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  1. Re:Corporate on A Different Kind of WGA 'Problem' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know for a fact that all the windows machines at my job are installed with the same keys for its software (due to laziness from our IT dept, all the licenses are there --locked in a closet somewhere).
    All our computers are patched regularly and automatically, without a problem.

  2. Re:I for one... on Computer Manages Restaurant Workers · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Las Vegas casinos, the bartenders dont prepare the drinks, they merely charge for them and punch a sequence in the terminals in front of them, and a computer mixes liqueurs and blenders from precisely controlled taps and pours the drink through the same tubing... The tubing is then flushed with water between servings to avoid combining tastes.

    So the "bartender" only has to know how much ice (if any) to add and what type of glass is used for each drink

  3. Re:Wow. on Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Still, this might have a positive effect on Linux Laptop users, wouldnt it?

  4. I know its name!!! on Largest Object in the Universe Discovered · · Score: 3, Funny
  5. Re:Games make kids cry all the time. on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    No kidding, Ghost and Goblins must be the hardest game ever made (at least in the original arcade version)

  6. Re:Why... on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sorry, but that answer has been copyrighted and patented by Benjy Mouse and Frankie Mouse. You now must pay 1,000,000,000.00 Altarian Dollars, our accountants shall contact you to offer a convenient installment payment plan.

  7. Re:What? on Supreme Court to Rule on 'Obvious' Patents · · Score: 2, Funny

    A developer comes and presents a plan that would dramatically change the prospects of that city. A strong core of residential and commercial locations; new growth - a chance for the city to be reborn, to be vibrate again.

    And a monorail, dont forget the monorail!

  8. Re:This belongs in a legal textbook on Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook · · Score: 1

    You mean theres drugs that will make me gooder at math!!?? OMG!! you gotta get me some!!!!

  9. Re:All we have to wait for is... on Toshiba Subsidizes $200/Unit on New HD Player · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, I dont have an HDTV set, but every restaurant, bar and coffee shop in my city has bought one to get patrons to watch the World Cup "in High Def." Now, I know that this is not SD stretched because these people also purchased HD cable packages along with the HD screen. The difference is there, but the point is that its not enough for me to go out and spend 6 months wages in Screen, Audio-Video receiver/amp, speakers and HD cable or sattelite package

    The only place where I see a remarkable difference with HD sets is in stores when they are being set to play "demos" usually videos of landscapes and such... Probably when all movies are released with this resolution Ill switch, but thats probably still a couple of years away...

  10. Re:All we have to wait for is... on Toshiba Subsidizes $200/Unit on New HD Player · · Score: 1

    Exactly, and even now that the World Cup is driving sales of HD tv screens everywhere, I can hardly see a big difference in image quality... Although the wide screen factor is very useful for football games coverage!

  11. Offtopic, about immigration on Novell CEO Shakeup Puts Ron Hovsepian in Charge · · Score: 1

    Of course, once Vincente Fox finishes sending every last Mexican over the border illegally, those figures may change a bit.

    Its Vicente, not Vincente, btw... And he seems to be exporting our "Spaceship C" population, so dont think theres not a method to his madness...

    (Moderators, this is a joke, and not my actual political opinion about my compatriots having to cross deadly extensions of desert, or risk trigger happy commando ranchers just to get a job as a gardener or flipping burgers)

  12. Re:Grinding your eyeball? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    I used contacts for 10 years until I actually got eye damage from them (a minor, but noticeable scratch in my left cornea)

    It was THEN, when I got Lasik, never regretted it.

  13. Re:Keyboard is a bazillion times easier than guita on More 'Hero' Games Without Guitars Likely · · Score: 1

    Yup, I can play guitar and bass decently, but I could never get the hang of playing bassline, harmony and melody at the same time like you do on a keyboard.

    I mean you can do the 3 things at the same time on guitar too, but the 2 hand coordination is easier.

  14. Re: John Titor on 3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    He would probably say that its constant delays were one of the causes for the Second American Civil War

  15. Re:they want AMD's stock to go down on Exploring the ATI/AMD Rumor · · Score: 1

    And next thing you know, someone will ask about a beowulf cluster of these... [rolls eyes]

  16. Re:Sold! on 3D Human Cells Grown · · Score: 1

    You want breast implants?

  17. Re:These things just happen... on Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered · · Score: 1

    Mine made some Nycaloths pursue us for at least 5 gaming sessions... oh well

  18. Re:Carrier grade? on DIY Carrier Grade Linux with Debian · · Score: 1

    Yeah, theres no information here on whenever or not penguins are edible

  19. Re:Blue ray may win on Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats · · Score: 1

    What percentage of "on the air" programming is available where you live, compared with Standard Def?

    Because all we can get here is two channels of digital content (and even there not even half the content is HD)

    Basically the only thing in HD is soccer... so a lot of people here are buying HD sets to watch the world cup, but thats not enough incentive for me...

    Ill probably buy HD (Tv, player, etc) when theres enough movies and TV content to justify the switch (and when the format war shows a clear winner)

  20. Re:Feeling less sorry for the Chinese today on Mob Rule on China's Internet · · Score: 1

    I dont remember who said that peoples have the goverment they deserve...

  21. Re:Slashdot through the looking glass? on 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista · · Score: 1

    When I put the computer to sleep, the fans keep working. Will this change now?

  22. Re:security over..... on 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista · · Score: 1

    You are right, developers get nothing for software so flexible and intuitive and stable that you don't need documentation or support or installation or customisation...

    Wait, theres no such thing!

  23. Re:No weapons! on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    Cmon, laugh... The post is sooo outside any set of rules that its funny

  24. Re:Repetition Club on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    AAAAAAAAAHHH!!! [drops dead] plop!

  25. Re:BS on Nintendo Announces Japanese Wii Price · · Score: 1

    Here in Mexico theres a Toll road and a Federal road going almost everywhere, the Toll road being better maintained than the free one (which is not much to say, since the tolls are way too high for what little maintenance they do)

    So theres a song that was made popular a few years ago by El Tri that goes this way (rough translation):

    With the money that gets paid in a Sunday
    in all of the Toll roads,
    We could pay off the foreign debt,
    and buy a whole lotta weed!

    But that cannot happen!
    What would Papa Goverment say?
    Who would pay their cars, their women?
    their bodyguards?