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  1. Re:Enough power on Antispyware Shootout · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's only one thing you need to clean a spyware ridden system, and it doesn't use much CPU time at all..

    Delpart.

  2. Re:How DARE they do this!!! on Sun CEO On Razors And Blades · · Score: 1

    You bring the Ultra 5s, I'll bring the trebuchet.

  3. Re:Gordon Gecko on Forbes Fictional 15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He saved a bunch of money on his car insurance...

  4. Re:these are simple, just like unix! on ICANN Considers Single Letter Domains · · Score: 1

    just change your registration country of choice.. /plur.ca

  5. Re:One other thing on Free60 Project Aims for Linux on Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was always "Chick-sent-mah-hail-yah" through my motivation prof's lower east side accent..

  6. holy mangled facts, batman on Free60 Project Aims for Linux on Xbox 360 · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's a motivational psychologist studying performance and reward, his name is Csikszentmihalyi, and he's Hungarian, not Indian.

  7. Re:Livejournal? on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 1

    It can take quite a while. It's a powerful, complex piece of software.

  8. Re:Read the Fine Summary on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 1

    The value is set during manufacturing. You have to BE the owner to CHANGE the owner.

    Just like to say.. if I buy the computer, I AM the owner. and I still won't be able to change TPM_Owner. Only the manufacturer can change TPM_Owner.

    Well, until the first set of mod chips start hitting the market...

  9. Re:Yup... on 200gb Hack for iPod Nano · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Here we go again... on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 1

    zip.ca in canada is quite acceptable.. mailing times aren't as good as netflix, but selection is on par.

  11. Re:Weird on HOWTO: The Anti-Printer · · Score: 1

    No no, my friend. That is not a bulk shredder. This is a bulk shredder.

  12. Re:You're talking about SQL storage of messages on A Programmatically Accessible Email Archive? · · Score: 1

    I was about to suggest DBMail myself. Run it using mysql and innoDB and it's fast, ACID compliant and easily accessable using SQL. You can easily distribute the database load over multiple servers, too.

  13. Re:Waste?-Recycled Rubber. on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but are cheap to create, use little raw materiel, have a small waste footprint, and their production and use are in the public interest (epidemiologically speaking).

  14. Re:You? Rural? Ha! on Next-Gen Broadband Primer · · Score: 1

    If you're on the continent, you can always get satellite ;)

  15. Re:Finally on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1

    It's not a quality thing. It's an ease thing. I use the parent test when considering commercial grade services.

    Downloading movies is not something my mother would do. She would balk at waiting 4-6 hours for it to download, would hate to watch then on the computer and would have serious trouble transcoding/burning, not to mention it would take another few hours. She'd end up cancelling a download based service and driving to blockbuster.
    She can handle netflix. She checks the mail daily, knows how to use a DVD player, and has enough computer skill to deal with the browser interface. Considering the local blockbuster is $5 a rental and they don't have any movies from the old country, she figures she's getting a bargain. She's happy, and since there are a lot more people like my mom than there are geeks and college students, netflix has a solid business plan.

    As for resolution.. Well, if they did VHS by mail, she'd probably give that a try, too. It's all about convenience.

  16. Re:Finally on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure. The new subscription based napster (or real rhapsody).

    See, right now most people don't have the bandwidth for subscription based movie download services, and as very few actually want to watch movies on a 19 inch monitor, converting and burning to DVDs is non-trivial. It's somewhat like the old axiom: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of quarter inch tapes." For a lot (if not most) people, getting two DVDs a week by mail is much more efficient than downloading, so the subscription movie services are mail-based.

    This isn't true of music; bandwidth is high enough and compression good enough that market forces have driven a download-based subscription service, as you can easily download and listen to music on the computer, and burn it to CD for home theatre playing.

  17. Re:Wow on 13.1 Surround Sound Coming to a Home near you? · · Score: 1

    Didn't anyone else play space quest 4?

    The dodecaphonic aroundsound processor uses speakers in front of you, behind you, to the left and right of you, four midpoints in between, above you, below you, inside of you, and from the next-door neighbours.

  18. Re:How old is this guy? on Classic MMOG Raised From the Dead by Past Players · · Score: 1

    All the time; most legal proceedings of age discrimination are filed by people who believe they were unfairly treated (most often, unfairly dismissed from a job) for being too old, not too young.

  19. ugh, marketing on Mandriva Buys Assets from Lycoris · · Score: 1

    Okay, Mandriva used to be mandrake.. What is lycoris's lineage?

  20. Re:bothersome on Comparing Linux and BSD, Diplomatically · · Score: 1

    Not so much.

    "The advertising clause in the license appearing on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the University of California on July 22 1999. He states that clause 3 is 'hereby deleted in its entirety.'"

  21. Re:bothersome on Comparing Linux and BSD, Diplomatically · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What? The BSD license isn't viral. You can directly incorporate BSD code into any project without worry or credit.

  22. Re:Same hardware as Darwin on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked? · · Score: 1

    I have to ask, where is the pic in your sig from?

    Talk about redefining hardcore mac zealot ;)

  23. Re:Now is THE Time To be a Mac Developer on Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    Well, we've at this point emulated enough of the PPC bios to install OSX in pearpc, no? I'm certain once OSX-x86 is released, some enterprising hackers will figure out how to convince OSX to install on a beige-box.

  24. Re:And health issues? on Issues Surrounding Installation of a Cell Tower? · · Score: 1

    In north america, mobile phone transmission limits are 0.95 watts on PCS bands and up to 2 watts at cellular bands, and right next to your neocortex. ;)

  25. Re:You heard it here first on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    WINE is not an emulator! It's a translation layer, it's totally useless on a non-x86 platform.