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  1. Re:Looks like my garage .. on A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful
    or my living room.

    I would look at some of those pictures and start thinking "I have one of those computers..and one of those..that one too.."

  2. Re:In other news... on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 1

    It's the pretty girls that are easy to find. There are zillions of them. Go to the grocery store, the gym, the mall, the bar, their everywhere.

    You're kidding, right? If not, WTF do you live???
  3. Re:Giggles. on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1

    we had an evolution section in our HS biology class and fail to see why it was even necessary. It was irrelevant to everything studied up to that point and everything afterwards. I would have rather spent those few weeks learning something useful or dissecting something.

  4. Re:Giggles. on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1

    No, that's just a person that isn't curious about their surroundings. It has nothing to do with whether or not they are a 'faith-based person' or not.

  5. Re:Armadillo = Amarillo? on John Carmack's Cell Phone Adventures · · Score: 1

    Armadillo Aerospace is the name of his company and it is located in Mesquite, TX which is near Dallas. I don't think he is misspelling Amarillo.

  6. Re:Mistake: on Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks · · Score: 1

    Yep. Buy a product, strip mine it for anything useful, and then kill it.

  7. Re:EMACS! on Programming Tools You've Used? · · Score: 1

    is it a requirement for an emacs user to have a beard? Or does using emacs make you not want to shave? As another hairy bearded Emacs man, I need to get the correct story for future converts to the Church of Emacs.

  8. Re:This has to be fake on The First Image Published on the Web · · Score: 1

    That's when you had the browser set up to launch xv or some other image display program when you clicked on an image. No one ever said it had to be displayed natively by the browser. Just published on the web.

  9. Re:spit take on Considerations for Raised Floor Installation? · · Score: 1

    don't laugh. I've heard of data centers where the 9-track tapes were being stored on a dirt floor and the guys running the data center wondered why the tapes drives were always going to hell.

  10. Re:TiVo, Netflix, ... on Netflix Pioneers Industry To Get Left in the Dust? · · Score: 1

    anyone else notice that SCO's ticker abbrev on yahoo's stocks page is not SCOX anymore, but SCOXE? What's the deal behind that?

  11. wait a minute.... on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    so you mean to tell me instead of using petroleum to make gasoline, diesel fuel, etc, we could be using it to make booze? If that's the case, why not take the turkey guts and then refine them to make Wild Turkey? That would sell for quite a bit more than $80/barrel.

  12. Re:good on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    The reason they have to pay $30-40/ton for turkey guts is because there is currently a market for it for use as ingredients in other products. The company was hoping that it would be made illegal to use turkey guts in feed for other animals. This would drive existing demand down to where they could get it for practically nothing. That didn't happen, so they have to pay what everyone else is currently paying for it. It's just a supply and demand problem. If no one had a use for turkey guts, then yes, a slaughterhouse would have to pay for someone to get rid of it.

  13. Re:What does this mean for the future of televisio on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    who says that anyone was watching them before? It's not like you couldn't switch channels or go to another room.

  14. Re:David R Foley on Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated] · · Score: 1

    that's what perl scripts are for.

  15. Re:'gain a relative economical advantage'.. on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: 1

    Yep. Expect more of the polluting industries moving to those countries, especially those from nations that signed on to Kyoto. I'm guessing that in 5 years time, China's bar in the BBC graph will have passed the EU and will be close to the US one.

  16. compromise on Philadelphia Considering Municipal Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Why not let the telco's run it, but allow the city to pay for a minimum level of service that's available to everyone? If a person wants more features, speed, whatever, then they can pay to upgrade. This can be something that's an 3-4 year contract and can be put up for competitive bid near the end of each contract. I certainly wouldn't want my city trying to run a wireless network because whatever they do touch ends up being screwed up.

  17. Re:Insight into the campus here... on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    Both. Based on the grads that they recruited from my college, I would say that it's a requirement to be a jerk. The first time they came to our campus was the first time anyone needed to complain to the placement office about recruiters harrassing students.

  18. Re:Consider whose campus it is on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1

    you do it because you can.

  19. need at least a G4 on RadioShark for Windows and Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I have a RadioShark and it works well. However, I was disappointed when it arrived that I could never get their application to record audio. It somewhat worked on XP, but had stuttering problems. In order to record shows, I ended up getting Audio Hijack and used it to treat the RadioShark as an audio input device. However, once I upgraded from a G3 to a G4, the recording feature worked as advertised. I couldn't find any documentation mentioning this requirement either. I guess they figure anyone would want to buy this already has a G4 or G5.

  20. it worked fine at the WSF until.. on Open-Source Streaming Translations in Porto Alegre · · Score: 1

    found a note from the WEF that read: Will you fucking hippies take a bath if I give you free soap? The translation volunteers from the FSF immediately started arguing over the meaning free, the French started molesting the SanFranciscans, the web geeks complained they didn't get a corresponding DTD, and none of them knew what to make of this 'bath' thing. Chaos reigned.

  21. Re:Vonage might not exist today w/o Powell. on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    can't use the satellite ISPs either?

  22. oh well on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    I stopped watching TV regularly years ago and don't have a need for a TiVo like device. Unfortunately, this was a high profile linux device and I wouldn't be surprised if the cable monopolies teamed up with MSFT to create their new set tops. Yet another reason to avoid TV.

  23. Re:One reason why I'm still using Window Maker.... on Xfce 4.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    what? no shared memory interface like what Sun and SGI had in 1992?

  24. Re:Nice Software But... on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1

    I don't mind discussing things I enjoy with other people either, but because I don't buy stuff to loan to my friends makes me selfish? LoL! Hmm..but you know you could be on to something. Maybe I should tell all the people that I've given gifts to that I was just loaning them the item. Then they might feel obligated to give it back someday.

  25. Re:Nice Software But... on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1
    Yep. The people that I trade concert recordings that we've made seem to think so. But given that they are at least a couple hundred miles away means that they don't pop over to borrow movies that they could get someplace 10 minutes away.

    I buy DVDs/CDs/books/whatever because I want to be able to enjoy them any damn time I please and to support the creators of those works. No other reason.