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  1. Re:I think modern window systems on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: -1

    Check under options->plugins->runner, there's a keyword cmd which invokes (what else?) cmd.exe with the command you give it. I added my system32 directory to the catalog (+.bat, .exe, .com file types). If you want to see the control panel too, open the control panel up and also open C:\Program Files\Launchy\Utilities\Special Folders\ . Drag all of the control panel icons into it. Boom, shortcuts that are invokable from Launchy. There's also Executor too.

  2. Re: on UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship · · Score: -1

    These powers could be abused but I'm comfortable that Gordo and Jackboots Jackie will only use these powers for good. [fx: wipes a tear away that was brought on by the laughter] It's the kind of diversity that NuLabour are best at: now we're taking choice elements from the best despotic societies such as China and the Soviet Union and integrating them into our culture. I'm almost moved to vote but I'm not convinced that the other lot are going to do that much about it. "Papers please."

  3. Re: on Comcast Facing Lawsuit Over Set-Top Box Rentals · · Score: -1

    I was a happy user of a cable card (M-Card) from Comcast until just recently. I just switched to Verizon FIOS and am using their cable cards now. No problems installing with either company so yes, they are offering them. Neither knows what an M-Card (multistream cable card) is when you call although Comcast installers had them.This doesn't address the point here though as both providers require you to rent the cable cards. Even if you already own one, you cannot use it with their network unless you are

  4. I don't. My point was that this set of questions didn't even touch some really important things Langevin's committee is responsible for. ~Sticky / Uh... don't (insert scare word) (insert quantity) that (Insert high Markov correlated word to highly used capitalized word in Post) says, either to you or to (insert highly used capizalized word from original article related to Capitalized word in Parent)... //Are you a bot? Cause if you are, I'm cool with that ///I've always wanted a bot friend...

  5. Re: on RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet · · Score: -1

    Fear of the unknown. The more people know about what to expect in a trial V. RIAA the less they will fear it.Lawyers know all about court and trials but, the average person knows very little about what to expect at a trial of this magnitude and they are probably scared to death of the possibility of being on the wrong side of one of these.Perhaps people will not be so afraid to share music files after seeing this trial and that has to scare the hell out of RIAA. To think that one of these trials could actua

  6. Re:Proud to be an American... on Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed · · Score: -1

    Australia's constitution was not made by criminals. It was written by a wealthy land owning elite. The criminals were their parents cheap labour. Australia did not exist until federation in 1901. Transportation of convicts ended in 1857.Prior to 1901 the states were self governing colonies. The colony of South Australia was settled by free settlers not convicts. People settled my state for religious freedom, to own land and for profit - not a convict in sight.The reason the Australian constitution is not as noble as the US constitution is that Australia was not founded by revolutionaries. We remained part of the British empire and inherited the attitudes and structures of England. The US adopted a republic based on the French model which celebrated liberty and equality.The filter is the result of a coalition between anti-liberal socialists and catholics. The ALP right faction is strongly influenced by catholicism and is socially conservative. The ALP left factions may have championed social change once, but it I suspect it was just a reaction to the conservatism of the times and they have no real commitment to individual freedom being socialists.So the ALP are just as crazy as the GOP religious right but far more dangerous as there is not a libertarian amongst them to stand up for freedom.The current government used to be a socially progressive, center left workers party but probably should change their name to the Christian Democrats as they are basically a front for Roman Catholicism these days.

  7. On the first day of X-mas... on Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed · · Score: -1

    Interesting. While the Puritans certainly could have been considered 'religious extremists' back in the time they settled here, they were, by far, not the majority.Most of the Founding Fathers weren't Puritans

  8. What? on Happy Festivus · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  9. Re: on Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge · · Score: -1

    There's a preference to ignore Idle stories on the front page.

