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  1. Re:Playing devil's advocate... on iPod Users Buy CDs, Shun iTunes · · Score: 1

    Have you ever heard of something called "buffer"?

  2. Just tried it using bugmenot... on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    ...It is sluggish as hell! You know, browser were meant to browse the Web. And the Web is a *data* repository not an application repository.

  3. You code an AJAX by... on So How Do You Code an AJAX Web Page? · · Score: 1
    1. Preventing access by people with any kind of disabilities
    2. Preventing access by people using devices/browsers that do not support the latest client-side script tricks
    3. Making information non-addressable from other pages
    4. Ensuring it can't be indexed by search engines
    5. Removing any visual clue that something is loading, so that the user will wait forever if there's a server/network problem
    6. Thinking about the Web as a UI toolkit and not as a repository of useful information
  4. Re:What would really help Corel... on Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability · · Score: 3, Informative

    They did release it (altough using Wine).
    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4589

  5. They lost the train on Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With Free applications getting better and better the chance to sell word processors and graphics applications on the Linux platform is vanishing. Corel Draw and Word Perfect could have made a big difference years ago, but now they are irrelevant. Corel (and also Adobe) failed to acquire a profitable market. Now it's the time for audio applications, but I suppose ISVs will wakeup in a few years just to find out there is already some open source Cubase-killer.

  6. Re:Church? on Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland · · Score: 1

    Please read the book before repeating the commonplace. The book explicitly talks about "Withering Away of the State" (Chapter 5)

  7. Re:A disturbance in The Force? How stupid is this? on WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall? · · Score: 1

    Nobody is moving to Linux because the games aren't there
    Well I suppose gamers are themselves a minority. They can happily switch to the XBox or the Playstation.

    the thousands of cheesy little Windows applications people love aren't there
    There are thousands of cheesy little applications also for Linux. Take a look a this: http://kde-apps.org/

    it's different (read: scary), and it's a pain in the ass for most joe schmoes to install
    Modern Linux distributions are very easy to install especially Ubuntu/Kubuntu are amazing. Most people cannot install Windows anyway. They always used a preinstalled OS or upgraded with the help of a tech-savvy friend. They'll switch to Linux with the help of a tech-savvy friend.
  8. Re:Church? on Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland · · Score: 1

    Someone suggested to search for "guns" on google, but guns alone are useless without a theory of revolution, so here it is: Lenin's The State and Revolution. http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/s taterev/