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  1. Some other suggestions since this is a rumor on Leo DiCaprio in next Star Wars? · · Score: 1

    Brad Pitt
    Edward Norton
    James van der Beek

    opinions (or other guesses)?

  2. 42 and labels suck on Slashdot Notes · · Score: 2

    Just going with the trolling flow.
    But seriously, moderators rate up or down because of feelings that cannot be catogorized or quantified (sometimes anyway), having labels discourages good moderation, because people can't decide what catergory it goes under or rationalize a choice that would have been good.

  3. Re: the deal with Palpatine... on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    Palpantine (the man who will be emperor), constantly makes clones of himself, the younger one being human, the older one being a deterioting dark sith master. Sidius will eventually transfer his knowledge and power to the senator/chancellor, and at that point clones will just be used to prolong his life, not make public appearance (nobody voluntarily wants an audience with the emperor).

  4. Re:"Messianic" Stuff & Metachlorians (Spoi on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    2. Plotting, coming up with technology
    4. Look, sith lords are way too evil and competitive for that to happen. Hence 1 master, 1 apprentice. Period.
    5. see #4
    6. kill Jedi, rule galaxy. duh ;-)
    7. the senator/chancellor is the younger clone. palpantine uses clones to cheat death (which comes relatively quickly when you're a dark sith master)

  5. Re:Qui-Gon Jinn **SPOILER** on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance · · Score: 1

    First off, my theory is because he wasn't a full jedi master (didn't follow all the rules or whatnot). Darth didn't vanish because he was too mechanized. BTW, Yoda vanished too.

  6. XFree86 4.0 will be 3D on Carmack Donates $10k to Mesa · · Score: 1

    It will have OpenGL integration on a better level than win9X/directx. And eventually full 3d hardware support for everything. Other cool features will be TrueType font support and antialiasing (YES!!). We'll all be able to play Q3 Arena faster and with full hardware accelaration someday ;-). Carmack should have really given the money to XFree86, seeing as how their project is much more significant to most users, linux, and to him.

  7. WYSWIG (ok, just Dreamwaver) != ignorant of HTML on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Authoring Tool is the Best? · · Score: 1

    Just because someone want's a WYSIWIG tool does not mean that they do not know HTML. In many cases it means that they want to be more efficient, which makes an increasingly larger time difference with style sheets, DHTML, XML, etc as compared to a text editor. This is the same argument as CLI vs. GUI. Just because someone uses a GUI (a good one like GNOME, not one like mac or windows) does not mean that they don't know or don't want to know what's going on. It means they value their time more than some of you loud anti-change people. That being said, Dreamweaver is the best wysiwig editor out, the only one that writes readable code, and very good DHTML. I also use it instead of Word because style sheets and HTML give many more formating options that are just too counter-intuitive or unavailable in Word.

  8. Re:Recommendations on Celeron Dual Board Adapter · · Score: 1

    Stay away from the Abit BH6, it has many problems.

    I recommend the Soyo 6BA+ (about $90 US).
    You can get it for $85 at www.mwave.com.

    For dual I would go with an Asus P2B-D or a Gigabyte 6BXD. (about $280)

  9. There is now way these are true. on K7 vs. Pentium III benchmarks · · Score: 2

    K7: 7th gen cpu, 200mhz, bus, 3 fpu units, huge pipeline, large L1
    PIII: ppro w/mmx w/sse and slower cache (6th gen)
    Even if the K7 sucked (probably won't) it would outperfrom the Pxxx at the same clock speed by at least 20%. The Register isn't exactly a reliable news source.

  10. Cool on AMD Demos 1Gigahertz cooled K7 · · Score: 1

    The cool thing is that this is a .25 micron chip oc'd to 1GHz. This pretty much makes it clear that when AMD switches to .18 + copper they'll clear 1GHz easily. Quad .18micron 1.5GHz K7 w/8Mb full speed L2....mmmm...drool.

  11. Have you even heard of UltraDMA on Mega Linux Boxes, and Cheap Ones Too · · Score: 1

    With UDMA, cpu utilization is at extremely low,
    SCSI-equivalent levels, and has been so for over
    a year.

  12. FVWM is completely themeable on GNOME 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    it's only ugly if you want it to be.

  13. FVWM (nt) on GNOME 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    no text

  14. FVWM2.1.x + GNOME = faaast + themeable on Gnome 0.99.8 released · · Score: 1

    FVWM and GNOME rock.
    http://fvwm2gnome.fluid.cx/ - FVWM2GNOME site
    http://fvwm.math.uh.edu/ get it. use it. be happy. ;)