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  1. Re:FLAC? on Vorbis And Musepack Win 128kbps Multiformat Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because I want to fit more than two songs on my MP3 player. If the encoding is good enough, then it is indistiguishable from the original are close enough. I don't want to dedicate an entire 80GB drive just to house my music collection.

  2. Re: Mebibytes and Megabytes on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Is acre farming jargon? Is fuse electrical jargon? At least two thirds of the US have home internet access. Computers are too widespread for basic terms to be jargon.

  3. Re: Mebibytes and Megabytes on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    When two thirds of Americans have home internet access? I guess brake and clutch are jargon terms too. Computers are pervasive throughout American society. Basics terms are not jargon.

  4. Re: Mebibytes and Megabytes on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    WTF is a usian?

    If you need a term to refer to a United States of America citizen, you can use some abbreviation of United States of America, append citizen, or just call us Americans.

  5. Re:A bit of the why... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Don't use the knowledge base and get written up, though the knowledge base will have asinine responses.

    For instance: How to create a CD.
    This would be a fairly common query for many customers.

    Yet the first page of hits in the knowledge base will have things about 5 year old software causing blue screen in Win95. Three pages later and you will get the hit: How to create a CD in Microsoft TM Windows XP TM.

    Adding in Microsoft Windows XP just moves your hit even further down the page. And even if you know how to do it off the top of your head, you still need to acccess the right knowledgge base article.

  6. Re:CompUSA on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Actually, spelling is often a case of aptitude, particularly with non-phonetic languages such as English. (For example: crate and bait rhyme, yet follow different spelling rules) I am fairly decent with spelling, if I can avoid typos. My keyboard at work has been acting up lately and double striking keys. I also tend to mix British and American spellings; that, and my fingers seem to suffer a form of dyslexia. :)

    My sister and dad are both poor spellers, and they did poorly in English in school. My mom is an English teacher, and she is a great speller.

  7. Re:Dude, your hard drive is blown! on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    The other thing is that SCSI drive have more rigorous quality control, so they don't fail as often. Ever wonder why all the IDE HDD manufactures now only offer 1 year warranties instead of 3 years? The MTBF on consumer hdds used to be 5 years.

  8. Re:I work in tech support.... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a terminator. Oh, the joys of working with Coaxial.

  9. Re: Mebibytes and Megabytes on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kibibytes as word is a failure. Outside of a few pedagogues on the internet, noone even knows such a term exists. Those familiar with computers are resistant to using new terms. Those unfamiliar consider it all gibberish anyways. And the new term are even more nonsensical as at least kilo and mega are somewhat familiar terms.

    Besides which, kilobyte and megabyte and gigabyte is not jargon. It is a computer term. Sorry but your attempt to revise history has failed.

  10. Re:Sceptical articles on nanobacteria on Nanobacteria Discovered? · · Score: 1

    I take a couple of amoxycillin pills. It must suck having to get a shot everyime.

    It was also recommended to use peroxide toothpaste and Listerine.

  11. Re:But the real question is.. on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wouldn't underestimate small dogs. My parents have a little poodle (about 5 pounds), that we swear is able to create mass. He gets fed a bowl of dogfood and then will poop seemingly twice the amount. And when he hs had an accident, it is like he generates twice his body mass. Nothing like listening to your mother complain over the phone about how much the dog is able to shit.

  12. Re:That would not cause any expansion. on Chandra Provides Support For Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    The mug is expanding because it gets hot. As matter becomes hotter it expands, duh. :P

  13. Re:Ingenious... on Student Uncovers US Military Secrets · · Score: 1

    An if it is in text with justified margins? Ooh, then white space may change.

  14. Re:Silly on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1

    Err, I thought SCO already would have done that despite any other lawsuits.

  15. Re:cd players.. on Can Cell Phones Ignite Gasoline Vapors? · · Score: 1

    54x CDROM drives are just below the RPM limit of CD losing physical integrity. A little faster and the CD will explode. Of course if a CD is fractured then the physical integrity will lessened and the CD will shatter in the drive.

