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  1. Ouch. You overlooked the fact that Philips actually developed the third standard in videoland, V-2000. (Which obviously also lost to VHS)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Demo Reel on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    the ultimate revelation of Vader's identity was a moment of extraordinary drama that surely stands as one of the great moments in cinema history.

    Not for the Dutch*, they knew it all along!

    * and Germans, etc.

  3. Re:No way! on MS Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claim · · Score: 1

    Actually, it wasn't. It was created by RMS.

  4. Re:Um on UK "Creative Industries" Call For File-Sharers Ban · · Score: 1

    Did you really only read his first sentence?

  5. Re:oh god no on Should Obama Give Stimulus To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    "Work on open source" is not what he said, he said "work with and develop on open source platforms".

  6. Re:Slysoft makes good stuff. on In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD · · Score: 1

    Try Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/)
    Pretty easy to use, rips to .avi and to mp4, multi-platform.

  7. Re:well hear this... on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 1

    It's the site, not your ISP.

  8. Re:Alternative music.. alternative methods on Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album · · Score: 1

    Shameless plug: check out Deifecation, Geriatric Death Metal. http://www.deifecation.nl/

    All music free to download in mp3 and ogg, contact the band (I'm one of them) if you want to order a CD or a shirt. All self-financed.

  9. Re:Dialup on President Bush Releases US Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    Actually, dialup (and ISDN) has better ping than cable.

  10. Re:I find the lock-in with a provider retarted. on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why can't you just use an existing MP3 that you downloaded/copied over to the phone?

    Good going there, spreading nonsense.

    The iPhone is the next gen iPod, meaning that all your downloaded/copied/ripped mp3's will play just fine.

  11. Re:Product differentiation is BASIC on AT&T CEO Attacks Network Neutrality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "net neutrality" has never really existed. Some people get better service 'cuz their ISPs are more competant [less incompetant] about setting up multi-homing, external links and their routers. (...) Instead of everyone having the same (erratic) latency, some people will pay for better, and the rest will get slightly worse.

    It seems like you don't understand the issue at hand. Net neutrality is not about differences in connection speed, but about artificial differences between services, based on the amount of money paid to the owner of the tubes the data passes.

  12. But... on OpenBSD 4.1 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    But.... does it have UAC?

  13. April first... on Google's Second-Class Citizens · · Score: 1

    ... early this year.

  14. headline strike again! on Trojan Analysis Leads To Russian Data Hoard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trojan Analysis Leads To Russian Data Hoard

    So the analysis led the the hoarding? Everybody stop analyzing NOW!

  15. Re:OK, but you can't call it a "smart phone" then. on No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs · · Score: 1

    If you had to pick one single aspect that separates a "smart phone" from a "phone", the best indicator would probably be the ability to run arbitary software. Your RAZR can run arbitrary java programs, by no way you would get away with calling it a "smart phone".
  16. Re:Its 7:00 AM and its slashdotted on Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source · · Score: 1

    And here was me thinking that the domain name would be more relevant to where the server was hosted/run rather than where its users came from. So it is running on .NET then?
  17. Re:Ads Targeting TiVo on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The last second of their ad was a set of single frames with interesting information."

    Then why not extend that and fill the whole 30 seconds with interesting information?

  18. Re:LSB is a misleading, limiting and silly name on Squaring the Open Source/Open Standards Circle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if you'd read the article you'd see it discussed in the second answer:

    "2. How does FSG work with the Linux development team and the Linux process?

    Actually, the LSB doesn't specify the kernel--it only specifies the user level runtime, such as the core system libraries and compiler toolchain. Ironically, then, the _Linux_ Standard Base isn't Linux specific at all--it would be entirely possible (and probably not altogether hard) for Solaris to be made LSB compliant. The LSB is entirely concerned with the application environment, and the kernel is usually pretty well hidden at the application level."

    So they are fully aware themselves.

  19. Re:They are not the first on Rip CDs Directly to Your iPod · · Score: 1

    "Hopefully iLoad got a few patents in place first."

    Err.. for what, exactly?

    Oh, I forgot. Thursday, obvious-patents-are-good-day.

  20. Creative Commons, Death Metal on Band Invites Music Copying · · Score: 1

    [shameless plug]

    If you are into Death Metal, chekc out the website of my band: http://deifecation.cjb.net/
    All songs are released under a Creative Commons license and available in Ogg Vorbis.

    [/shameless plug]

  21. Re:notellmo.tel? on .tel Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Followed by mac.tel, I think.

  22. Re:External Batty pack + VNC on Mac mini Sans Wires - Batteries Inside the Case · · Score: 1

    I have a mini in my basement, and it works fine over VNC with nothing plugged into its video port.

    But since you live in the basement (being your mom's basement) you could just as well plug the monitor directly into the Mac mini.

  23. Re:old apple ads on Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0 · · Score: 1

    But apparently you *do* like their naming scheme.

  24. Re:been there, done that, got the tshirt on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 1

    You're still trolling.

    First of all you can change the default browser in the System Preferences. The list of open Applications is in the Dock, marked by the little triangles. An then, why would you install thousand fonts? Of course, if you want that you should be able to do it, but just imagine the loooooooooooong list in the font selector. Using Linux or Windows is no different in this respect.

    I'm not even sure anymore that you have ever used Mac OS X.

  25. Re:How the heck would I read it? on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 1

    "Not to mention that it stands up in the RAM slots, so that the face of the RAM isn't even viewable."

    How can this be insightful? If you had RTFA you would have seen that the display is on top of the RAM, not on front.

    Of course it still has no use. Oh well.