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  1. Re:This could be good... on PostgreSQL 7.4 Released · · Score: 4, Funny


    This is also why Microsoft WANTS there to be an enemy

    Umm.. In the enterprise db market there is a little company called Oracle...

  2. Re:Big screen! on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    With the 20" panel down near desk level it will still require less depth than a 20" CRT monitor.

  3. Re:Big screen! on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 1

    The screen moves up and down with tilting, you needn't view it like you're in the first row at the theatre.

  4. Ouch. on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 5, Funny


    Apple is poo, Apple is good.
    Geez, where's my lithium...

  5. Re:Good news.. on Hordes of the Underdark Goes Gold · · Score: 1


    Yep, been there, saw the trailer, downloaded all the fan missions I could. I'm an admitted Thief Addict. :) Try it with LCD shutter glasses in a dark room (nvidia has generic 3D drivers for DirectX and OpenGL).. it'll eat your weekend.

  6. Good news.. on Hordes of the Underdark Goes Gold · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Yes this is good news but WHERE IS THIEF 3?! whine whine whine

  7. Empty offers.. on JBoss Offers Lawsuit Indemnification · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indemnification from who and what exactly? That's like offering supernova insurance, only suckers will buy.

  8. Re:Free suggestion on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1


    Hear, hear! Drop it on the France!

    That would be a shame if the last pictures Hubble transmitted were white flags.

  9. I already know.. on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 5, Funny


    "How And When To Kill Hubble"

    Professor Plum will use the candlestick in the library next Tuesday.

  10. Who'd take that crappy job? on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 3, Funny


    I count 163 things (well, wc -l counted it) on that list of things they want prospects to know. Obviously that job involves too much work and would interfere with reading /.

    Anyone that applies is obviously beyond geekdom and is to be pitied.

  11. Will be fixed.. on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Apple always seems to shit on their customers, at least from the lower echelons of their support and management ladder. Once word gets to someone with real power the problem will likely be remedied.
    How often does /. carry an "Apple craps on customers!" story only to have a fix in a few days?

  12. Bandwidth, Baby! on Home Theatre Projectors, Dell, InFocus and Sanyo · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    The line a the top of the link said "Please register or login. There are 19 registered and 945 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 275.36 kbit/s November 14 * 09:24 EST" when reading early as a subscriber.

    How high can this puppy go? >:)

  13. Congrats, Forbes on Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system is not the target of SCO's suit. Linux, the program SCO is targeting, is not an operating system, but only the kernel of the GNU/Linux operating system, which could run using a different kernel.

    It's refreshing to see mainstream media getting it right.

  14. Come on Gore.. on Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .. tell us what you really think.

  15. Super duper.. on Jail Time for Movie Swappers · · Score: 3, Funny


    /me mutters something about "the best legal system money can buy.."

  16. Synopsis: on Defense and Detection Against Internet Worms · · Score: 1, Funny
    Introduction
    Chapter 1 - Why You Shouldn't Use Windows
    Index
  17. Re:Why not ? on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Why not just create CD players with proprietary audio-out jacks that aren't compatible with computers.

    .. but are compatible with standard stereo equipment? Please explain how you would accomplish this feat.

  18. Re:Time for plan B on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 1


    Yeah, like, uh, sunlight?

    No, debris from incoming meteorites, etc. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of it come to Earth every year.

  19. Re:Time for plan B on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 2, Insightful


    It's expensive to send water to the moon. Also Earth is pretty much a sealed ecosystem (although we get tonnes of stuff from space every day) so every time we send water to the moon we've removed it from the Earth for good. It's not like the christian myth of Noah and the flood where water can come and go at the whim of a deity.

  20. Shoot. on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 5, Funny


    That means no brewery on the moon. So much for my dreams of being a drunken astronaut.

  21. Re:Yawn, on Folding@Home for OpenBSD · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I run OpenBSD on my desktop at work and whatever servers I need to set up (other than smp machines which get FreeBSD) Off the top of my head here's nothing I can think of that I'm lacking.

    It may take a little digging around but usually you can get what you want. Certainly there isn't the hand-holding aspect of other OSs (unless you count "RTFM! RTFFAQ!" as hand-holding. :)

    Oh wait.. I just thought of one thing. off to misc@openbsd.org..

  22. Oh yay on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 4, Funny


    Swell, Stallman will be rocking in his chair, picking fleas from his beard and muttering "GNU/SCO.. GNU/SCO.. GNU/SCO.." It's like a strawman argument against the millions of free software users..

  23. Conspiracy? Yes. on Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK · · Score: 5, Funny


    Conspiracy theorists take note, Apple's sales in the UK are up 36%, so far, this year.

    .. sure, but I'll also note that The site www.itc.org.uk is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98. It's a ploy by Microsoft to bring that 36% number 'under control'..

    ..where's my tin foil hat?

  24. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1


    I agree. Replace it with "Did you see the new Radeon 9800XT benchmark? Wow!" and it comes full circle.

    No, it doesn't.

    Buying a product based on benchmarks and product testing shows good common sense. Buying overpriced sugared water or sneakers because an NFL/NBA/Whatever star promotes it is being a mindless sheep.

    Do people that buy a $30 football jersey with their team's logo on it look at the craftsmanship of the item? No, they see the logo, a drop of drool forms and they pay for it.

  25. Re:trickle-down vs. flow-out on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Most insightful post of the day, well done.