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  1. Re:How DSL can compete? on Cable Wants to Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    A guy was coming at me the wrong way on a highway ramp the other day (and I'm talking about a ramp structure that goes on for miles and ends at Newark Airport) -- my dad dialed 911 from his cell. Rang forever. Granted, in a car, couldn't have dialed 911 without a cell anyway, but I just thought it was an interesting example.

  2. Re:How DSL can compete? on Cable Wants to Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    I have one. I don't understand people that don't. I'm 23.

  3. Re:No Linux from MSFT? on Microsoft Warms Up to Linux · · Score: 1

    That's what I was looking at -- NDISWrapper. Splitting hairs if you ask me... as long as you can get it working.

  4. Re:No Thanks on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That may be, but that means if you don't need ANY in order to run windows in this imperfect state, you probably only need a couple to run it in a perfectly passable state.

  5. Aha! on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP?

    Incidentally, what happens without Winlogon? No logon box?

  6. Re:speaking of Maxell on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    And yet, IMO, they always made the best floppies.

  7. Re:No Linux from MSFT? on Microsoft Warms Up to Linux · · Score: 1

    You sure the drivers don't exist? There seems to be some info on the web. What brand/model card?

  8. Re:No Linux from MSFT? on Microsoft Warms Up to Linux · · Score: 1

    And then you'd have what that you don't have with Linux right now? What of Windows would be left?

  9. Re:Why haven't they learned yet? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    And hey... 2.5 + 2.5 = 5 last time I checked.

  10. MOD PARENT INFORMATIVE!!! on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until that post, I spent nearly all of my time reading Slashdot wondering "what the fuck is Firefox?!"

  11. Re:Funny, on Microsoft and Google Fighting for the Skies · · Score: 1

    My favorite MapQuest error was (if anyone is actually familiar with this intersection -- probably not) it telling me to get off of Route 18 north in NJ and onto Route 27 north. From that ramp, make a left through the jersey barrier and get onto 27 south. Silly me -- all along I'd been taking the EXIT for 27 south.

  12. Re:Fantastic! Power consumption saves the day on Socket Adapter Brings Pentium M to Desktop · · Score: 1

    Not only do I remember it, I've still got one humming along in an old HP Vectra. Used to run Linux, but it's got WfWg 3.11 on there at the moment (never had a network back then and was curious to see how it worked on one).

  13. Re:The power supply? on Beginning Of the End For PC Noise · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a Dell Optiplex GX270 sitting next to my monitor, inches away... I've never heard the HDD; I have to look at the light. Granted the Indy sitting next to it has very noisy disks, but... even with that off, I bet I can't hear it.

  14. Re:Why don't you explain what you mean... on Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Hey, I chuckled -- give the guy a break. :)

  15. Re:Argh! on Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone post a link to a site that isn't ready yet? Thanks for the popups and popunders, though.

  16. Yahoo? on Yahoo Purchases Konfabulator · · Score: 0

    1. Aquire widgets.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!!

  17. Re:too lazy to google right now on Yahoo Purchases Konfabulator · · Score: 1

    I personally thought that it was part of KDE without RTFA'ing. Turns out it's a desktop widget thing. Chris Pirillo must be thrilled!

  18. Re:ooh goody now Apple will sue on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    You can see this if you run "cmd". I don't have XP, so I was unaware it was 5.1 and not 6.0.

  19. Re:A large amount of Windows users on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 1

    All your Windows XP are belong to us. - Microsoft

  20. Re:Skeptical on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 1

    When's the last time Microsoft really supported me for anything anyway?

  21. Re:Skeptical on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 1

    And I'll tell you what -- theoretically that boss wants you to be as productive as you can be. To that end, I do not run shit-ass Internet Explorer and as a result, I waste less company time removing Spyware et. al from my machine.

  22. Re:ooh goody now Apple will sue on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    'cept for the fact that theoretically it should be 7.0 (unless you don't find 2000 and XP to be any different).

  23. Re:Naming tradition on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    ...how would we then differentiate it from 95-2003?

  24. Re:Uhoh on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1

    Not exactly true there. You cannot use they as a pronoun for one person. If you wish to be non-gender-specific, he or she must be used instead of they (ie. "he," "she," or "he or she"). There is no uni-gender single person pronoun.

  25. Re:Uhoh on Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent · · Score: 1

    If it's that specific, what's the point? Who would want to copy it, and if they did want to, wouldn't it be extremely easy to do so changing things ever-so-slightly?