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  1. Re:If You're Late to the Party on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Next to the no sideloading of applications the worthlessness of the browser is the next stumble block, I hope the phone dies a quick death, or gets a decent browser like IE9 with at least some intention to start supporting HTML5

  2. Re:Kinda on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    No if the goal was to kill someone it's called murder. Homocide in general is less specific about the intent.

  3. Re:Will not be surprising on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    That is "battle.net 2.0" the new and improved version, that WoW and Starcraft II use.
    The original battle.net as it is in starcraft or warcraft 3 hasn't really evolved all that much since their respective introductions.

  4. Re:Pardon? on APB To Use In-Game Audio Advertisements · · Score: 1

    APB has it both, you can opt for buying X hours, or for buying a monthly unlimited plan.

  5. Re:The wise user will wait on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Vista SP1 actually, that's why 2008 came with "SP1" on release.

    The NT kernel has always been a hybrid one, and your example of UNIX being modular is backwards. Linux and UNIX(*BSD, Solaris) have monolithic kernels.

    Mini Win likely refers to MinWin? That's just changes to to the existing kernel though: http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/mark-russinovich-explains-minwin-once-and-for-all.aspx

  6. Re:No thanks on Blizzard Authenticators May Become Mandatory · · Score: 1

    My bank uses a text message that sends you a code, but you can choose for the old fashioned list of codes.

    You can even request a couple codes in advance for when you'll be going somewhere and you know you don't have access to your cellphone.

    I quite like the text message system over the physical device that some other devices/blizzard's authenticator use because I'll have my cell phone with me everywhere, but the physical device is unlikely to travel with me.

  7. Re:So what if the faithful screams? on Originality Vs. Established IP In Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they are also a very vocal part, that gets seen by others.

  8. Re:Confused on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    Hoping that a beta OS wont touch your files because they are on another partition isn't a very good way to go about things.

    Windows 7 had exactly such a bug when it first started arriving where it would corrupt MP3 files.

  9. Rendering isn't the only issue on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Open internet explorer, type address. Address get's removed and replaced with about:blank and I get some sort of weird error about the site not being available.

    Open a new tab get a "Connecting..." message and my browser locking up for a few seconds.

    Even if it were faster at rendering the actual page, if it takes that much more time and effort to begin typing the url they already lost.

  10. Re:Why is are people accusing win7... on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 2, Informative

    2008 is the server version of Vista and 2008 RC2 is the server version of Windows 7.

  11. Re:Slow Justice is No Justice on EC Considering Removing Internet Explorer From Windows · · Score: 1

    I wonder what sort of strange OEM you got your new computer from then, since I'm sure all the ones I know would install a browser.

    Microsoft bundling in their OS, and OEMs installing it are two different things.

  12. Re:The only answer is no browser at all on EU Antitrust Troubles Continue For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    But then they already have the browser that their oem installed.

  13. Re:Negative headlines sell better on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    And that's when herd immunity fails and lots of people die. The sad part being that the kids will die because their parents are uninformed.

  14. Re:I expected as much... on Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test · · Score: 1

    Based upon my own experience, I suspect "you didn't RTFA" is the right answer here.

  15. Re:*Yawn*, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu. on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 0

    So how do you suggest to secure a system so that a program the user starts is unable to modify files the user owns? Because I'm sure protecting the system isn't all that important for a user. It's his own files and documents he cares about.

  16. Re:Species or subspecies? on Giraffes May Be Six Separate Species · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would make tigers and lions the same species, since there have been fertile offspring. I'd say there's a lot wiggle room in the definition.

  17. Re:Oh just jump to 64bit already MS on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 2, Informative

    DOSbox interpets the old code and runs that, but DOSbox itself is not a 16bit application. So you're not actually running any 16bit code, but you're running dosbox's 32(or 64) bit code.

    And yeah, DOSbox works fine on windows 64.

  18. Re:Bwah? on Ogg Vorbis / Theora Language Removed From HTML5 Spec · · Score: 1

    For the same reason standard image formats are supported, so that you can show them inline and you know everyone can see them if they use a modern browser.

    Right now for videos you have to hope that whatever proprietary plugin you use is available for the browser the custom uses. With more and more operating systems, devices, and other things having webbrowsers that assumption is harder and harder to make. If every HTML5 browser should support ogg or mp4 or whatever format by default then you can target that, instead of having to hope that whatever browser on whatever platform your target has happens to be able to play that kind of media.

  19. Re:More than Australia on Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say that your light bulbs have to be replaced either just that you can't buy new energy inefficient ones.

  20. Re:ban wifi? what about other technologies? on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    I saw that episode of House as well.

  21. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    For whales I'll point you to http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/

    As for "If these cell's were to missing any one component, then the entire cell would no longer function at all.", there can be many causes for this, one would be that this cell once had more functionalty and it lost some, thereby replacing another mechanism or giving a new benefit. Nothing is saying that a function arose out of something less.

  22. Re:On The Pipe on A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell · · Score: 1

    You could also just add the cygwin folder directly to the path, then you don't need bat files for all the commands but can just call them directly.

  23. Re:CDs? on Artist Suggesting Ways Around Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    It doesn't break the standard, it has normal music tracks and 2 data tracks, inside the data tracks is a little autorun that will install a driver and that then blocks access to the music.

    That's all there is to it, that's why people with a mac are fine, so are people not running windows (or are running windows but disabled autorun, aren't an administrator).

  24. Re:Do we actually need this? on Google, Skype and the Future of IM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They did infact "rigged something up" except that instead of IRC they used the nice and open standard Jabbar protocol. They also have information on their site how to access it from various other clients.

    And you could just use any of the various IM clients that intergrates all the seperate ones, like GAIM, Trillian, etc.

    Wouldn't have hurt if you at least pretended to look at it before whining about it.

  25. Re:You know what I would really like to see? on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should actually tell it to end process like you really want to do, instead of asking it to cleanly end a task. But I guess going to the Processes tab and doing so would invalidate your pointless rant.

    I don't see "a real os" immediatly terminating some hung application when I do "kill ".