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  1. Re:Also, don't forget the wireless service... on Kindle 2 Tear-Down Reveals Price of Components · · Score: 1

    Yes, you would. There is a built in web browser.

  2. Re:I don't like... on Ridley Scott's Forever War In 3D · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1-Cup, 2-Girls, 3-D?

  3. Re:Oh, good on Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs · · Score: 1

    Now, that might be something they could sell at Spencers: A little box with 10 seconds of video to put inline and annoy your friends.

  4. Re:Meh. on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Not always. I am actually marginally anti-apple but I bought a Nano because I liked the form factor. Of course, I wasn't aware of the lock-in at the time but thankfully there's Foobar and Amarock.

  5. Re:How about those hidden linux taxes? on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    I should add that I am aware of the Cygwin setup utility. But that is fairly narrow in scope.

  6. Re:How about those hidden linux taxes? on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmm, given that there *is* a lot of open source software available for Windows, I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with something like apt-get for it (or maybe even ported apt).

    Unless anyone knows differently.

  7. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    Why would one *not* be using win2k in 2010? Still runs great for me. The only issue I really have is that both itunes and foobar2000 don't run on it. So I just use a PC with XP or amarock.

  8. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    The support status of Windows has nothing to do with anything. And Mozilla's support for its application running on OSs may be based on many things but forcing people to upgrade their operating system should not be one of them.

  9. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    Or even worse "Who knows if it works or not, we're just going to refuse to install"

  10. Re:Ho-hum on No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Not all the Baen books are free. I personally have bought several from that site that I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't previously been introduced to the authors (or risked trying new authors after being reassured of the likely quality of other authors in the stable) by downloading the free books.

    In the free category, I can recommend 1632, 1633 and the one with the short story "A logic called Joe" (an amazingly prescient vision of what we have in the internet).

  11. Re:[Don't] Profit! on No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers · · Score: 1

    But the action doesn't fit the definition of "taking". Oh well...

  12. Re:Went with Linux on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    No. Doesn't work that way. I had a similar problem with KDE and it was very annoying. I couldn't find any way to move it or resize it. I think I ended up command-lining it. Turns out an easy way is to hold down "alt" which allows you to drag the window around.

    I love and use Linux for its strengths and the GUI has come leaps and bounds from where it was but there's still a few showstoppers in that area.

  13. Re:Just use the latest Firefox, and you'll be fine on XP Reprieve, Downgrade May Continue After Win7 · · Score: 1

    Compete fairly?

    If Microsoft were in a race with a man with a wooden leg, they'd demand he remove it so that he didn't have artificial assistance.

    Then beat him unconscious with it.

  14. Re:XP support on XP Reprieve, Downgrade May Continue After Win7 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cause regedit is really so much more user friendly.

  15. Re:What's next, an email client and html editor? on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unneeded integrated features have more overhead than uninstalled add-ons.

  16. Re:Mod me down if you must but... on Windows 7 RC Download Page Points To May Release · · Score: 2, Funny

    everything that worked on Vista should work just fine on 7.

    Now, there's damning with faint praise if I've ever seen it.

  17. Re:This is a good thing for the carbon footprint on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    One stroke? How does that work then?

  18. Re:Derivatives contracts on Making Sense of Mismatched Certificates? · · Score: 1

    How about if the firemen want to take your car as payment for putting the house out?

  19. Re:My IQ on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    This is why "SciFi" and "Science Fiction" are actually considered to be somewhat different (but similar) genres.

  20. Re:Meh on Libel Suits OK Even If Libel Is Truthful · · Score: 1

    And the First time you post on McTacoKing's website that Employee X was fired for taking a dump in the chili, the shareholders will kick down your door and set fire to your trousers.

  21. Re:Truth is a defense against libel [Re:Meh] on Libel Suits OK Even If Libel Is Truthful · · Score: 4, Funny

    Massachusetts? He should just be glad he's heavier than a duck.

  22. Re:Achem on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even need nearby metals. I haven't RTFAed but this sounds like NMR effects where the energy extractable from the spin can be lost due to interactions with other fields (from other spins for example) and inhomogeneities in the magnetic field. It's been a while since I did any work on it but T1, T2 and T2* spring to mind.

  23. Re:Cool... but limited... only by your imagination on MacBook Modded With Second Monitor Inside Logo · · Score: 1

    I would say so. Blinking mostly involves the eyelids where a wink also includes movement of the face below the eye and optionally head movement.

  24. Re:Hmmmm. on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Fuller but if they put a "shoot on sight" notice on Jane Espenson up in the writing room, I'll watch for sure.

  25. Re:Never liked CC stores on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    No. There's a way to have someone's attention and that is to wait until you can grab their attention without interrupting them while they're concentrating. Eye contact is always a good one.

    And I'm a dick for refusing to purchase from a store that employs policies that annoy me? Screw you. I guess the public will decide. Oh wait, it looks like they have already. Bye bye circuit city.