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  1. Also in Lotus Notes of all things on Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview · · Score: 1

    Since in Notes your mail is just another database, you can fairly easily add new views that key off of particular fields for their selection criteria.

    This is the one good feature among all the others that make it crappy for mail.

  2. Re:Planet Express on SpaceShipOne to Try for Space on Monday · · Score: 1

    Heck if there's a market, I would think you'd just go to a friendly local country. How about Mexico?

  3. Free 2 GB for Yahoo DSL users? on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    I just logged onto the account that came with my SBC Yahoo DSL, and it says I'm using "0% of 2.0GB". And this is just with the standard $30/month DSL plan.

    So that's actually cool.

  4. Re:2GB Mailboxes on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    I guess it's OK if she already paid Yahoo, but for anyone who didn't, it's not even comparable.

    Free is infinity better than $20.

  5. Re:It's worth skipping mod points for this: on Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy · · Score: 1

    Full-rez paparazzi/press photos float around sometimes, and even the best-looking actresses don't look perfect at 5 megapixels. Bigger than lifesize, and you can actually see their makeup.

  6. Re:I can't frickin' wait on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the first one thing most people turn off in existing Windows installs is the indexing service.

  7. Walmart is just replacing KMart, so who cares? on Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC Tags · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only stores Walmart is forcing out of business in my area are Ames and K*Mart, and I don't why I should care about that.

    The small downtown stores were killed 15 years ago by the surburban strip malls. Nothing to do with Walmart.

  8. Isn't it... on MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE · · Score: 1

    MARGE: Homer quiet. You'll queer the deal.

    Not very PC but aquire doens't sound right.

  9. I'm sure they won't have GTA 3 on PSP To Have PS2 Connectivity, No Shovelware Conversions? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure Sony will stand by this principle and not release any of their more popular games as "shovelware". Not Sony.

  10. Re:The stuff of records... on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1

    So is it better to win 11 of 11, or 11 of 14 (like Titanic)?

  11. What commerical were you watching? on Eminem Sues Apple for Sampling his Samples · · Score: 1

    IIRC, 10-12 year old boy singing, at least 25 of the 30 seconds of the commercial.

  12. Re:The other problem. on HP Dumped Napster for Apple · · Score: 3, Informative

    Personally, what I dislike about the iTunes radio is a different problem: that I can't say "hey, I don't want to listen to X specific song". With Napster, even in the "radio" mode you can delete future songs from the playlist or skip ahead any time.

  13. So it's just a very good rule, how is that bad? on New Method of Spam Filtering · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the article, it can make a decision on 53% of the total e-mail, and divide it up into Spam or non-Spam with complete accuracy. The key is that it makes no judgement on the rest of the e-mail.

    So you could throw this as a rule into SpamAssassin with a 100 weight on Spam results and a -100 weight on non-Spam results. That could only help your filtering. With zero false-positives.

  14. That's not a low id. on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1

    Have we such short memories?

  15. Re:Yay for prizes. on NASA's Own X Prize? · · Score: 1

    It also helps to make sure that things are commercially possible. For instance, a lot of the stuff NASA uses can't be sold to average Joe.

  16. Back when I was in college on When was the Last Time You Used Gopher? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was home for the summer and wanted to check my mail, but we didn't have an ISP (back in 1995). So I called in to my local library's system, which they put out so you could use databases and stuff remotely. They allowed you to get into Gopher from there. I dug around until I found a telnet gateway and used that to log into my college account all summer. The tricky part was that there was no way to directly go to an address, by typing in a URL or something. So you had to follow links all the way from my little library's server in NJ to this gateway in Germany or something.

  17. ...drawing chuckles from legisltators. on Amazon To Comply With Kansas Sales Tax Law · · Score: 1
    Currently, Kansans are required to pay a use tax to the state for purchases they make out of state, over the Internet or from catalogs, if the retailer fails to do so.

    "Presumably, some customers are self-assessing and remitting that tax," Prem said, drawing chuckles from legislators.
    Ha! Even the gov't realizes what a joke use tax is.
  18. You can statically link libc though on Why Doesn't .NET Include a Linker? · · Score: 1

    Then you won't need libc at all. Linux (really gcc) has that capability, even if you don't want to use it.

  19. % of global turnover? on EU Finds Microsoft Guilty Of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 1

    How is that fair? Shouldn't it be related to how much business they do in the EU?

  20. Without the details, this story is pointless on MS Files For NZ Patent On XML Word Processor Files · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The title of a patent is worthless. Patents are all about the implementation, and we know nothing about what Microsoft is claiming here.

    Honestly, the story rebuts itself:

    "Without knowing what is in the patent in detail means it is somewhat difficult to provide a meaningfull objection. "

  21. Re:Stop Changing DNS on Verisign Plans DNS Changes · · Score: 1

    If you can get to 100, then NN is not sufficient (unless it's hex digits).

  22. And this is a good thing on Microsoft Word Forms Passwords Hacked · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that it can't determine your actual password is a good thing. Not for the security of that particular document, obviously, but for the security of other things you may have used the same password for.

  23. Re:key component of IBM's Lotus Software on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1

    The IBM version isn't hellishly ugly, for one.

  24. Re:How to get people to pay for music: give it awa on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 1

    I, OTOH, realize it's still money, and that $60 is $60. As opposed to free.

    You have a point about getting an album for half price using this, but I still would probably just get the best tracks for free, and skip the rest.

  25. How to get people to pay for music: give it away?? on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 0

    If I can download songs from iTunes for free, why would I use pirated file sharing?

    Too bad that has no reflection at all on whether I would pay for songs.