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  1. Is There an Easy Way to Window Shop at I-Tunes? on Microsoft's Take on iTunes for Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would like to see the selection before downloading the app, but when I have briefly gone to the site, I could see no way to browse without installing i-tunes.

  2. Re:First single flyer since 1960s. on China Sends First Taikonaut To Space · · Score: 1

    I think Yang has gotten past the hurdle that ultimately killed Komarov. His craft experienced some sort of control/power probem from the start.

    Incidently, if I remember correctly, Komarov almost pulled it all out manually, but was killed when he was unable to jetison the retrorockets before landing and they exploded.

  3. CNN Wasn't Quite That Bad on China Sends First Taikonaut To Space · · Score: 1

    I too channel surfed between several news channels looking for pictures, and I don't know if or when CNN Headline News finally said something about it, but at 10:00pm (ET) Aaron Brown on CNN had the launch as the lead story.

  4. Re:But Then You Have to Give Administrator Privile on Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security · · Score: 1

    Isn't that more of the Game's fault than it is windows' fault?

    Agreed, but it still means that my kids wind up running as administrator.

  5. But Then You Have to Give Administrator Priviledge on Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security · · Score: 1

    I am no expert at administration, but my experience on a W2K box that my kids use for games is that trying to run the games as user causes much grief.

  6. Re:Just Wondering... on RIAA Warns Individual Swappers · · Score: 1

    The article said that Earthlink (EL) was the source of the fifth name. EL yielded when the appeals court ruled against Verizon.

  7. I agree, but why does ADSL limit itself unnecessar on Cable Beats DSL For Average Speed · · Score: 1

    The availability of choice for ADSL is, to me, a big plus, but I don't understand why ADSL providers don't offer as much bandwidth as possible. I have Earthlink ADSL, and they have recently taken to advertising only 128kbps uplink speed vs. a previous 256. Comcast, on the other hand, recently increased uplink to 256 from 128. One of the baby bells apparently only offers something lame like 640/96. WHY??

  8. Re:Not enough crops on Run Your Car on Grease · · Score: 1

    One of the major fertilizer components (Called "nitrogen," but really nitrogen compounds) is nitrogen based, but to make the nitrogen available ("fix" it) for uptake it is reacted with hydrogen. In the US hydrogen is usually derived from natural gas.

    One of the major US sources of oil is corn, which requires a lot of nitrogen; however, soybeans do not, I beleive, require significant nitrogen. Legumes, such as soybeans, fix their own nitrogen.

  9. The real question is how to gain angular momentum on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    Everyone else has explained how the elevator climbs, but I have not seen an explanation of how the horizontal forces will be handled. As the car climbs toward the sky, its angular velocity will remain constant, but the distance from the center of rotation will increase. The resulting increase in angular momentum will require a torque. How will it be applied through a flexible cable?

  10. Can we profit from this? on Retailers Swing DMCA To Stop "Black Friday" Sale Info · · Score: 1

    I am not a lawyer, but it seems that someone has used the threat of an unjustified law suit to block publication of information that we could use to save money.

    Is it possible that someone could put together a class action suit, the class being all people who bought stuff on Black Friday at less than the lowest price because they were unable to compare prices in the internet?

    Again, IANAL, and this may be completely off the wall, but if there is a potential action, some lawyers might take it on a contingency basis for big bucks.

  11. Re:contributions to OSS? on Linux Chosen for IBM's New Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, IBM contributed their Journaling File System.

  12. Hog Feed on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a little more complicated than this. When I was in elementary school in the rural south, after lunch we were supposed to dump leftover food into a barrel. One of the perks of the janitor's job was that he took the barrel home to fed to his hogs, probably without cooking. If the garbabe contained uncooked pork scraps from pigs with trichinosis, the pigs that ate it could get trichinosis.

    Nowdays, most hogs are fed a factory blended food containing corn and soy meal with no garbage. Therefore, they cannot get trichinosis from their food.

    In those instances where pigs are fed gargabe, I understand that the law now requires it to be cooked. (I am told that this was done to protect the pigs from some disease other than trichinosis, and the benefit to humans is accidental.)

  13. Did They Achieve Acceleration or Even Thrust? on HyShot Scramjet Test Declared a Success · · Score: 1

    As I read the article, I see that they ignited the fuel, but I have yet to see anyone claim that the burning fuel produced any thrust. Can someone point to more info?

  14. Re:possibly stupid question about Klez's appearanc on Klez: a closer look · · Score: 1

    In my experience the Reply To: header identifies the true (infected) sender.

  15. Re:Some source I'd like to share with Microsoft: on Microsoft Plans "Shared Source" .NET · · Score: 1

    I believe the original K&R didn't include void.

  16. Mod This Up on What Do You Think Of The Delux DVD? · · Score: 1

    I understand that studios are already releasing DVD's that won't play on region free equipment.

  17. TwoQuestions on Copying A DVD To A CD? · · Score: 1

    Is the compression algorithm published?

    If so,are there any patent issues concerning its use?

  18. Re:Why sic on You Say Tomato, I say Fan Jia Qie? · · Score: 1

    I too am an English speaker, and I'm not certain I see the problem either, but it seems that this may be one ot those times when purists want us to say "shall."

  19. So when will Babelfish add Mandarin? on You Say Tomato, I say Fan Jia Qie? · · Score: 3

    Or Hindi?

  20. This Car Seems to Show the Problem on Are Nitrogen Powered Cars The Future? · · Score: 1

    It will go about 15 miles at 20 mph on 48 gal of LN2.

  21. As Long as the Info Released was Relevant on Oracle Says It Investigated Microsoft Allies · · Score: 1

    The information discovered and released, that the "independent advocacy groups" were not actually independent, was relevant to the debate and the discovery and release was good and useful. On the other hand, had the investigation turned up irrelevant, personally embarrasing info on the head of one of the groups, and had that been released, then the investigation would have been despicable.

  22. Wrong on Mathematical Problems For The New Age · · Score: 1

    Math gets wierd when you deal with infinities. If your proof were correct were correct then the cardinality of ordered pairs of positive integers would exceed the cardinality of the positive integers. However, a 1 to 1 correspondence can be constructed by laying out the ordered pairs of positive integers in a 2D array and counting them along the diagonals:
    1 <-> (1,1)
    2 <-> (1,2)
    3 <-> (2,1)
    etc.

    A correct proof is Cantor's diagonalization theorem, mentioned elsewhere.

  23. Re:I'd like 3 as well on Will The DOJ Split Microsoft In Three? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this is the right solution, but it does address the current problem: MS seems to be trying to leverage its desktop dominance into server dominance.

  24. What are the consequencies of a 13 year old signin on Napster Bans Metallica Fans · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but don't you have to be 18 for your signature to be legally binding in most transactions?

  25. Use of Copyright for Censorship Ins't New on Do IP Laws Stifle Popular Culture? · · Score: 1
    According to an article I read back in the 60's, someone wrote a book in the 30's (or perhaps even earlier) entitled
    • Mrs. Eddie (sp?). The book was a critical biography of the founder of the Christian Science Church. The church bought the copyright for the sole purpose of preventing additional copies from being printed or sold.