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  1. Perma-temps vs. open-source slaves... on Microsoft Settles 'Permatemp' Case For $97 Million · · Score: 1
    The way Microsoft has dealt with its staffing has been abominable.

    But what can we make of the feudal system of open-source? Sure, it's a better way to make software. But a lot of great ideas go uncompensated.

    Some get rich while others work their tails off for an ideal and make just enough to live- or nothing at all.

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  2. The hand that feeds me needs a vigorous biting. on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1
    Intrusive advertising is supposed to be illegal, but the kind that keeps the lights on at sites like this one- even pop-up ads, those are okay. Right?

    all spam all the time...

  3. such tape formats have existed for years - on Can You Back Up Data On Audio/Visual Media? · · Score: 1
    D1 for example and another specific to government work. Both can record audio/video as well as data. As a video editor it's great because you can backup your media as well as your data as quick as lightning.

    But if you want to spend slightly less than a hundred grand on a tape format that is essentially dead, you'll want something else.

    DVC-PRO is becomming pupular (translation: cheap) in spite of its inferior compression algorhythm (read: flaimbait) it would be a nice candidate for such a solution.

    i am such a ho

  4. Abandonware Definition...? on Warez and Abandonware · · Score: 1
    Does it simply mean a product you can no longer buy for which support is no longer available?

    In that case, half of my Mac software qualifies. Dammit! I paid full price for that crap.

    How long until Dreamcast stuff fits the definition? Oh, wait. I don't own one- so it must not.

    Pinochet Stages Violent Coups At Nursing Home

  5. Class M = identical evolution paths? on Planets In The Habitable Zone · · Score: 1
    Now I know why everyone spoke English on Star Trek!

    messages from other worlds

  6. PS1's are selling well... on PlayStation 2 Software Synopsis · · Score: 1
    ... either consumers are seeing through the hype or there are going to be some seriously pissed kids Christmas morning.

    Ming The Merciless on the election situation

    Gore takes his case beyond the Supreme Court - to the Hall of Justice...

  7. PS2 and SONY's promised features on PlayStation 2 Software Synopsis · · Score: 2
    Much hay has been made about the PS2 not playing MP3s.

    But there are many other problems, features Sony promised that never made the final product.

    Although the PS2 does toast bread, it does not do so evenly. And often crumbs become stuck in the heat sink, causing over-toasting.

    Even if you are at sea, the PS2 cannot officiate a wedding ceremony.

    keep repeating that until the shaking stops

    find out what Ming The Merciless thinks about Election2000

  8. KDE is proof that GUIs will always suck... on The Future Of The GUI? · · Score: 1
    We have a chance to re-work the very idea of a window manager/application platform and what GUI do we use? KDE- designed with a look at feel suspiciously close to Win9x. START menu anyone? And GNOME is just as bad- even slower than KDE on my machine.

    We say we want to revolutionize the user experience, but when it comes right down to it, we're out of ideas.

    It's time to face up to the truth here. We (and by that I mean all of us) have failed as developers and consumers of application platforms.

    ...and now- the dancing bears!

  9. Sure...we want to avoid a panic...sure... on Iridium Saved By the US Dept of Defense · · Score: 1
    1) Sattelites bought on the cheap from the military. 2) Cell phones are reputed to cause cancer.

    Who needs SDI when you have a space-based cancer weapon? It works something like the sattelite laser from Real Genius only much, much slower.

    Ridiculopathy.com: Our rejected plan to use it in a bid for world domination

  10. That's impossible - no, just highly improbable. on The Reactionless Space Drive? · · Score: 1
    They forgot the fairie cake and tea.

    "You're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

    The spaceship with the new reactionless drive flew into the air exactly the way that potatoes don't.

    Remember to read the New Post Office Plan

  11. Arakkis. Dune. Amelia Earhart. on Dune Scores Huge Ratings · · Score: 1
    With the hooded canvas stilsuits, the show looked at times more like a roaring 20's version of Lawrence of Arabia.

    we're really sorry about yesterday's outage- let us explain.

  12. What's that I smell...? on Dune Scores Huge Ratings · · Score: 1
    I you ever if Lynch deserved as much stick as he got over the original film- now you know.

