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  1. Re:it wont help your problem... on DVD Authoring Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    Which is only for Macs, so it doesn't answer the question (and yeah, its really is great software). I'd recommend Adobe's Encore.

  2. Encore on DVD Authoring Under Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First off, I'm a video editor, and yes i use macs all day. yes, DVD studio is the best thing since sliced bread. and no, that doesn't answer the question. The best PC program I've found for DVD authoring is Adobe's Encore. At $550, its not free, but you get what you pay for with AV stuff.

  3. Re:No VBR in tests? on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 1

    Useless for me too. Too bad they weren't making the article for us, they were making it for somebody who doesn't know anything about video codecs.

  4. Re:Made on a Mac? on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 3, Informative

    The reason its poor is that they're using the free version of Sorenson 3, as opposed to the pro version that everybody else in the world doing pro video with shelled out $300 for (and is well worth it).

  5. Re:Nasa's Got it All Wrong on O'Keefe Under Fire for Hubble, ISS Decisions · · Score: 1

    remind me again how they got the Hubbell to were it is, and how they get people up there to service it?

  6. Re:As Wes Borg would say... on Protecting Our Parents' PCs? · · Score: 1

    What was that from????

  7. Re:Sure, make him WORSE. on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    How is this insightful? This guy went to school in obviously a different social world than most of us did it seems. what jocks? We just had people that played sports, and people that did other stuff as well. There was no grunting, locker shoving jocks. Those just exist on tv, and in high school in the 80's it looks like.

    Should I guess from your low UID you're in your 30s? High school isn't like that anymore.

  8. Re:Sports! on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    But here's the thing. If you stink at tennis, wether you're playing doubles or singles, your team would still mock you if you really suck. Thats why you practice a bit before you join the team. Lessons from the hot tennis instructor were defiantly a fun point in my childhood.

  9. Re:Role-playing games. on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    I can go with that. I've just always found physical activity better for blowing off stress, and RPG's better for just plain ol' fun.

  10. Re:Sports! on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll bite trollman. I pity you if you think the only people that play any sort of team sport are your stereotypical jock. Course, those same lacking of social skills might be why your sniping as an anonymous coward.

  11. Re:Sports! on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    Defiantly gotta disagree with you here. I see your point, but the congratulations you get when you do a good job at it makes it all worth while.

    Besides, its like anything else, to get good, you have to practice at it. Nobody expects anyone to be born knowing how to catch a baseball. That why you play catch.

  12. Re:Role-playing games. on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was a DM. Comes with the territory.

    But my point is more that he needs to learn how to socialize with real people, not just us geeks.

  13. Sports! on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have him play a team sport! Get him outside and away from the text books for a change.

  14. Re:Role-playing games. on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait. We're trying to foster social skills here. Knowing a rule book backwards and forwards did far more damage to my social skills than an sport I've ever played.

    Just take him out in the sun and have him play ball with the rest of his age group.

  15. Re:No such thing as a free lunch on Linux & Microsoft as a Cold War? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How so? If I develop something for free because I'm a nice guy, how does that suddenly become something I need to support until the end of time?

    It's not like I'm getting paid to do this, and if you choose to run my buggy software that I released rather than just sit on, thats your choice. Not my responsibility.

  16. Re:My favorite statement came from a 'sysadmin' on The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You also have to remember, that their interpretation of what the IT guy said.

  17. Re:Maybe it's different in England on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    I thought it was more based on the original ages of your roads being from some 200 years before we were a country.

  18. Re:Maybe it's different in England on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    Thats because in America, we have shoulders on our roads, instead of barely the width of 2 cars.

  19. Re:What bills are necessary? on Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction? · · Score: 1

    Its not a problem of accepting the situation, its a problem of either being as transient as they are, or not seeing them a big chunk of the year. I accept that my girlfriend is looking at positions like that (intl policy major), but the fact that my great job (in this shitty market) is not mobile causes a bit of an issue. Frankly, Its a choice I haven't finished making yet. I love her, but I also don't like being homeless.

  20. Re:Oh great... on Super Tuesday Not So Super For Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    For the record, this didn't happen on my ballot in Maryland today.

  21. Re:I don't think that helps on Science of the coin-toss: Bias in Heads-or-Tails · · Score: 1

    Right, but you only have the initial bias since its landing at the same high it was flipped from. A varying hight alters that.

  22. Re:A voice is missing... on Cities Building Own Fiber Networks · · Score: 1

    Because they don't have any good reason to? They're making a nice profit now, and probably would make less of a profit if they did what you wanted.

    They could also give you a gold brick for being one of their customers, but neither are good for their bottom line.

  23. Re:what about Mac OS for *nix geeks? on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 2, Funny

    s/diffrent/good/g;

    See, even us Mac users can learn.

  24. Re:Wicked. on Flash Mob Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    Missed that.

    Even still, why would you? I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario that would need distributed computing to record anything.

  25. Re:Wicked. on Flash Mob Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    Expect just think about how many cycles your iPod has.

    Reminder, its a walkman.