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  1. Re:Windows 3.1 was more significant on Microsoft Windows 3.0 Is 20 Years Today · · Score: 1

    Me as well! My roomie had an A500 though and consistently had to use my computer as Final Writer would Guru Meditation after two to three pages. I remember making a makeshift sound booth for the 24 pin epson I had...Had a color ribbon too-I could actually do pictures in my papers. Ah, memories!

  2. Re:"First truly successful windows" on Microsoft Windows 3.0 Is 20 Years Today · · Score: 1

    Read my previous post.

  3. Re:"First truly successful windows" on Microsoft Windows 3.0 Is 20 Years Today · · Score: 1

    http://www.morphos-team.net/ http://aros.sourceforge.net/ http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/ Some light reading. Of course I am not suggesting that they are leading the pack anymore, but they are not dead. I'm also not going to beat the drum of monopolistic business practice that was the true hallmark of MS success, as we all know this to be the case.

  4. Re:"First truly successful windows" on Microsoft Windows 3.0 Is 20 Years Today · · Score: 1

    Some of us weirdos still use amiga hardware and/or OS...

  5. Re:A Kill Switch? on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    Dude-that was the plot to Hackers.

  6. Re:Smashing my keyboard! on Linux Foundation Announces 2010 "We're Linux" Video Contest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    lspci. use it. love it. And don't buy POS unsupported hardware. It may come as a surprise, but the hardware that is troublefree in linux is troublefree in Windows too.

  7. Re:Global Warming on Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HARBL HARBL HARBL HARBL!!!! Glenn Beck loving global warming naysayer! HARBL HARBL... I got nuttin.

  8. you're doing it wrong on Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, see... the feature would be if both sections vibrated. That way you could have each half in separate pockets for 100% vbration coverage.

    Oh right- like YOU'VE never let a call ring long when it's on vibrate in your front pants pocket...

  9. Glenn? Is that you?

    I Kid!

  10. Full Circle? on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 1

    Even though the Space Shuttle was a boondoggle and had its problems, it seems odd that we are going right back to the type of vehicle that started it all. DNRTFA, but is there a new and improved capsule to mount to this thing? Or are we just going to give up and use Soyuz capsules?

  11. Re:Libertarians assume government the only evil on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    The government has a horrible track record against monopolies. The Sherman Anti-Trust act was used to great effect against the unions, though. They let a merger like AOL-Time Warner, but break up Santa Fe and Burlington Northern, BUT then let Denver and Rio Grande grab up BN. There seems to be no set rule as to what exactly constitutes a monopoly, except for Whomever has the biggest lobby group wins.

  12. Re:Libertarians calling others a 'radical agenda'? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 0, Redundant

    THIS

  13. Re:Libertarians calling others a 'radical agenda'? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would love to hear your rationale behind this fallacious statement.

  14. ATRAC on 1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps · · Score: 1

    at 292kbs sounds great-faithfully reproduces the "artifacts" on my vinyl cleanly without clipping or distortion, and gives me hours of listening enjoyment, even if I "encode" at LP2 or even LP4. my portable MD player lasts days without charging the battery and does exactly what I want it to do-play music.

    Now, git offah mah lawn! :)

  15. Re:Racism on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Wow...just...wait...wat???

  16. Re:During and immediately after WWII... on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Get your EE? Is that the new code for GED?

  17. had to look it up.. on Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    So, basically this is a tool to streamline concurrent code on multi core machines? Did BSD not have something like this already?

  18. Yes, but... on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who Vatches the Vatchers?

    \conspiracy?

  19. Re:Three Words on The Nickel & Dime Generation · · Score: 1

    Thread over. I can't even count the dough I laid down on cards in the three years I played this heavily.

  20. Re:No mystery on Imagination In Games · · Score: 1

    The significant difference between video games and epic tales of heroes is that in video games, the hero seldom dies at the end (with a few spectacularly successful exceptions). This remains rewarding to the audience because of their increased level of participation in the myth.

    Movies also follow this formula. Rarely does the main protagonist die, it's only the bit players that don the red shirt.

  21. like Oddworld or Psychonauts on Imagination In Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this just goes to speak to the fact that the video game industry is thriving in much the same way the film industry thrives. Video games can immerse you in a plot or character in a different more interactive way.

  22. And Yet another on A New Explanation For the Plight of Winter Babies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    doctoral thesis claims their "significant" find is "significant". sigh.

  23. Re:They chose the wrong song on The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    holy crap-I think I sang that song once at a Unitarian Universalist church, during the Committee to decide if we need a Free Software committee.

  24. Re:Goverment on Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again · · Score: 1

    I....I...I LIKE the metric system! *sob*

  25. Re:Chronotron. on Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time Offers New Gameplay Mechanic · · Score: 1

    Beat me to it! Well done!