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  1. Re:20 years? on Roadkill on the Convergence Highway · · Score: 1

    Forgive me, but I'm positive you're insane :)

  2. Re:20 years? on Roadkill on the Convergence Highway · · Score: 1

    The only difficulty in that is in obtaining 3 tunable signals, and getting them into something to record them.

    Why would you bother with music higher than 192kbps? No one can tell the difference, not even a lot of blind people can tell the difference. higher than 48khz? trying to get something so your dog can tell you it sounds better?

      There are a few (very few) DVD-Audio discs out there that are 'round sound.

  3. 3drealms website on Duke Nukem Forever to Arrive December? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    anyone else notice that 3d Realms website no longer exists?

  4. Re:Prey first. on Duke Nukem Forever to Arrive December? · · Score: 2, Funny

    somewhere or other i have a PC Gamer dead-tree edition with the cover story of PREY ... from 1996, I think.

  5. what?! on Chess Program Released for Linux and Mac · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean GNUChess isn't considered the cream of the crop?!

  6. Re:Slow torrent speeds on Star Wreck Released as Download · · Score: 1

    1.3% downloaded, currently uploading at speeds over 80k/sec, and downloading at 9k/sec.

      Sigh.

  7. torrent linked in article on Star Wreck Released as Download · · Score: 1

    Using the torrent linked in the article, I'm pumping outbound at over 30k/sec, but my inbound is less than 1k/sec. Seed up, people!

  8. Re:Integration versus Bundling, Choice on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    Would you complain if Windows could only run software written by Microsoft?

      Would that make sense?

      It would make sense to me.

      Be glad that Windows is allowed to run things not produced by Microsoft.

    It's almost like you're complaining that you have to write software for Windows, to make software run in Windows.

      Your argument is total garbage.

  9. Re:Integration versus Bundling, Choice on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    And with DOS, you get a copy of FDISK.COM, wether you WANT TO OR NOT.
    With Linux, you get /bin/ls WETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT.
    With MacOS, you get FINDER WETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT.

      I'm not a Microsoft zealot, but that's not the issue, either.

      I don't think I can adequately explain the issue, and even if I could, no one on slashdot would understand it anyway.

  10. Re:Linux Version on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    Well, apparently not free, but if it's anything like Object Desktop for OS/2 was, which I'm sure it only emulates the major features, and not the entire thing, because there is no desktop system like OS/2's for ANYTHING ANYWHERE yet... but, that must be quite an awesome piece of software.

  11. Opera on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    don't forget Opera. Web browser, chat, email, in half the size of Firefox, smaller, faster, better.

  12. uh... on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Go out and watch the movie this weekend and see why the Firefly series is an Amazon.com best seller"..

      try
    Go out and watch the movie this weekend and see why 14-16 year old goth girls love Joss Whedon.

    He's a horrid piece of crap that makes garbage that goth girls love so that they will suck his cock.

  13. uh.. what? on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OpenOffice and StarOffice are the exact same things. I'm not sure what the hell KOffice is? Is there such a thing?

  14. limewire, et on LimeWire to Block Copyrighted Work · · Score: 1

    Number of files on LimeWire right now: 5.8M
    Number of viruses on LimeWire right now: 4.7M
    Number of files on LimeWire after this change: 3
    Number of viruses on LimeWire after this change: 3

  15. new headlines on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    The headlines for NEW articles are at least 3-4 font sizes larger than for the old articles. It kinda throws off the eyes.

  16. wow.... on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1
    The Post Comment page looks WAY different. Is that supposed to be the case?

    ...for writing the code to convert 900k users, 60k stories, and 13 million comments to comply....


      If you had to write code.. then.. what the hell is the point of the CMS code? or does it just move all the old stuff over to static pages? That doesn't seem like a great idea.
  17. Re:Can someone please explain to me... on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    Ajhhh... neat! that eliminates the need for the enter. *tries to remember that*

  18. Re: good on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to say that Opera comes in a smaller install package?

      Opera's installer is currently under 3MB, and doesn't download anything. It's quite amazing.

  19. Re:Let the thrashing begin! on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 1

    I never said that it was a reflection on Mozilla or the Korean servers. But, since that does appear to be the release of Mozilla in Korean, as unsupported as it might not be, that's where the Koreans are going to go to get it.

    And wether or not there are automatic or manual updates to the software is completely irrelevant. There was still software being distributed, from it's official site (the Korean Mozilla official site, not Mozilla's official site in this case) that had a virus, that affected people. I don't believe that this has ever happened with Microsoft's update servers.

    Do you see where what you are replying with makes no sense?

  20. Re:Um... on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 1

    Any user account that needs the ability to install software into /usr is probably going to also have write to /bin as well.

  21. Re:Antivirus? on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 1

    So, you're running the installation program as root, so that it can be installed into the system directories, so that all users can use it. Probably a pretty normal thing for Mozilla, eh?

      Now your /bin is all forked up.

      And there are antivirus programs for Linux.

  22. Re:Let the thrashing begin! on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 1

    aside from the obvious jokes about their perceived security issues, I don't know that Microsoft's update servers have ever dumped viruses onto people, have they?

  23. Re:Good on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    Oh, I totally agree. I want an Adblock like solution for Opera.
    The closest one that you give, the one on nontroppo.org, does work on a "right click on it, select block, and it's gone" .. but it doesn't have quite the capability of blocking things as much as Adblock for firefox does.

    That said, Greasemonkey built in.

  24. Re:Can someone please explain to me... on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    That reminds me, I do enjoy the "Duplicate" option from the right click on a tab menu, as well. Especially when replying in long threads on Fark, I will duplicate, and it will copy it straight out of the cache instead of reloading the newest data...

  25. Re:Can someone please explain to me... on Opera Free as in Beer · · Score: 1

    Torrent support is currently only in the preview releases, as it does require having the Email client enabled for it to work, and they want to remove that function. At least, that's one of the reasons. I imagine the other is that it's being saved for a non-bug-fix release.