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  1. If you are going to get pedantic about it.. on The Apple Name Game · · Score: 1

    ..It's X Window System, not X.

  2. WOW on Time Warner Properties May Only Be Available Through AOL · · Score: 1

    You mean in one fell swoop, the content of CNN.com and HeadlineNews.com dissapears unless you pay? Wow, I never thought it would be so easy to remove the arms of the gov't propaganda machine! CNN is crap. Even more crap is the updating of their 'lingo' to include terms from pop culture. Like, gag me with a spoon.

  3. Ants? on Ants Invade iBook · · Score: 1

    I prefer my ants to be of the marching variety bred by Adobe, thankyouverymuch.

  4. Re:Yeah, as if that will change anything. on State Coalition Approves Internet Sales Tax Plan · · Score: 1

    Check your state form. A lot of states want you to add on the cost of things you bought online and calculate the sales taxes for them. Nobody takes this seriously -- nor should they. The state did nothing to support the business, and they don't deserve the taxes either.

  5. Re:Shockwave IS useful on Could Eolas End Microsoft's Browser Dominance? · · Score: 1

    well, since you can just download a jar and, under most OSs, just double click it to run it, I don't see this as a windows-only issue. It goes from a browser-based applet to a java application, which isn't a bad thing (except for UI issues. Sun needs to allow menu strips to attach to the menu bar in Mac OS 9.x/ Mac OS X)

  6. haha on Why Are Canadian Sympatico Users Being Banned On EFNet? · · Score: 1

    A channel I am on 24/7 on undernet has the following bans:

    *.at, *.mx, *.nz, *.tw, *.nl, *.no, *.si, *.br, *.gov, *.ca, *.tr, *.au, *.ro

    Wide enough bans? These bans are mostly because ppl come in and claim we took 'their' channel, when we have been there for many years. Perhaps they have their nets confused.

  7. Re:Hear, hear... on PPC Linux vs. Mac OS X Server: Linux Edges Out · · Score: 1

    You've never used drag and drop until you see it on an MacOS system. Sorry, there is no comparison. Drag and drop 'just works' And OS X is more consistent than Windows. Hell, a linux box running gtk+ is pretty darn consistent. The fact that developers think they know better than MSFT on the windows platform leads to some pretty darn inconsistent design work. Ask yourself this: why is it that 99% of designed-for-MacOS applications support cmd-w to close a window, and cmd-q to close an app? It's because it's a standard that Apple marked DNFW.

  8. Re:Dude. Don't look. on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 1

    I think that I agree with you here. It's not about lowering standards, but a modification of existing standards. Check. I suppose I'm half-way there: I always dress like I have a clue, I never leave my house without bathing, and people consider me highly articulate (even online, which is hard for most people). I'm learning that I just need to relax before I gather up the courage to talk to a girl. It's funny, because I don't figure women as sex objects; I find them as equal, often superior to the male gender in many ways. I always speak rightly around women, avoiding vulgar talk. The biggest problem I have is that I come across as 'the nice guy' all the time, and the nice girls don't like a nice guy. Perhaps I should be a jerk from time to time, grow out a mullet or something.

  9. Re:This doesn't exclude the Web from courtesy on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 1

    from envisionus.com:

    There are 8.7 million Americans age 45 and older who report a severe vision loss, including the inability to recognize a friend at arm's length or not being able to read print. More than 1.3 million Americans are legally blind, according to The American Foundation for the Blind.

    That's 3% of Americans with Severe vision impairment.

  10. Re:This doesn't exclude the Web from courtesy on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 1

    Do you run an airline? No. Sit down.

    Blind people may not look at art, but blind people certainly fly on airplanes.

    My site may not be used by blind people, but I was certain to write in xHTML so they could read it.

  11. Re:strategy packing on Moving Strategies? · · Score: 1

    I disagree about the car trip thing. When I moved to my new home, I took car loads from my old home with me to work, and unpacked them at my home during lunch time.

