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  1. Re:Darkhorse on Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine · · Score: 2, Informative

    That has been changed in the latest beta release. They've moved back to the admin GUI.

  2. Re:War is never straight on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    Just off the top of my head, how about these? 1. Germany 2. France 3. Japan 4. All of the other little countries in Western Europe

  3. Re:Is this innovation? on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just thought I would test your theory. Live.com search for Python Google search for Python. Google shows no bad results, Live.com has Python.com $40 signup that links to a porn site. That has been my typical experience. I don't know what tech terms you've been searching for, but Google has always had relevant links for me on the first page.

  4. Re:Might be better with smart power... on Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how it would be a bad thing for everything to even out. The biggest challenge for power companies is to avoid spikes and peaks in power usage. The more even it all is, the more we could rely on the relatively cheap base power plants, versus peaking plants (where power can be as much as 5x more costly). I can't wait for this technology, and I believe it holds more promise and is more realistic than any new power generation technologies.

  5. Re:Random bits from the book... on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1

    Umm, I think the examples are just made up to be funny.

  6. Re:I'd like to see on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 1

    You are amazing! Seriously, I had never noticed that before.

  7. Re:I'd like to see on Google Maps Now Does Interactive Re-Routing · · Score: 1

    I second this. I use Google Maps to route our truck drivers and the little maps are pointless and insulting to the truck drivers (truck drivers are a strange lot). The major turns would be awesome as would being able to always print the original view instead of clicking cancel on the print dialog, then checking the box, then correcting the zoom, then printing.

  8. Re:The Challenge For OSS On Windows on OSS on Windows the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    I'm using Windows and there is an address bar (I just noticed) but it is inconveniently at the bottom of the form :(, and it doesn't work like I'm used to. I'm not saying it's perfect, I'm saying that it is better than it used to be. We Windows users aren't used to dialog boxes where you click the little dots to go up a folder, or where you actually have to type in a drive letter to switch drives (I know you don't have that situation on Linux :) ). That was the state of things when I first used GTK for Windows. Now you can actually select drives from a listbox on the left, add directories as favorites in the same listbox, and use the little buttons that show up at the top to go up to any higher directory. I would like geeky fixes like a better address bar, but I'm encouraged at the progress.

  9. Re:The Challenge For OSS On Windows on OSS on Windows the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    I agree entirely with your post. I use 7zip and Audacity and several apps that use GTK. I will say that GTK has come quite a ways in looks and functionality since I first started using it. I remember trying to use the Open dialog box a couple of years ago (I was a very new OSS user) and it took me a while to get it figured out. Today it is *much* better for usability.

  10. Re:Which version of VB is it? on Making an Argument Against Using Visual-Basic? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't C code itself require a runtime? How do you determine the difference?