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  1. Re:Dupe several years later? on 10 Things Apple Did To Make Mac OS X Faster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ohh great idea!!! lets encourge dupes. Why do we even need new articles just start over from day one of slashdot and start posting all the old stories.

    Wonderful...

  2. Re:classic managment mistake on 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten · · Score: 1

    eww, now I just have to convince my wife of that!!

    giggidy giggidy

    All riiiight....

  3. Re:Pot, Kettle ..... on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    You know I'm pretty sure Direct TV has two way high speed internet that covers pretty much the entire US.

    Part of living out side of the city is giving up some of the benifits of living in a city. Sorry my definition of choice is when I get to choose. Not when someone else chooses for me.

  4. Re:cdrecord on Linux 2.6.16 released · · Score: 1

    Yea, dead is pretty stable.

  5. Re:You don't get it: CLI commands are easier than on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 1

    Yea and my favorite way to have them do it is this:

    --
    command -kvl options

    what ever you do don't type
    rm -rf /
    --
    then just have them highlight the email and execute it. Works like a charm.

  6. Re:Pot, Kettle ..... on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    How about they set aside the money by not taking it from me in the first place and let me decided if I want broadband or not?

  7. Re:testing on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    pointing out the exceptions doesn't invalidate the fact that it most often does. Sure there are productive, happy drug users. Sure their are dead sober unhappy poor people. Pointing at the stitisticly irrelivant doesn't in any way invalidate the data.

  8. Re:testing on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    No, actually most (again meaning not all) of them hate it. They just don't have the motivation to move on.

  9. Re:The Relentless March of Science on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    Maybe "I'm too lazy" wasn't the phrase to use. How about "I don't care enough to look it up."

    Newton, Galileo et al cared enough. Lucky for us. I have other things I care about. This wasn't one of them.

  10. Re:testing on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    Yes, but many is a good word to use as most end up sitting on the couch with no job. I was one of the few that found a bit of insperation got off of it and went on with my life. Most people I use to hang out with are in their 30's still getting high and working at crap jobs like McDonalds or Walmart.

  11. Re:testing on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the over crimilization of Marajuana and the more relaxed stance (still crimilaized but not as evident) on cocaine because cocaine is more of a productivity generator while marajuana is more of a demotevator?

  12. Re:Gold? on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 1

    I'm too lazy to do the research but it has something to do with the number of electrons in the outer circle of the atom.

    If I remeber right Silver only has 1 in the outer circle thus can pass the most electrons from atom to atom.

    I state this completely out of my arse and relying on 15 year old high school education so someone please come by and correct me. I think I'm pretty close though from what I remeber.

  13. Re:Much more than cocaine on Cocaine Biosensor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remeber a role playing game called Rifts that had a class known as the Jucier that had this very technology. They were typlically amped to the maximium body potential, but this cut their average life expectancy to around 5-10 years after getting "jucied"

    See more here Palladium Books

  14. Re:Undersupplying on Purpose? on The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series · · Score: 1

    Yes, we agree. It is sematics we are argueing on.

    "Wait, you just said the cost to make each card doesn't matter! It sounds like you agree - it most certainly does matter, and it certainly doesn't make any sense to have a price higher than the cost to make it."

    I still say that the cost of making something has nothing to do with it's "market value." Just because it cost you $10,000 to replicate the statue of David in human feces doesn't make it worth $10,000. (although it may, stupid art people. LOL)

    Supply side wants to make things for a profit, demand side wants things cheaply. Finding the middle ground is the ideal situation. Supply will start at the top and see who is willing and then lower prices as needed. They may even lower prices down to below the building cost if they build to many. This is done to ofset the losses on over production, and is something the busneses do quite offten. check the dollar bin at walmart or the going out of business sales that happen quite often.

  15. Re:Undersupplying on Purpose? on The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series · · Score: 1

    The cost of makeing something doesn't matter one bit for it's market value. All the cost of making it matters is weather or not someone is going to make it.

    If it costs $1000 to make each card and people will only pay $300 for them, then Nvidia would learn their lesson and not make them any more.

    If it costs them $1 to make each card and people will pay $1000 for them they'll make sure that they sell as many as they can at $1000. As soon as everyone that has paid $1000 for one they'll lower it to $900. When sales stop again they'll lower it to $800...$600...$300...$10 eventually they wont be able to sell them at any price. At that point it is called Market saturation.

    I know the classes suck but all you have to do is pay a little attention during Macro Economics 101. Supply and Demand is a little more complicated than just lower supply higher demand.

  16. Re:XGL rocks :-D on Kororaa Releases XGL LiveCD · · Score: 1

    Cool, can I get a copy of the live CD of you throwing it on your Girlfriend?

  17. Re:Undersupplying on Purpose? on The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series · · Score: 1

    You may call it psychology of lack, they consider it Market advantage. It is busness plain and simple.

  18. Re:Who cares, really on The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Series · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of Capitalism. It is consumers that set the price. NVIDIA just asks, "Who will pay this much for this card?" Once sales drop they drop the price and again ask, "who will now pay this lower price?"

    At some point the Video cards will hit a price point that you find worth your money.

  19. This is why you should always use a condome on Cisco Aquires SyPixx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd stay away from Cisco if I were you.

  20. Re:Comment about "web performance" amusing on Treo 700w Review · · Score: 1

    Mainly because they didn't want to compromise the already slightly too large for a good cell phone Treo. I played with both a 700w and a 650. I took the 650 as my last cell phone. I love it. It has only crashed a few times from installing and trying several diffrent emulators for nes, snes, mame, genisis. I finaly found Little John Palm or LJP. Awesome emulator for palms if anyone has been looking for one.

  21. Re:Right. on No Backdoor in Vista · · Score: 1

    As long as you trust that your computer has no remote wireless access of any knid within it.

  22. Re:Why Pass It? on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    No this gives too much power to the president.

    Line item voteing in congress on the otherhand would give the power back to the indiviual congress persons. In stead of selling a single issue to get your pork attached crap legislation through you'd have to sell your crap legislation.

  23. Re:More Ironic names on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Little is funnier than senser, well placed sarcasm.

  24. Re:What about the noise? on MacBook Pro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Ohh, come on man!! Chuckle and move on. You don't have to be an over zelous Mac appoligest. It was fairly obvious it was a joke.

  25. Re:What about the noise? on MacBook Pro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    "No longer! Download Silent Night, and use Pacifist to install it. Then reset the PRAM by holding CMD-Opt-P-R when booting until it chimes twice."

    It really is the intuitive user interface of Macs that set them apart.