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  1. Re:Notable lacking features on Details On IE7 CSS Changes · · Score: 1

    In MS's defence (crazy, I know...) they do have "display:inline-block", which IMO is a lot more useful than CSS for making table layouts.

  2. I've got one: on Quiz Microsoft's IE Team Leader · · Score: 1

    Now that your Mac version and its different rendering engine are pretty much abandoned and forgotten by MS and users, why not open source it?

  3. Re:CSS on Quiz Microsoft's IE Team Leader · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A better question:

    Do you have any plans to support CSS 2.1 *when it's finished*?

  4. Re:Still payable if TV/Radio streams firewalled? on Germany's New Internet License Fee · · Score: 1

    In the UK it's not nearly as bad; there's probably some difference pricing for places like offices, but for home use you pay one fee per year. They don't care how many TVs, radios, set top boxes or tv cards you use.
    Besides, I think PCs are already covered under the generic TV licence along with radio and DVB. They wouldn't block non-UK IPs from places on the BBC site otherwise.

  5. Re:Netscape netscaped itself on The Netscaping of Symantec and McAfee · · Score: 1

    The difference here is that Symantec's software has been bloated and ineffective for a long time, while Netscape only turned that way after it was more or less abandoned at v7.

  6. Re:What's the point? on AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    A lot of games already work better with dual cores. Quake 2 or 3 had a SMP version. UT2004 does all its audio processing in a separate thread (and since it's using OpenAL there's a lot of processing going on).

  7. Re:If I am a newbie.. on MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never put a variable inside a mysql_query().

    There's a 99% chance it'll fuck you over with an SQL exploit. And with the other 1%, you still get the query cache rendered useless from storing hundreds of small variations on one or two query strings.

    Use prepared statements for anything that doesn't completely fit between a pair of single quotes.

  8. Re:Competition from above and below. on MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    The OP is spot on. Besides being easier to install, MySQL has things like the PHP MySQLi interface. SQLite actually has a better PHP interface IMO, but sometimes it's literally impossible to get things done with it.

  9. Re:Why is it so wrong to say on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1

    My bad.

    AfghanIraq never actually did anything wrong.

  10. Re:Practical uses. Why the stupid comments? on A Single Pixel Camera · · Score: 1
    Camera could include one pixel per range of spectrum, recording a full electromangetic spectrum
    ...did you just invent a tricorder?!
  11. Re:Why is it so wrong to say on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1

    I'd be amazed if a country actually does blow the shit out of all the US's satellites for fucking with everyone else and being openly hostile.

    Amazed because they'd have to have some real balls to stand up to such a violent nation, considering one country that tried it got nuked twice and another got levelled by a full-scale ground invasion.

  12. Re:What happened? on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, two hours ago, XHTML 1.0 and CSS1/DOM1 work just fine in IE6. Even a lot of CSS2 works in it, basic things like inline-block which every browser should've supported years ago (hello Firefox).

  13. Re:Wireless Digital Monitor on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting point actually. Most of us have LCD monitors that can run off 12V, so why hasn't anyone made a standard like Firewire but for DVI outputs?

  14. Re:Wireless Digital Monitor on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    But is the added price of onboard decompression hardware and a wireless transmitter/reciever really worth it for just having one less cable?

  15. Notably absent from his claims: on Hirai Expects One Million PS3s By End of Year · · Score: 2, Funny

    The word "sold".

  16. Re:Nothing But Good News For Sony on Sony Blu-ray Media Center · · Score: 1

    I absolutely agree with you.

    Sony has done nothing but amaze me for this past year. Just when I think you^Wthey couldn't possibly fuck up any worse, BLAM! They completely blow away my expectations. Broken low-end PC disguised as a £1600 BR player? Genius.

  17. Re:The most important part of the article... on Sony Blu-ray Media Center · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good thing they warned us - now we have proof that pirating will get you a more reliable product.

  18. Re:You europeans hold the power in your countries on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1
    At least WE get rid of Bush in 2008

    You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? But the cartels running your country are going to do everything in their power to make sure he stays for another four years.
  19. Re:There MS goes again... on Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body · · Score: 1

    Are you implying XML and everything based on it (SVG, AJAX, ODF...) is a bad thing?

  20. Re:Any linux benchmarks? on New Radeon X1950 Pro Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Not quite, there's always the VESA/VGA driver.

  21. DX9 on New Radeon X1950 Pro Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    What about OpenGL 2.x fragment program performance?

  22. Re:Pros will never use Gimp on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Does Photoshop have an equivalent to Gimp's Lisp/Python interpreters? People don't need commercial extensions when they can knock up their own stuff to do the job in 10 minutes.

  23. Re:Why I don't use the Gimp on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 2, Informative

    The GIMP:
    1. Use one of the selection tools to select an area.
    2. Use the fill tool to fill the area.
    3. Shrink the selection.
    4. Delete the contents of the selection box.
    5. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
    6. Adjust colors / transparency.


    Looks like you've been reading bad instructions.
    1. Draw shape using appropriate selection tool.
    2. Choose whatever paintbrush tool and options you want the shape drawn with. (optional)
    3. Edit -> stroke selection.
    4. Write text using text tool and style it appropriately.
    5. Adjust colors / transparency.
  24. U-Turn? on Microsoft Working With Security Vendors · · Score: 1

    Makes it sound like MS suddenly pulled its head out of its ass, which is wrong. The only U-turn they did here was because they went into a dead end street.

  25. Re:It still doesn't respect my themes on Firefox 2.0 RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    You must have a broken setup or something. Firefox blends in fine with my GTK themes.