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  1. Re:How is this different? on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    Porting an MP3 codec to whatever computer hardware is current is a little easier than fabricating a tape deck from scratch.

  2. Re:difference is rate on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    Are there a lot of devices that "discriminate" against MP3's? Except for Sony, most DAPs work just fine with MP3...

    Call me crazy.

  3. Re:How is this different? on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    "Go ahead, just try to open the documents you created on your old comodore 64 on a new machine without any special software or conversion"

    Uh huh. Try to open something that's secured with wood screws without a screwdriver.

    Why would you exclude using the tools that solve the problem from the solution to the problem?

  4. Re:Harder to revolt on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    We shall accept your tribute in the form of large caliber firearms and expensive A/V equipment. We are pleased with your fealty.

  5. Re:Harder to revolt on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I didn't suggest any scenarios...

    Anyhow. I'm guessing "all talk" would be a good assumption until things get substantially worse.

    Which is entirely possible...

  6. Re:Harder to revolt on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    Have you actually heard somebody say that, to you?

  7. Re:Remember folks. on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    You gotta be careful with dihydrogen monoxide...that stuff's DANGEROUS!

  8. Re:Um... on How Microsoft Takes a Name · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hey, I was looking for the KDE and MacOS X version of this guy's Windows Defender project, and I couldn't find it.

    If he wanted to fight, he should have fought. Maybe he'd have gotten something, maybe not. However, by surrendering immediately and then whining that the other guy won, he just sounds like a crybaby.

  9. Re:Doesn't add up. on Did Apple Sabotage the ROKR? · · Score: 1

    What does how many songs you can carry in your pocket have to do with what is "really what people need"? And who are you to make that determination in the first place?

    Get some perspective.

  10. Re:They probably will start testing it on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Nothing was wrong with that particular sentence. I simply found the notion expressed in the sentence rather funny.

    Did you read the rest of the post?

  11. Re:They probably will start testing it on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Since you're not my English teacher, your critique of my style is superfluous.

    I never liked Hemingway, and I won't write like him.

  12. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Well, gee! Thanks for clarifying, but I'm not the one who's confused. I am very comfortable with the fact that words mean different things in different countries.

  13. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Uh, duh. I know that. What the poster didn't know is that, here in America, biscuits and cookies do not intersect in the culinary Venn diagram as they do in the UK.

  14. Re:They probably will start testing it on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    "that those like you often were the ones to fail"

    That you make this generalization based on zero understanding of what exactly I am like makes me doubt that your scientific acumen is much better than your grammatical skills.

    But, hey, if you think that organizing your thoughts poorly (IE lousy spelling and grammar) somehow makes you seem smart, I think that's fine. Makes it easy for me to ignore your silliness.

    Note: There is zero correlation between spelling accuracy and intellectual capacity. That you perceive an inverse relationship where none exists is nothing more than an indicator of your arrogance.

    Have a nice day! I'd be delighted to be added to your foes list.

  15. Re:Schools... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    ID is not a theory. It is a fantasy.

  16. Re:They probably will start testing it on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    "They weren't very hard to pass"

    Obviously not...

  17. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've never heard of buttermilk biscuits described as "cookies". I think you're a little confused there. Must be all the limes.

  18. That's not the important part. on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    So then, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is in, right?

  19. I hate statements like this. on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The back pressure creates a vortex that pulls it around, turning drag into lift,"

    Every time people say such things in a marketing blurb, an aerodynamicist dies. Clap your hands! Clap your hands to save them!

  20. Re:Great! on No More Science on the ISS Until Further Notice · · Score: 1

    Great idea, if the ISS had ever gotten its full crew aboard. Unfortunately, since the ACRV was scrapped, only three people could remain aboard ISS (that's how many would fit in the Soyuz return vessel that was docked up there for emergencies), which is almost enough people to oversee the maintenance tasks required.

    I am a huge proponent of manned space exploration. The ISS is only barely manned, and is not exploratory at all. It has been a giant distraction.

  21. Re:Science and religion on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see what you mean...drawing the distinction that "micro happened, but macro is a figment of Darwin's imagination."

    Gotcha.

    I was going to be pretty suprised that you got anywhere in genetics without somebody at least mentioning natural selection... : )

  22. Re:This is insanse on Nvidia Launches New Affordable GPU · · Score: 1

    Gosh, it's almost like other people have a different set of priorities than you do. What a shocking revelation! Do you need to sit down? Maybe a nice glass of water?

  23. Re:This is insanse on Nvidia Launches New Affordable GPU · · Score: 1

    Um, which years was it that Apple shipped two boxed OS releases?

  24. Re:Science and religion on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to be held accountable for my choices. If I stand before the Throne, I'd rather say "I chose to be this way", rather than "I did what some book told me to".

    Particularly when that book tells me to kill witches (or thieves, depending on your translation) and tells me not to wear two different kinds of cloth at the same time.

  25. Re:Science and religion on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    "I also took 2.5 years of genertics without ever hearing about the macro.micro evolution."

    Huh? You can't be serious.

    Did you go to the Billy Graham Bible College?