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  1. Re:Green? on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    MSI makes red ones

  2. Re:Not because of our blue eyes on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Since when is glassware electronic?

  3. Re:Correct. on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 1

    No that is what makes it safe. To continue your analogy you can have all your cyanide in one place where it is easy to control and prevent others from getting or you can spread it all over every surface in your house. Which form would you rather have?

  4. Re:KHAAAAAN!!!! on Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project · · Score: 1

    I"ve not read it but.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/06 71 021273/104-0345181-9796739?v=glance

  5. Re:To be honest... on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 1

    No the planet will be just fine. Some of the life on it will die but hey whats new.

  6. Pro/Engineer on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 1

    Intel uses Pro/Engineer in many of their operations. Back when I worked for PTC I used to talk to them al the time. It will be interesting to see what format Pro/Engineer adopts in the future and if they don't go with this if Intel switches to something else.

  7. Re:We're talking about Samba and Linux here... on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 1

    /me gives Wedge1212 a big hug

  8. Re:Well at least you've got the guts to quote numb on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    That I did not know. But I hear this all the time Americans hear "overseas vacation" and assume thousands of dollars I was just pointing out that "going abroad" is for some people quite cheap. OTOH given what you have pointed out it sounds like he is a liar.

  9. Re:Well at least you've got the guts to quote numb on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    The parent is clearly English. So yea for him a "foreign holiday" could very well be as easy as a train ride to Paris.

  10. Re:wait wait wait on New Darth Vader Costume Revealed in upcoming DVDs · · Score: 1

    First of all Battletech is not Macross Macross is Robotech. But your basic point stands. I did not mean that Lucas stole it from the Anime that was just an example. What I think is that he stole it from whatever author in the SW books first used it.

    You are also right as with many SF meta themes Heinlein was one of the first to use it.

  11. Re:wait wait wait on New Darth Vader Costume Revealed in upcoming DVDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was kind of clever. Not the first SF universe where things have gone backwards. Battletech comes to mind. I forget which book it was first in but yea Lucas stole it.

    The sig. I was busy last time you asked.

    http://www.cyphernet.org/cypherpunks/crossbows_t o_ cryptography.html

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/quot es .html

  12. Re:wait wait wait on New Darth Vader Costume Revealed in upcoming DVDs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ok here is the backstory on the starships etc. It is covered in a few of the books that I read years ago before the movies beat any semblence of caring out of my system. The Empire is a dictatorship. By the time of Star Wars they have been in decline for many years due to the effects of being a dictatorship. Kind of like how it is still 1820 in North Korea.

  13. Re:Hey! The photo captions are editable by anyone! on Linuxfest Northwest 2004 Wrap-up · · Score: 1

    The page in question puts you in as an admin by defualt. :)

  14. Re:MS seems to be doing a lot of this lately... on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    don't forget power, a desk, somewhere to put it. You need to buy food and something to eat it on/with. My god I hate those bastards. :)

  15. Re:I don't want to sound critical of the fine peop on Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs · · Score: 1

    his point exactly. :)

  16. Re:Thats correct on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    Civil disobedience requires that you have a point.

    Let me explain if you were able to see some of my posts from a few years ago you would see that I was and am a big defender of Napster. This is because Napster had many uses that could fall under fair use. For example downloading a backup of a CD that I had bought. Granted most people using the technology were using it to steal music but that should have been about them not about the technology.

    There is *no* fair use argument for recording a movie that you can't possibly own a copy of because it has not been released in any format that you could possibly own the medium for yet.

    Also you are confused about what you need to do for something to count as civil disobedience. If you really thought that showing movies in a theatre without you being able to record it was immoral then it would be civil disobendience to get 100 of your best friends and for you all to take recording devices and go and set up straight in your seats and make it *obvious* that you are recording the movie. What was cited in the other article is *not* civil disobedience.

  17. Re:possible? on Ethereal Packet Sniffing · · Score: 3, Funny

    No spam packets are unlike other packets. They are marked with the "spam bit" and this means that sniffers will not capture them or display them.

  18. Re:Sounds Good on Ethereal Packet Sniffing · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    Do you by chance mean Snort?

  19. Total immersion on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    overclocking has been being done for years with mineral oil.

  20. Re:Help me here... on Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC · · Score: 4, Informative

    The how to from way back in the day.

    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/othe r- formats/html_single/Beowulf-HOWTO.html

    has a great explanation using a grocery story analogy that makes it really easy to understand what kind of tasks will work well and what kind will suck. And unlike the cheerleaders that have been showing up since clusters became a big business is very balanced about it.

    Still worth reading.

  21. Re:What's so 'Java' about it? on Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux · · Score: 1

    Sun is probably best-known as "the creator of Java."

    In what alternate Universe?

  22. Re:Not the first project to do this? on Fedora Core 2 Test 2 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Debian you were thinking of Debian

  23. Re:George Orwell on HomeSec Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies · · Score: 1

    /s/decade/century

  24. Re:some stuff on Why You Should Choose MS Office Over OO.org · · Score: 1

    Do you mean like the collections product we sell where they are trying to run a collections database for credit unions off of Access?

    Yes I do think that is what you mean. :)

  25. Re:Message of The Passion on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 1

    I know it was a bloody mess. I'm a student of Roman history. My point is that I don't think putting it on display is a good thing. I think focusing on and going on and on and on about it is not a good thing.