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  1. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point on Zune Team Getting Amnesty for iPod Use · · Score: 1

    I am interested in how you do this since I'd like to play my music on my PS3 as well - the only ones that play now are non-drmed AAC files and MP3s.

  2. Re:The ass casts the deciding vote on Two-headed Reptile Fossil Found in China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Evolve radiating appendages that are highly vascularized to move blood rapidly away from the hot "core" with the brain.
    Doesnt't sound plausible because high blood flow at those rates exposes you to serious damage by relatively small injuries.

  3. Re:The Anatomy of Your Enemy on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    This is probably one of the most insightful lyrics I have read in a long time.

  4. Re:I got the mailling on Settlement Good News for MotorolaV710 Owners · · Score: 1

    Actually you missed the complete and most attriactive option:

    Option 2: Current Customers can cancel service without an early termination contract AND return the phone and accessories for a ful refund.

    That is exactly what I am going to do.
    However I will have to be careful in setting this up since I do not want to lose my current phone number.

  5. Re:I work 14 hour days most of the time on Online Music Stores Compared · · Score: 1

    Typical.
    People seem to think they are entitled to get things for free.
    Like Backups. Its your property - Apple says so, hence yours to backup. They do keep records and I have been allowed to re-download music before but that is a rare instance since it costs Apple money to allow you to re-download the music.

  6. Re:Oversights on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 1

    Typical non belivers!

    The noodly appendage of our lord has interceeded again and saved his mousley creations from demise at the hands of the heathen!

    Read the entry below to be saved!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Mons ter

  7. Re:For those who don't RTFA on Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms · · Score: 1
  8. HRH etched into the back? on iPod Gets The Royal Nod · · Score: 1

    I wonder if she'll get the free engraving of HRH on the back of the iPod.... mmm Henrietta H Hippo.
    Sorry my friends from across the pond but Homer simpson ruined her royal majesty's initials.

  9. Re:Legislative body on Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    If someone came to me and said, "For several million dollars, would you be willing to sell out the constitutional ideals of our nation?" I'd have to say absolutely not.

    What about a few hundred million?
    That seems to be the magic number.

  10. Re:Wifi ? on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is the official list of supported hardware.
    http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.h tml

    You will find that a lot of older hardware works, just not as well as you would hope.

    YMMV.

  11. Re:The private life of public figures. on Publisher Wiley's Books Pulled from Apple Stores · · Score: 1

    Kind to Childred that matched his expectations for what Aryan children should be.
    That excluded Jewish children, children of other races, children with physical imperfections/deformities or mental deficiencies.
    Those he didn't care much about.

  12. Re:IE not worth caring about on Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge · · Score: 1

    Yes, Plenty of people care what happens to IE.
    Many organizations have IE as the standard and build internal applications that work with no other Browser. Re-engineering and re-implementing these systems would be a costly and probably lengthy process.
    That would simply not fly since most people are of the min "If it ain't broke, why fix it?"

  13. Re:Oh, right! on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 1

    What's even funnier about this whole RIAA members/artist contract is that most RIAA members overexpose their artists using Payola etc producing higher turnover thus there is less to pay to artists since without an established name and fan base, you can pretty much expect to never see any riches from your hard work.

    Brilliant.

    For brevity here it is in a /. friendly format:

    1) Create Oligopoly
    2) Create airtight draconian contracts with artists
    3) Overexpose said artist ensuring they burnout quickly

    Profit!!!

  14. Flame-Bait, Pure and Simple. on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The very airs the submitter adopts is obviously geared towards riling up a negative response against Gates. I think most slashdotters will realize this and see the donation for what it is - providing help to the less fortunate and not an avenue to decry Gates for not giving 99% of his net worth.

  15. Physical Evidence for Evolution on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    DeoxyRibonucleic Acid also known as DNA.
    Look it up sometime - it will explain a lot.

  16. Re:Final Comment from the Article on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    Excluded from the event just means they were not allowed to be on hand during the speech, asking pesky questions and the like.
    A formal release would probably have been made afterwards - he does like publicity, just not those accountability issues that come with taking a stand on an issue.

  17. Final Comment from the Article on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the final comment from the article speaks the most about the mindset of this fellow:

    The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said.

  18. Big changes at Intel? on Intel "East Fork" Technology Migration · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems the company is trying to go in a significantly different direction to retain its market dominance.

    1) New Non Engineer CEO :
    http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2004/0 411 151128.asp?S=Career%20Moves&A=MOV&O=FRGN

    2) GHz No longer a big deal after marketing it for so many years as the only major thing you need to know about the performance of a computer.
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/14 /intel_kill s_4gh/

    3) Shift to Better if not necessarily newer technology - see article above: oh who am I kidding....
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/chipsets /display/2004 1111133206.html

  19. Expected Outcome. on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This has been the expected outcome of Nullsoft's assimilation into the corporate giant that is AOL.
    Read more here: http://p2pnet.net/story/2965

  20. Re:Not hydrogen powered on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By your convention, all current internal combusion vehicles are solar powered. The fuels we burn(gasoline, methane, diesel, kerosine) all come from crude oil which was created from plants that got their energy from the sun millions of years ago.

    Just stating the obvious here but your point is a moot one since you imply (however correctly) that oil is just the sotrage medium for the energy from the sun.

  21. Re:And as usual, Apple is the pioneer on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ.
    If you are the first to realize that unneeded legacy ports and devices are holding back your architecture and utilize existing technology to enhance your product, I'd call that innovative.

  22. Comments by the Author on Database File System · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The author is asking for help to move the project to Gnome.

    Quote:There is of-course the hard choice of platform. I choose KDE? because I am familiar with QT a bit, and because it is inherently object-oriented, being C++ and all. But in my mind GNOME? is much closer to how I would like a desktop system to function. So I would like to go for the GNOME option. I leave KDE developers to do what they want with this, and I am offering them support. But I would like to focus my efforts on GNOME and implementing the above in GNOME.

    Any volunteers?
    In the first place we will need developers. Would you like to join, send me an email (o.gorter@student.utwente.nl) with DBFS and JOIN somewhere in the subject. If you are not a developer, but still would like to help, please revisit this page in a few weeks. There will probably be a community website by then somewhere.

  23. Re:Real bounty on Motorola Hacker Rewards Program · · Score: 1

    Whats so great about them?

  24. A Rose by any other Name... on SCO Playing Name Games · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is still a Rose.

    Now s/Rose/SCO/ .
    Get the picture?

  25. Re:Buzz's attitude...Neil's professionalism on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 1

    This is afterall Slashdot and your wristwatch could be the equivalent of a portable PC!