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  1. Re:Celebrities' BBQ, or a double of Bruce Willis? on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Bruce Willis? Are you kidding?

    More like the secret shooting of Transporter 4 with Jason Statham.

    np: Tosca - Honey (Only Child Dub) (Different Tastes of Honey)

  2. Re:Wow on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 1

    It also made Autechre release a track called "Flutter" on their Anti EP from 1994 that had a repetitive-as-heck melody but an ever-changing rhythm where no two bars were the same... :D

    np: Tosca - Honey (Biggabush Dub) (Different Tastes of Honey)

  3. Re:haha on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    support real trees

    If by "support" you mean "dismember and ground up," then yes.

    It's all fun and games until the trees start to retaliate... :D

    np: Tosca - Honey (Massi Dub) (Different Tastes of Honey)

  4. Re:Going back to old games on US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years · · Score: 1

    You know the first chapter of the new Monkey Island is out already, right?

    That just makes the wait for the remaining four episodes ever-so-harder...

    np: Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Patterns 2 (Vertical Ascent)

  5. Re:chat on US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years · · Score: 1

    It's a shame about the account number, though... what a waste. :(

    np: Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Patterns 2 (Vertical Ascent)

  6. Re:And thank you TellTale Games... on LucasArts To Re-Release Old Games Through Steam · · Score: 2, Informative

    What, like Tales of Monkey Island (aka "New Monkey Island") that comes out tomorrow?

    np: Tim Exile - I Saw The Weak Hand Fall (Listening Tree)

  7. Re:this is DRM on Gaikai Drawing Interest With Low-Key Demo, Believable Claims · · Score: 4, Informative

    And that's assuming that several people playing games on the same aircraft could even get enough bandwidth in the first place. Isn't the total bandwidth to one aircraft around 512kps?

    Nevermind that - if you're going to use this on an airplane the lag (aka latency) is absolutely going to KILL you unless you're playing some turn-based game, and even there input lag will probably make you want to stop playing it.

    np: Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Joy Maker Machinery (Twice Born Men)

  8. Re:You mean racketeering on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    They weren't even trying to be creative with the fact that they were screwing the students. Everyone knew this to be the case and accepted it. I think that I was the only person who was upset by this obvious racket.

    It was a book about marketing, and you were upset by something like this?

    Somehow I doubt you were going to pass that course...

    np: Pinch - Chamber Dub (Soul Jazz Records Singles 2008-2009 (Disc 2))

  9. Re:Data loss bug on Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support · · Score: 1

    You just discard the old snapshots (read: everything but the "Current State"), and since that is based on the previous snapshots all changes of a discarded snapshot will get merged into the following one.

    It ain't rocket science...

  10. Clever & Smart 35th anniversary issue on Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios · · Score: 1

    or rather it's last page - I actually had the German translation of that issue since somewhere in the mid-nineties... :D

    np: Whitetree - Tangerine (Cloudland)

  11. Re:OEM Prices Please on Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU · · Score: 1

    You can get OEM editions at newegg if you're in the US. I don't know how you do it outside the US.

    Like this, for instance...

    np: Whitetree - Other Nature (Cloudland)

  12. Re:Gunter Grass called... on Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age · · Score: 1

    Okay, make that Günter Grass - I guess Unicode is scoffed at on planet Slashdot...

    np: Yello - Pan Blue (Pocket Universe)

  13. Re:Gunter Grass called... on Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age · · Score: 1

    ITYM "Die Blechtrommel" by Günter Grass...

    And no, I've never read it.

    np: Voigt & Voigt - Roxy (Kompakt Total 4)

  14. Re:unzip sothink.xpi? on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 1

    Ummm... I guess you haven't noticed that a JAR file is also just a repurposed ZIP file, exactly like an XPI file?

    If you open it, you'll find more JavaScript files plus some icons and the like... and just about every Firefox extension contains one or more JAR files - with no Java at all inside.

    np: Jackie Leven & The Celtic Soulmen - Glenarm, Burning Box Of Beautiful Things (The Haunted Year: Spring - Man Bleeds In Glasgow)

  15. Re:Teachers wrong here on Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating · · Score: 1

    But, since copying your own code from the time you failed the class is not allowed, that does get checked.

    I've been marking programming assignments at my uni for several years, but no-one was crazy enough to prevent people from copying their own code, only other people's code. And, in compiler construction at least, the assistants also released sample solutions people could build on if they managed to totally botch an assignment.

