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  1. Re:Would be good for small libraries worldwide on Internet Book Database? · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine what would happen if some one tried to enter in their own data?
    Having people enter information works quite well for CDDB. Why wouldn't it work for entering books also?

  2. Re:CowboyNeal Read This Comment on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1

    You can tell this is not a real /. poll, the %'s add up to 100.

  3. Re:Article Text on 2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They really need to implement a moderation option called copyrighted. I would like to mod this post down but I want the poster to know why it was modded down.

  4. Re:A bit late on the story on Spyware in Audio Galaxy · · Score: 1

    If you read the ./ article it says that this story is at least a week old.

  5. Results on Intel "Northwood" vs. Athlon XP 2000+ · · Score: 1

    When posting about hardware comparisons please summarize the results in the front page post. Most of us don't care about the little details. Just say AMD won, Intel won or tie. Then I won't have to go reading through the 20 pages of tests.

  6. Re:PEBKAC on Writing Documentation · · Score: 1

    No, if you are writing large amounts of documentation and putting screen shots in word can get very crash prone. If you are just writing text word is great, but when adding screen shots it can crash all the time.

  7. Duh on Adcritic Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Not even looking at the page I can guess why they are no more. They tried to stream gigs of adds for free. Bandwidth costs money and the banner add market wasn't going to make them enough.

  8. Re:Desktop uses on Let's Kill the Hard Disk Icon · · Score: 1

    As a good /. geek once I found out WIN-E opened the file explorer I went through and tried each letter to see what happens. FYI WIN-BREAK opens the my computer properties and WIN-M minimizes all your windows.

  9. Re:This clockless thing must be caching on fast.. on Clockless Chips · · Score: 1

    Don't you know every article that talks about clockless chips must be posted.

  10. Supervisor PHD's? on Student Researcher Wins Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Pointy Haired Dictators?

  11. Re:Huh? on White House Frowns on National ID Card · · Score: 1

    We have a high incarceration rate because we throw everyone we can find who has anything to do with drugs in jail while letting the thieves and murderers of easy.

  12. Re:Why? on Windows XP Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    Well according to the cnn article The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive. Aparently now it will only crash once an hour and you are even allowed to delete things from your hard drive. This is an amazing technological feat for microsoft, before I always had to reformat my hard drive when it got full.

  13. Re:Really? on Java To Overtake C/C++ in 2002 · · Score: 1

    Not yet at least. You can, however, write some very sweet 3D games. For an example check out roboforge. In this game you design a robot and make its AI then set it against other robots. The program is written entirely in Java and everything is rendered in 3D.

  14. Re:How come Michael gets to troll? on Your Daily Dose of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And Michael, exactly how self-important are we feeling today? "...people who don't read enough Slashdot"?!
    It was a joke. I don't know how you managed to read all that other stuff into it. I don't worship Richard Stallman, but I also don't think it hurts to have critics of big corporations like Microsoft either.

  15. Re:What? on Bionic Human: 1st Fully Implanted Human Heart · · Score: 1

    Wow the slashdot editors do actually read posts and fix their spelling errors.

  16. Re:Eeep - scary moderators! on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1

    Let the Anne Tomlinson urban legends begin. Soon she will be as well known as Linus or RMS.

  17. Warning spoilers... duh on Lord of the Trailers · · Score: 1

    The download site warns of spoilers. How are they going to spoil it... reveal the ending?

  18. Re:demising system of abuse on Sean In The Middle · · Score: 1

    What kind of idealistic bubble do you live in. Getting the parents together will only make it worse for Sean. At the meeting the bullies will promise not to pick on poor geeky Sean, they didn't mean anything, they were just having fun. Then after a few days everything will be back to normal and the bullying will continue as normal.

  19. P^2 on Pentium IV As A Budget Processor · · Score: 1

    It won't be the pentium pentium, the obvious name for it will be the p^2

  20. Flame bait? on Computers, Aliens and Operating Systems? · · Score: 1
    "Which operating system would be most easily adaptable to be made compatible with alien systems?"

    This guy is obviously trying to get a flame war started. At least he didn't ask which linux distro would integrate best or what programming language would be the easiest to interface with the alien systems.

  21. Re:Some background and few remarks on evolution... on Human Genome Confirms Evolution · · Score: 2

    What you seem to be saying here is yeah you're right there isn't proof yet but have faith we think science is right. Hmm, this sounds strangely familiar to other claims.

  22. Software on FSF Denies Latest Apple Attempt at APSL · · Score: 1

    All your code are belong to apple.

  23. Re:Against W.A.V.E.? Sabotage it. on Voices From The Hellmouth Revisited: Part Ten · · Score: 5

    Better yet the geeks can just call up and report all the jocks etc. Because it is anonymous you don't even have to have any friends help. Just use several differnt phones.

  24. PDF! on The Fight For End-To-End: Part One · · Score: 1


    Am I the only one out there who hates reading things in pdf format? Can't they post things in simple html (or even complex html)? I would rather read things in some proprietary format such as M$ word than in crappy pdf.
    </rant>

  25. Of course ... on Messages From Democracy's Ghosts · · Score: 1

    The major candidates have to be practically identical, make outrageous campaign promises, and change with the latest public opinion polls. Unless the American public's intelligence suddenly jumps way up this is the only way to get elected. As for the statements concerning Hollywood and the net, these are the kinds of things "swing" voters like "soccer moms" want to hear. Weather or not either candidate truly believes what they say, it still must be said or the other candidate will have an advantage. In other words the candidates HAVE to behave this way if they want to have a chance at winning.