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  1. Re:If true, leaves Beige-G3 users out in the cold on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 1

    Actually, panther will run on most Beige G3s.. just not all. So, if you have a friend who has it, I'd say stick it on a spare drive and see if it works, if it does, buy it and put it on.

    Expose is awesome and I got quite a bit of a speed pickup

  2. Re:Apparently you didn't pay attention... on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    Try to justify it all you like, but bush murdered thousands of people. (I'm not sure who Iraqis think is a worse leader..)

    You may wish to read up on how WWII started.
    Wacko got in power
    Terrorist attack on a visable target
    Wacko takes control and restricts freedom

  3. Re:Seriously... on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    Well, boys will be boys.

    Perhaps he was jealous of the Bush family Nazi money?

  4. Um.. what? on Apple Forcing Panther Upgrade for Security Patch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some third party news site is making a claim that apple didn't have a comment in and we are supposed to take that to mean that it is true?

    Apple isn't stupid, there will be patches, and if their won't then wait until they release something about it before you start burning them in efigy.

    Glad to finally find out who beleives all of the things in the tabloids

  5. Re:US is the only world power on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    Um.. I might be rusty on my constitutional politics, but I'm nearly certain that there are sections regarding war. Since it is there, it is law and therefore violations are illegal.

    And the highest true authority on earth is an individual, everything else is a figmant of our imagination.

  6. Re:Seriously... on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    "here Saddam, go play with some of our chemicals and help us with those pesky iranians"

    Where did you think he got them anyways? Bush Sr and Saddam go way back

    yeah.. real responsible

  7. Re:Swathmore Tradition on Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    okay, I know this is half a joke, and I am drunk right now so I should probably jsut not answer, but.. I grew up a quaker and have done some research into it

    there are many different types of quakerism.. 3 main branches, i grew up in the most liberal ( www.fgcquaker.org ) i think nixon was in EFI, which is basically like baptist.. i don't even know why they call themselves quaker (they don't reallly beleive anything that it was based on.

    the other group is FUM.. they seem nice but i haven't really dealt with them
    they are mor conservative than fgc but still openminded.. they have a more close minded doctrine but the individuals seem cool

    afsc is mostly fgc i think

  8. Re:Download, Mix, Burn on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Apple has made is inconvenient to move and share?

    what have you been smoking?

  9. Re:Making the iPod sound this good was a mistake.. on iPods are for Audiophiles · · Score: 1

    What they gain by building things (such as the IPod) with such high quality is that they have a reputation of producing quality products. When people argue against apple, it is usually phrased: "It may be nice, but..".

    What this passes on to the consumer is a feeling that Apple won't pass shit on them. You can buy basically any apple product and be assured that it will work well and be sturdy. This is worth the extra dollars. (especially things such as that an IPod can be dropped and it won't break)

  10. Re:Dude.... on More on Virginia Tech G5 Cluster: 17.6 Tflops · · Score: 1

    OT, but.. I just got a G5 after using bsd and *shudder* windows for a number of years, so I am still in the resedit days and I'm really curious as to how the spyware was stripped.

    would you be able to tell?

  11. Re:Welcome To Winnipeg! on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Okay, I am much less frightened of it now. If one has 500 people packed into a small building, especially drunk highschoolers, being free or jerks could be quite nice

  12. Now is NOT the time on Michigan To Purchase Record 130,000 Laptops · · Score: 1

    Michigan is facing quite large budget shortfalls (they seem to be growing by hundreds of millions each week) and because of this they are slashing funding to ALL adult ed, most advanced programs and math and science centers and public universities. While this might be helpful, we _need_ to have GED testing centers and reasonable rates for college kids. If one were a dropout on their own trying to put their life back toger, you are SOL in Michigan. If you are a poor college kid, things just got a lot harder. And honestly, the schools in michigan (at least those that I have seen) cannot handle the technology that they currently have.

  13. Re:Welcome To Winnipeg! on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Is this that common in Winnipeg? I was there this summer and went to a few bars and I was never carded or anything.

    Perhaps it is only the large trendy bars that cater more to the younger crowd? (I'm young but tend to go for the more laid back bars with an older crowd)

  14. Re:Nobel has always been that way on Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure, but I beleive that one must be alive to receive it. It could be that had Ghandi lived longer, he would have been awarded the Peace Prize.

