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  1. Re: Any OTHER OS browsers? on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It's the same reason people still are hardcore Amiga fans. It's a personal preference not based on quantifiable gains.

    Personally I loved Amigas until Doom came out, and I thought Opera was cluttered.

  2. Because there is structure on Why Outsource When Workers are Willing to Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Firms outsource locally too. The reason outsourcing isn't like telecommutting is because there is still structure where the owrkers are. You can tell if people are goofing off, reading /. all day (*ahem*), or getting their shit done.

  3. Don't excercise at the office on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why aren't you exercising at home or at a gym. If you have to work long hours, then just wait until it's late to do your excercising (which will cut down on the number of people there), or just start going to the gym at, say 7 no matter what, and coming back to work if you need to. The brain break will help you work anyway.

  4. Re:Actually, if I recall correctly on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1

    The real reason Atkins works better is because it body doesn't digest and metabolize fat and protein as well as carbs, so a gram of fat will stay in your stomache longer and thus make you want less food (the "more full" feeling you supposedly get).

    And dietary colesterol isn't anywhere nears as bad as hydrogenated oils, so you just need to avoid those and you shouldn't get the artery problem.

    Personally, I'd be on Atkinsif I didn't love carbs so much.

  5. Re:Color Laser Printeres on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess? · · Score: 1

    Around here, a buck is $100, so a buck and a quarter would be $125. Maybe if you said that you paid that much for a car, a person would figure it out, but they might think you just got a real beater.

  6. Re:And in other news... on Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob · · Score: 1

    I loved the BBC miniseries. How much do you want for it? Email me: jl-slashdotpub@quickp.ath.cx

  7. Re:Great Acronyms on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    Cobra Commander runs the country?

  8. Re:Sharing.... on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    Nt to mention that a felon in jail can't vote. That's one sure way to policitally silence any reasonable opposition.

  9. Re:Sharing.... on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    kid: Well why can't we just make a law against flag burning?

    Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional. But if we changed the Constitution...

    kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!

    Amendment: Now you're catching on!

  10. What I want to know on AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders · · Score: 1

    is how much severance/warning AOL gave these workers. If anything less than 60 days, then I would be quite upset about this. I have been laid off with just a week severance and have worked at places were there was no severance given to the people laid-off, so it's an issue I take fairly seriously. If AOL did not give a good severance, then I would certainly take part in an active boycott (educating others to their employment practices), both for buying products and services from/through them and for people seeking employment there.

    Even if your lay-offs aren't large enough to meet the requirements of the WARN act, an employer should still give good notification or severance.

  11. Re:pretty cool stuff on Broken Saints Finale Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To go from word balloons to audio is a large step. It requires voice acting, which isn't that easy, especially if you are playing more than one part.

    Then there is the bandwidth difference for including audio and full animation. That can add up to a hefty bill, something these guys probably can't swing considering they do not have and McCloud-esque micropayments.

  12. Re:Yes. on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    One thing I could see is if they want the index and the cache to be on google, but they don't want the cache to work if the referrer isn't from google. So you can't link to the cache on /., you must be clicking on a link on google's site.

    Aside from robots.txt, there are meta-tags to tell google to not cache.

  13. Re:Free registration on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    I always register online with a different address, usually jl-sitename, so that I can track who has sold my information. I have never, in the 1 and a half years since I registered for the NYT, received a spam to the email address I provided them.

  14. Re:Good, but on Opengroupware · · Score: 1

    Having worked on Wireless conversions for web application, I'd say this isn't entirely true. For one thing you actually have to use WMl and not HTML to support the most amount of devices out there, and there are data size limitations (which somewhat annoyingly are limited in the size of the page when it is in binary, not text, form). Because of the size limitation, changes to the flow of the application are often required (pagination where there wasn't any before, wizards are spread across more steps).

    It's not that difficult (no moreso that making a web application) and a good architecture will allow you to reuse the backend, but the frontend is mostly a rewrite (some controll flow can stay the same but a lot will change. presentation will all change). I expect that OGW will have these features soon enough though.

  15. Re:So when you walk into a store... on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 1

    Other than quarantine (which is a dubious use), what is the use of having the tags in a hospital?

    A scanner hooked up to a small computer could allow a nurse to scan a patient and know hygiene routines and treatment procedures without having to talk to a wireless network.

  16. Re:Whatever makes the capitalists feel good?? on Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. An ammendment can reverse entirely what the constitution says. A good exampe is the 21st amendment, which repealed the 18th. Before the 18th, it was constitional for a state/county/municipality to allow alochol production/sale/transportation. Between the 18th and 21st it was unconstitutional for any state/county/municipality to allow alcohol production/sale/transportation. After the 21st, it was again constitutional to allow this.

  17. Re:then... VOTE on The New Yorker on Business Process Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i'm exempt from voting because I'm not a citizen, but I do have to ask the question: who do you vote for? What party or even candiate is against business process patents. This stuff just isn't talked about in primaries and debates.

    And even if there were a candiate that does opposed business proces patents, what do you do if their other issues conflict with your ideas.

    I personally thing low voter turnout is because the two main candiates are so close that it doesn't matter, and no candiate bats 100% on agreeable opinions.

  18. Re:Propaganda over rationality. on Freenet Creator Debates RIAA · · Score: 1

    If you need to use an analogy to make your point while debating with someone with comporable knowledge, you do not know what point you are actually attempting to make

    I don't get it. Can you give an analogy?

  19. Re:Unfortunately on Solar Sailing and Physics · · Score: 1

    The other post is right when they say that the solar sail doesn't use the energy of the photons but the momentum. One of the ideas behind a solar sail is that when it gets out far enough, a laser from earth could be directed at it to provide photon momentum.

  20. Re:Time to upgrade! on GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro · · Score: 1

    FWIW, the Radeon 9700 supports DX9 and is a lot cheaper than either of these cards

  21. Re:Looks like an interesting book. on Hacking the XBox · · Score: 1

    The IDE card in particular is the Promise Ultra DMA66 to which you can flash the RAID ROM image and then solder a resitor and you get a RAID card (see here. The reason it's 5 times more expensive is because they need to recoup the cost of the R&D on the RAID software you flash to it.

  22. Re:The Seattle PI has a little more on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For workstations, certainly not. MS is the standard. However, when bidding on a logistics contract, one of our partners had to get many exemptions to be able to bid with us because their part of the solution was IIS/ASP based.

  23. FutureMark's lost reputation on P4 3.2GHz Reviews · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree that this article wasn't that interesting, but I did find the following passing interesting

    Next up, weâ(TM)ll be taking a look at FutureMark's 3DMark2001SE. With the recent debacle surrounding NVIDIA and FutureMark, I have chosen to exclude 3DMark2003 from our benchmarking suite for those of you wondering why you arenâ(TM)t seeing any results for it. (from here)

    We've all read how NVIDIA fiddled with the results and how FutureMark became complacent with it. Now here's the result.

  24. Re: Spammers are pretty simple (for now) on Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters · · Score: 1

    Typically this is set up as

    userid+parameter@foo.com

    The exim.conf has a few lines you can uncomment to get it so that this will work.

    The reason I don't do this is that I don't know how to block a specific extention. I was using jl-ng@ for newsgroups (so that I could get email replies) and once it was getting to be too much, I changed the alias to a nonaccount so that it would bounce.

  25. Re:Yeah....and? on RIAA Warns Individual Swappers · · Score: 1

    Because the hacks allow you to see all of the Pay-per-view content, which would cost thousands of dollars a month to obtain legally (although most of it is repeated, it would still be quite a bit of cost).