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  1. Re:This is sad... on Dell Partners with Square · · Score: 1

    that's what you get for trying to be cheap :) the GeForce4MX is just a spiffed up GeForce2, you would have done better to find a used GeForce3Ti. It probobly would have been cheaper too.

  2. Re:A little too easy to find on Competitors Cry Foul At Windows XP, 2K Service Packs · · Score: 1

    And it would be trivial for Microsoft to scan the harddrive and recognize products that can handle certain types of media.

    Ya sure... then they have to maintain it. Not to mention dealing with all of the people complaining about how it doesn't recognise their weird and unknown player of choice.

  3. Re:A little too easy to find on Competitors Cry Foul At Windows XP, 2K Service Packs · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has been my default browser since .9.5. I'm not sure if it started that far back, but for a while now, the Mozilla icon is at the top of my start menu for Internet and Mail.

  4. Re:Abandonware no more... on Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards · · Score: 1

    what if you just went to Walmart and bought the $2 card set and not the GBA or the reader. Would having the cards then make the ROM on your computer legal?

  5. Re:Time to seek alternatives. on Musicians vs. RIAA At USA Today · · Score: 1

    Most radio stations can't afford big risks giving self-produced bands the airtime they need to reach a critical mass (ie, sell a million albums).

    Are you saying that it is unlikely that a song will be good without a major label saying it will be?

  6. Re:Who "owns" the moon, anyway? on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1

    Do you pledge your allegiance to the descendants of the Vikings (that would propably mean Norway) or to Spain?

    No, because we stole it from them fair and square. :) If someone else wants the moon, let them take it. Might lead to a bit of inovation, and maybe a few manned baces to defend the parts they grab a hold of.

  7. Re:eBay Knew About the Patents on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 1

    Actualy, shutting down might help them at this point. There are a lot of small businesses and other people that spend a lot of time, and make a lot of money off e-bay. If e-bay shut down and sent all of it's users an e-mail explaining why they are shutting down, and why the patent is BS, then the patent office would have a lot of unhappy people on there hands. Not to mention the various politicians. They may even scare the politicians into changing the law.

  8. Re:Is there any point to this? on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 1

    hmmm, they had Intel Alter a chip for them, nVidia alter a chip for them, figured out a fast and efficient way to have the video card and processor share the ram. It is very custom.

  9. Re:The REAL Answer on Air Bags for Planetary Defense · · Score: 1

    Thats what they are doing, they are just using the bag to spread the force out. As someone else pointed out, would you rather be pushed by: a pillow or the sharp end of a pencil?

  10. Re:Google Cookies on Mr Anti-Google · · Score: 1

    ispell, gaim, and they work when the browser is closed too.

  11. Re:WP is flat out better on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    I just like how every now and then, the bottom line of one page would leap back and forth between there and the top of the next. That bug was in at least 2 versions, but I think they got it fixed in XP.

  12. Re:MS Works Suite on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    They don't buy it because the $99 dollar one is an upgrade and won't install Word unless they already have an older version. Also of note, Office no longer upgrades from Works, so you can't get around it that way either.

  13. Re:Oggs great & all... on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 1

    they sold out to AOL a while back, they should be fine. I hope they ignore it. I feel sorry for the bastard that goes up against AOL/TW in court.

  14. Re:Off topic but... on Echostar DishPVR 721 GPL Software Released · · Score: 1

    It's a double click ad.

  15. Re:Direct XMen2 trailer links on Sen To, X-Men 2 · · Score: 1

    Or just go dig around in your temp internet files and find the big .mov file.

  16. Re:Like anything of this will work on CD Copy Stopper · · Score: 1

    Forget that, My Sound card (Sound Blaster Live) will let me choose what device to record from (including CD Digital). So, as long I can listen to it on my computer, I can get a near perfect copy.

  17. Re:yes!!! on Fragfest · · Score: 1

    yes it can, it's friday night and I'm reading about LAN parties on Slashdot from QuakeCon

  18. Re:what is C&C on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 1

    I think the Tesla Coil was the context. Of cource, I am a fan of RTS games, and as such have played the game.

  19. Re:MonkeyRadio RULED :'( on RIAA Says Webcasting Royalties Are Too Low · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LART! LART! LART!

    Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. 1. n. In the collective mythos of scary devil monastery, this is an essential item in the toolkit of every BOFH. The LART classic is a 2x4 or other large billet of wood usable as a club, to be applied upside the head of spammers and other people who cause sysadmins more grief than just naturally goes with the job. Perennial debates rage on alt.sysadmin.recovery over what constitutes the truly effective LART; knobkerries, semiautomatic weapons, flamethrowers, and tactical nukes all have their partisans. Compare clue-by-four. 2. v. To use a LART. Some would add "in malice", but some sysadmins do prefer to gently lart their users as a first (and sometimes final) warning. 3. interj. Calling for one's LART, much as a surgeon might call "Scalpel!". 4. interj. [rare] Used in flames as a rebuke. "LART! LART! LART!"

  20. Re:Somehow... on Iowa College Goes Paperless · · Score: 1

    hmmm, intead of an iPaq or a laptop as others have suggested, how about a tablet PC with a touchscreen and character recognition. Bigger and easier to read than an iPaq, while still easy to draw on.

  21. Re:A terraflop? on Playstation 3 CPU Almost Finished? · · Score: 1

    Floating point ops on any x86 are 80 bits.

  22. Re:Censorship is never beneficial on Digital Restrictions Management for P2P Systems · · Score: 1

    Your kidding right? There is no way a group w/ enough money to buy congress is "non-profit."

  23. Re:This was an old college argument... on See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses · · Score: 1

    yes, but only if we can set it up so that each eye only sees one monitor and the two images line up. also, the two screens would have to be rendered from two points of veiw. This is what most VR sets do.

  24. Re:Wowzers! on Autonomous Race Cars · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought at first too, but I didn't have too much trouble. And I must say that that video was quite impressive. Too bad we couldn't see what happened close to the end when they all got excited.

  25. Re:Real-life application? on Autonomous Race Cars · · Score: 1

    Without all the speeding up and slowing down as you sift through the slow ppl, I think you would save quite a bit of gass. Get up to your optimum speed and stay there.