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  1. Re:I don't know about you... on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    I own a Savage4 card. One of the main reasons I bought it is because S3 chipsets don't need an IRQ...

  2. Re:The text on FTC Approves AOL+Time-Warner In USA · · Score: 1

    Man, this reads like something from a newspaper in Simcity2000...

  3. Re:A question on Read To Your Children, Go To Jail (Not Really) · · Score: 1
    Ladies and gentlemen, you will now be allowed to take a look at the beautiful painting "The Mona Lisa". Please note however that we have a copyright law preventing you from:
    • Talking about the Mona Lisa
    • Reminiscing about the Mona Lisa
    • Downright remembering that you were ever in the Louvre
    We thank you for your attention and wish you a pleasant visit.
  4. Re:The Pokemon generation on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm not from the US either, but 8,9,10 years old is hardly an age at which I would hold kids responsible for their own actions beyond a certain points, I was referring to about 15+

  5. Re:no read aloud allowed... on Read To Your Children, Go To Jail (Not Really) · · Score: 1

    Even better, when Mom wants you to explain why there are "certain types of magazines" under your matrass, sue here for copyright infringement...

  6. Re:The Pokemon generation on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    Magic appealed to an people of an age that should be capable of making their own choices, while Pokemon aims at little kids who are hardly capable of determining the way they're being messed around with. So what do you do as a parent, allow your kids to take part in the hype, or make them feel terrible for not having the same toys as the other kids?

  7. Re:Advocacy through what means? on Why Language Advocacy is Bad · · Score: 1

    Yeah Gore did this. Yeah GW did that. (gw? gw-basic? oh my)

    10 ON ERROR GOTO 1000
    20 INPUT "WHO DO YOU WANT TO ELECT TODAY" ELECT$
    30 IF ELECT$="Bush" THEN BUSHCOUNT=BUSHCOUNT+1 ELSE BUSHCOUNT=BUSHCOUNT\0
    1000 RESUME NEXT

  8. Re:The world should use... on Why Language Advocacy is Bad · · Score: 1

    Wrong kind of language indeed. Wouldn't the world be a better place if everybody spoke French?

  9. Re:Sad, really... on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    "Books" are the analog version of PDF files. And yes, if sufficiently big, they are quite lethal.

  10. Re:The Pokemon generation on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    Pray tell me, what exactly is wrong with people that used to play Magic? Aside from the fact that it swallowed all my money, of course...

  11. Re:From my own research on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    I actually spent three days playing Lemmings nearly non-stop with a friend. He used the keyboard, I controlled the mouse. At the 29th level of "Mayhem", the mouse broke down. I never played Lemmings again.

  12. Re:More stereotypes... on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    Or what you do is an expression of what you are, or in the case of a lot of computer games, what you would like to be...

  13. Re:From my own research on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    Ahh, there's nothing like playing Civ in 16 colors with the nice ol' bleepy pc speaker sounds. Now, those were the days. Any of you remember the first time he heard speech out of a Soundblaster/Adlib card? For me that was with Dune II...

  14. Re:I don't know about you... on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    The average user who has a friend or company set this up for him is completely screwed if his bios loses its memory for any reason.

    Which is exactly the reason I'm going to miss those IRQ's. How do you think I make my living?

  15. Re:I don't know about you... on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    Well, then you turn off Plug & Play and assign the IRQ's manually. The fun really starts when you're running W2K though...

  16. From the article on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    The P4T includes a few other bits to help with your Pentium 4 experience. There are two RDRAM continuity modules. All four of the RDRAM ports must be filled, and RAM has to be added in pairs. The continuity modules allow you to buy two pieces of RDRAM instead of four. Hey, there must be tradeoffs if you want 3.2GBps of memory bandwidth!

    Unless you must fill all of them of course.

  17. Re:4 RIMMs??? on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    So what's the maximum size of Rimm at this moment?

  18. Now this puppy is on ASUS P4 Motherboard Bests Intel, Says Sharky · · Score: 1

    actually legacy-free, isn't it? Or did they just remove the good ol' ISA slots while maintaining the bridge? I'd hate to have to go through life without having to solve IRQ problems...

  19. Re:Gimp vs Photoshop on The Future Of The GIMP · · Score: 1

    Photoshop pros:

    1) I have spent years learning Photoshop. Whatever I need to do to an image, I can do it in Photoshop really, really quickly.

    When I use GIMP, I get frustrated alot "Damn it! In Photoshop I could just do x - y - z and I'd be done by now!"

    This, I guess, is a problem any new software must overcome when it enters a marketplace already dominated by one program.

    In short, you're too lazy to learn a new program. RTFM!!!(assuming there is one of course). 2) Photoshop has really nice text editing features, including being able to edit any text entered at any time. 3) Photoshop's history feature has become indispensible for me.

  20. Re:I'm sure Slashdot can help on The Future Of The GIMP · · Score: 1

    Great point. I'm still deciding between +1 Funny and -1 Disgusting...men of slashdot, I love it.

  21. Re:GIMP: A fine example of open-source hypocrisy on The Future Of The GIMP · · Score: 1

    In completely stealing things you consider the software you're stealing from to be open-source. That wasn't very hard, was it?

  22. Re:Yes Virginia, unix sucks on Why Software Still Sucks · · Score: 1

    Dah, get real. You know as well as I do that in assigning IRQ's to stuff the Windows install will do what the Bios tells it to do. What most people do not know is that you should first make 110% percent sure that your bios is perfect, and then start your windows install.

  23. Re:Seven years? on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Imagine the sentence he would have had had he plead innocent, and been proven guilty...

  24. Re:What would be worse... on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    That would be considered animal abuse, I think...that's worse than a death penalty, IMHO.

  25. Re:Community Service... on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1

    Ok, so he used IBM to do it, and the /. crowd falls over itself talking about how bad that was. Now what if he had used a M$ server to do it? Just curious...