  16. Re:Ingenious... on Student Uncovers US Military Secrets · · Score: 1

    And when it gets blacked out will the black out be two pixels shorter?

  17. Re:Ingenious... on Student Uncovers US Military Secrets · · Score: 1

    person
    in then

    Both are approximately the same length in Times. As the number of characters increase, the possibilities become larger. It is far easier for a dictionary attack to proceed when the number of characters is fixed.

  18. Re:Ingenious... on Student Uncovers US Military Secrets · · Score: 1

    If you think about it, Times make the job a degree harder. Courier is a fixed width font so every character is the same size. Times is a multiwidth font, so different characters take up more or less space.

  19. Re:A moot point now that SCO is... on Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera? · · Score: 1

    What revenue do they have? After the lawsuits, SCO is over. What we are seeing here is the final twitches of a dying company. Unfortunately, some see death throes as dings of life.

  20. Re:There outta be a law on Microsoft Blames Anti-trust Legal Fees for Price Increases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The government has the authority to dissolve thier charter. The justice department should have siezed thier assets and disolved the company. This would have sent a strong message that unethical business practices will not be tolerated and many other companies would clean up thier act.

    Before anyone starts claiming that this is over the top, remember, Corporations are granted a charter expressly to advance the public good. thier charter can be revoked if they are found to not be doing that.

  21. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    Actually some of this came out talking with a reverend of the "Christian Church". Other stuff with a reverend of the United Church of Christ. But I imagine you meant the entire Christian religion and not a particular Protestant sect. My understanding is that some of the more Puritanical sects even more strongly espouse this idea.

    Also, depending on definition, some of the more fringe groups will maintain ideas contradictory to the Bible such as Jehova's Witnessess and Unitarian Church.

  22. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    There is only one instance that God wrote anything in the bible. Everything else, it was either the observation, opinion, or God dictating to someone. If you have ever taken dictation or given dictation and latter reviewed it, you will realize that we do not get everythiing correct. Ever queried eyewitnesses? Each peerson colors their recollection of events. The Bible is not perfect because Man wrote it.

    The New Testament is collection of works that are officially sanctioned by the Church. (By Church, I mean what has morphed into the Roman Catholic Church.) There have been a number of books that have been dropped from the New Testament for Church political reasons. There are also a number of Heresies that could have been included.

    Usury was proscribed by Jesus. Yet there are a number of theories on what he really meant when he attacked he Pharisees.

    Me, Personally, I feel there are only 11 rules one needs to follow. Everything else falls into place from there.

  23. Re:Those who do not hear the Word on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    Well troll, maybe you can cite some historian that denies the existance of Jesus. To my knowledge, no historian of note enies that there existed a Jesus of Nazarreth. Some may deny that he was the Son of God, he still existed though.

  24. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 0

    Humans are fallible. Almost everything written in the bible came from humans. So disregard the Ten Commandments and you have something one has to realize that it has some flaws introduced by Man's fallible nature. Lastly, the New Testament supercedes the Old Testament. So there are no theological problems with Christians eating Bacon Cheeseburgers. Now there are theological problems with having a mortgage or car loan, but most of us ignore that.

    Christians need to open thier hearts and accept Jesus into thier lives. They must accept Jesus as thier Lord and Savior. Worship is not quite the right term but many do choose to use worship to show thier devotion.

    The apparent contradictions in the Bible result from Man's own incomplete understanding and fallibility.

  25. Re:lunacy on Napster Gags University Over Fees · · Score: 1

    There was free cable to the Lounges in my dorm, and it was easy enough to steal cable for those few that bothered to have a tv in thier room. Most people didn't as it was too easy to get stolen. The Local Phone service was free. Long Distance needed a phone card. Most of the dorms didn't even have private bathrooms.

    I also don't remember watching too much TV except Twin Peaks. That turned into a regular event for the entire floor.