  15. Re:Would you buy the Fastest Computer? on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 1

    I do a load of graphics and I don't like upgrading often so I just bought a dual G5. I did the price comparisons and it wasn't much more to get the dual 2ghz than the single 1.8. And they were all cheaper than the Dells and Gateways that I priced (once all of the extras were added, decent video card, wireless card, etc) With mac you don't pay a markup for the newest thing, at least in comparison. People keep their macs for years and if you have a 5 year old machine, it is nice to have an expanable top of the line computer. I'll slowly get up to 8 gigs of ram, get an LCD display and another hardrive, but the chasis is solid enough that I can still use photoshop 5 years from now and it will work and do the job correctly.

  16. Re:The question is then on Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can install X11 in 2 minutes and it will be included with jaguar.

    30 years of bloody UNIX applications.. what more do you need?

    Whatever your task, you will find software for it, and guess what: it will actually work instead of requiring some out of date dll that freezes under XP

  17. Re:Aww, no C#? I really like that one. on What I Hate About Your Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Some things about C++ have been fixed. With STL there are new (vector, stack, queue, etc) types available.

    Still is a pain to work with sometimes, but it is getting better (Though I wish that they would stop renaming libraries!)

  18. Re:Unfortunately even plant fuel isn't perfect on Run Your Car on Grease · · Score: 1

    engines are more efficient the larger they are, which is why electric cars are good, it replaces an inefficient (well, in comparison) icu with a really huge one that is more efficient at the power plant

    for biodiesel, et al... sounds like a good reason for solar farm equipment and organic farming (with the solar.. the thing is out in the sun all day!, couldn't at least some of this be used?)

  19. Re:nice of them to make a movie my kids can't watc on Matrix Reloaded Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Okay, from the people around here I assumed that you meant 10-12. When I was 15-17 there wasn't really much my parents could do to control what I viewed.

    You may wish to look at the history of the US a bit more closely. We are very selective about what is 'the right thing' and what we are willing to give up to aquire it.

  20. Re:nice of them to make a movie my kids can't watc on Matrix Reloaded Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this points out an interesting variation between US culture and that of most of the rest of the world.

    Most of the rest of the world views sex as part of life, not something implicitly dirty (yes, there are many exceptions and I am mainly speaking of europe and canada, for I know little of the rest of the world) while violence is looked upon as a more unnatural non-vital force that can and should be censored. In canada it is fine to have nudity on public channels, more curse words than the US and less stylised news. In the US little kids are taken to extremely graphic R rated movies, but they are closed off from seeing breasts, even in a non-sexual context.

    I guess that in my mind, justified violence and the comodification of sexuality are far destructive than sex. Teaching kids that it is alright to kill people if you think it is ok is worse than teaching kids that sex is okay.

  21. Re:A few questions.. on The Speed Of Gravity Revealed · · Score: 1

    -9.81m/s/s is the approxamate acceleration due to gravity near the crust of the earth, so for doing physics, it is a rather good number.

    and yes, it is the lag. just as it would take 8 minutes for us to detect a sun spot, it would take up 8 minutes to notice if someone happened to steal the sun and replace it with a walnut. I still have not heard any convincing theories for what exactly gravity is, but maybe we will have some idea before i die

  22. Re:GPL is Free enough on FSF Launches Associated Membership Program · · Score: 1

    reciprical violence is a very dangerous thing.

    and our society's appetite for vengence would not make a very productive use of the wiggle room in such definitions.

    Joe Hiss: 'He done killed ma pa's cat, so I shot him dead'

    Jack Pick: 'My gawd, he killed my brother for no reason, I'll kill him and his son for that'

    and so on
    and so forth
    until we blame it all on terrorism

  23. Re:Star Office Just plain sucks! BE HONEST! on Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that you configured it properly?

    Star Office 5.2 worked fine for me on my PII 266 with 96RAM

    Crashed less than word, fewer annoying problems and once I learned it, I found it to be faster than Word. I still like word97 for some things (hate the newer versions) but I have moved over to OO.org for most of my projects

  24. Re:Cute, but impractical on 239 MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Yes, I feel very safe in my nice big Bronco II

  25. Re:Never, EVER more powerful on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 1

    I remember using photoshop 7 years ago.

    The blur tool was just painful. I could predict the result in a fraction of a second but it took the computer 20 or so to actually make the changes.

    So, it depends a lot on the data. I can also feed a computer equations to solve that will take hours.