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  1. Re: Re:When when when! on Apple and the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    eh, all of it is a pretty noisy area and audiophiles will tell you that you need a breakout box to get anything decent, but i've never found anyone who can actually tell the difference when the same chips are used on a card vs a box. Onboard is crappy because that is all most people want. Personally, I do audio occasionally so I bought a delta 1010lt. Also, thinking about the normal uses for a mac, I can't really see why good built in sound would be a plus. Apple pushes optical for home use with their speakers and anyone who wants pro audio wouldn't touch anything apple put in (and /. would bitch about how apple wouldn't let you get a computer without a soundcard). If I were running a studio or doing real audio work I'd get a Lynx (If they have a G5 version) or an RME card, but I really don't think apple should be expected to throw in 1000$-3000$.

    Hmm, that was a bit of a ramble; rock on with whatever sound you have tho

  2. If you can't make the target bigger on Apple 100,000,000 iTMS celebration · · Score: 1

    Than use bigger bullets!

    Why not have ten songs you want, that way you can cover a larger area when you buy. Sorta like finding a stack

  3. Re:user on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    I remember having to change all files that I could write too when I was setting up my OSX box to access an AFS space, so I think the functionality is built in. If I get time tonight I'll see if I can find that script and I'll pass it on to you.

    (So, I think it is possible, and this post is a reminder to me)

  4. Re:interesting: the coalition didn't include the U on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    pay closer attention to the Bonanza theme

  5. Re:Great. on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    actually it was a double entendre disguised as a flame. Sanity fOr Survivial isn't even a political work (the politics of the author comes through, but that is the case everywhere)

    Go find a copy, don't give a shit about me, just do it because it is cool and will give you new tools in defining and defending your beleifs (whatever they may be)

    Sanity fOr Survival
    William H Pemberton

  6. Re:Fresh Instrumental Stuff on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 1

    Medeski Martin and Wood is Jazz, but it would probably fit here too.

  7. Re:Great. on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    I am not sure why it is important to make the rest of the world "like us".

    It decreases their tendancy to want to kill us for one. Interdependancy is nearly always in everyone's best interest

    This is some sort of dysfunctional, Oprah type philosophy, where it is important to be sensitive, and seek others approval for our actions.

    Nah, it is just a different management style. Ruling a workplace with fear and money can work, but rarely works well.

    I would rather we acted on principals, in our own interests, than cheese up to whatever idiots are running other countries or the UN.

    Not dying and not living in fear are generally in our best interest. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not get into a nuclear conflict with N Korea because we refused to give up our principles of not negotiating terms.

    It is a self defeating, and inherently sick philosophy that is based on the objective of pleasing others, and making them "like us." You might want to read a little Ayn Rand

    You might want to read some real philosophers. Libertarianism was stupid in Locke's time and it is stupid now. I feel sad for those who triumph it for reasons such as guns or drugs or 'liberty' because they fail to realize that the whole system was written by the wealthy to defend and protect their wealth while getting stonger on the pain of others. And it is based on a open world priciple, which I guess one could believe 300 years ago, but with a world population of 6 Billion one NEEDS a better resource distribution model. The best modern philosophy that you would understand would be social contract theory, which merges Utilitarianism and Libertarianism and solves a large number of the problems implicit in the parent systems. The main thing people gripe about it is the lack of deserts, but I've never seen a great defense for a inertial moral viewpoint anyways. Read John Rawls' A Theory of Justice and ditch the fiction passed off as scholarly work. Or at least for for Nozick if you want libertarianism, but his arguments are unworldly and so thin that a 10th grader could rip them apart. If you want to understand how things actually work, try to find a copy of Sanity fOr Survival, though I doubt you'd be able to understand it.

  8. Re:Great. on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    Tho technologically I agree that the US kicks everyone else soundly, conquering the world is harder than it looks.

    Maybe the citizens in the US are cold enough that they would be willing to fight in foreign cities, but I hope that the internet would provide them with pictures of what would be happening in their names.

    And it is a lot harder to fight when you are defending your home rather than trying to take another's

    Hopefully 20 years form now defense spending will be down and the US will figure out that it is cheaper and easier to make people like it than to kill everyone else.

