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  1. Re:Not good enough on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 1

    DVDs don't degrade? Just because you don't think it does doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Find something that doesn't degrade over time and you'll be a fucking billionaire.

  2. Re:Not good enough on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 2, Informative
    2. They're fragile. You can drop a VHS cassette onto concrete - don't try this with your DVDs

    Have you ever actually done that? VHS cassettes consist of a few big pieces of plastic that snap together. Drop that on concrete and there is a good chance it'll break apart. Drop a small, light piece of plastic, nothing happens. Maybe a few scratches, but so long as you don't throw it on the concrete there won't be any major damage.
  3. Re:Not good enough on China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD · · Score: 1

    DVDs are compressed, and so sometimes there are video artifacts. Laserdiscs are analog and have full, uncompressed video. Looks pretty damn good. A lot of laserdiscs even had an AC3 track for surround sound.

  4. Re:My favorite show on MythBusters - Who Ya Gonna Call? · · Score: 1

    I know. I said the show was about busting myths. I said they busted the myth myth about fooling the breathalyzer test. I never said they busted any other myths.

  5. Re:My favorite show on MythBusters - Who Ya Gonna Call? · · Score: 1

    And I really need to learn the breathalyzer one...

    That was a myth, which they busted. That's what the show is all about. Busting myths. If only they could come up with a good, descriptive name for it.
  6. Re:Could be worse on mp3.com Acquired by CNet · · Score: 1

    Download.com started sucking hardcore when they started charging a listing fee. There is hardly any freeware on there anymore; just a bunch of shitty shareware. And calling everything "free to try" just pisses me off. What the hell is wrong with just calling it shareware?

  7. Re:what about xmms in linux distros? on Microsoft Defies EU Commission · · Score: 2, Informative

    XMMS isn't installed by default, nor is it the only media player shipped with most distributions. When you install linux, you can choose exactly which packages you want to install. Imagine if windows came with wmp and winamp, and during installation you got to choose which one you wanted to install.

  8. Re:Gotta put one in my time capsule on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    POS with a cuecat? If I go to a store to buy something and the cashier rings it up with a fucking cuecat, then I'm leaving and never going back.

  9. Re:Patents good or bad? on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    It's because a lot of people don't like microsoft. You have to look at who is doing the action in addition to just looking at the action. Microsoft is a bunch of dumb goatfuckers and I would love to see someone else patent the popup blocker.

  10. Re:That's great! on IBM To Run VoIP On Linux · · Score: 0

    Jesus fucking christ. Who let mr. mcbride be a moderator?

  11. Re:What? on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    Listening and hearing are different, just as information and data are different.

  12. Re:aw jeez... on Linux 2.6.0-test9 Released · · Score: 1

    gkrellm works with the new sensors. Actually I couldn't get lmsensors working at all, but now the hardest part was just figuring out which modules I needed to load for my motherboard, then load them, and it just worked.

  13. Re:Be fair on Writing in Space with a Cheap Ballpoint Pen · · Score: 1

    Speed is relative. As far as they are concerned, they are still and everything is moving around them.

  14. Re:Christmas already? on Home Brew Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're speed holes.

  15. Re:Yes, this is off-topic, but.... on Sanyo Develops Corn-Based Biodegradeable CD · · Score: 1

    What's the point of even having a wrapper then? If you can eat it too, then isn't it essentially part of the candy? If it is part of the candy then it is not a wrapper.

  16. Like I've always said - on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    Nothing fails like prayer!

  17. Re:Never understimate... on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    Tapes and hard drives are a fucking lot higher density than DVD-Rs.

  18. Re:Duh on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    Well a two-mouse system is pretty difficult to set up. You plug in another mouse.

  19. allofmp3.com on EMusic Acquired, Halting Unlimited Downloads · · Score: 1

    I just found out about allofmp3.com last night when I was looking for a rush song and I didn't want to go out and buy the cd(it was late at night). It's a russian site so I'm not sure of the legitimacy of it. $15/month unlimited downloads or $.01/meg metered. It was pretty nice paying $.06 for a song rather than spending $15 on a cd so I could get that one song.

  20. Re:Radio commercials on TV's Tipping Point · · Score: 1
  21. Re:fysically impaired? on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 1

    Well I have a microsoft natural pro internet whatthefuckever(the good one from back in the day) and I've always used the way I originally posted. Actually now that I am thinking about it I can't fucking figure out what I naturally do. I just have to do it, but I don't get much of a chance to in linux.

  22. Re:fysically impaired? on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thumb on alt, ring finger on control, middle finger on delete.

  23. Re:Nothing new here on Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers · · Score: 1

    So all these years you thought you were the only one? Out of every American who has received hundreds of them?

  24. Re:Yeah... on Linux Most Attacked Server? · · Score: 1

    How do you know they aren't accurate?

  25. Re:I'll say it one time. on EFF Warns Against RIAA Amnesty Program · · Score: 1

    You left out a t in your link. Try this