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  1. Re:for those who don't know on D&D Handbook Distribution Lawsuit Settled For $125,000 · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Interesting stuff. That was a cool Sunday foray.

  2. Re:DoomRL on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1
    There's also the DoomsDay Engine
    • A portable game engine for classic first person shooters such as DOOM, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology, including high-resolution OpenGL graphics, 3D models, and dynamic lighting effects.

    I would think it should run thru Wine if it wont run natively. Hexen should be pretty cheap these days, and the expansion.

    I've used it under windows, its damn cool.

  3. Re:More on the "iPod for books" on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    It would be difficult to get a true/real measure of this statistic. With other surveys (political or social) you are inclined to mostly tell the truth.

    Personally, 99% of my music is legit (ripped from my CDs). There's a handful of downloads from the beginning of the decade and a few recent albums that I can't buy locally.

    I'm not sure how valuable anecdotal "evidence" is, as I know many people that soley buy from iTunes, others like me that buy new or used CDs and others that only torrent.

    I hate torrented/P2P music. It's rarely Tagged: If you want to continue to share your downloads you need to keep multiple copies - the original and the tag fixed files. The files themselves range between 128 and 192 kbps (sometimes 256|320) -- quality is either extremely poor or the file sizes are too big. I use EAC & Lame and VBR Q4 or Q6: decent quality and decent filesizes.

  4. Re:When they control...... on Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal · · Score: 1

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Air+America
    Air America Media
    1 Oct 2009 ... Progressive talk radio network with streaming audio features provocative conversation, interviews and political satire.

  5. Re:Lamest rebranding on Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal · · Score: 1

    In Canada we have "Space", and the website labelled to spacecast.com.

  6. Re:The guys lawyer on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent Down? Wow, when I first replied to this it was Score:3. And now its been bumped up to 5... even though its 100% wrong.

  7. 09/28/2009 on Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software · · Score: 1

    This is recent, not 2008
    http://www.cadcourt.com/Docket/207cv01189.aspx 65 4/7/2009 Autodesk | Notice of Change of Address
    66 4/29/2009 Court |Order to Re-Note Motion
    67 5/15/2009 Autodesk | Memorandum
    68 5/29/2009 Vernor | Memorandum
    69 9/17/2009 Court | Notice of Hearing on Motion
    70 9/28/2009 Court | Motion Hearing

  8. Re:Yeah, you're a real typical Windows user! on Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas · · Score: 1

    Didn't think there were any Typical Joe Windows users on slashdot ;)

  9. Re:Transcript on Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas · · Score: 1

    27 Days uptime isn't impressive. I could regularly get ~30 Days uptime with Win98+ME (some vxd/exe/and dll's replaced with ME versions). I reboot Win2K for the odd MS patch or the rare GPU driver update, i.e. every couple months or so.
    Have I seen BSOD's? Sure, and almost all of them were caused by shitty Nforce Nvidia drivers. Or actual hardware failure due to overheating.

  10. Re:Could they have included on Student Designs Cardboard Computer Case · · Score: 1

    Try here, Cardboard brown is the new green for computers
    Yeah a case review with no pics ( 2 miniscule images ). Sure.

  11. Re:In my dreams on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 1

    So what yer saying is that MS Office formats should have codecs ?

  12. Re:It's about time... on Motorola Introduces Android Phones, Social Software · · Score: 1

    I know I run into (DPI) idiocy with OCR and PDF's all the time when trying to get images to fit properly without the image being an insane pixel H x W size. And far too many images being distributed online now are so large that you'd need that new AMD graphic card and 6 monitors to display them "full screen"!

  13. Re:It's about time... on Motorola Introduces Android Phones, Social Software · · Score: 1

    I believe you are mixing up "DPI" with PPI. See DPI vs PPI
    A 6x4" JPEG will be 72 DPI (and 72 PPI)
    To get a 6x4" 150 DPI printable picture without quality loss you would need a 12x8" image..
    AND if you wanted larger prints, without quality loss, then you need larger images to start with. Obviously though there is little need for the 2000x3000 px sized images that are floating about. And if one is that concerned about quality they'd be using a camera that can handle RAW.

  14. Re:Problem? on Snow Leopard Snubs Document Creator Codes · · Score: 1

    You have to be joking right? How is it possible that mac has something like codecs so messed up that you need different players for different content of the same extension...

  15. Re:570x is not that far on NVIDIA Predicts 570x GPU Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    You mean increase an additional 100% (2x) every year on top of the normal 100% (2x) every 18 months. Quite frankly, almost every time I read interviews with Jen-Hsun Huang it sounds like he is talking completely out of his ass.

  16. Re:Pick a reasonable name, for fuck's sake! on Making an Open Source Project Press-Friendly · · Score: 1

    Do you have any affiliation with FART?

  17. Re:Umm .... on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    FF must be doing something wrong then, because Opera's address suggest dropdown doesn't have any noticeble delay at all. Granted it can also search text from visited sites, but I disable that indexing feature.

  18. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Like when doing quick-n-dirty scripting.
    1) AutoHotKey Loops:: to stay within the loop and keep checking a piece of the loop until the condition is met to 'break'.

    2) Batch.CMD:: to get out of the script, GOTO:EOF

  19. Re:Question about Pi and circles. . . on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 1

    A 1m rubber innertube when filled with air would be a 1m circumference circle, no?

  20. Re:AC time on The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? · · Score: 1

    And he didn't mention his publishers, either.

  21. Re:FOSS, maybe? on Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware · · Score: 1

    There's no Linux client, but Trillian for Windows. Appears that an OSX version is in development. It supports: Astra, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ. Windows Live (MSN), MySpaceIM, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Bonjour, IRC, POP3 Mail, IMAP Mail

  22. Re:sounds good on Scientists Create Artificial Bones From Wood · · Score: 1

    Apparently, not only did you not read the article, you didn't even bother to read the _Summary_ either:
    "To create the bone substitute, the scientists start with a block of wood -- red oak, rattan and sipo work best -- and heat it until all that remains is pure carbon, which is basically charcoal .

  23. Re:Or why people still take ... on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    True Dat. Most useless fake "science" article I've ever read. Wondering why we dream? And saying science doesn't know. Bullshit. Why do we _think_. When you are asleep your subconscious is _thinking_. The rest of it is more twitter blurb bullshit.

  24. Re:No problem. So what's the alternative? on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    I agree. I surf with Plugins Off: flash doesn't load. If its actually something I *want* to see, I 1)enable plugins, 2)reload page 3) disable em again. Thus all the ads are Text or Images/Gifs. If an animated Gif is freaking annoying, I uncheck "enable animated images" and it stops dancing.

  25. Re:Wait, what? on Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions · · Score: 1

    It definitnely kills the point to the three or four other articles that have come up in regards to this. In fact I'm starting to think I should just wait a week or so before wasting time reading any news - give it a chance to settle and/or get retracted/modified/updated: Palm has iTunes Support. Apple Takes it away. Palm has iTunes Support... it will be news again when Apple takes it away.