    If not, WWIII will be an interesting thing to see, though we probably won't see the end

  9. Re:Networking in the Danger Zone? on Networking in the Danger Zone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looking from the outside, the US seems to be getting less free every day.

    It is quite sad, but I am glad that I will be leaving when I finish school

    If the defense destroys what it is supposed to protect, it seems hard to find a good reason to use it.

  10. Re:Gas stations and BIOS on More Power To The Firmware · · Score: 1

    You are right about the Model T using unleaded though, but that was just because leaded gas wasn't invented yet

  11. Re:Gas stations and BIOS on More Power To The Firmware · · Score: 1

    leaded gas is sold in the US

    There is a large car show in the town I grew up and a lot of those require it.

    The pump is larger, so it won't fit in an unleaded gas tank

  12. Re:Gas stations and BIOS on More Power To The Firmware · · Score: 1

    your car uses leaded gas?

  13. Re:Trek Models in Drydock? on Sneak Peek at Paul Allen's Sci-Fi Museum · · Score: 1

    the style of 2010 was so radically different i'm not really sure it could be called a sequel

  14. Re:I started with Slackware... on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    is there a use it where it makes sense group?

  15. Re:If not ISOs, .jigdo would be nice on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    just run torrent under its own UID and SSH tunnel through to an outside computer. The UID only has access to the one folder and all connections go through 23, so this should be fully HIPAA compliant

  16. Re:Can we stop bashing the US on HHGTG Screenwriter Interviews Himself · · Score: 1

    as much as I hate american comedy, you are forgetting the Simpsons and Seinfeld, even if you don't personally like them, their popularity at least should defend them.

    Be careful with the term 'american' too, as there are some kickarse canadian comedies

  17. Re:New problem, crashing white windows... on Mac OS X 10.3.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but how great is it that a "crash" is fixed by logging out? Still annoying, but I'll take this over windows anyday (-:

  18. Re:MS has a point... on Ruling Clears Way For Lindows Trial · · Score: 1

    I may be confused, but I think that it may be different in that "panther" is not a descriptive generic term for the product. i.e. because windows describes the product, it is a natural generic term. So, ford could trademark panther as a car, but they would have trouble trademarking 'car' as a car.

    Or I may be way off

  19. Re:Terror Databases and my Master's on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I hope you understand the signifigance of what people have replied to this post.

    People actually _want_ to read your thesis! If the four of us read it, it may become one of the most read masters thesises of all time.

  20. Re:Cannes and Abu Ghraib on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    WE ARE OCCUPYING THEIR FRIGGIN COUNTRY

    I'm sorry, but if the "great white satan" installed itself here,, how the hell would you feel?

    We were supposed to "win their hearts and minds" but all we did was jack up the price of gas and try to install our own government that will do what we say. Say clinton was in office, you hated him, no? say Sadam had come in and liberated us and put in an islamic government so that we would no longer be under democratic and republican tyrany... would you be pissed?
    (not to say that what they are doing is right, but please understand that from their poin t of view, they are defending their home from a foreign army who doens't speak their language or respect them.)

  21. Re:As an Apple Afficionado, I'm delighted. on Yet Another Mac OS X Protocol Handler Exploit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it isn't perfect

    But I would still claim that OSX's security is better than XP's

  22. Re:What the??? on Pixar's Next Movie: The Incredibles · · Score: 0

    It is my understanding that this is the last film that will be distributed through disney. This was part of the last contract, they didn't get out of it, they just decided not to sign another one.

  23. Re:Socialist Country.... on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 1

    Last I saw (it may have been adjusted) canada was #2 in healthcare while the US was in the 30s

  24. Re:Am I the only one... on More On The BBC's Codec 'Dirac' · · Score: 1

    I just think that it is amazing that we have moved past racism, on slashdot we don't care what color you skin is, we choose to disciminate against people based on their UID (-: There is hope for the world.

  25. Re:Exactly.. Market Need. on Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    I agree, but didn't it have multitasking and multithreading?

    I never claimed that it was good or useful