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  1. Re:He lost control of his statistics on The Podjacker Threat · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but the REAL problem is not that now his statistics are screwed, the problem is that people subscribed to the secondary feed are unable to retrieve new shows at all, because it was their authoritative source, and they can't find another one via the established channels. It's not statistics which bother him, it's that former listeners now just don't know from where to retrieve further shows!

  2. I, ... (obligatory) on Swarming And Hopping Planetary Robots · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... for one, welcome our new jumping and boinking overlords.

    And hey, even better, they do in fact come in clusters! Now in only wonder if in Soviet Russia, swarms are boinking you!?

  3. Re:Alternate on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 1
    The screenshot is an exact copy of Excel 97 (and I think that was the stated intention).
    First of all, there aren't that many ways how to build an office gui. Secondly, I was not only talking about the looks, but mainly about the feature set.

    Concerning the pivot tables: it's in the make. Concerning macros: you are wrong, Gnumeric IS scriptable (Programming Gnumeric using Python)!

  4. Re:Alternate -- only 2 bugs mentioned on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yes, and no. Sometimes it is simply more covenient to insert a movie in a slide at that position in your presentation where you want to show it, instead of a blank slide, stating "Play movie now", and you then have to search for the movie and fire up the player. It's all about seamless integration.

    And there are many legitimate situations on which to show a short clip, for example in education. Nothing augments a presented experiment more than the lecturer in his youth with long hair and beard, stumbling around in a small lab.

  5. Re:iDisk on The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever · · Score: 1
    Yeah, unfortunately the prices are about the same as from the site in the article, twice or more what you'd pay for a regular USB stick.

    Nevermind, somebody will eventually place the right numbers into the wrong fields, and you'll be able to purchase one for only 0.83 cents.

  6. Re:Creationism on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1
    Interestingly enough, you failed. But never mind, god needed a second attempt as well. Or, as our geeky fellows from Aardvark said: "On the second try, God managed to ship the world in only 6 days."

  7. Re:Rule #2 on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 2, Funny
    So i assume that you're talking about some other religion, or some uniquely insane politician, neither of which has anything to do with Biblical creation.

    No, but unfortunately with the university of Kansas.

  8. Re:Bah, Sayeth Scrooge on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So what if they have limited power? They're infinitely more powerful than what was available before.

    Yes, and they have infinitely more power than NO computer at all, as the current situation with most third world schoolchildren is.

    Hell, if I were one of them, I'd love to get such a device, because it is definitely better than nothing.

  9. Re:Alternate on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 1
    Therein lies the rub. The hordes of stupid users will never adopt linux until installing software is as easy as "click yes to install". It's silly to presume that The Stupids will migrate over and spontaneously learn even as simple a command line procedure as "rpm -ihv foo.rpm"

    What's so hard with clicking on a button in Synaptic??

  10. Re:Alternate on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 1
    If the MS Office model is so flawed, then why does every open source office application look exactly like its Microsoft counterpart?

    No, they don't. Have, for instance, a look at Gnumeric. It offers features currently not present in Excel.

    OOo is mainly an MS Office clone. Innovation happens in independent projects like Gnumeric, AbiWord, etc.

  11. Re:Alternate on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    1 example of poor design is the feature to export to PDF. If anything, they should have no export features, and then create virtual printers for CUPS, and any other printing system.

    I am not very knowledged with regard to printing frameworks. But would it be possible for a PDF exporter implemented as a virtual printer to still do things like creating table of contents, provide clickable intra-document links as well as clickable external hyperlinks?

  12. Re:Alternate -- only 2 bugs mentioned on OpenOffice Illustrates Open Source's Limitations? · · Score: 4, Informative
    -in Impress, so far there is no way to embed sound or other multimedia files. In PowerPoint I used to do this. I would like to be able to have a music file play while the slides autoadvance. I can do the second part easily, but I can't get sound to play. I also have not yet been able to embed a short film clip on a slide.

    Insert -> Movie and Sound.

    Quite easy, isn't it? If the format is unknown, then do the following (from the OOo help system): "On UNIX systems, the Media Player requires the Java Media Framework API (JMF). Download and install the JMF files, and add the path to the installed jmf.jar to the class path in Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Java."

