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  1. Rap doesn't sound good no matter what the format! on The CD Turns 25 Today · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The many reasons for poor CD fidelity have been amply delineated but hip-hop sounds (I hesitate to call this stuff music) are awful no matter how well recorded.

  2. This thread is a straw man argument on Community vs. Corporate Linux, The Coming Divide · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Defiance" of GPL'd Linux already has a name. It's called BSD.

  3. Re:You must be joking... on 'Til Tech Do Us Part · · Score: 1

    The joke is on you. Your marriage will never last.

  4. 8-O on Emoticons in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    This is news? Emoticons came into popular use along with email back in the 1970's.

  5. This just shows (yet again) what a mess Linux is. on Torvalds Explains Scheduler Decision · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Torvald and his followers are disticntly second rate in both their development model and technical skills when compared to McCusick, de Raadt etc...Slashdot Linux fanboys will whine, but if you want a decent Unix implementation get a BSD.

  6. Re:No, They are NOT on Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    I'm running OpenBSD on a 933 mhz P-III and it's very responsive, in addition to being quiet and cheap!

  7. Fight the power! on The Internet Of Things · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the techno-fascist Horowitz has already been assimilated. Ted Kaczynski and Timothy McVeigh may have had the right idea after all.

  8. Re:i love blade runner on Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter · · Score: 1

    Sean Young's hairdo was really more 1940's.

  9. Re:Etcetera on Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Yamato had 18 inch "guns".

  10. Learn to love... on How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology? · · Score: 1

    Big Brother.

  11. A good question... on Why Do People Switch To Linux? · · Score: 0, Troll

    since there is a better alternative: BSD.

  12. Another H1B case? on DVD Jon to work for Michael Robertson · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wouldn't care except it looks like he's going to be yet another H1B visa swine.

  13. Use PostgreSQL on The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB · · Score: 1

    MySQL has always been a joke. PostgreSQL is a full featured database system with stored procedures and a robust locking model that supports ACID transactions. Get a real open source database. Get PostgreSQL.

  14. You don't know on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    "Given some of the egregious spelling and grammer errors that I see..."

    It is spelled "grammar"!

  15. "Average" PC users... on An Open Source Guide For The Average PC User · · Score: -1, Troll

    who want to run an open source OS usually just buy a Mac.

  16. Spacewar! on Videogames: In the Beginning · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Spacewar not a "real" game? What a crock! Here is Spacewar running on a PDP-11 emulator in a Java applet: :-) http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/sp acewar/

  17. Re:A twist on a old joke... on Algae Can Carry Cargo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Algae of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your loads!

  18. Re:Proper case ducting... on Lighter and Cooler Graphics Card Cooler · · Score: 1

    You bet. But again, Macs ain't cheap. Here is a company that sells a similar product for a generic PC (the Micro):

    http://www.asetek.com/

  19. Proper case ducting... on Lighter and Cooler Graphics Card Cooler · · Score: 5, Informative

    is still one of the cheapest and most effective methods to lower heat. Few PC cases are properly designed with heat dissipation in mind. The blast-furnace temeratures of the Pentium 4 has driven many to search out inexpensive solutions. Before spending money on admittedly effective, but costly, hardware such as water cooling, it is well worthwhile to explore the benefits of proper ducting:

    http://overclockers.com/tips1193/

    http://overclockers.com/tips1187/

  20. Those lying, cut-rate, immigrant whores... on Microsoft's Bold Patent Move · · Score: 1

    on the application need to be sent back to where they came from.

  21. Re:WiMax on When Pigs Wifi · · Score: 1

    What are you babbling about? My landline, cable, cell, water, and various line items from my property tax bill certainly do add up to several hundred dollars a month. Learn to read, moron. My post merely pointed out that (unlike your facile description) the cost of utilities are:

    1) *not* neglible

    and

    2) do not always cover necessary maintenance

    I certainly do stand up for my interests. And my argument is that local government should supply fiber to the curbside before it needs to worry about providing radio access to the internet.

    Secondly, I stand up for my family by not living in a quasi-socialist, multicultural, Israelite hell-hole like New York.

  22. Re:WiMax on When Pigs Wifi · · Score: 1

    Doc Ruby writes: "The mass public investment in power, water, rail, postal and sanitation tech has featured regular upgrades and replacements. And it's become so reliable and cheap that we generally don't even notice it."

    Moronic.  How did this post get modded up to a 5?  Adding up the relevant line items from my property taxes and utility bills shows that it comes to several hundred dollars a month.  And sewer and water lines are not always upgraded on a necessay basis in much of the country.

  23. Laws of Identity link is not on The Seven Laws of Identity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...linked to them.

  24. Re:shortcomings to sql? on An Alternative to SQL? · · Score: 1

    That's not SQL it's Oracle. I'll bet it takes 40 seconds to run: on a set of tables with no more than a dozen rows EACH! Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

  25. Idiot on How Does One Become a Game Designer? · · Score: 1

    --
    I've had offers at least 75% higher than what i'm making now, but I do enjoy being able to walk into fry's in my development team sweatshirt and have people in the games aisle ask me about it.
    --

    They would be paying too much.