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  1. Re:Using Slashdot is Theft on Beating the College Bubble · · Score: 1

    You owe me $1 for deigning to reply to you.

  2. Re:Simple Solution: Stop being Elitist on Beating the College Bubble · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could leave off the Warhammer figures.

  3. Re:NewEgg * on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    You can opt out of Visa (there are plenty of reasons why you wouldn't, it is probably the most convenient credit card to have...).

  4. Re:I may not fully understand non-competes... on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    If you are the best employee, you don't need to sign a long term, binding contract to get a job (and most states have limits on the terms of the non compete anyway).

  5. Re:I can't bring myself to have much pity for them on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Retail is a nightmare. Newegg would have to turn themselves into something quite similar to the current retailers and you would eventually hate them too.

  6. Re:This makes me so mad I want to shoot somebody on Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just to maybe save you some time, this advertising strategy won't work all that well here, as the moderation system will quickly hide your posts for most users.

    Besides, do you really want to spend your life being a shithead?

  7. Re:Slashdot and Tags on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 1

    The tags look like crap in Firefox 3.

  8. Re:Where was the real improvement on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 1

    If you measure memory in terms of dollars of new hardware, the increased requirements aren't so bad.

  9. Re:Think Back... on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 will benefit from all the work that was done on compatibility and drivers for Vista.

    I will be surprised if it is really much more than Vista SP2.5 (but there really isn't any reason to retain the disastrous Vista branding, so they won't).

  10. Re:Weak on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    It doesn't count as a pun because it isn't one.

    In general, the goal when making a pun should be to make the absolute worst pun possible. A pun that fails to induce a groan didn't try hard enough.

  11. Re:Yeah, You Could Say That on Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    In all likelihood, if a stock you own got de-listed, your brokerage would show it in your account with a new ticker symbol (for the pink sheets). If the company is more than a scam, you should be able to find a bid and sell your shares, probably with your normal trading fee (but you should ask your brokerage about it...).

  12. Re:That's the cardinal problem with these surveys on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    First, I live in Michigan. That said, Kilpatrick was the mayor of an also-ran city, not one of the most powerful members of Congress. That doesn't make CNN a good actor here, but go ahead and find some examples where they fail to include the party of a member of Congress, rather than a corrupt, small time (former) mayor.

  13. Re:Regexp-based address validation on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Well, that makes more sense. It still seems a bit saner to break it up, but I don't think in regular expressions, I think in English and slowly test my way to something that works for what I am doing. It is a good thing I am not responsible for writing anything important, just this or that for my own use.

  14. Re:That's the cardinal problem with these surveys on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    Those numbers don't lie, but they don't mean anything. Stevens is the long serving senior Senator from Alaska who has enjoyed wide coverage for being a jackass, in addition to his recent trial for corruption. Jefferson is a corrupt member of the House of Representatives from a state famous for being corrupt. Why exactly would you expect teh Google to return the same number of matches for their names?

    The second one is equally meaningless, as the initial press awareness of Obama Rezko was like a year ago, where as the Palin thing is only a few months old.

    If you systematically controlled for how much attention a given story should be given (how powerful are the individuals involved, how recent is the scandal, etc.), you could use those numbers to argue. As it stands, you are typing shit into Google and stomping your feet.

  15. Re:Regexp-based address validation on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Can a valid address contain more than one @ character?

    If it can't, that regex, in my opinion, is really stupid, as it would be much clearer to deal with the part of the address before the @ separately from the part after the @.

  16. Re:Will this help ODF to make inroads? on ODF Toolkit Announced · · Score: 1

    Not when what you have is working and your primary goal is to reduce spending in the short to medium term (which is implied in the post I replied to).

    Over the long term, sure, open formats make loads more sense.

  17. Re:stirling engine is a no-go on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Doble steamers were way nicer:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doble_Steam_Car

    The biggest difference was a condenser.

  18. Re:Outdated? on After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test · · Score: 1

    Because I don't have to mess with the resulting file to use it on my media player, cell phone, etc., and storage is increasing irrelevant.

    (The amount of space that 1 song takes up on my USB drive is currently irrelevant; the amount of space 1 song takes up on my laptop disk is nearly irrelevant; the amount of space 1 song takes up on my exercise-centered mp3 player is largely irrelevant. I'm not a huge collector, but I bet my collection is somewhere beyond the 80th percentile of what normal people will ever deal with, so my experience is actually relevant)

  19. Re:use the cans, luke on After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test · · Score: 1

    If that is what you care about, you should just go ahead and follow someone else's encoder recommendations (the differences are small), and you certainly shouldn't bother sharing your listening experience with others.

  20. Re:Wait.. what? on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nearly the entirety of the alt.bin hierarchy lacks those keywords yet manages to contain a great deal of interesting content.

  21. Re:28 MPH is not fast enough for realistic street. on Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial · · Score: 1

    Batteries are highly recyclable. Especially the toxic stuff, as it is usually quite valuable.

  22. Re:Paper on Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? · · Score: 1

    If you are going to mediate reality through Hollywood, you might as well count on Will Smith to save you in the end.

  23. Re:MSFT goes SaaS? on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think Microsoft will have to cut significant costs to sell Windows for $25 a copy. Especially XP, which they have pretty much already paid for. As it stands, their OS sales are essentially printing money for them. Go to the following page and find the "Client" section to see what I am talking about:

    http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fr_dis.html

  24. Re:Yes and No. on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 0

    What made you think to taste it?

  25. Re:Nah on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought when I first got glasses.