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  1. Re:Silent Movies on Metropolis Reconstructed · · Score: 1

    In 2001 the first word is about twenty-five minutes into the film ("Here you are, sir. Main Level D."), and, in total, there is less than fourty minutes of dialogue. Most of the dialogue is trivial, too. Perhaps you should re-watch some of those, closer this time.

  2. Re:Sweet! on New Alloy Stronger Than Fe And Ti · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe, you LOSER! HA! Go back to your BSD, Mr. Brad.

  3. Re:OT, how can I get mozilla to stop this? on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 1

    I used Galeon, which uses gecko to render stuff, so I don't know if these options actually exist in Mozilla. But, with Galeon, one can block images from a specific site. Why not just choose to block image from ad.doubleclick.net?

  4. Alexander Pope on Many Eyes, Shallow Bugs, and Spider-Man · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit,
    T'avoid great errors must the less commit;
    Neglect the rules each verbal critic lays,
    For not to know some trifles is a praise.
    Most critics, fond of some subservient art,
    Still make the whole depend upon a part:
    They talk of Principles, but Notions prize,
    And all to one lov'd folly sacrifice.

  5. Re:Non-deathmatch, eh? on Non-Deathmatch: Preempt v. Low-Latency Patch · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm using them right now. I even have the card (a TNT2) overclocked using nvclock.

  6. Re:Nice rant... but it goes to show... on Sell Out: Blocking an Open Net · · Score: 1

    Says me, the founders of the US, and a whole boatload of philosophers. And people don't have a right to an education -- they have a right to learn. Also, I wasn't talking about the utilitarian value of *any* of this, like you seem to be. People are born with a right to speak freely; no government or other institution has the right to take that away from any of us. When they do, it is a crime against nature.

  7. Re:Nice rant... but it goes to show... on Sell Out: Blocking an Open Net · · Score: 1

    This is the egocentricity of the entirety of Englighenment thinking then. The right to speech exists INDEPENDENTLY of any government. Governments can choose to remove it, but they cannot choose to grant it because people have it when they are born.

  8. Re:Bah ... it *proves* that he cares on Interview With Linus · · Score: 1

    Osu!

  9. Re:New marketing scheme on Kernel 2.4.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Sure, I'll gladly pay double what I paid for 2.4.12 for the next kernel!

  10. Re: kpf - web server applet: please don't on KDE 3.0 Alpha1 Available for Developers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it does make your point if you ignore his justifications.

  11. Re:Al Gore, an intellect by all accounts? I disagr on Bobby Fischer Online? · · Score: 1

    Just like Thomas Jefferson, who had a well known fear of public speaking? Boy, *that* guy was a moron!

  12. Re:You know this aint so bad really. on George Lucas Wields Light Saber · · Score: 1

    CopyRIGHT laws have nothing to do with this. This is a matter of trademark law.

  13. Re:Intels aquisition of compaq alpha on Architectural Difference Between The P4 And G4 · · Score: 1

    That would be funny. Intel's chips start selling better because their internals are now more like AMD's. The irony.

  14. My prompt on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 1

    I only do this when I am actually logged in. (su -, that is, not just su). \[\033[0m\]--\[\033[1;31m\][\[\033[1;36m\]\u@\h\[\ 033[1;31m\]]\[\033[0m\]-\[\033[1;31m\][\[\033[1;33 m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]]\[\033[0m\]-- \[\033[1;32m\] \$ \[\033[0m\]

  15. Re:so... on Quantum Encryption Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    Yeesh, that's aluminium, damn yank!
    ...
    ...
    :-)

  16. Re:First Amendment for Individuals, NOT Corporatio on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court would beg to differ. After the case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, corporations were given the same rights as individuals under the fourteenth amendment. So, according to the Supreme Court, corporations are individuals. I think that sucks donkey balls, but until it goes to the court again (or there is an amendment -- not likely), we're stuck with it.

  17. Re:Is it really necessary.. on Linux Descending into DLL Hell? · · Score: 1

    "Linux" isn't anything but a kernel. You can size a specific distribution however the hell you want, so I see no reason to complain. I built my own distro, and my /usr/share takes up 77M. Actually, my largest directory is /usr/src which takes up about 2GB right now. Of course, I there is the fact that I keep every source file to every program I've compiled, from the kernel, to glibc, to XFree86, to Blackbox. My point is, there are ways less "drastic" than making your own distro to slim down linux, and by complaining and not using them you're making very little sense at all.

  18. Re:uh oh on Linux Descending into DLL Hell? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry. I built my own distro around Glibc 2.1. When I upgraded to glibc 2.2 I had literally *no* problems at all. The fact that it didn't come with libdb threw me for a loop, but you can download and install that that seperately.

  19. Re:Blatant Karma Whoring: on Prevailing Against Michigan Censorship · · Score: 1

    As has been said before, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  20. Anarchy-Online and Linux on Download 600MB From The EU -- For A Demo? · · Score: 1

    I signed up for the beta awhile ago, and said I was running linux for my OS since they said they'd eventually have a linux client. Well, I just got accepted, but I see only Windows stuff and I'm not too keen on downloading 600MB over a 56k just to see if it has the linux client. Is there currently a linux client? If so, where can I get it? I want to play the game, but I'd like to see it now before I become a paying customer after the linux client actually comes out.

  21. Re:read the article on Computer and Technology Show · · Score: 1

    Golly, you sure seem like you think you're right. Too bad you caren't. If you read the expo's rules, it said you are not allowed to hand out things anywhere but from your booth. Second, it is private property, so the ownership has the authority to do just that. That doesn't change the fact that it was funny or that MS a faux paus, but legally, the LUG was in the wrong.

  22. Re:"insightful" not "troll" on Myst III: Exile Review · · Score: 1

    I don't know what weird games you've been installing, but SimCity 3k, Quake III, and HeavyGear 2 all installed fine for me. As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single game that I've ever needed more than one library at most, and that library is usually SDL, so I only have to install it once.

  23. Re:AOL on AOL And The GPL · · Score: 2

    Yes, you are correct, but that isn't the point. The GPL places the burden of distributing GPLed code on the distributor, not the creator, which is Transmeta in this case. They also have to include a copy of the GPL and information about how to get the source code within their distribution, neither of which they did.

  24. Re:Mixed Response on This One on Congress@Work · · Score: 1

    The Constitution isn't meant to be a restrictive document. "These are your only rights, no more, no less." It is designed to give people the freedom they need to create a sustainable government. There is a reason the US is the longest lived democracy. (as in, government by the governed, not specifically a democracy or a republic, etc)

  25. Re:Mixed Response on This One on Congress@Work · · Score: 1

    Technically, we have more rights than are enumerated in the Constitution itself. Read the ninth amendment.