  12. Re:kuro5hin on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 1

    OK, how did this get through the lameness filter, when friday I got nailed for posting something with two all caps words, and three sentences? What the hell is wrong with this code?

  13. Re:Conjecture 2 on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 1

    Mine's around 146.. perhaps I'm doing something wrong in looking for someone who seems intelligent. Perhaps the corrolary to your corrolary is that intelligent people attract not so intelligent people? I shudder to hear it since I look for intelligence in a companion. Perhaps this means I shall never find an intelligent girl..

  14. Re:Found in Air Traffic Management Code: on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 2, Funny

    AIX 4.3 running on PPC has a d39dbeef error when there is a hardware problem. I've also seen a 0xdeadbeef before on a model 230. It was an error I was happy to see (230s were garbage)

  15. Re:The worst error EVAR on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    It is all in TEH CAPITELS!

    LOLERZ

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
    Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

    It's funny how one can get past the lameness filter by quoting the lameness filter. Especially funny is that this post is about using capital letters. Jeez.

  16. Re:From the old Sierra game on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    I once picked up a phone in Police Quest 3 at the wrong time and got this message. Also got it once leaving the police station. How they didn't think of it before was beyond me.

  17. Klingons on Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter · · Score: 2

    OK, the dagger in the patch appears to be Klingon. The plane's design appears to be TOS Klingon / Romulan.

    What would really impress me is something that looks like the D'Deridex Warbirds. Of course, something that large, and you'd need a cloaking device.

  18. Re:CD's are good enough and cheap. on More on DVD-Audio and SACD · · Score: 1

    The only reason the sony player can play DVDs and CDs and SACDs but NOT DVDAs is because DVDA is the competition. Some companies don't see it that way and hope you'll buy their combination players that do both DVDA and SACD.

    Problem there is that SACD is a 6 channel format that is put out in analogue. So much for digital technology... you may be able to copy it, so better push it to lower quality analogue. Thanks much Sony, but no thank you.

    DVDA is a special PCM signal. That can flow out via COAX or TOSlink to you receiver and get decoded there. (that's what CDs do when I play them back on my Philips DVD player)

  19. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 1

    WTH, there are several women that I'd not kick out of bed in the Apple 'switch' ads. And one I'd sm0x a bowl with, too.

  20. Re:Voltage on A Universal Power Bus? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone ever read the body of the question? The linked article was just there to show what the author feels is a complex solution to the problem. If you would have read it carefully, you would have realised that his whole point was based upon a different methodolgy entirely.

  21. Re:up front on Slate Predicts The End Of TiVo · · Score: 1

    Or, consider this: heavier TV watchers save a whole lot more. I consider myself a heavy watcher (compared with pre Ultimate TV service days) and I watch 13 hours of TV a week on average. Yes, I'm quite aware that is low by our American standards (toilet), but that's what I watch.. Anyway, I watch only one hour shows, so that's 20 minutes commercials skipped. 260 minutes or 4.33 hours of that are commercials. That's 225 hours a year saved! oww. Worth 11 bucks a month.

  22. Re:Privacy Manager on Fighting Telemarketers with Technology · · Score: 1

    Not on my bill. They charge 50 cents a month like most telcos. It's the best 50 cents I can spend in a month too. Not being home to take the calls helps too.

  23. Spigot on Halloween Costumes for 2002? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of dressing as spigot from jerkcity. I don't know why, seemed like a fun costume.

  24. You'd thiink on UUNET/WorldCom Backbone Diffiiculties · · Score: 2

    You'd thiink someone would make the obviious post about the use of the letter ii in the subject. II mean, iif they ediited the storiies a liittle closer, the'd not miiss such obviious spelliing errors.

  25. Re:Some tips for static urls on User-Centered URL Design · · Score: 1

    Client side re-directs are the only things that can theoretically send a 'moved' message to the client so they can update their bookmarks. I don't know what browsers do this though, but it is in a spec somewhere.