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  1. great review no vista bashing on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    This was a great review. I think the first one that did not bash vista everychance they got. This is how a review should be done. The only thing keeping me from getting a mac is the price. Apple really has to stop overcharging for their computers.

  2. Long island companies should try on NASA Offering $2 Million Prize for Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    A company from long island should try. The cradle of aviation museum has one of the original landers. It was going to be used on one of the missions that got cancelled. That would be a great recource in building another one. (Long Island was home to grumman before they went under and got bought by northrop)

  3. I have a razr v3xx (3g phone) on EDGE Can Out-Perform 3G; Here's Why · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a motorola razor v3xx wich is 3g (the 3.6mbps version) and I can select the networks manually. I get faster speeds on edge then I do on 3g. I don't know why but I do. I think its because att doesnt really care about 3g.

  4. Where you go and who you work for. on Annual IT Salary Survey Finds Dissatisfaction · · Score: 1

    I am 25 And I am already making $55k a year. In a year that will go up to $60k a year. I am working for a public library on Long ISland. Here on Long Island they are stating how IT will be one of the fields that will be in deperate need. We have a problem of all the people my age moving off the island. So people with my skills are hard to find. It allso helps that I am in civil service and I am in a union. I think its all a matter of who you work for and where you live. Also if you are very good at your job you might work yourself out a job. I have done that already.If you fix things TOO fast then they will think they dont need you anymore and lay you off.

  5. Re:Deadlier? I say- Neutered! on Germs Taken Into Space May Come Back Deadlier · · Score: 1

    Nope the tests on the mice were done on earth. So that throws your theory out the window.

  6. Re:Cablevision does not cap downloads so why other on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    Then get the boost package. nobody has been capped on the boost package so far.

  7. Cablevision does not cap downloads so why others? on Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy · · Score: 1

    IF cablevision can allow people to download whatever they want and have the highest speeds out of all the cablecompanies then why dod the rest cap downloads. HEck cablevision ubncapped the boost packagaes download and the top speed is limited only by what the top speed of docsis 2 is. I really dont udnerstand how cablevision can do all this and that other cable companies cant

  8. wsus on Microsoft Forces Shutdown of Autopatcher · · Score: 1

    Please tell me why autopatcher is better then wsus. On my network at work we use wsus. Only the one wsus connects to download the updated(when nobody is there) then all the computers automatically get there updates from that one server. What does autopatcher do that wsus cant?

  9. the buyer can unlock on Can Apple + AT&T Shut Down iPhone Unlockers? · · Score: 1

    What other sites have stated is that the person who buys the phone can unlock the phone. The people selling that solution cant sell it becuase thats illegal. But if you have to hack the phone to unlock it isnt that illegal?

  10. FSF is NOT SUING MICROSOFT. on FSF Positioning To Sue Microsoft Over GPLv3? · · Score: 1

    All the fsf stated was that if microsoft distributes a gpl 3 product then they have to follow the gp3.

    heck the fsf even praises microsoft at one point

    "In its press release dated July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was withdrawing discriminatory promises of patent safety it previously made to certain Novell customers. We regard Microsoft's decision with satisfaction. FSF first requested the withdrawal of those discriminatory promises in a meeting with Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, on November 9, 2006. (We have no opinion on Microsoft's legal obligations to the intended beneficiaries of the repudiated promises, or to Novell.)
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    Why must websites like slashdot and digg completely lie to bash microsoft. if you are going to bash microsoft atleast do it with facts dont make up articles then post an article that does not state anything of what your false article states.

  11. is the touch screen really worth all this trouble? on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 1

    Is a touch screen really worth all this trouble? couldnt i get one of those pda phones that does everything that the iphone does but with 3g for cheaper?

  12. Re:Its a shame... on iPhone Freed From AT&T, Twice · · Score: 1

    That depends on where you live. ATT and VErizon here on long island have the exact same signal and service. Tmboile is 2-3 times worse then both of them.

