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  1. Re:Not as bad as all that, Apple nuts on Toshiba's iPod Competitor · · Score: 1

    And also that the original Nomad was the first hard drive player out, way before the iPod.

  2. Re:The 505 was the reason for the 515 on Palm m100s - A Pattern of Defects? · · Score: 1

    I thought that Palm released the 515 to compete with Sony and Handspring, because they had both just released organizers with 16mb of built in memory. I may be wrong, but I think that this is why they did that.

  3. Re:How is this illegal? on Gotcha! DNS Popup Scammer Fined $1.9 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well if you are a 10 year old walking down the street, find a VHS tape labeled "Scooby Doo Cartoon," take it, then watch it, you have just stolen something which is a crime.

    And, what do you think, these 10 year old kids know what JavaScript is? Even what "pop-ups" really are? Give me a break, the majority of the people who get these popups don't know a thing about computers, HTML, JavaScript, popups, or even the Internet in general.

  4. Re:How is this illegal? on Gotcha! DNS Popup Scammer Fined $1.9 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about because it is illegal showing pornography to children under 18? There were porn pop ups on websites that children mistyped. You have to ask if the person is 18 before you can show them that content.

  5. Re:Homebrew, MAME, etc.. on Codingstyle Interviews PS2 Linux Developers · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are ports of MAME and other arcade emulators for the Dreamcast. Dreamcast can also read CD-Rs, and Dreamcast is $150 dollars cheaper than a PS2, and you don't need to pay more money for a hard drive or a Linux kit.

    There are also lots of ways to code for the Dreamcast. (Windows CE, KOS)

    Dreamcast also has VGA output in its own display output, therefore no other device is required to convert from NTSC/PAL to VGA. For more information: dcemulation.com

  6. Re:The best patent ever! on Pop-Under Ads Patented · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe someone from Cisco or something like that is the owner of the patent for the hyperlink. Interesting, isn't it?

  7. Re:Do it yourself console system on Xbox Price Drops to $200 · · Score: 1

    I don't believe a PowerPC chip is proprietary. The GameCube uses one, as do Macintoshes.

  8. Re:This could hurt Nintendo on PS2 Price May Fall, Gamecube Staying Put · · Score: 1

    Well, I believe this summer Nintendo is going to blow PS2 and Xbox out of the water when they release Mario Sunshine, the new Zelda game, a new Mario Party game, Wrestlemania, etc.

  9. Re:Buy CDs or download MP3... on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    But now in order to get these MP3s, you rip the CD, which you cannot because of these restrictions!

  10. Re:Uninstalling Flash on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 1

    I didn't say more fonts, I said a different font. For example, Verdana.

  11. Re:Uninstalling Flash on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think all Flash is needless eyecandy, and some sites are only Flash. Of course some people will call that stupid, but look how popular it is! It's practically included in Internet Explorer now, and I am not a person who is only interested in the core information on a webpage. I enjoy (most of the time) watching the Flash movies that people have put their hard work into to make their site look better. In fact, I would like Slashdot more if it had more pictures to help navigate, and some other font besides Times New Roman. But this is coming from a web designer, not a usability expert.

  12. Re:Taco had an iPaq? on Review of New Sony Clie PEG-NR70 · · Score: 1

    You can get them to run Linux.

  13. Re:Tylor Durden says: on Paintable LCDs · · Score: 1

    Ok. First of all, it's TYLER, not TYLOR. Second, it's NARRATOR not NARRARATOR.

  14. Re:Someone should tell Matt... on Matt Groening on Futurama, Simpsons and Fox · · Score: 1

    I have wondered the SAME EXACT THING. Someone please mod this guy up, his comment needs to be noticed.

  15. Re:Typical. on Klez, The Virus that Keeps on Giving · · Score: 1

    I don't recall when 56k modems could download things at 1 mb/min. The average AOL download is probably lower than 5 kb/sec, but for the sake of argument, say it is 7 kb/sec. That's still 420 kb/min, which is less than half of your prediction. So unless you're using some sort of special phone line that is not FCC regulated, downloads at such speeds would be impossible due to factors such as line interference and line splitting.

  16. Re:Virii? What Virii? on Klez, The Virus that Keeps on Giving · · Score: 1

    An easy mistake, like you misspelling "misspell."

  17. The 6th Day on Your Fingerprint Buys Groceries in Seattle · · Score: 1

    In the movie The 6th Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger uses a cut off thumb of a bad girl to get access into the secret lab. Imagine people stealing and cutting thunbs to get a carton of milk and some potato chips!

  18. Re:Could be pretty soon... on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 2

    Who the hell called this insightful? Perhaps the person meant the beginning of May? At least call it funny, not "insightful."

  19. Re:my ideal PVR on ReplayTV Switches To Subscription Model For New Unit · · Score: 1

    It is not as easy as you think. My father has a product that is genius. It takes many hours of hard work to even get noticed. You have to be a pretty big hot shot or work with one just to get people to get interested. Some people don't realize this and think it takes two seconds to develop their own product. And by the time something like that would happen, someone else probably could have done it first.

    Now that's Capitalism.

  20. Re:hey!!!!! on Windows 'Longhorn' Kicks Off (On Paper) · · Score: 1

    Windows XP has something called "ClearType," which Antialiases the text all over Windows. You're a little late.

  21. Re:Possible, If History Repeats on Platform Independent Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Because then you PROBABLY can't have 1 CD for every platform.

  22. Hey... on Disney Blames Apple For Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    This is kind of lame, but I submitted an article saying that Apple was showing commercials that said "Rip. Mix. Burn." and that it was kind of as if they were promoting this stuff, but without the Disney factor.

  23. Got this on Long Island... on Video On Demand Almost Here For San Franciscans · · Score: 4, Informative

    On Long Island we have this. It is called I/O (Interactive Optimum), and it is provided by Cablevision.

  24. Re:Kinda consfusing? on AMD To Hide MHz Rating From Consumers · · Score: 1

    It's not irrevelant. No computer savvy person in his right mind wouldn't buy a 1.4 ghz chip over a 1.2 if there wasn't a big price difference. And you can't say that the clock speed doesn't make the computer faster or slower, because it does.

  25. Re:Like this was a surprize... on Digital Convergence Bites the Dust · · Score: 1

    The other use is an inventory of equiptment, for things like homeowners insurance. Or you can do inventory for a company. The only problem would be carrying around the desktop, monitor, UPS, tape drive, speakers when using the barcode scanner.

    Hehe, I get what you are saying, but that's what the 'pen' is for. Hah.