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  1. Re:NeXT did reach a level of stardom. on Steve Jobs: Redefining The CEO · · Score: 1

    However, that was due to their innovative systems, rather than Jobs himself. You can't separate Steve from the systems he is responible for creating. Without Steve's vision and guts, there would not have been great Next products with the attributes valued by the scientific and research communities.

  2. Re:Bull on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1

    iTunes creates it's own music folder. How did it mess yours up?

  3. Can you provide a link to a definition of PhD? on The Official Launch of the Treo 650 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks.

  4. Try Bookmark Synchronization Extension for Firefox on Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=4174 2

  5. MS violated the Java license agreement on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1

    It was a pretty straight-forward case.

  6. Interesting behavior change with X1 on Microsoft's Search Engine Plans · · Score: 1

    I found when I started using X1 that I became much less interesting in where I stored things. The search is so good and so fast that it became easier to just save anywhere and retreive using X1.

  7. It's free and called your thumb on The Trouble with RFID · · Score: 1

    For most RFID tags all you need to do is place a thumb or finger on its antenna to change the attenuation enough so it cannot reflect the RF signal being thrown at it.

  8. Re:Useless... on Verizon Launches 3G Network (Silently) · · Score: 1

    IBM never expected that anyone besides large businesses would need computers.

    Have you ever paid $1.00/minute to connect to the Internet from a hotel room, only to achieve 19000 bps? Have you ever ever been at a client and needed fast access without an open analog connection? Have you ever been in an airport an needed to get a file to a colleague urgently? Or wanted to ditch your laptop for a weekend and still have easy access to email?

    Easy reasons to believe these services will become wildly popular.

  9. Re:What is it with that name on Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly the point.

  10. Re:I don't want a meta tag!.. on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1

    Uh...there are major differences between the Google and robots.txt examples and the SmartTags Microsoft is proposing. With Google, the user specifically installs the Google application. It is not the default way to use Google or to search the Web. It is available to users who find that feature of Google useful. SmartTags happen without ther user specifically requesting them--by default on the browser that is tied to the most widely distributed operating system. Quite different. Robots.txt are used to enhance the ways that search engines capture the data on a site. You certainly don't need them and it does not harm your site. SmartTags are a proprietary technology that every site will have to respond to so that the creator or owner's interest is not harmed. BTW, I have a copyright on the Meta tag syntax.

  11. Re:What the cards? on School Expels PCs, Installs NCs · · Score: 1

    Using cards for identification is a good idea. It helps prevent illegitimate logins.