    Sure, the code might have been bad enough last year for you to fail, but having to re-write any and all code just because of that requirement (and making sure you don't accidentally write the exact same code for some function vs. last year, which tends to happen) is just stupid...

    np: Yagya - We Lose Ourselves (Will I Dream During The Process?)

  16. Re:Yellow stars have been done to death on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 1

    How about good old "ID10T" - just tell them it means "Intelligently Designed 10th level Tibethan" or something like that...

    np: Sin Fang Bous - Melt Down The Knives (Clangour)

  17. Re:Basal Ganglia - SHIT! on Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak · · Score: 1

    So THAT's what really happened to Timmy Two-Teeth!

    Those bastards!

    np: Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss (Nichts Muss)

  18. Conference Boards of Canada? on Conference Board Admits Plagiarism, Pulls Copyright Report · · Score: 1

    Admitting plagiarism?

    Wasn't it exactly them who said that music had the right to children?

    np: Autechre - Teartear (Amber)

  19. Re:hey Asus on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the Developer's Home on The Web
    by rdcpro - last modified 2007-04-04 03:42

    Temporarily Under Construction

    RDCPro.com is in the process of a site redesign, and we'll return soon with lots of great tips, tricks and tutorials! Stay tuned!

    I really hope that no one was holding their breath for an update of that site...

    np: Barbara Morgenstern - Nichts Muss (Nichts Muss)

  20. Re:Let's whois it. on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmm. A quick google doesn't reveal anything useful about this guy. Does he work for Asus?

    Well, at least once Expert Sexchange was good for something:

    I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or.

    I primarily work within the following platforms:

    Collaboration:
            Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007)
            Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0)

    Web Content Management:
            Telerik Sitefinity CMS
            MCMS 2002
            MOSS 2007

    I have previously taught in the Continuing Education Department of Bellevue Community College in Washington State, focusing on XML technologies and the occasional COM+ class.

    I program in a number of languages, but primarily C#. I also like to use Python, mostly with Plone, a content management and portal framework built on Zope.

    If you need a consultant for a specific project, let me know!

    Regards,
    Mike Sharp

    rdcpro@hotmail.com

    Ick.

    np: Tocotronic - Samstag Ist Selbstmord (Digital Ist Besser)

  21. Re:MPC Home Cinema VLC on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 1

    WTF would you put a source archive up for download if all the code is in SVN?

    Just go here and click "Download GNU tarball" or simply use an SVN client to check out the release_v1_2_908_0 tag.

  22. Re:Not fixed in 7 years: The Firefox CPU hogging b on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you had that by setting someone to "Foe" and then setting "Foe" to "-10 points" and viewing at +1.

    But /. developers have given the interface a good AJAXing and now I can't find the settings.

    Well... even though I have a few people on my foe list (more as a reminder to myself to read with caution than anything) I don't want to filter them all out, just one or two of them...

    np: Yagya - Rigning Fimm (Rigning)

  23. Re:Not fixed in 7 years: The Firefox CPU hogging b on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Firefox, the laptop killer: 200 CPU hogging bugs [slashdot.org].

    Either you don't know how bug databases work or you're just using the numbers to push an agenda.

    Considering he posts the same shit in every story about Firefox...

    Nope, definitely no agenda here. No sirree.

    Can we please get a "Ignore user" option on Slashdot already, or - failing that - a "Nuke user from orbit" option?

    np: Secede - Vega Libre: The Citadel (Vega Libre)

  24. Re:It's the wrong issue on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    the music today sucks.

    I'd agree if you had said mostly all music put out by Sony today sucks, but saying that all new music sucks is just dumb.

    Of course most of today's "adult contemporary" pap all sounds the same - but there's loads of small(er) labels that release stuff that's good and that don't treat their artists like shit.

    Please don't confuse mainstream music with all of music. Thank you.

    np: Kettel - Church (Remix By Secede) (Myam James Part 1)

  25. Re:max resolution? on DisplayLink Releases LGPL USB Graphics Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it any more then a small display gimmick ?

    I mean, feeding my monitor/tv through USB would be nice, but there must be some technical glitch like lack of bandwidth for higher resolutions and frame rates.

    Of course it's not enough bandwidth for streaming video, but it's more than adequate for browsing the web (sans YouTube) or (gasp) working on an extra (up to 1600x1200) monitor...

    More info can be found here.

    np: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Streets Of Philedelphia (Advance Base Battery Life)