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  1. Re:Not to mention windows doesn't cost $300 on Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America" · · Score: 1

    ...and then another $150 for Vista Service Pack 2.5. Err, excuse me, I mean Win7.

  2. Re:BS on Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America" · · Score: 1

    This Westlake guy is full of it. Can't find it in stores, either? Huh, I guess that EEE PC at the Target down the block doesn't have Linux after all like the display model, and for $250. Been to Best Buy in a while, buddy? I like how the guy who screams of FUD is the one spreading it the most.

  3. Re:Not so much... on Ballmer Pleads For Openness To Compete With Apple · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe some of the Creative and SanDisk players are alright, but until only recently have either company put out anything as simple and easy as the iPod. I just picked up a Sansa Clip yesterday and spent a few hours trying to find out why the player wouldn't read my ID3 Tags.

  4. Re:Not so much... on Ballmer Pleads For Openness To Compete With Apple · · Score: 1

    ...and what website are we on again?

  5. I played the closed beta... on Quake Live Open Beta Begins Feb. 24th · · Score: 1

    I played the closed beta. Fun, and only about 250 MB of data to download the first time. I only played with the bots for a little bit, though, so I might jump into the open beta if I have my Windows partition handy.

  6. Re:Good Call on Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban · · Score: 1

    You cannot correlate young age with those stupid actions. There are people over twenty-five who have done idiotic things such as what you posted; what's your point?

  7. Re:Another one! on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Two themes available: Fisher-Price or "I've been sprayed with Crisco" black. Take your pick.

  8. Re:Not PEBKAC on Malware Threat To GNOME and KDE · · Score: 1

    If it's good enough for Palin, it's good enough for Slashdot.

  9. Re:IE has had these for ages on MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs · · Score: 1

    I've only been on Slashdot a month or two, and I already know KDawson stories are always fun for various reasons.

  10. Re:One word on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at what's in your mouth lately?

  11. Re:Sigh. on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    It was the "misunderestimate" that tipped me off, too.

  12. Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    That's who's attacking the whole Windows-IE tie-in deal. It's the EU, not the US.

  13. Re:This should never be a crime on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 1

    They know that some are scams, and some are legit, just like a phone book.

  14. Re:Aim at the foot on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    If they can't hack GTA4, I think GTA4 will have to follow the users in this case.

  15. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 1

    It is a reasonable argument to just stop consuming, which is what I'm doing, anyway. And the companies like to blame piracy for their lowered profits, when in reality it's just people not buying their crap. There are more options than buy or pirate, you know.

  16. Re:No OpenOffice 3.x on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 1

    I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a 2.0Ghz Celeron, and it also sucks ass. I'll probably end up moving to Lenny in the next week until I get around to buying a new computer.

  17. Re:No OpenOffice 3.x on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 1

    I agree. I used OO.o 3.0 in Etch for a few weeks without a single issue.

  18. Re:Blu-Ray? on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the Blu-Ray image is practically every Debian package on all the servers out there; what's the point in hosting them twice? And I can attest to some very successful Jigdo downloads and installations. I have a whole bunch of Debian 4.0 discs laying around that I used Jigdo to install, and had zero issues.

  19. Re:The real test is none vs. some on Study Finds Gamers Prefer Control, Competence Over Violence · · Score: 1

    Well, then again, we're not all 14 year olds that get turned on by that...right?

  20. GlasDOS agrees... on Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    '[fake-coughing] Moonlight... so deadly... Choking... [laughs] Kidding! When I said "Firefox plug-in," the deadly was in massive sarcasm quotes. I could take a bath in this stuff, put it on cereal, rub it right into my eyes, honestly, it's not deadly at all. To me. You, on the other hand, are going to find its deadliness a lot less funny.

  21. Re:File systems? We can have as many as possible.. on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    Because when all those millions of Joe Public's upgraded from XP to Vista or Win7, everything worked swimmingly out of the box, right?

  22. Re:Original reference for this post ? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    That's the original version.

  23. Re:Where's NTFS ? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    I see that the freeware evangelists are running scared now that their days are numbered. In an unbiased comparison, I have independently concluded that a legally licensed Windows machine, with a faster CPU processor and RAM memory, a bigger screen and a bigger Hard Disk memory is cheaper than the ubuntu machine, because of a sound investment strategy based on felicitous risk management and foresight. You said : 'You better go back to school because your math is definitely not sound. You failed to factor in your $299 (your quote) for Vista' Not so - lets add it up again. $299 for the Vista $50 for the case $50 for the genuine Microsoft keyboard and mouse $100 for the motherboard Total = $499 What is there not to understand ? The deductivistic summation of such figures adds up to $499.

  24. Re:Where's NTFS ? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    It's JerryLeeCooper, some (probably jokester) troll on ZDNet. (http://rixstep.com/1/1/20070724,00.shtml) I don't know why AC's are posting it's that teacher who took the CD's from the student a few months ago. It's not. Get your trolls straight.

  25. Re:When did comic books become legitimate? on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 1

    These games never really surpassed anything but an emulation of movies, interspersed with point-and-click gameplay. There's more to it to that, but games as a medium shouldn't be defining themselves through the definition of movies or books.