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  1. Re:Still waiting for the final nail in the coffin on Paramount to Drop HD DVD? · · Score: 1

    Upconverting DVD players are overrated. Most TV's do a much better job of scaling the picture up then the DVD player does.

  2. Re:What the? on Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape · · Score: 1

    It was an encrypted back-up tape. Not a hard drive.

    Most likely, some punk broke into the interns car, took anything that looked valuable, and latter realized the tape was nothing and put it in a dumpster.

    To date, no one knows if anyone actually has possession of the tape, or if it has been destroyed.

  3. Re:$3 million? on Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape · · Score: 1

    The $3 million dollar number is not the potential liability for credit fraud. That number represents the cost of the premiums that the State is going to pay for Credit Fraud insurance for any person's whose data was on the tape.

    All persons were sent a letter offering them the insurance.

  4. Re:Some quick considerations... on Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape · · Score: 1

    Wrong! This gentlemen is not in the union. He is part of the administrative team at OAKS.

    OCB has experience in handling these types of cases, and so was brought in for their expertise.

  5. Re:Well duh on Did Gates Fib About H1-B Salaries? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was the best programmer in my graduating undergrad class

    The tallest midget in the circus is still a midget.

  6. Re:Apple doesn't 'recommend using Parallels'? on Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Playing buddies with Microsoft on First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs · · Score: 1

    Eclipse runs fine on a Mac.

    Eclipse ran so *poor* on my TiBook (font's too large, speed issues) that I had to sell it and go back to Dell.

    I hated to do it, but I couldn't do my day-to-day development on it.

  8. Re:Probably...for the first release at least on Apple to Lock OSXi to Apple Hardware · · Score: 1
    Mr. Gates (an apple shareholder)

    What makes you think Gates, or MSFT, is an Apple shareholder? They sold the $150M investment that they bought back in 97/98 a long time ago.

  9. Hibernate on Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired? · · Score: 1

    The O/R mapping tool Hibernate was essentialy acquired by JBoss.

    They hired the lead developer Gavin King, and now pay him, and part of his team, salaries to help further the product, under the guise of helping JBoss's business objectives.

  10. Re:There isn't any provider that meets my needs. on Voom No More · · Score: 1

    As mentioned, yes it does.

    Note though: you have to be subscribed to DirecTV for the OTA to work. You cannot use it as an OTA-only box and not pay DirecTV.

    Other than that, it give you *exactly* what you want.

  11. Re:The figures given are bull cr@p... on Wal-Mart Squeezing Record Labels to Cut CD Prices · · Score: 1

    Because for every one record that is profitable, there are 10 that are not.

    Overhead is to cover all the loses on alubms that don't sell, well.

    Not every alubm sells 7 mil.

  12. Re:Laziness Scale on High Tech Baby Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    That's great until the time when you going into the room to check on them is detrimental to the baby learning to fall asleep on their own.

    Having the audio, and a simple IR camera has made parenting much easier.

    If she is crying but lying down, we know she can be left alone for a bit, etc. Don't discount the ability to see what is going on without being in there.

  13. Re: good insights from Feb 3 article on Apple Now Debt Free, Says Internal Memo · · Score: 1

    Because revenue != profit

  14. Re:This isn't surprisng on Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar · · Score: 1

    Actually, Connors broadcast a good part of *his* show from his house in Florida during the winter as well.

    When I saw this article, I assumed it was about him.

  15. Re:What pisses me off ... on Major New TiVo Service Offerings · · Score: 1

    TiVo offered a reference design 12-months ago for any CE manufacturer to license. No one bit on it -- so TiVo assumes (probably right) that the market for a SA HD box is not there yet.

  16. Re:What pisses me off ... on Major New TiVo Service Offerings · · Score: 1

    DirecTv said that the box will not work as a standalone -- it must be an active sat receiver

  17. Re:rash of naughty dates coming on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    or, as I really meant to say "month-day-year"

  18. Re:rash of naughty dates coming on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    *zoom*

    What day is the 17th day of the 19th month?

    Also, how is it *more* sensible your way? You might be used to that, but I wouldn't say it is more sensible.

    The US way seems to make sense -- you say a date like this "Janurary 27th, 1976" and our date rep looks the exact same way -- 01/27/76. The both are the same format, "month-year-day".

  19. Re:I'm always amazed. on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    ummm....don't you mean $.25 a unit?

    $250k/1mil = $.25

  20. Re:My Issue with ReplayTV and rolling my own on ReplayTV and TiVo Compared · · Score: 1

    No, but you can pass is through.

    There is no mpeg encoder in the DTiVo (because it takes the bitstream from sat)

  21. Re:Why not other movies? on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil · · Score: 1
    Go back to the Terminator movies, change Arnold's voice so you don't have to explain why a Robot designed by the Robots from an American firm has a strong Australian accent.

    Or, maybe an Austrian accent?!?!

    I don't think we heard Arnold saying "G'Day Mate!"

  22. Fair use -- my take on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players? · · Score: 3, Troll

    Let us not forget: Fair-use means that it is not illegal to make a back-up copy, or to timeshift, etc, if you can do it.

    Fair-use is not a doctrine that states the owners must make it *easy* to copy, or even possible.

    Now the DMCA makes it a little bit sticky inregards to being able to copy stuff for fair-use, but even pre-DMCA, there was no contract between seller and buyer that the seller would make it easy to copy.

  23. Re:it's kinda funny on Bush Administration Stops Microsoft Breakup · · Score: 1

    I agree with you a to a point, but you made one *huge* mistake

    Microsoft *does not* pay dividends on their stock.

    Try again

  24. Re:Not very funny on Rhythms Flatlines · · Score: 1

    actualy, everything I have seen says that the Baby Bells *lose* money on residental service. The amount of money they can charge for it is highly regulated by the FCC, and does not cover the cost of maintanence nessecary (think all those lines of cooper infrastructure). That is why all the local's are trying to get into the Long Distance and Business markets to make money. If they could only do Residental, they would not be doing that well.

  25. Re:Good chance for Apple on Dan Gillmor on WinXP · · Score: 1
    The reason why they don't do it is because Apple is in the harware business, period!

    Software is a loss-leader to get people to buy their hardware. So if you ran it on an x86, APPL no longer has people buying their profitable hardware.