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  1. Yes but... on Grass Grazing In Dinosaurs Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Yes, but did they do algebra?

  2. Reason for the delay... on Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc · · Score: 1

    "It was hard... but we managed to DRM every byte!"

  3. Re:"English-language manga" on Copyright and Webcomics - A New Trend? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shush - you'll scare the fangirls away.

  4. Re:Gojira on Ancient 'Godzilla' Crocodile Discovered · · Score: 1

    God is his title, Jehova is his name ;)

  5. Re:Ten reasons?? on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 1

    You mean abuse of trusted computing?

  6. Re:1984? on Intel PowerBook Rumor Mill · · Score: 1

    Though we dislike to even mutter it, TCPA does have it's advantages if it is not abused - it is the abuse of TCPA which is the real treat to rights, not TCPA itself. Apple rely heavily on their hardware sales, if OSX gets pirated like nobodies then they could be seriously hurt, Apple are no Microsoft.

  7. Re:Well, a few reasons on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 1

    Why would you do that? Thunderbird's mail folders are cross platform. I have my mail stored on my Mac and my other PC's use the same shared mailbox over the network. It would even work between two OS's too.

  8. ROI on Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows · · Score: 1

    If this goes through all sorts of new fact bending ROI ads are going to turn up.

  9. Re:Good news but... on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 1

    Yes, and we live in castles, and are all named keith. Get off our fscking high horse and use google before perceiving yourself as an authority on the subject.

    America is *behind*. And on topic for this article, UK Firefox usage is >12%. The onestat figures are grosely americentric; here's a google link, so you can research your reply too. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=UK+Firefo x+Usage&btnG=Search

  10. Re:In further news... on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    The saving of hundreds of thousands of lives, is no big deal to you?

  11. Re:Microsofts true competitor... on Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage · · Score: 1

    That is true, but the same can be said of GNOME which has memory fitting issues. I'm tired of people saying that WindowsXP is crap, no it's not, only very ignorant people say it's crap. You can get better than WindowsXP, but saying Windows98 is better is utter bull any which way.

    A few years ago my laptop died and I was pretty stuck so I spent my last £100 on a PII300MHz, 256MB RAM and 3GB Hard disk. I installed Windows98 on this in compact mode and it ran insanely fast. opening word without a splash type fast. However Win98 would do it's normal random crashing for no actual reason. I later installed WindowsXP on the same machine and though it did lose its' snappiness it was usable due to the oddity that WindowsXP runs better on a PentiumII than a PentiumIII (a lot of people attest to this)

    At the end of the day, XP crapness aside, Windows98 is not better. Fact.

  12. Re:Microsofts true competitor... on Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage · · Score: 1

    I'd only love to know where you got that authoritive piece of information. I've not had to reboot my XP machine in months. It's as stable as OSX and some Linux's as long as you look after the basics,...

    unless that is your machine has so many virii/spirii that they've started to copulate? Win98 used to crash on me for just pressing the shift key sometimes, and I had an ultra clean install.

  13. Small AuPair website in the UK on Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm the webdesigner for a small AuPair company in the UK, our demographic is entirely UK Families and young foreign nationals.

    For this month, this is the breakdown of browser access

    5250 Views this month:
    * 77.5% Internet Explorer (inc. Maxthon & AOL) = 4070 Views
        v5 (57 views) v5.5 (27 views) v6 (3703 views)
    * 10.9% Mozilla Firefox (inc. Netscape & SeaMonkey) = 574 Views
    * 02.3% Apple Safari (inc. Linux Konqueror) = 122 Views
    * 00.4% Opera Browser = 22 Views
    * 08.8% Other (Unknown, bots and rare browsers) = 462 Views

    Even with this incredibly Windows/IE centric demographic (almost all being "regular" people), I'm very pleased to see a 10% Firefox Usage. The site only counts 1 view per IP per 24 Hours and ignores views from my IP and the Company's business address IP.