  13. Always forgetting about cablevision on Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    I hate how every daming article of the cableindustry always leaves out cablevision. Here in cablevision territory they are competing very well against fios. The normal package was just recently upgraded to 16.5/2, the boost backage the download was uncapped and has a max of what ever the cablemodem supports/and 5 upload. Cablevision also just added vshd,golfhd, and the voom hd networks wich there is maybe 7 or more of them. I dont see cablevision in trouble yet. They are slowly taking analog channels away and replacing them with hd channels. Our internet is at the max of what docisis 2 supports. Then you have all that spectrum abovbe 800mhz wich is not used. Cablecompanies are not in trouble. Just look at cablevision as what cablecompanies can really do.

  14. Suing because the red cross is now liscencing the on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They are suing the red cross because the red crossis now illegally liscencing the red cross symbol when J&J have had the symbol since they started in the 1800's and they have it trademarked.

    J&J actually has a case against the red cross. Stop with this big corp business.

  15. hmm on Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am confused. My vista machine is fully patched and I have no problems uninstalling anything.

  16. Re:Press conference on Miyamoto Speaks, Nintendo Ditching the Hardcore? · · Score: 1

    That was a great explanation. I am going to borrow it. Dont worry you will get credit for it :)

  17. Charging for support training on Turns Out Ubuntu Dell Costs $225 More · · Score: 1

    Is it so hard to figure out that dell is charging you for all the training they had to do with their reps? Thats why their isnt that much of a difference.

  18. Re:The decline of slashdot posters on Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008 · · Score: 1

    yes but Put this car on long island and it will not work. 70 percent of the cars here are those huge Suv's . Also this car is only good for city traffic. Also how much are you paying for this volvo that you are talking about? I paid 16k for my corolla thats the le model with a maintanance package and the gold warranty. For how small the cars are and their price they are not that good of a value. they might be good in the city but then if I was in the city id rather get a scooter. You go blasting all the civic and corolla cars about not knowing anything but then are saying that your more expensive car is better? Do you even know what kind of car the article is about? What we are saying is for the price its not worth it at all especially when i can get a bigger car with a tiny bit less gas milage. Also They dont say wich epa guidlines the mpg is for if its 2008 or the odler ones. The yaris was originally rated at 40 something before the new guidelines.

  19. Rather get one of the scion models or even a yaris on Smart Car Coming To the US In Jan. 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For some reason when I look at the price all I think is that there are better cars for that price. Why would I buy one of those when I can get a yaris or scion that gets the same milage?

  20. More itnerested in IRAQ on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    The government is more interested in IRAQ then in their own country. Here on LOng Island we have Brookhaven National LAbs. INstead of fundign the major machine (forgot what it is) they refused to give the labs funding. A private investor had to donate money to keep it going.

  21. Why only cable? Why not dish or fios tv? on Bill to Bring A La Carte, Indecency Regs to Cable · · Score: 1

    Why is it they are only picking on cable? Why cant this law apply to Satelite providers and fios tv also?

  22. Dell replaced vid card when this happened at work on Gateway Customer Sues to Get His PC Fixed · · Score: 1

    Hmm wierd. I had this on a brand new comp that we setup at work. I must say dell handled it very weell. I told the tech i was a comp tech and i was extremely sure that it was a bad vid card. They sent out a new vid card and i sent abck the old one. Why couldnt gateway do that ?

  23. hmm on Xandros CEO Doesn�t Agree Linux is Patent Violator · · Score: -1, Troll

    So the linux people are turning around and being just as bad as microsoft by acting like children. Come on in stead of finding out if linux really does violate microsofts patents and fixing them you are going to change the liscence so that people cant make deals with microsoft? Isnt that doing the exact same thing that mnicrosoft is doing?

  24. Re:Sounds like that old sim village concept on SimCity 5 Passed Off From Maxis · · Score: 1

    NOt really there was alot more to simville. Also simcity 4 didnt have your sim change to how you built the city . Yes it would complain about no job and stuff but it wasnt full interaction. This would have a city full of them. Not just 5 people.

  25. Sounds like that old sim village concept on SimCity 5 Passed Off From Maxis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This could actually be a cool game. Combine the best aspects of The Sims and Sim City and you could have a huge game. Things like building your city also effects your sim. Say you build a garbage dump next to your sims house. Then the house value goes down and your sim itself starts changing. You decide to nock down a school, your sims kids grades start going down because of class overcrowding. This can be a huge game, Basic city building with basic sim management but heavy interaction between the two. Open yourself up to a new idea and you will see the potential in this.