · · Score: 1

    try hitting refresh, worked for me

  17. Re:Part of ad push? on Microsoft to Release 7 Patches Next Week · · Score: 1

    that doesn't mean debian is fool proof, it just means people haven't bothered to target it because it holds such a small minority of the OS market.

  18. Lack of bug fixing strategy on Microsoft to Release 7 Patches Next Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It appears there is a conflict at Redmond.  In one case they are fixing a bug which has yet to be discovered, in another they are fixing a bug which has existed for around nine months.

    It's about time they came up with a proper strategy other than randomly fixing the bugs they want to fix.

    Martin

  19. Re:Wow, wow, wow.. let me get this straight.. on EFF Warns Not to Use Google Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative

    this distinct lack of information is funny:
    a) the data is only sent if the user says so,
    b) the data is apparently encrypted,
    c) it is deleted after 30 days.

    there need be no privacy concern, if you don't like the idea of handy convenient storage, don't enable it.

  20. Re:wow! on Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses · · Score: 1

    in the uk we have ASDA ("Part of the Wal-Mart family", as it says everywhere) which say exactly the same.

  21. Re:Intermediate level? on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 1

    my bad, i'd already started typing my comment when he posted again.

  22. Re:For me, not so much. on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 1

    Should have checked the preview more closely, the example was meant to be:

    <? include ("header.php"); ?>
    <? include ("menu.php"); ?>
    main stuff here
    <? include ("footer.php"); ?>

  23. Re:For me, not so much. on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 1

    PHP is a highly secure language - it's just that too many morons are attempting to learn it which in turn means that create dodgy scripts which have more holes in them than a colander which has been shot 1000 times at close range.

    An example of an overly poor script which I come across far too many times is:

    main stuff here

    However any person with common sense can pick out many problems in this (for example: use ' instead of " to save processing time, there are many more).

  24. Re:Intermediate level? on The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Firstly, what you are referring to in 'blue with some sailboat' is phpMyAdmin, which is not MySQL, phpMyAdmin is a PHP script created to help administer MySQL databases/tables etc. without using a command line based program thus is popular among web hosts. MySQL tables can be accessed numerous ways through PHP.

    Secondly MySQL is a database and doesn't need a website to run, MySQL is a program aimed at storing information and making it accessible through queries.

    Thirdly, why you even bothered to comment on such an issue when you quite clearly do not understand the difference between a markup language, a programming language and cascading style sheets.

  25. Re:Obviously on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    Actually, you'd be surprised how much the british government censor and block. Especially the news.