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  1. Re:J2ME... on Nokia Taking Over Psion to Control Symbian? · · Score: 1

    >And if you had half-a-clue about mobile
    >technologies, you would know that J2ME is just a
    >middlet engine sitting on top of a real
    >operating system.

    You're not me, and I believe I have more clue than you do - if you had half-a-clue about any technologies in the 90's at all, or at least some reading skills, you could have told the difference between a "platform" and an "operating system".

    J2ME is a "real" platform - as "real" as your definition of a "real" operating system - that ideally runs on an OS that is optimized for the Java VM and usually runs no other application.

    If Psion 7700 will have the J2ME integrated, good for it. If the "real OS" has to run older apps to be backwards compatible - suck to be it - the J2ME on it may suck but it's not Java's fault.

  2. J2ME... on Nokia Taking Over Psion to Control Symbian? · · Score: 1

    I still believe J2ME is a better mobile platform than Symbian...

  3. Scorecard: on New NVidia Graphics Cards Reviewed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ATI nVidia
    speed 10 9
    price 5 5
    heat 9 1
    noise 9 2
    features 10 9

    TOTAL 43 26

    Choose ATI.

  4. Re:Sex will not exist soon. on Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation · · Score: 1

    Sexual reproduction evolves species that fights microorganisms (i.e. pathogens) better.

    It has been verified by experiments and is a widely-accepted theory.

  5. Re:I agree, women are better than men... on Human Accomplishment · · Score: 1

    >1) Their mother. (Who else nurtured them and
    >prepard them for greatness?)

    Hm...you seem to conveniently forget that whoever has a mother also has a father.

    Children nurtured by 2 parents generally do better than those with one parent.

    >2) Their wife. (Who else encouraged them and
    >supported them?)

    I guess I live in a world where great husbands do exist in abundance.

  6. Re:FYI on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1

    I believe it also has something to do with the heat associated with electronic processors which should not exist at all on an optical.

  7. Re:Legends and truth about Dreamweaver and Flash on Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX With CrossOver Office · · Score: 1

    >but no one has seen the true capabilities of flash
    >yet

    Fear the power of Flash!!

    http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG.htm

  8. Re:SCOX ticker says it all on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    >I wonder if SCO will just drop the suit once all
    >the exec have finished dumping their stock.

    SCO cannot just drop the suit and leave a mess behind. The moment it drops the suit, I bet thousands of Linux contributors will bring up new suits.

  9. Re:Inherently bad? on Danish Study Recommends Open Standards for EU · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >I would require that the ability to export data
    >into an open format be included.

    It is not enough.

    It should save data to an open format by DEFAULT.

    And if you choose an alternative format, it should not pop up an annoying dialog every time.

  10. Until it provides an easy way to cleanly uninstall on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    When people uninstall the free stuffs that it comes with (e.g. Kaaza), it's still a spyware.

    How about, from now on, whenever we say "spyware", say "spyware and adware". By putting them together whenever we want to use one of the words, we don't have to care what Gator wants itself to be called.

    This technique is called "Guilt by association". ;)

  11. Doesn't fucking matter. on AI Sues for Its Life in Mock Trial · · Score: 1

    Computers have a unique way of "resurrection" called a "backup".

  12. "ignores horizontal scaling" on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    In a lot of applications horizontal scaling is much more important than vertical scaling.

    I cannot believe an article that talks about scalability simply just "ignores" horizontal scaling.

  13. Re:Useless? no, TRY PRICLESS. My industry perspect on Maya now Free for Personal Use · · Score: 1

    Okay, some idiot modded my non-information up. Mods please bring it back down. Thanks.

  14. Re:The day it goes up again on Verisign Plans to Revive SiteFinder Advertising 'Service' · · Score: 1

    In this case, surfing one predefined random URL every 10 seconds will eliminate the collateral damage.

  15. Re:Useless? no, TRY PRICLESS. My industry perspect on Maya now Free for Personal Use · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know what? When you buy the licensed version, I bet you can just reopen the file you have saved.

    As far as I know the watermark is dynamically created everytime you render, NOT in the Maya scene description files themselves - otherwise you can edit them away easily, because it's format is so well understood.

    So your concern is a non-concern.

  16. Re:Typos != intentional usage on Verisign Plans to Revive SiteFinder Advertising 'Service' · · Score: 1

    Since we *LOVE* their service, let's eagerly flock to SiteFinder by surfing a random URL every millisecond!!

  17. The day it goes up again on Verisign Plans to Revive SiteFinder Advertising 'Service' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm ready to run a background wget that surfs a random URL 10 times a second.

    Please join me.

  18. How about on Transmeta Introduces The Efficeon · · Score: 1

    Abalone...

  19. Avoid admitting weaknesses... on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1

    And I always think the ability of admitting weaknesses is something that a good PHB should possess.

    Guess I have to think again.

  20. Re:Same as my current IE experience on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    When I was a user of IE, I had this problem before (Now I'm on Linux :)

    I simply used SoftICE to get rid of this dialog box. (usual disassemble, trace, patch)

    If you don't have SoftICE, I imagine that W32dasm or even Visual studio can accomplish this task, too.

  21. Re:Region Codes on Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release · · Score: 1

    FYI, getting around region code is still legal, despite DMCA.

  22. Re:Open Source code in Closed Source Projects? on SGI's Letter to the Linux Community · · Score: 1

    >I can't believe that much code has been written by
    >that many, often just-graduated, programmers
    >without someone somewhere saying "to hell with it,
    >who'll ever know?". I mean, this is humans we're
    >talking about. I think you're asking too much for
    >it not to have happened. And that's disregarding
    >the fact that MS has been caught in the past
    >copying closed source code.

    Read the original post again. It said "Chance of a large enough project not to include some open source code is 0", it sounded like BS to me.

  23. I have a good idea on How to Kill Spam Without the State · · Score: 1

    KARMA! For each spam you kill, you get 1 point.

    Should work extremely well with at least the /. crowd.

  24. Re:Open Source code in Closed Source Projects? on SGI's Letter to the Linux Community · · Score: 1

    And remember, open source != [L]GPL.

    In this case, there's no need to prevent against it.

    As for the chance being zero, you're probably right if you include public domains and BSD-licensed code, which don't really legally matter.

    If you're talking the chance of not including GPL code being zero, I believe you're on a lot of crack.

  25. Depends... on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 1

    If he demands royalty for each keyboard made with the combination, he might be as rich as Michael Dell...

    Now, if he demands royalty each time the combination is pressed, he should probably be richer than Bill Gate himself...