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  1. Re:Idle? on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    Not anymore. I did prior to Idle's debut.

  2. Re:Idle? on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    Fourthed. Also bad is that I can't get settings in the Firehose to persist. I always need to enter '-story' in the search bar and move the slider to purple.

  3. Re:Alarm? on The Best Burglar Alarm In History · · Score: 1

    Tesla coils and Jacobs Ladders throw off an obscene amount of EM. He won't get a signal.

  4. Re:And file sharers may be violating copyright law on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember reading that Apple's optical drives don't conform...
    So they simply don't stamp the official logo on them.

  5. Re:RIAA strikes again on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    And if you have lawyers working both sides, you could play the case to come out on whatever side you wanted.

    Is that legal? I doubt anybody would appreciate public attempts to game the system.

  6. Re:1998 called. It wants its issues back. on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Invoice application/printer attachment for the Eeepc?

  7. Re:1998 called. It wants its issues back. on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    People pay for games/ringtones on their cellphones. I'm sure someone could come up with something for netbooks.

  8. Re:Battle for Wesnoth on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't bother my youngest brothers (4th and 8th grade).

  9. Re:I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    OSX comes with a nice pdf reader by default, KDE has a good one, and with a good reader the format becomes extremely useful.

    Don't forget Evince on Gnome. And the Gnome-independent ePDFview.

  10. Re:I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    How easily can it be incorporated in Linux if Postscript goes down the drain?

  11. Re:From a writing teacher on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    ...printed out in brail vs. going threw the OCR layer first.

    However there are a bunch more who will just breeze threw and grade on a whim just to get the job done.

    I much rather have the professor go threw scan for some keywords...

    I can see why you would like professors to not penalize students for consistent misspellings.

  12. Re:Fresh Set of GOP Numbers on McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why people think they still need to lie to prop up Obama. He won the fucking election.

    Well, there are some rumors of less-than-ideal decisions coming up (NASA). Maybe they are trying to convince themselves that they didn't make a mistake?

  13. Re:Fresh Set of GOP Numbers on McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs · · Score: 1

    Obama came into his neighborhood, not the other way around. Yes, Joe the Plumber said he wanted to catch him off guard but it's just as much of Obama's fault as anyone's.

    Agreed. That is a risk one takes when soliciting unscripted questions.

  14. Re:Human Mars mission on Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail · · Score: 1

    Honour and recognition in event of success.

    Technically, they would get that anyways. They just get to enjoy it more if they survive.

  15. Re:It simply illuminates a single fact. on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    Teachers are incredibly undereducated when it comes to technology.

    That's a pretty broad brush you're painting teachers with. Don't know about your schools, but my town has computers in the classrooms, and teachers that, for the most part, know how to use them to help them get their jobs done.

    Even Tech Support (you know, the people whom are actually supposed to have a good grasp of technology) can be very wrong sometimes.

  16. Re:Microsoft's Turd on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Well, you can add IPv6 to XP pretty easily (although I have no idea if it works well or not).

  17. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It meant the difference between my buying a Dell system or building my own from Newegg.

  18. Re:Who really uses it though ? on Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64 · · Score: 1

    Photoshop CS3

    Looking at the AppDB page, I'd suggest trying it on some distro other than Ubuntu. Although CS2 works better if that would be sufficient.

    - Office 2007

    I need those specific apps because those are the formats my peers and clients use.

    Well, you can open .docx files as of OOo 3.0. Or maybe you could talk them into using Sun's ODF Plugin (It's a long shot, but I thought I'd throw that out there.)

    - MSIE 6/7

    IE6 runs, sure, but leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, so I have to kill -9 it after a few minutes lest I face a swap-spiral of doom.

    IEsforLinux? Although it seems a little dead...

  19. Re:LUK on Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Six tries so far, and the closest I came to having a usable system I had a minimal cli-only install and I accidentally left out networking.
    That was a while ago though. Maybe I will have more success if I try again.

  20. Re:This is why copyright laws are bad on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    Some of the Windows 2000 source code was leaked a while back.

  21. Re:Getting Old on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    You didn't purchase a movie. You purchased a license to watch that movie using that disk. What you're doing is against the terms of the license which is why DRM now enforces the license you purchase.

    Really? I don't remember seeing a license agreement, and the FBI warning simply says:

    Licensed for private home exhibition only. Any public performance, copying, or other use is strictly prohibited.

    My ISOs certainly aren't public.

  22. Re:Educational applications in the cloud on Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal · · Score: 1

    eb browsing and email". I put Debian on it. There's only one thing I have found that it can't do:

    So it can run Crysis?

  23. Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    ...I think most people have heard of Portugal.

    Hard to graduate elementary/middle school without covering early seafaring and Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. Portugaul is brought up a lot during that period.

  24. Re:I love 3D on Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Technically, a helmet would still be a 2D interface... Although accelerometers and such to keep track of head movement/orientation could make a reasonable approximation.

  25. Re:I love 3D on Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesn't need to be a giant cube or sphere. All we need to do is harness the power of the Reality Distortion Field to travel to the Star Trek universe and bring back some holoemitters.