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  1. Re:really!! on Windows on an iMac (says the invoice); Red Hat's Alternative · · Score: 1

    Drexel tuition isn't high. Penn tuition is high. Drexel is just a second-rate tech school that thinks it's something special, because it's located right next to a real school.

  2. *meow* on Teach An Old Aibo New Tricks · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I wanted to hear something meow, I'd have somebody call my cell phone.

  3. TMBG is their high point? HARDLY!! on Musicnet Fails to Impress Customers · · Score: 2
    I think that you do them a disservice making it sound like a place to download TMBG crap. emusic has some pretty tasty music.

    Chill stuff like Ursula 1000 and Thievery Corporation.
    Stompin' trance by Juno Reactor, Kox Box, X-Dream and Timo Maas.
    Random stuff by those "no-names" Sasha and Digweed.
    Jam bands like Hot Tuna.
    Rock outfits like Bush, Rancid, Green Day, Violent Femmes, Mogwai.
    Silly shit by Frank Zappa.
    Awful music by Elvis Presley.
    No-name reggae artists like Bob Marley, Eek-A-Mouse and Black Uhuru.
    Classic ragas by Ravi Shankar
    Shitty celtic music by Clannad
    Brit-shit like Belle and Sebastion, and The Gentle Waves
    Old punk favorites like NOFX, Bad Religion and Pennywise.
    Hip-hop turntablists like Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Mixmaster Mike and DJ Assault.
    Classic Jazz by Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Count Basie and more
    It even has some classical music that's well-performed and recorded.

    emusic is a great service, and i think that if you like any genre of music other than 'top 40', you'll be really happy with it. if you like top 40, do us all a favor, and jump off a tall building, ya lemming!

  4. Re:Courtney Love can not do math but... on Musicnet Fails to Impress Customers · · Score: 2

    That'd be a pretty good deal, getting about $50 worth of heroin per download. Where do I sign up?

  5. Re:High-End Video Cards on 3DLabs Launching New GPU · · Score: 1

    yeah, as opposed to those masses of professional gamers.

  6. High-End Video Cards on 3DLabs Launching New GPU · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is an article about two unreleased graphics cards, one $600, one $900. No, that's not a typo, these graphics cards cost as much as a nice Athlon system. These aren't targetted at gamers, they're targeted at workstation users, and fuckwits.

  7. Re:Because hydrogen is diatomic on Sewage To Be Turned Into H · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes, you're too geeky. if you'd ever been in the market for heroin, you would've heard H as a standard abbreviation for heroin, and it's not just an americanism, first time i heard the term was quite a few years back, from a brit.

  8. Re:Price Drop on PS2 on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 2

    Wal-Mart, where all the winners hang out!

  9. Re:Heroin? on Sewage To Be Turned Into H · · Score: 2

    brother, you aren't alone. i was psyched there for a minute!

  10. Re:X-Box killer? on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 2
    MS is really being hurt by the lack of DVD functionality without another seperate purchase. GameCube is being killed because it has no DVD functionality.
    I mean you no disrepsect, but you're a fucking retard. Normal people do not need Yet Another DVD Player, that's what that thing in their component stack marked 'dvd player' is for.
  11. Re:Price Drop on PS2 on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 2
    Let's see, 3 x-box controllers, at $40 is $120.

    1 ps2 multitap is $35, plus 3 ps2 controllers at $35 each, is $140.

    In what world is $140 less than $120?

  12. Re:1 in 14 believe THEY have been abducted on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 2

    It's true, though. I've met aliens.

  13. Re:Go for it on Rolling Your Own Business Desktops? · · Score: 2
    Here's a step-by-step guide:

    First, remove the stems and seeds from your business desktop, and that it's nice and even. Some people like to mix a little hash into their business desktop at this point, if so, take a lighter to the edge of the bar of hash, and then crumble that application into the rest of the mix.

    Now take a nice long desktop, and fold it in half, and spread the application mix evenly across the desktop, and if you'd like, add a filter to one end of the desktop.

    You've got a nice desktop now, but it's still not ready for bidniz. Take it, and roll it at a slight angle, to form a nice, long, beautiful cone, and twist the away end up a little.

    spark up the desktop, and ennnnjoy.

