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  1. Re:Let's Compare! on Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' · · Score: 1

    Windows: Scarce Driver Support
    Linux: None No kidding.
  2. Re:cablecards and company-provided STBs on New HD TiVo and Cable Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    We should be watching 720p, period. If it weren't for all those mama's boy TV manufacturers who were so damned afraid of losing their interlaced teddy bears, we'd have been much better off. And what about those of us with 1080i CRT sets? Not everyone wants to settle for an LCD or plasma.
  3. GAAAH! on DARPA Files Patent On Predictive Simulation · · Score: 1

    The CTs are hacking!

  4. Checks on NYT Confirms Movie Studios Paid to Support HD DVD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft, the most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. The mafia always pays in cash.
  5. Re:Still a reason not to buy on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And how, exactly, can you prove to a judge that John Smith actually distributed that file which reads "John Smith"?

  6. Re:just imagine... on Quantum Computing and Optically Controlled Electrons · · Score: 1

    Then again, fuck it. I just wanna know if it'll run Supreme Commander at a decent speed. Oh, you bet it will.

    But not if you're running under Vista.
  7. Re:Mac OS X on this machine... on A Three-Way AMD Opteron Server · · Score: 1

    Next year at QuakeCon: See the amazing PanPC, the only computer specially designed to fry pancakes with its heatsinks!

  8. Re:Uninstall on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it shouldn't be too hard with the standard Windows Uninstaller...

  9. Re:XP vs Vista on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    If 2000 is an F-15, Vista is the F-22. Expensive? The New Sexy? Untested, Unproven (maybe). But at the end of the day, it really looks like it's going to dominate. I'll stick with my BSD ornithopter, thank you very much.
  10. Re:Discussion on Torvalds on Linux and Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jesus, how long do I have to wait before I can post? I'm sorry, Shiva controls posting restrictions.
  11. Re:What? on Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope not. You'd have a hard time stuffing your drink into the slot-loading drive.

  12. Re:Love it on Amazon Invests In Dynamic Pricing Model For MP3s · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will pay me to download Yoko Ono tracks? Ladies and gentlemen, you saw it here first. A device that FINALLY lets you stab people over the internet, directly in their ear.
  13. Re:BluRay on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 1

    That's actually a very good point -- wouldn't the laser diode in a blu-ray or hd-dvd burner be a formidable weapon in the wrong hands? In all seriousness, if a DVD laser can light a match...

  14. Re:The underlying cause is liberty on New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    I find it pretty hard to believe that there was some sudden evolutionary change in the Chinese brain that affected a billion people overnight. It's actually a Prion.
  15. Re:Windows Experience Index? on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's a linear scale or what.. maybe it's logarithmic. Actually, it's a limacon.

    Don't ask how I know.
  16. The fine print on Lenovo to Sell, Support Linux on ThinkPads · · Score: 2, Informative
    Bottom of the page:

    * Only Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is supported. The ThinkPad T60p Mobile Workstation does not come preloaded with SUSE Linux. Users must obtain SUSE Linux licenses from Novell. The ThinkPad T60p comes with DOS entitlement only and ships with a blank hard disk drive. SUSE Linux OS will be supported by Novell, while Lenovo will support Hardware, ThinkVantage Technologies, and drivers. ** Not all ThinkVantage Technologies available on other ThinkPad systems are supported under SUSE Linux.
    Wait, what? This seems like simply "we won't discard your warranty if you run SUSE", or maybe "If you know how, there's a way to get most of this hardware working."
  17. Re:More Monies Please... on Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Then again, the data collected from such an endeavor would be so valuable, My God!!! The internet... everyone just uses it for porn!
  18. Re:Japan at Election Time on Japan Bans Use of Web Sites in Elections · · Score: 1

    It's less annoying because the exported all their annoyances. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a group of middle schoolers across the street screaming "kawaii" at the top of their lungs. (Get off my lawn!)

  19. Re:Sonofa... on Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire" · · Score: 1

    Recompile your kernel, all the GNU utils, your X system, and all of KDE, and then get back to me.


    Hey, you're using Gentoo, so anything you do starts or ends with that anyway.

  20. Re:What, you're shocked? on U.S. Court Denies Webcasters' Stay Petition · · Score: 1

    Wait, you lost me. What kind of car is the RIAA, again?

  21. Re:Don't trivialise this on Potential Cure For Antibiotic Resistant Infections · · Score: 1

    So where's DisturbedChildhood(-1) when you need it?

  22. Re:short term solution on Potential Cure For Antibiotic Resistant Infections · · Score: 1

    You didn't read the whole article. The drugs were initially tested for the property of blocking the transfer of genes for multiple drug resistance. But they were surprised to find that it specifically killed those bacteria which had already received the upgrade package. That's not the DARPA chief!
  23. Re:In the UK, Vodafone.... on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1

    To use a phone, you are obliged to sign up to a music download store, whether you are interested in music, or music from that store, or not. Then you are obliged to sign up to one and only one network. Finally, you can't access the content you want unless the phone supplier approves of it. And for all of this, you pay not only for the usage of the network, but you also end up paying a fee to the phone maker for the privilege of undergoing all these restrictions. Business as usual in the US.
  24. Re:So now that the iPhone is out... on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1

    Or we could just use dupes of all the articles from June 1st - 29th.

  25. Re:How to win the Hutter Prize on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    1) Create a compression algorithm called the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa algorithm
    Oh man, I get it. With all those spaces you can lose a few bits for free!