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  1. Re:Let it die on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 1
    all pretty much the same show with different coloured characters and situations. all the jokes are pretty much identical so does it matter if one dies

    That's a pretty accurate description of tv in general.
  2. Re:What about cell phones? on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Cell phones did not support real 911 for quite a long time

    This is different because during most/ all of this time very few people had a cell as their primary phone. Even though cells did not provide 911, if an emergency happened at home, they could call 911 on their regular phone. Today, people using voip are generally using it as their main home phone, which means that it needs 911.
  3. Re:DEAR CMDR TACO on CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results · · Score: 1

    In which of those categories do the Star Wars stories belong?

  4. Re:Third eye dog? on Tracking Domestic Animals? · · Score: 1

    If there's one thing /. needs more of, it's references to Encylopedia Brown.

  5. Re:Interesting... on Feds Fund Anti-Terrorism Search Engine · · Score: 1
    Hell, the US has 20,000 gun laws and the areas that have the most gun laws have the highests amount of gun/violent crime.

    Ok, I don't get it. Why is the surprising? Who would expect an area that didn't have problems with gun violence to pass lots of laws about it? They would either pass no laws or they would pass a few that fixed the problem, so they would stop writing gun laws. Obviously the areas that pass tons of gun laws are going to be the ones that have endemic problems with gun violence. What is this supposed to prove about the federal "anti-terrorism search engine"?
  6. Re:Wow on Microsoft to Attack RIM with Magneto · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The interesting part isn't the renaming it's where they "merge the Pocket PC and Smartphone versions of Windows Mobile into a single platform that combines smartphone and PDA capabilities". Needing to come up with a name for the new combined product is just a side effect.

  7. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the 'net... on A Non-Dogmatic History of the GUI · · Score: 1

    Why do you have three computers in your house using different ISP's?

  8. Re:From the apple page: on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 1

    The writeup makes it very clear that this is not only a replacement for cron. It says "Launchd is Apple's replacement for quite a few utilities".

  9. Re:Don't on Hitchhiker's Guide Reviewed · · Score: 1

    These are also the same people who leave during the seventh ining stretch when the game is tied "to beat traffic".
    /doesn't even like baseball
    //still has no respect for these people

  10. Re:Marsellus Wallace on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1
    Oooh, someone hasn't watched Pulp Fiction.

    What?
  11. Re:Gotta document that code... on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1
    Well, alow me to retort. Does Marsellus Wallace look like a bitch??

    What?

    If you want to use an eightspace display for a tab then fine

    Using eight spaces is most certainly not fine.
  12. Re:From what I've read on U.S. Fed Goes Brand Neutral · · Score: 1
    if they write down the commands to the letter, or draw pictures of the screen, what difference does it make if they are drawing Windows or Linux?

    Because all of their old pictures won't work anymore and they'll have to start over from scratch.
  13. Re:Not a great track record. on EU Trade Commissioner Enjoyed MS Hospitality · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have no idea what you just said, but my head hurts now. Hung a monkey?

    "Hung" is the past tense of "hang". Hanging someone means subjecting them to a particular form of execution that involves suspending them by a rope around the neck.

    That would only be the right past tense if they had been hanging a painting or other inanimate object. Here, one would say that the monkey was "hanged".
  14. Re:Start button doesn't stay in the bottom left on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. From reading the discussion at the link I posted, I that is definitely true. I initially assumed it was a home vs. pro difference because I get "windows security" at work and the task manager at home, but apparently I was wrong and it is related to the login thing.

  15. Re:Start button doesn't stay in the bottom left on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Start button doesn't stay in the bottom left on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    Yes I'm sure. I'm on an XP Pro machine. I just hit ctrl-alt-del and it brings up "Windows Security" where the options are Lock Computer, Log Off, Shut Down, Change Password, Task Manager and Cancel.

  17. Re:Start button doesn't stay in the bottom left on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1
    Alt + Ctrl + Delete does it too,

    On XP Home yes, but not on XP Pro. It brings up that menu where one of the choices is task manager so after ctrl-alt-del you need to tab (or arrow) over to it and hit enter. A lot more keystrokes than crtl-shift-esc.
  18. Re:LOL SOMEONE IS A BITTER NERD TODAY!!! on EA Signs College Football License Deal · · Score: 1
    That was the funniest post you've read all day? Dude, you need to get out more.

    Get out where? There are posts outside now?
  19. Re:I don't think so on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1

    Dan Rather is one man. Fox News is an entire network.

  20. Re:Hang On on U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe the next story will be /. announcing that there'll be no more dupes

    Actually, that will be the next three stories.
  21. Re:Hit F5 on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah. It's just my way of telling the computer I think it's crap and also cooling off after, cause its screaming in pain.

    I believe it is screaming in response to your decision to make your loop counter a global variable named 'x'.
  22. Re:Press Release on FBI Demands Logs From Radical Website · · Score: 1
    I hope he's drummed out of whatever community he's a part of.

    Organizations out of which one can be drummed are not what I normally associate with anarchists.
  23. Re:Hmm... on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    What was on the english muffin?

  24. Re:Certainly not -- they're scrapping the Win32 AP on Microsoft Lifts Curtain on Indigo Software · · Score: 1
    Didn't someone earlier today comment on how Windows XP still runs programs from 1981?

    There ain't no way Microsoft is going to scrap the Win32 API anytime in our lifetimes. They cannot. Their lifeline of revenue depends upon it.


    Yes, but things have changed. Joel explains: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
  25. Re:No, I'm New Here on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1

    Don't let the downmods bother you; we all love you.