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  1. Re:Sci fi "original series" on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    They just need to do good books, not crappy ones.

  2. Re:AOL is sadly the standard on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    AOL created the buddy list, which is a way to find other people online, and message them. I always thought that ICQ copied AOL's idea. Or maybe it happened at the same time?

  3. Re:AOL is sadly the standard on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    sorry, I missed that. heh.

  4. Re:Blizzard will have a field day..... on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    I will make sure not to buy it then, 640 was too small back in the day, and that patch for tiberian sun worked pretty good. If I only had a fast computer then.

  5. Re:AOL is sadly the standard on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    Just look at their name.
    America Online. heh
    They've tailored themselves to american's who don't know a modem from a floppy.

  6. Re:AOL is sadly the standard on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    Interesting to note that the early days of ICQ everyone said its like a buddy list for the internet, in other words, aol invented the concept?

  7. Re:Blizzard will have a field day..... on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    Whoops, I meant Mass Media

  8. Re:Blizzard will have a field day..... on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    As you can see here:
    http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/review/25002.h tml

    they have released starcraft 64 for the nintendu 64.

    It was released by nintendu, go figure.

  9. Re:Hmm. on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    Our new PSP plays SACD's too!

  10. Re:What are NetBSD's strengths? on NetBSD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I thought the military sites used webstar running on classic macos, since it supposedly had no vulnerabilities?

  11. Re:Ahh... So they bought it for the name on AOL Making Media Player, Music Store · · Score: 1

    Interesting that they admit their users are idiots. heh.

  12. Re:Oh crap.... on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 1

    we need a completely new protocol for eliminating spam, where mail client and servers talk to each other, like say 'this address is never spam'
    etc

  13. Re:More appropriate than you think on History of Video Games · · Score: 1

    1963(-68)
    Name change to Nintendo Co. Ltd and starts to produce various products.

    This year they changed the company name to what it is today, Nintendo Co. Ltd. and started to manufacturing games and toys
    instead of playing cards. New products were produced. For example a portioned instant rice which sadly became a failure.
    After that Hiroshi opened a "love hotel" with room rented by the hour. Fact is that Hiroshi himself was a big costumer at this
    love hotel although that he was a married man (His wife knew about his visits but she ignored it)! Another of Hiroshi's
    projects was "Daiya" a taxi company which was going well but after having to negotiate with far to powerful taxi driver
    unions wanting higher salaries etc he closed this business and later he also closed the love hotel also.

  14. Re:my opinion on Review: Black Hawk Down · · Score: 1

    I was trying to discredit the whole stupid thing in Afghanistan. Sure, they tried to be accurate in killing only the Taliban, but they not accurate enough. Obviously, the soldiers have not been trained in accuracy. Now the angered Islamic world will rise up in a final conflict.

  15. my opinion on Review: Black Hawk Down · · Score: 1

    B.H.D is a political movie about what happens when dumbass politicians and an ignorant citizenry send people off to die for no good reason anybody can think of (unlike Afghanistan).

    Actually, that does sound like Afghanistan.
    I would say that at least as many innocent Afghan people died as died in 9/11.

    Anyone who has any legitimate opinion other than mine I like to hear.

  16. This will never happen in the US for 100 years on New Thoughts in Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    because of greed and stupidity and short-sightedness. If we had this, we could be much more efficient as a society; no more traffic jams, no more accidents, etc....

    Too bad money controls all innovation today.

  17. Great business opportunity! on Role Specific Distributions? · · Score: 1

    This is a great business opportunity!
    Build your own little homemade distro with a custom kernel, strip it down to the bare minimum drivers for whatever hardware the ibm, compaq, and dell servers have, call it "DNS-OS for Dell PowerEdge 1200", FTP-OS for ... , NFS-OS for ..., WEB-OS for ....
    Your clueless PHB will no longer be frightened and confused by running ftp and http servers on the same machine! (THE SECRET IS CALL IT ANYTHING BUT LINUX BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF SUPPOSEDLY UNSUPPORTED SYSTEMS)
    Also have a mini x window system running
    a gui for shutting down and configuring the system. (ie instead of gnomestart or kdestart run mydnsconfig or whatever on x startup) no bloat!
    or just use microwindows.
    And of course, use that graphic program that covers up the horrifying kernel boot messages that people are scared of.

    Oh yeah, and if you use my ideas, I have them Patented^TM ;]

  18. Re:Apple on A Linux User At MacWorld · · Score: 1

    Why not assassinate Bill Gates. Think about it, it is really the only way to destroy Micro$oft.

  19. This is OT on Miguel On GNOME, Bonobo, .NET and more · · Score: 1

    If greed is the root of all sorts of injurious things and the causative factor in all evil, would that not mean that Bill Gates is the personification of evil?

  20. Re:Not sweaty on No More Sweaty Mouse Hands · · Score: 1

    find an exercise you enjoy. Try humping the area between your boxspring and mattress.

    But seriously, every hour take a five-minute break, walk around outside to ensure that your eyes do not wear out and your back and shoulders and neck can loosen up.

  21. A Knight in shining white lab-coat armor! on Watson To Be Knighted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank you for your discovery. Thank you for all the mutated monkeys and ghastly abnormal children who will become our slaves. Not if, but when it happens.

    BTW, When is Tolkien going to be knighted, now that he is making the Brichtish government some dough?

  22. Re:Future of videogames on Aussies Ban GTA3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because destroying a planet, as in star wars, etc.. is somehow supposed to be impersonal; you do not know all those people or ever meet them; yet in this game, you have sex with a prostitute, which by itself could offend some people, but then you kill her, and it is very graphical shown up close in detail.

  23. Re:Same wine, new bottle on Money in the Music Business · · Score: 1

    Making electronic music is cheap. Buy a IBM eServer xSeries 200 for 700$ from warehouse.com. 128 mb ram, 850 mhz celeron, 128kb L2 cache, 48x cd. Get a IBM 9.1 gb ultra 160 scsi hdd for 250$ Use all the free music software from the internet. Spend a few days making the track. Release to mp3.com and start making money right away anytime anyone downloads your song.

  24. Re:Same wine, new bottle on Money in the Music Business · · Score: 1

    Start making electronically synthesized music.

  25. Take a plane to Asia for this price!!!! on Microsoft Runs Out Of Windows XP Family Licenses · · Score: 3, Funny

    Instead of buying three copies for $580, why not take advantage of the low airfares, hop a plane to China or
    Japan or Taiwan or Hong Kong and get a pirated cd with Windows XP and thousands of dollars of other
    software for only $20 !!!
    I am not kidding, you really can! Software EULA's cannot be strictly enforced like
    in the US. I bought cds from a couple of different street vendors while on
    vacation. One had Windows XP with a tons of utilites and antivirus program,
    another one had softimage xsi, 3ds max 4 with 500 plugins, photoshop 6 and
    scads of plugins, lightwave 3d 5.6, a bunch of professional ocr software,
    maya 3, adobe illustrator 9, freehand 9, hundreds of fonts, macromedia flash,
    fireworks, adobe after effects, adobe premiere 6, quicktime pro 5, media studio pro 5.0, etc...
    easily $20000 of software!