    HTH!

  13. Re:He lost control of his statistics on The Podjacker Threat · · Score: 1
    You haven't read TFA, have you? What is it with that statistics thingy you mumble about? He could easily retrieve statistics by looking at his webserver log.

    This post is NOT insightful, heck, it's completely wrong with regard to what the article talked about.

  14. Re:Evil? on NEC Battery Charges in 30 Seconds · · Score: 1
    Exactly! Worst thing is, even consumer protection boards are now jumping the bandwagon. Instead, they should have thought about the many advantages RFID brings, e.g. uninterruptible goods tracking from one end of the value creation chain to the other, tracking of packets on distribution sites, better surveillance of product freshness, etc.

    But maybe I am just irritated by all the aversions people have these days.

  15. Re:Evil? on NEC Battery Charges in 30 Seconds · · Score: 2, Insightful
    There exist extremely interesting applications of RFID outthere. Don't just simply march with all those dumbminded technology haters, which were already against TV, computers and robots back then!

  16. Re:You have got to be kidding me on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, I will thank you the next time I google for something and the first few hits are all crap pages which where promoted through link spamming like **Beatles-Beatles does on the page he links to here. Have a look at his website, and follow the "reciprocal links" link at the bottom of his page.

    Maybe you'll finally get a clue then!

  17. Re:You have got to be kidding me on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 1
    He does not want to place his beatles page at the top for beatles searches, he is only interested in the link farming page which is linked to from his beatles page.

  18. Re:You have got to be kidding me on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So, then please tell me where the attribute is. I, for one, can't find it (this from the front page):
    <div class="intro">
    <a href="http://george-harrison.info/">* * Beatles-Beatles</a> writes <i>"Instead of a cell just breaking off from a tumor and traveling through the bloodstream to another organ where it forms a secondary tumour, or metastasis, researchers in the United States have shown that the cancer <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10366968/">sends out envoys</a> to prepare the new site."</i>
    </div>

    Can you?

  19. The truth about * *Beatles-Beatles on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then please reread my earlier comment about this guy:

    Ok, let's have a look at his george-harrison.info website. Aha, maybe the links at the bottom of the page? Yes, I see: http://george-harrison.info/reciprocal-links.html [george-harrison.info].

    Sooo, what may be on that page? Quoting:

    Our reciprocal links page. These links are useful for website promotion, link trades, and generating traffic to your site. There are many sites with useful products, services, programs, business opportunities, information, and free stuff.

    All reciprocal links have been manually screened before getting on this page. Webmasters that post links on this page, also promote this Links Page on their site too. If you want to add your link and become a member of this reciprocal links page, just click on the top link for details. It's free to join.

    Looking at the link list (just a small excerpt):

    Guaranteed Dropship Wholesalers business directory source

    Good Vibrations for Singles - Free Dating, Love, Romance, and Friendship

    Collection Agency - Williams, Cohen & Gray

    Trade Links - Link Swap Page

    Personals Dating Affiliate Program - Instant Sign-Up

    ProfitsRup2U For Successful Internet Marketing

    Trade links page - reciprocal links page

    HTH!

  20. Re:He forgets on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 2, Funny
    [...] a criminule, right? I'm anti-porn, I think it damages peoples minds, but I don't like this either.

    Hmmm, but without pr0n, it looks like one develops quite bad spelling.

  21. Re:Nasties on the net on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 2, Funny
    At the age of eleven, I was surfing pornography on the world wide web. At age twelve, I was playing highly violent videogames. I was enthralled by Grand Theft Auto 3 at fourteen.

    And yet you are posting on slashdot. So where's the problem?

  22. Re:Internet != Web on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1
    Maybe the porn industry has to resurrect some of the old gopher servers then.

  23. Huh? on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Error: nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    Looks like I have to apply for slashdot as well.

  24. Re:Yes, we know everything. on Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite? · · Score: 1
    Well, let's beat him up anyway.

  25. Re:Whats the real issue? on South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is it because their IM was tied to windows...

    No, simply the government wants to get young people to use email again.