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  1. Re:Here comes the SHOCKER! on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly few, since the booting is handled by openfirmware. It doesn't see internal vs, external, it sees firewire vs IDE. If you can get to the IDE drives, than you could jsut take it out and to a different machine.

  2. Re:Public Rights on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1

    Insubordination isn't a criminal charge unless you're in the military.

  3. Re:how do i do that on a laptop? on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    As someone who does tech support, you'd be amazed how little people use the right mouse button.

  4. Re:The inside layout is far better for an all-in-o on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    After doing a couple (so help us we had 12 of those accursed first gen ones), I could have it part, a hard drive pulled or ram upgraded, and back together in 15 minutes. Far longer than it should take, but still not an eternity.

  5. Re:Just wondering on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Its VESA compliant.

  6. Re:Email gateway? on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm an economist by degree, and I'm in no more position to judge than anybody else.

  7. Re:First Post on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but man its hard bending the iMacs goose neck down low enough to activate it.

  8. Re:A chilling effect on sales? on RIAA Sues More Music Lovers · · Score: 1

    Thats retarted. It's like saying you stole a car from a Honda dealership, liked it, and then went and bought a Civic. (Yeah, I know, real property, not accurate analogy because the song is immaterial, etc). The point is, if its not a try before you by type of deal, or any sort of deal offered by the owner of the property (which is probobly not ther person you got it from), its not legal.

    That said, I'm gonna fire up Limewire and get back to downloading.

  9. Re:Quick Search on Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let us know when it finished booting.

  10. Re:WAR! on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that they're still different. The amount of space you have for mail is less than a 100MB, its 15 MB. The iDisk space is a webdav volume. I have .Mac, use it for my personal email and for the iSync workflow (5 different macs around). The iDisk i never use.

  11. Re:Disposable Society on New Disposable Digital Cameras with LCDs · · Score: 1

    You mean exactally like the ol dfilm disposable cameras? What else would you like to do with it besides take it to a film developer?

  12. Re:not exclusive on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that's kind of a marginal distance. I mean, you can say Pittsburg is on the east coast if you live in California, even thoguht its really about as far from the ocean. Its a metter of perspective.

  13. Re:Legality?!? on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 1

    But its really the definition of what "market" thats the murkey issue. I could have a monopoly on left handed smoke shifters, but if the market isn't significant, it doesn't fint the legal definition of monopoly.

  14. Re:Legality?!? on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 1

    Th Real songs are perfectly legal to have and play. The issue is the possible infringment by Real's DRM changing. Change it to an MP3, and you're good to go by all counts.

  15. Re:For a LIMITED TIME only on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bait and switch? It's called a "sale". A bait and switch ios when they're sell you sometihng more expensive than the advertised item.

  16. Re:you forgot the biggy on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Ah, good ole Pulmbium. You make every glass of water just a touch sweeter.

  17. Re:the myth of apple for video and print on Apple's Motion Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    How do you mean? I do most of my work in Illustrator/After Effects/Photoshop/Final Cut. What integration in Premier works more natively than with Final Cut?

    Not being sarcastic, I'm honestly curious.

  18. Re:News? on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was BIG news....

  19. Re:BorisFX? on Apple's Motion Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    The no keyframes thing is pretty big. I can't wait for a copy to see how they are actually working that.

  20. Re:News? on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    They didn't have an ATA interface.

  21. LJ? on PostgreSQL Wins LJ Editor's Choice Award · · Score: 1, Funny

    PostgreSQL has won the LJ Editor's choice award for database servers the second year in a row

    Who new LiveJournal gave out awards?

  22. Re:Quicktime on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 1

    Any new codecs are a good thing, as long as (from the viewpoint fo someone who impliments solutions, not writes codecs), that its supported across platforms, and idealy included in the default install of the player app.

  23. Re:Quicktime on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 1

    *cough cough* DTSS*cough*

    I'll admit the best codec for streaming isn't open source o free, but BBCs complaints( re: the article) are about a per stream or per hour fee. The best codec is just a flat out purchase, and a cheap one as far as anything AV goes at that. If they don't like that, then write a new, better codec. Which is what they are doing, but that has nothing to do with all the comments about real or windows media.

  24. Re:Darwin Streaming Server / QTSS on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 3, Informative

    None of the above. Darwin SS is free (source and usage). To encode sometihng to it, you can use Quicktime Broadcaster, which is free (but not source), and only runs on a mac. You can of course encode with other solutions. The one of best ones on the market is Live Channel by Channel Storm, which runs about a grand as a one time price.

  25. Quicktime on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 0, Troll

    And what's wrong with QuickTime? It already does what is dounds like they want, and does it very well.