    The original was inaccurate and goofy. But in spite of the cheesy Toto soundtrack, it was at least entertaining.

    I never thought anyone could make the first book look as dull as books 2 and 3.

    explaining yesterday's site outage...

  13. How to stretch a three hour story into six... on On The Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1
    • First take an established novel/film franchise and photocopy the script. Add no more than three additional scenes and take out a great deal of drama and character development- as well as any pesky inner-dialogue.
    • Begin shooting. Cut together the dailies and find that the show will run short- very short.
    • Have the actors talk slower. Hire Bill Hurt to slip into a coma on camera.
    • Lengthy landscape shots eat up loads of time (See: Prince of the City), but they are expensive.
    • If the actors refuse to speak more slowly, run the footage at a lower fps.
    • Sell the DVDs before anyone sees a frame of it.
    the sleeper must awaken!
  14. Dawsons Creek has spaceships! on On The Dune Miniseries · · Score: 5
    The two-hour season premiere of Dawson's Creek was awesome last night. I was a little confused, what with all the worms and 'thopters and all. But I know tv-style framing and tv-quality effects when I see them.

    I hear they spent three whole months on the post-production and it shows!

    The WB has never seen anything like this before. Take that, 7th Heaven!

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  15. L1, L2, Circle + Triangle= IRS Cheat Code on Part One: Up, Up, Down, Down · · Score: 1

    You'll see a special screen where you can write off damn near anything!

    I often use my Id godcodes which allow me to instantly acquire all the color-coded passkeys. Since I work in a futuristic office complex, this is very helpful. It used to take me over an hour to get access to the washroom.

    Gameshark Marriage/Parenting Codes!

  16. Stupid Question: Non-OSX BSD For Mac? on BSD to Leapfrog Linux? · · Score: 1
    I can't compare Linux to BSD since I use Mac hardware- right?

    i don't know- i'm just stupid. Don't look at me!

  17. ...with rolled edges and teakwood inlay on Build Your own Ms. Pac-Man machine from Scratch · · Score: 2
    I think I saw this on an episode of Norm Wilkins' Yankee Workshop - or was it The Furniture Guys?

    Wakawaka.

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  18. This is old news. on New Device Could Overcome Low Vision · · Score: 1
    I read about this being offered with AT&T Digital Cable.

    more information

  19. I didn't understand Dave Barry's PS2 Review at all on Dave Barry Takes On Sony · · Score: 1
    Huh? What kind of review has cartoons?

    Oh, well.

    More stuff I don't quite get

  20. I'm an American; I *demand* to be entertained. on Satellite Radio Coming Soon(?) · · Score: 1
    Great another subscription cost every month. Another method of distilling an industry down to five or six players. Another way to fix something that ain't broke until it is.

    aw, screw it

  21. Open the CD drive, HAL on Son of HAL For Sale · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  22. Hand TLDs over to the UN (he he he) on If ICANN Can't, Who Can? · · Score: 1
    The old maxims:
    Concentrated power=bad
    Distributed power=good

    But what about power distributed to the point where it is completely ineffectual, but at the same time (due to its democratic nature) holds a great deal of credibility? You have the United Nations, a body which passed the Universal Declaration of Human rights back in the 1940's and has yet to develop any real teeth for it.

    Mr. Dictator, sir? Please stop mutilating your own people in a desperate bid to hold on to power.

    Laws without enforcement or the will of enforcement are worse than no laws at all. If ICANN is the United Nations, then we can do what we have always done: ignore them.

    Will history remember the open-source phenomenon like it has communism: as a short-lived farce?

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  23. Nixon, Swimsuit Competitions, & Ming The Merciless on Florida Election Votes Certified · · Score: 1
  24. Now only Microsfot-made viruses will work on Whistler MAY Refuse To Run All Unsigned Code UPDATED · · Score: 1
    But script-kiddie macro viruses will still function perfectly.

    www.ridiculopathy.com

  25. Socialized Broadband Like Socialized Medicine? on Canada May Name High-Speed Access "Essential" · · Score: 1
    Great, so now we'll have to wait in line to download our mail.

    take off, hosers!