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  1. Re:Cool. on The Simpson's Movie Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It wasn't bleeped on the UK release.

  2. Re:16 months on The Simpson's Movie Confirmed · · Score: 1

    The first trailer for Cars was seen with the Incredibles. That's going to be damn near 2 years.

  3. Re:Leaves out two most popular models on Group Testing Widescreen LCD Monitors · · Score: 1

    If they're not in the range they didn't "Leave them out", they weren't eligable.

    I'm sure you can pick up a 30" widescreen off the back of a truck in Hong Kong for £300 - £400 too but that doesn't count either.

  4. Re:Ugh, this bullshit again. on Revolution Horsepower Revealed · · Score: 1

    The numbers don't tell any story. He's claiming a PIII based chip is as quick for its mhz as a PowerPC based design.

    That's quite clearly bollocks before we start.

  5. Re:Windows 64 is slow on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 1

    Strange, I could have sworn I was running Windows XP64 and a bunch of old programs. Must be mistaken.

  6. Re:Sega on Sony Ceases Production of PSOne · · Score: 1

    Nintendo have already announced Genesis titles for the revolution, it's not great stretch to assume Master System might follow.

  7. Re:Not gonna be a popular answer... on Moving Up the IT Ladder in a Poor Economy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm only hiring for a shop, but I'd 100% agree. If someone's spent 1-3 months at each job I tend to avoid them.

    It's a pain in the arse to hire someone, you do not want to be doing it too often.

  8. Re:Sort of like... on How The DMCA Affects Search Engines · · Score: 1

    More accurately it's like the paper saying "We can't tell you where drugs are sold thanks to this letter"

    Dear sirs,

    Please don't tell that drugs are sold on 9th and Vine

    Love and hugs the police.

  9. Re:God damnit... on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, now you have to complain that you would have linked but now can't. You may also may some reference to it being Gates' fault.

  10. Progress on Swiping Out Cancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    We now advertise dupes directly in the story to save your inevitable searches!

    Another slashdot timesaver * teeth glint *

  11. NOOOOOOOOOO! on Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement · · Score: 1

    I would rather have seen an
    agreement that required Microsoft to bundle AOL and Netscape
    with their operating systems for the next 7 years.


    What have us windows users done to deserve that!

  12. Re:I wouldn't go so far as to call it "innovative" on Microsoft to Pay AOL $750M in Settlement · · Score: 1

    The bookmark manager is so sweet it's been known to make grown men cry. So cool that the Camino guys are working on copying it.


    Easier than IE's "They're shortcuts in a folder, edit them however the hell you like" approach?

  13. Wrong on Sony Announces a Super Playstation 2, the "PSX" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very creative, but utterly wrong.

    It's abbreviated to PSX because the Playstation is desended from the failed Super NES CD.

    Alongside the SNES add-on, Sony were going to launch their own "SNES CD" without a cart slot which would be called "Playstation X". The product name stuck right up until the launch of the 32-bit box of tricks we now know when the X was dropped.

    But the apprev stuck.

  14. Re:Thanks, Slashdot. on BitTorrent Guide · · Score: 1

    Not signed by every country.

    Thailand comes to mind immediately.

    Hell, there's a very small soverign country on an oil rig off the UK. They've signed no treaties, you can host ANYTHING there.

  15. Re:why BT works on BitTorrent Guide · · Score: 1

    Well that's what you get if you use open source software ;)

    Kidding of course but it'd be a lot harder for throttling clients if the original hadn't been so open.

  16. Re:Thanks, Slashdot. on BitTorrent Guide · · Score: 0, Troll

    Amazing how many Americans think the MPAA and RIAA have juristiction over the entire world.

  17. Re:In My Opinion... on BitTorrent Guide · · Score: 1

    there's no copyrighted material in any torrent file. There's a reason FastTrackCentral is still around doing the same with sig2dat.

    They can't actually touch em.

    Plus, so what if a torrent site goes. The .torrents are tiny. You can email, you could hide them on a server or whatever.

    The tracker is more of a problem, and indeed more copyright vulnerable than the sites.

  18. Re:The second link on BitTorrent Guide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there's not warez there. .torrent files are not warez. There is no copyrighted content in the file.

    To claim so is to call me a drug dealer for the following sentence. "There's a lot of drugs avaliable in Soho"

  19. BBC 7 is not internet only on Douglas Adams' Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    It's avaliable on DAB, satellite, cable and freeview

  20. Re:algorithm on RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort · · Score: 1

    I'd sure like to see their algorithm for determining which music files are illegal.

    I'd have to agree. Unless they can somehow see into the draw most of my albums are in it's surely not possible.

    It's ok though, the first time they try to hack someone UK based like me...
    a)they're in violation of the computer misuse act
    b)the USA has an extradition treaty.
    c)whoever at the RIAA did it gets 5 years in the clink.

  21. Re:Duh on Cheap Audio Production · · Score: 1

    Someone will more than one econ class can chime in now and tell me I'm full of shit.


    Nah, you're a tad simplistic but you're pretty there.

    In fact it's interesting, the homogeneouisation of music is going to work against them, the promotion of identikit boy bands etc and the shorter shelf lives of acts means we are drifting closer to the stage where they almost DO have homogeneous goods.

  22. Re:They are as yet...u n a w a r e on Cheap Audio Production · · Score: 1

    128kbps is utterly unacceptable for $1 a song.

    For shop prices I AT THE VERY LEAST want lossless. Even so I should be getting a discount for the lack of physical product.

  23. Re:Finally.... on Athlon Xp 3200+ 400FSB is Coming · · Score: 1

    Well, last time I did a quick price calc here in the UK when I was considering an upgrade.

    MSI board + P4 2.4 + 512MB of appropriate RAM
    MSI board + Athlon 2400+ and 512MB of appropriate RAM

    Same price.

    The Athlon JUST matches it doing most things. You try clever video encoding etc and that Athlon performs at its clock speed, not its PR.

    For someone that's bought AMD and only AMD since my K6-2-300, that was a shock.

  24. Re:AMD $500 CPU vs iNTEL $500 CPU Re:400 MHz, 800 on Athlon Xp 3200+ 400FSB is Coming · · Score: 1

    Well then use "Video encoding" and show someone doing a nice home movie of their wife and a stranger on a table with a ...........

    Sorry, fantasy took over again.

  25. Early Adopters on Xbox Live Volume 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Can we get the new DVD? I'd like Tetris worlds but I have a first gen xb-l