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  1. Re:Relevant Stories on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    News or Ask Slashdot? Both generally seem to have some pretty good articles.

  2. Re:Yes, it's true on Colleges Signing Secret MS License Agreements · · Score: 2

    I stand corrected. For some reason I just got the email saying I had a reply to this comment. I had found out about the club near then end of the last quarter, and would have gone to the last two meetings, but I had a 3:30 class.

    As far as the open source club not doing much, I didn't necessarily mean meetings, but projects. NTsig has a big contest for the end of the year and they're giving out huge prizes (I'll take an XBox for free, but I won't pay for it). AFAIK the open source club doesn't have that many projects. Individual members doing things for international projects is not the same thing.

    Also, I'm only a freshman, so I don't get into Dreese very often, and I'm in FEH, so I'll take ENGR H192 instead of CIS 201 (which means I won't be in Dreese much next quarter).

    Also, I do not like M$ much, but .NET is a good IDE. I use Mozilla, OpenOffice, gAIM, etc., but there isn't an IDE for Windows that comes anywhere near .NET (I know GCC will work for Windows, but only under cygwin, and that doesn't really count).

    One more thing: assuming you lived on campus last quarter, did your emails seem to arrive much more promptly than they do when off campus? I just received the email about you replying to this fifteen minutes before I posted this comment. That's a three day lag, and on campus it would be only five to ten minutes.

  3. Re: on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    I specifically remember the way the stairs were laid out at my old home, but my family moved out of there when I was 2, and I hadn't been back in since. I asked my parents one time and found what I remembered was right.

  4. Re:Who was the target? on Military Healthcare Data Stolen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure there's better people to steal a computer from than the military.

  5. Re: on Open Source, Closed Documentation? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You shall not to share [sic] the information contained herein with any other party.
    So if I buy the manual in order to learn how to install it, then stop using it, and I find how to do something else on my own that happens to be in the manual, can I share that information?
  6. Re:Silly goose on Open Source, Closed Documentation? · · Score: 2
    If you wrote a book, would you want people copying it and giving it away for free outside Barnes + Noble?
    I wouldn't mind. If someone wants to take the effort to copy my book they can. And this is a bad comparison--I certainly wouldn't mind them giving a little information about the beginning to someone else.
  7. Re:Funky Colorscheme on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 2

    Well, I don't mind them leaving out the luna theme. I'll try ChaNinja's theme, but I'm doubtful--the only theme/visual style/skin I don't find annoying after awhile is Aikon, and I've tried at least 50.

  8. Re:DRM ON CD'S on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 2
    Profits are down because fewer albums are released each year. not cuz of file sharing.
    Well, there's also the fact that new music generally sucks.
  9. Re:I wonder... on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 2

    Why bother to make sure the chain will refund the item. If it's defective, make them give you a refund. If they don't, make a scene--they'll ask you to leave, but they can't make you leave you leave until a cop comes.

  10. Re:No thanks on Cable TV A La Carte Part 2 · · Score: 2

    Ahh. That makes sense, but wasn't obvious from the netflix page.

  11. Re:No thanks on Cable TV A La Carte Part 2 · · Score: 2

    I had heard of netflix before, but I hadn't realized exactly how it worked. I like it much more than Blockbuster already. But it's website says it's only 19.95/month + taxes. Are your taxes that much?

  12. Re:...if the comments were insightful, that is. on MS .net vs Mono, Open Source · · Score: 2

    Hrmm. I feel like watching Antitrust again.

  13. Re:Best Game No One Played on PC on Games of the Year · · Score: 2

    It wasn't released in 2002, but Tribes 2 (which I found for $15 at Target) is the best computer game I've ever played. It has a few Unhandled Exceptions, but not too many.

  14. Re:please explain on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2

    I thought it was something about a pap test.

  15. Re:Family/Friends on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2

    My family's here, but all my good friends are back at college. And most didn't take their computers home (they're without their computer for three whole weeks), so I don't see them online.

  16. Re:Christmas Vacation? on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2

    So you have an extra long, unpaid vacation.

  17. Re:my list on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2
    Don't chicks dig slash and cisco certified hardware?
    Well, chicks dig unix.
  18. Re:Like Peter in the movie Office Space... on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Peter, man, check out channel nine!

  19. Re:Apple Knows Marketing on Apple's Present: iTunes Supports Ogg Files · · Score: 2

    Well, the most common music player in Windows is probably Windows Media Player, since most users don't bother to switch to the superior WinAmp.

  20. Re:Funky Colorscheme on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 2

    Yea, but I'd been getting tired of the Windows Classic theme (it'd been seven years), so I downloaded the ux theme patcher and installed Aikon XP. I like it enough that I eventually bought Style XP (from the same company that puts out the ux theme patcher).

  21. Re:Yes, it's true on Colleges Signing Secret MS License Agreements · · Score: 2

    Ohio State has that, but it's called osuNTsig (new technologies student interest group). We also have an open source club, but it doesn't do anything, so I joined NTsig as well. NTsig has a lab that they will allow me to use and have numerous manuals for Office, .NET and other M$ products. I like GCC and all, but .NET is a better environment.

    So if I want to be in a CS club that does something, I don't have much of a choice but to join the MS one.

    O, and I got .NET for free from them.

  22. Re:I don't care on Colleges Signing Secret MS License Agreements · · Score: 2

    or FREE!

  23. Re:Backwards compatible? on 1.5 TB DVD by 2010 · · Score: 2

    Well, DVD Audio isn't really that big (I mean, using a DVD to store wav files?), so comparing the DVD to VHS is probably a more accurate comparison. But then, VHSs haven't been out too much longer than CDs.

  24. RTFA!! on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 2

    This type of gun requires that the gun be trained to recognize the owner's grip, much like James Bond's gun in License to Kill.

  25. Re:HERF guns vs. guns on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 2

    I seriously doubt the army will use this.