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  1. Re:Limitations to the mouse... on Review Of The New Apple Mouse · · Score: 1

    How long is the mouse cord? I'd like to get one for my home PC but the tower is down on the floor, and I don't have USB on my keyboard or monitor.


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  2. Re:have you ever driven a car? on Review Of The New Apple Mouse · · Score: 1

    Sticks are for vehicles that can steer their vector in more than one dimension. Cars cannot, thus the wheel. It also allows for finer control. Trust me, you wouldn't want to drive a responsive car with a stick, just like you wouldn't want to play Gran Turismo with the DualShock gamepad. (you'd do much better with a NeGcon)


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  3. Re:have you ever driven a car? on Review Of The New Apple Mouse · · Score: 1

    Ummmm, no...

    How are you supposed to modulate your braking without a brake pedal (seperate braking input)? Admit it: you analogy doesn't work.


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  4. Re:Having played with one... on Review Of The New Apple Mouse · · Score: 1

    Almost everyone I know doubleclicks on hyperlinks. Even people that should know better! I've told people in the past that they only need to single-click to follow a link, but they keep on double-clicking. I decided to just try to ignore it from now on. :)

    I'm convinced that maybe the no-double-click option in Windows would be good for most people, but of course it's going to frustrate power users.


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  5. Re:We need to somehow let them *know* it's on. on Several Boycotts Of RIAA Organizing · · Score: 1

    Someone should mod you guys up.


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  6. Re:Napster shouldn't be shutdown on Several Boycotts Of RIAA Organizing · · Score: 1

    No, you asked about how much "non-copyrighted" music someone else would be interested in. Don't try to change your words now, at least admit that you were wrong.

    Secondly, if you don't care what the RIAA is, why are you even reading under this topic (Napster shouldn't be shutdown)?


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  7. Re:Reviewer lacked the required background on Java Modeling In Color With UML · · Score: 1

    What is the GOF book?


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  8. Re:Napster shouldn't be shutdown on Several Boycotts Of RIAA Organizing · · Score: 1

    None. All music is implicitly copyrighted. I think you mean to ask how much non-RIAA music is there out there that they want to listen to.


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  9. Re:We need to somehow let them *know* it's on. on Several Boycotts Of RIAA Organizing · · Score: 1

    He represents me.


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  10. Re: the way to find the truth on Several Boycotts Of RIAA Organizing · · Score: 1

    There is only one way to figure out what is right in this case. Just ask yourself one simple question.

    What Would Robinhood Do?

    WWRD


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  11. Re:Maps of the internet on How Dependent Is The Internet On The U.S.? · · Score: 1

    Hey man, we may do most of the Napster, but I think the Europeans are responsible for the most pr0n. :)

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  12. Begging for a lawsuit? on Geek Flavor · · Score: 1

    You can FTP stuff up to the Web site? And they host it? Unless they filter out *.MP3 files (which would be wrong because it would prevent legitimate MP3 files from being hosted), they're probably going to have a lot of k1dd135 uploading MP3s of Britney Spears.

    And they actually are hosting the files unlike Napster.

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  13. Re:mixed media on End Of Fox Animation · · Score: 1

    No, that doesn't standout anywhere near as much as a hand-drawn character does against a computer generated background.

    The watercolor backgrounds of most cartoons actually fit, because it gives the background a out-of-focus look. Not the same with 3D CGI backgrounds.

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  14. Re:They'd better be the only ones on ABC Ads Target Answering Machines? · · Score: 1

    I already get more spam on my answering machine than I do via e-mail. I'm thinking of disconnecting my answering machine.

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  15. Re:Unknown vs Anonymous on ABC Ads Target Answering Machines? · · Score: 1

    I have BellSouth's ACR. It worked well for quite a while, but now I get a large percentage of Unavailable calls. I always joke with my girlfriend that I'm glad I have a good friend like Unavailable, they really do care. Anyway, my mother has some really cheap LD service, and they don't transmit her number, so I have to listen to the machine to see if Unavailable is her or a telemarketer. It really sucks.

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  16. Re:Naive indeed on Civil Disobedience and DeCSS · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, I just re-read your post, and Kraftwerk's Tour de France wouldn't be on my computer either, because I own their Autobahn CD.

    So, I believe that I would have no MP3s left if I removed all of the ones you told me to.

    If a band provided me with an ISO image of a CD of theirs, I would probably be able to justify giving them $5 for the music. That would be a lot more profit per CD than they get now.

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  17. Re:Naive indeed on Civil Disobedience and DeCSS · · Score: 1

    If I removed all of those MP3s from my computer I'd only have a handful left. Kraftwerk's Tour de France would be one of them, because I've tried in vain for several years to find a copy on CD. Right now, I'm stuck with a horrible sounding MP3.

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  18. Re:Porn link Alert! on Civil Disobedience and DeCSS · · Score: 1

    I've noticed the spaces in URLs on /. quite a bit recently. I thought there were just a lot of incredibly bad typists on /., or it was some strange inside-joke of the Trolls. Why is it that Slashdot inserts spaces in URLs?

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  19. Re:Any modern CPU can encode MP3 "on the fly". on SETI@Home -- Running On A PCI Card · · Score: 1

    As you know MacOS X will support SMP.

    However, you may not know that one could install Linux on a Dual-Proc G4 as well.

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  20. mixed media on End Of Fox Animation · · Score: 1

    I didn't go see Titan A.E. because it mixes mediums. I don't want to go see a movie where everything is rendered by a computer except the characters. That is so lame! They should have stuck with either 3D or 2D animation. They just don't go well together, unless you're using 2D shaders on your 3D animation as they did on the Iron Giant.

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  21. Re:Makes me feel bad about abandoning them on Web Standards Project Blasts Netscape · · Score: 1

    Sadly the .9 version of Netscape that I switched to from NCSA Mosaic was less buggy than Netscape 3.0. I honestly can't believe how far down Netscape has gone from the Mozilla (Mosaic killer) it once was!

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  22. Remember when... on Web Standards Project Blasts Netscape · · Score: 1

    Do you remember when Netscape was considered to be the Internet by most people? I remember that I used to ask people who they got their Internet service from and they would tell me Netscape. People used to actually say "I looked this up on Netscape." :) My how times have changed.

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  23. alienation on Web Standards Project Blasts Netscape · · Score: 1

    I support the WSP. However, with this blasting of Netscape, I feel that they run the risk of totally alienating themselves from popular Web browser developers. It seems that the only comments to recently come from WSP is negative. Of course, there is a lot of negative news relating to the Web these days, but it would be nice to hear stories about some companies/developers that are developing/releasing standards compliant browsers.

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  24. Re:Has anyone taken note of the passage displayed. on Corinthians.com Taken Away, Given To Soccer Team · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an appropriate quote to me!

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  25. Re: Batteries on First Look At The New Palms · · Score: 1

    Palm's have a much longer battery life than WINCE computers. My Palm Pilot runs for a month on normal alkalines, and my friends with a new Palm III, and Visor say they get about the same runtime.

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