  14. Re:Is Digital Projection Really Better? on Star Wars Digital Projection Theaters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, digital cable has significantly lower resolution than analog cable. Even when it's working perfectly, it doesn't look as good as analog. The moral: digital != better.

  15. Re:It's the comsumer's fault on Tech Support Getting Even Worse · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    To quote Bill Paul, about the realtek:

    The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.

    For transmission, the chip offers a series of four TX descriptor registers. Each transmit frame must be in a contiguous buffer, aligned on a longword (32-bit) boundary. This means we almost always have to do mbuf copies in order to transmit a frame, except in the unlikely case where a) the packet fits into a single mbuf, and b) the packet is 32-bit aligned within the mbuf's data area. The presence of only four descriptor registers means that we can never have more than four packets queued for transmission at any one time.

    Reception is not much better. The driver has to allocate a single large buffer area (up to 64K in size) into which the chip will DMA received frames. Because we don't know where within this region received packets will begin or end, we have no choice but to copy data from the buffer area into mbufs in order to pass the packets up to the higher protocol levels.

    It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.

    On the bright side, the 8139 does have a built-in PHY, although rather than using an MDIO serial interface like most other NICs, the PHY registers are directly accessible through the 8139's register space. The 8139 supports autonegotiation, as well as a 64-bit multicast filter.

    The 8129 chip is an older version of the 8139 that uses an external PHY chip. The 8129 has a serial MDIO interface for accessing the MII where the 8139 lets you directly access the on-board PHY registers. We need to select which interface to use depending on the chip type. ~

  16. Re:Sounds dumb on Handling Anti-Spam Systems When You Aren't Spamming? · · Score: 2

    I'm not a SpamAssassin developer, just a very satisfied user. It kicks a lot of ass, and can handle such things as per-user thresholds. Use it. Buy the developers some beer.

  17. Re:double blind trials on Book Review: Voodoo Science · · Score: 3, Funny
    Good luck with those homeopathic remedies.

    Homeopathy and alternative medicine are just two of the ways that Darwin is working to keep our gene pool clean.

  18. Re:metadata on Music Filesystems? · · Score: 2
    Okay, so what do you use to list the year of composition? Do you use the original release year, or oh wait... no, that's defined as the original release year of the recording, not the piece itself. What about pieces which are known to be written in one year, first performed in another, first recorded in another, and remastered in another?

    ID3v2 is still a standard written by people who don't know how classical music works, and don't really seem to care. Hell, they have a place to list the people in pop music's album credits, but they don't have a way to note that a track may be a single movement of a larger composition, the closest you can come is noting the original track number on the cd, which isn't what you really care about anyway.

  19. Re:Canadians want TIVO!!!! on Tivo 3.0 'Firebolt' Hits the Wild · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, you plucky Canadians with your "money". Get money that's worth well... money, and maybe we Americans will export some more of our toys to your frozen little selves.

  20. Re:Another case of "how do we filter"? on Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    and what if you run a site on how to detect breast cancer, by lubricating the breasts, then placing a penis between them and squeezing them together, feeling for lumps?

  21. Re:yearning for the past on Don't Hit That Back Button · · Score: 2
    ah yes, NetRape. Remember the good ole' days, when Netscape was the non-standards-compliant enemy, embracing and extending HTML?

    Yeah, but you used it anyway, because it could show you the text of the webpage while the images were still downloading, but shitty ole' mosaic you had to wait for all the images, before you could see anything at all....

  22. Re:wheat bread still bread on A Link Between Diet and Myopia? · · Score: 1

    I pray for your soul, that you'll someday be able to escape the grip of scientology.

  23. Funniest part on Amazon & Used Books II: Bezos Strikes Back · · Score: 2
    The funniest thing about their call to de-link amazon is that they suggest linking to barnes and noble instead, as if barnes and noble hasn't been thorough enough at destroying local bookstores where you can actually find knowledgeable clerks.

    Books have real lives, they wear out, they get damaged, they get burned by christian fundamentalists. I fail to see the problem with encouraging people to use those books to their fullest.

  24. Re:A note for youngsters.. on Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, everybody knows the Ti-99/4A is the new Texas Instruments graphing calculator. DUH!

  25. Re:Since linux devices gets /.'ed rather easily- on Musenki's Linux-Based AP Ships To Beta Customers · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not taco, look at the uid.