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  1. Re:Very sad... on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    It says that there was a garbled communication at 9:00, then nothing.

    I had always assumed that the front compartment would be highly reinforced and could remain intact longer than the rest of it. It seems that is not the case.

  2. Very sad... on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 2

    Is there any chance that people could survive? I know the shuttle has emergency abilities, but it's traveling at what, six times the speed of sound?

  3. Re:Speech recognition? on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1

    Well, if you don't speak the language well, or at all, then a transcription would be much like a voice-to-text program. Dictionary lookup but without any actual understanding of what's going on, linguistically.

  4. Re:Michael is another Jon Katz moron on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1

    I don't complain when I butcher my friends' languages and they point at me and laugh. It's funny. Laugh along. If you lighten up, the world is a much more pleasant experience.

  5. Re:Helo crash on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1

    I like that his name is Hog.

  6. Re:Hysterical? on Engrish LOTR: The Two Towers Captions · · Score: 1

    Good lord, you're right. That was the hilarious one.

  7. Re:Or Gnome, for that matter on A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop · · Score: 1

    Alert! Alert! You're getting dangerously close to running into Godwin's law! Alert!

  8. Re:Office Chair on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 1

    I was reading your message as the page loaded, so I knew to hit 'close.' I got a glimpse of it, but not too much.

    Readers: Don't go to the above link!

  9. Re:But they are! on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 1

    Don't joke! It happens!

  10. I'd forgotten... on A Preview of Ximian's Gnome 2.0 Desktop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd totally forgotten that they rebranded Gnome. I tried it when it first came out, but it didn't really offer anything that the 'normal' Gnome didn't do just as well (which isn't saying much.)

  11. Re:First Post on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 1

    Above whistle and below flute. Don't pretend you don't know how to count.

  12. Re:Super Powered Submarines! on Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine · · Score: 1

    Funny, I'd have said the same thing about wealthy political friends.

  13. Re:Super Powered Submarines! on Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine · · Score: 1

    I trust you'd slow down when going through canyons. God knows where the Japanese fishing boats full of children are.

  14. Re:But, gosh... on Sen. Feingold Reintroduces Radio Competition Bill · · Score: 1

    He got arrested at the end of the movie. That's the lesson, kids. That's the lesson.

  15. Re:Not very well written on Rambus Wins Case Against Infineon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once again, why? As someone who doesn't have a modern i386, I really don't know anything about that world of RAM.

  16. Re:Driving and other things on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 1

    I think that law is to stop truck drivers from falling asleep and KILLING US.

  17. Re:coming in February on Long Computer Sessions Could Cause Blood Clots · · Score: 1

    Each of which solve a mutually exclusive part of the problem, but due to project politics, does not work with any of the other tools.

  18. Re:If you consider an EMachine on par with a PC on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 1

    Dude, that was the joke.

  19. Re:Good move on iCommune Retools Itself as Standalone Open Source App · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree. I'm a big Mac fan and like to read Apple news, but this is hardly front page information. There is an Apple section for things like this. The front page Apple news ought to be the things that are interesting to people beyond the Mac community. I have to think that this news isn't even a big deal to most Mac users, themselves.

    Oh well.

  20. Re:language / platform? Nex II ? on iCommune Retools Itself as Standalone Open Source App · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with you? Do you have any idea what iCommune does? How the heck would it interface with any sort of MP3 player?

  21. Re:If you consider an EMachine on par with a PC on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 1

    Shit...okay...how about buying a Range Rover? Yea, there's some classic British quality. Buy a Range Rover. The pride of England is intact. Rule Britannia!

  22. Re:Noice level on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the noise was a software issue that has been addressed by one of the recent OS maintenance releases. (I don't have one, so I don't know for sure.)

  23. Re:Dumb question on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 3, Informative

    You need a device called a DVIator (good name, eh?) http://www.drbott.com/prod/DVIator.html

    It's a little expensive, but that's because it has to do all of the power stuff that you get over the ADC.

  24. Re:If you consider an EMachine on par with a PC on Updated Power Macs at Apple.com · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, Jaguar quality went way up when they were bought by Ford. My dad had an older Jag and the running joke was that you needed a mechanic in the trunk. I love British cars, but reliability is not the reason you buy one.

  25. Re:Illegal on Kazaa Fights Back · · Score: 1

    It's what you get after you grow a dick.

    To altaic: They might as well stand up for themselves. If they don't, they lose. If they have any interest in maintaining their company, then they kinda have to. It's an amusing argument, but given what's already happened WRT the potential for them to be liable for conspiracy to commit whatever and the act of enabling the committing of whatever, it doesn't look good in this country. Of course, I don't know what the laws are like in Vanatu (or even if they have laws.)