  10. Re: on Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen? · · Score: -1

    Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue

  11. Re: on Rails and Merb Ruby Web Frameworks Merge · · Score: -1

    Every technology has it's haters. Especially when it comes to web. Any post about PHP is bound to have the phpsucks tag. Java, Flash, etc. have their own hate tags too. PERL is pretty much the only one with sufficient amount of fanboys here to avoid any negative comments...But in the end tags are never about consensus. They are about the consensus of the loudest people. If such people were smart and knew what they were talking about, democracy would have made the world perfect long ago.

  12. Re: on Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive · · Score: -1

    Why is this modded "informative"

  13. Re: on Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive · · Score: -1

    Better make sure your triggers are designed for set based logic and not row based updates. If the application only updates one row at a time, the trigger might very well only handle that. Bad coding, but I've seen it plenty and your mass update would produce unpredictable results in such a case.

  14. Re: on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: -1

    I agree about the copy editing. This is a discipline all of its own. My wife has just completed a 2 year course (in 12 months) to qualify as an editor. There is a 'language' to the editing marks that leaves me somewhat stumped, but is obvious to those in the know. I also heard her say, on a regular basis through the course, that they are taught to "edit without changing the writer's voice". So, if you are editing your own work, be careful that you edit in your own voice. (I recently wrote (most of) a 50,0

  15. Re: on Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 · · Score: -1

    I know, but I think he had issues at 333/667 MHz to, but I'm not sure if he really have used it or if it has been 533/1066 the whole time, not my machine ..The ram is speced at 2.1 volt, and gets 2.1 volt, the motherboard isn't that high end.I don't remember, but maybe FSB in BIOS was set at 333 MHz and quadrubled on the FSB to the CPU (E8500) to 1333 MHz and rams would run at 333 MHz default to?Stock multiple is 9.5 x 333 MHz = 3166 MHz but I guess what I wanted to do was to run RAM and FSB at 533 MHz with

  16. Re: on Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet · · Score: -1

    The topic title is key here. A mechanial device was built. Starcraft was nothing more than editing triggers and hit points to create scenerios.

  17. Re:flicker crashes on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: -1

    There is PWM due to the tail lights being dimmer when your not braking.Again, PWM is usually around the 200khz mark though.People who see flicker with it are just seeing it because they want to - its all in their head.

  18. Re: on RIAA Claim of Stopping Suits "Months" Ago Is False · · Score: -1

    Do you wear tinfoil on your head, or am I missing something? I skimmed the entirety of the linked pages on recordingindustryvspeople and saw lots of documentation and commentary related to exactly what I expected. I saw nothing that made me feel any urge to grab an e-meter and get my thetans excised.

  19. Men's Body Spray? on Burger King Releases Burger-scented Men's Body Spray · · Score: -1

    It will be perfect synergy when the Flame body spray meets my "home of the Whopper" underwear.

  20. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: -1

    http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1996-01-23/ On the other hand, if you enable internet filters to things like facebook you will very quickly expose your kids to the world of hacking, ssh tunnels and external proxies!

  21. Re:Absolutely not! on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: -1

    I don't think apple equipment is crap. I just don't think it deserves the love and devotion it gets.What I find sad is that such a small number of people *do* understand technology, but their signal is so low amongst the noise of what's popular and shiny that we could miss out on money going into real advances because someone's applied a coat of polish to last year's tech. Or more like 5 year old tech in the case of the first iPhone.I guess it's just how things work.

  22. Re: on Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I think we're gonna need a bigger grant...

  23. Re: on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: -1

    Did you forget that an entire state is attached to that hole they call New York City? Some of us live in the middle of the state...with NY State already taxing Amazon purchases, the drop of education money and the 18% tax on non diet soda, I have a feeling NY doesn't want people living here anymore. :(

  24. Re: on Spaceport America Gets FAA License · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ironically you would be travelling the most distance in your life and end not going anywhere.

  25. Re: on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: -1

    ..don't go for Crack Attack or Tetrinet.