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  1. An iPhone screen for a trackpad? on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope under the glass trackpad there's a little display just like the iPhone's.

  2. This sounds familiar... on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    Lets see, low power consumption, stripped down & hidden OS, web browser, music, multimedia, web apps, wifi, boots quickly, flash drive, no installing software, no viruses, free support... Sounds like last year's iPhone

  3. Re:01999? 02008? on Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" Due In September · · Score: 3, Funny

    its the Y10K bug

  4. Re:What will they be used for? on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    My PowerBook G4 Titanium?

    On the back, lower right

    You must have a newer one.

  5. Re:50 years ago? on The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years Ago · · Score: 4, Funny

    There may have been one earlier, but the Hall of Records was mysteriously washed away 100 years ago.

  6. IPv4 on Only One Quarter of the Planet To Be Online By 2012 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So then 4,294,967,296 addresses should be enough for everybody

  7. Re:I'll tell you what happened to AI on Whatever Happened To AI? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it went to Coney Island

  8. Re:CDs are still readable on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    copy the data off beforehand. Um, that's the point we're trying to make here. Copy them to what kind of media exactly???
  9. heathkit on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.heathkit.com/ i remember my father made a bunch of things many years ago, like an oscilliscope and such.

  10. Re:This is a serious privilege escalation bug, but on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I am about 99 44/100 percent sure that there's more undiscovered holes like this in OS X, Windows Vista, and any random Linux desktop you could name.

    I found another privelege escalation!

    $ su
    Password:
    #

  11. Re:It's like divorce on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doesnt surprise me, Halo was originally demoed at MacWorld- it was supposed to be a Mac game.

  12. Re:Java? on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    Cocoa? Maybe if it was running Mac OS X.

  13. Re:Do what my grandparents do on Compressed VoIP Calls Vulnerable To Bugging · · Score: 5, Funny

    That or you could just learn Russian... I don't think they *have* any simple-syllable words in Russian :-) In Soviet Russia, VoIP bugs you!
  14. Showing his age... on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think McCain has first-hand experience with a Babbage computer

  15. Re:A crack-high moment. on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Apple's response to MS on the release of Windows 95:

    C:\ONGRTLNS.W95

  16. Re:win 95 on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Windows 95 had this thing called a Start Menu which allowed all your applications to be grouped in one place completely seperately from their installation directories? This is something that MacOS didn't have until quite recently. You say that like it's a good thing. MacOS didn't need it. You always worked with the real files and you could put them where you liked. Most applications are typically a single file.

    The Start Menu grew from what was the "Program Manager" in 3.1. There was also the "File Manager" which allowed you to look at the real files and this became Windows Explorer. Since Windows apps have a folder full of oddly-named data files and fixed (at install time) install directories, the Program Manager was made so you could make .pif files of your apps, organize them however you wanted, and get that Mac ExperienceTM. Every Windows program has a "real" directory in the file system and a "fake" directory in the start menu. This was difficult to get used to when I first used Win 3.1 in 1991, having had Macs for many years prior.
  17. Re:I know the center on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Funny
  18. Re:Second person narration as a method of aggravat on Second Person · · Score: 1

    Do you want your possessions identified? (yes/no/quit)

  19. Re:always go to the VAR on The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit · · Score: 1

    (guess where I work?) your sig suggests otherwise...
  20. Untested performance... on Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately there's no comparisons of battery life and speed tests with fragmented files.

  21. Re:And yet... on Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun · · Score: 1

    Well, at the time we saw it on Earth, it actually happened 8 minutes earlier

  22. Re:Tech just isn't here yet... on 5.1 Sound Card Delivers 3 Streams of iTunes · · Score: 2, Informative

    For remote control, use one of the iPhone/Touch programs: Touchpad Pro or Telekinesis. I'm sure there are others.

  23. Re:Ahh, the days.. on The Original mcom.com Revived · · Score: 1

    They're probably using a 1994 NeXT to host them

  24. Re:typo on Alternate Baseball Universes · · Score: 1

    Looks like the editors are on top of it, its been fixed to: "a steak of 39"

  25. Love Bill Gates? on Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, I didn't like him in the 80's either. DOS was crap. Flight Simulator was a pain to copy.