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  1. Re:Read the Bible on Frankenstein Time · · Score: 1

    God did not sit down, boot up, and fire up StarOffice to write the Big Book

    Of course not he uses EMACS.

  2. Re: Coffee urban legend on Comment To FTC On Software Warranties And UCITA · · Score: 1

    Doesn't make a difference to me, she's still the one who spilled it.

  3. Re:just for geek factor on Gnome On Your PDA? · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. Even if one assumes the that the PDA can run it with no problem I think it still takes up way too much screen space, which has been one of the many reasons people around here criticize CE.

    Ok so I lied half the people around here criticize CE just because it's MS.

  4. wow thats a great idea on Dell To Make MP3 Home Stereo Component · · Score: 1

    Too bad no one will do it :(

    Being stuck with napster might not be the best thing ever though...what if all of a sudden people switched to a different program.

  5. Re:Drew Carey! on Douglas Adams Answers (Finally) · · Score: 1

    What about the woman he was enganged to? She left him because he was making her fat.

  6. Re:AGH! on Programmers Will Debut Free MP3 Alternative · · Score: 1

    they're planning on showing a beta of Vorbis at next week's MP3.com summit in San Diego

    There's the news part. It also creates greater awarness about Ogg Vorbis which is probably a "good thing" (TM)

  7. Re:Feature set. on Mozilla M16 Released · · Score: 1

    You also have to remember that AOL is calling the shots now
    AOL is in charge of netscape not mozilla. Netscape 6 will be based on Mozilla, this is totaly different from Mozilla meanignt the exact same thing as Netscape.

  8. Re:Proving you're Canadian on iCraveTV To Relaunch · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is C right?

  9. Re:Anybody seen the Phantom Menace Pinball game? on Is Pinball Dying? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't compare to it's predecessor Attack from Mars(or what ever it was called) though.

  10. Re:100% of the time? C'mon - that's crap. on Is Pinball Dying? · · Score: 1

    Who cares if you like Tekken 3, his point was that people play it.

    Also a pinbal machine has both the "complex video game circuitry" and the "mechanical electronic systems" so there goes that arguement. Besides even if the mechanical systems on a pinball machine are relativly easy to fix that doesn't mean that there will be someone available to fix it. Even if there was someone on hand to fix it whenever there was a problem I have the feeling there would be a problem more often than would be with Tekken Tag sitting in the same space.

    Sure, it _maximizes_ your earnings, but certainly does not negate your earnings if your machine drops down to 90%
    Your goal as a bussiness man is to maximize your earnerings. He didn't say that a pinball machine won't make money but if Tekken 3 makes more money in the same space most people will put Tekken 3 in.

  11. Re:Stress test ok... on Diablo 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Your assuming he was hosting the game. Even with default settings it's possible to have a level 17 and a level 9 character in the same game, host is L13 +4 is L17 and -4 is L9.

    Even if he was hosting the same situation could still exist with a L13 character instead of a L14.

  12. No you didn't on Diablo 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    You played the stress test and not the beta. As far as I know the beta came before the stress test and was much more compleat.

  13. Re:A different take on Rambus on Why Dr. Tom Dislikes Rambus, Inc. · · Score: 3
  14. A different take on Rambus on Why Dr. Tom Dislikes Rambus, Inc. · · Score: 1

    Anandtech has a very different( and in my opinion saner) take on Rambus part 1 looks at the reasoning behind Rambus while part 2 gives current performance of RDRAM vs. SDRAM and looks at where things are expected to be a few years down the road.

  15. Re:Why so slow? on Super-Fast Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Wait wait I'm confused you're not going to have a voodoo setup? I thought the whole point was run games faster....Why else would anyone spend $8000 on memory.

  16. Re:Why so slow? on Super-Fast Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    If you were saturate the PCI bus with one device as you suggest what happens to your NIC card, sound card, your SLI voodoo 2 setup (hehe), a second drive, or anything else which happens to be on the PCI bus?

  17. Re:BUS Bandwidth on Super-Fast Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    533MBps for a 64bit PCI bus at 66MHz that means that with 110MBps the drive is using just over 20%. Add a 100MBps network card and your at about 40% which leaves over 300MBps for other devices even if your NIC and HD are running flat out.

  18. Web browsers on Mac OS 9 Versus Corel GNU/Linux At CNet · · Score: 1

    The MacOS advocate should have brought out Internet Explorer for the Mac. Sorry to say but that thing kicks but compared to Netscape on Linux(yes I know there is Mozilla but it is alpha and I doubt it comes with Corel). What I find odd is that IE on a Mac is much nicer than IE on windows, at least thats what they tell me.

  19. Re:My Opinions... on Open Source Leaders Speak About Napster · · Score: 1

    Why yes I do need the whole SONG but not the whole ALBUM. You're little food analogy seems to say that one song is the entire product. To me it's more like have one slice of a large pizza(accpet that they can give the next guy the exact same slice )

  20. Re:Direct link on New Front In The Copyright-War: Abandon-Ware · · Score: 1

    Last couple of articles that linked to the NY Times had bypassed logging in by substituted partners for www in the url. Does anyone know why they stopped doing this?

  21. Re:Commander keen! on New Front In The Copyright-War: Abandon-Ware · · Score: 1

    The July issue of PC Gamer will have a CD with full versions of 10 old games such as X-COM and the side scrolling Duke Nukem. I don't know about Commander Keen though :(

  22. Re:Linux IPOs on Lineo Plans IPO · · Score: 1

    You do realize that a company can only have one Initial Public Offering don't you?

  23. Google does show adds on Aqua DP4 Review And Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Depending on what you search for google will show adds. Try searching for web hosting and check out the Verio add(although it text and doesn't really stick out)

  24. Re:Ummm... The Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo was a VIDEO on E3: Linux Still Waiting In The Wings · · Score: 1

    You don't think faster hardware makes a difference? Also I'm sure that with a video of the game all of the "rough edges" are cut out(perfectly understandable though). With real gameplay some of the not so good parts might slip in.

    Lets use bleem as an example I'm sure that you could put together an amazing video demo with games working flawlessly with enhanced graphics, but in real life things arn't so rosy and many games have problems.

    Star Wars episode I also works as an illustration. The trailer rocked but the movie itself was just average.

  25. Re:Any other insight? on E3: Linux Still Waiting In The Wings · · Score: 1

    For those of you who couldn't care less about Linux why bother reading the article about Linux at E3?

    To me it seems about the same thing as if I posted "For those of who couldn't care less about E3 any insight into other facets of Linux"