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  1. Re:The "superior" quote comes from Paul Thurrott.. on HP Working With Apple To Add WMA Support To iPod · · Score: 1

    Oh, which btw is a Microsoft product now :(

  2. Re:The "superior" quote comes from Paul Thurrott.. on HP Working With Apple To Add WMA Support To iPod · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, I think that's Virtual PC running on a Win XP machine.

  3. Re:Priorities at Johns Hopkins on Alzheimer's Cause Identified? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday, as their latest issue only had one mention of kernel 2.6, yet 17 about medicine.

  4. First Big Butt Post on Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like DRM and I cannot lie
    You other brothers cant deny
    When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
    And p2p in yo face
    You get sprung
    Wanna pull out ya gun
    Cuz the RIAA aint tough

  5. Re:$100 mini iPod? on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to mention, the iPod mini is $20 cheaper, while the regular iPod is $30 cheaper if you are a student, lowering the small difference by another $10 (229/269)

  6. iPhoto has photo sharing on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't Steal Photos.

  7. Did anyone else notice? on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 0

    The altitude listed in that brochure is 10k feet. How well will this thing function at 30k feet in an airplane?

    Although I also noticed the same listing for the standard iPod.

  8. Re:possibilities on Blocking Pop-ups at the ISP Level? · · Score: 1

    There are 2 types of popup blockers.

    The kind that don't work - The one's where they try to determine whether or not a popup is an advertisement.

    And the kind that work - The one's that block ALL popup's.

    Apple's Safari uses the latter kind, as well as the Google Toolbar for IE6, which blocks all popups as well.

    I've never seen a site get a popup through.

    The only argument I've seen against popup blockers that block all popups is that they will block important popups that need to be seen. But you will notice of the coming years that companies won't even use popups, as they know more and more users are blocking them.

  9. Use an Mp3 Alarm Clock on Alarm Clocks for Heavy Sleepers? · · Score: 1

    If you were going to go the route of building a cheap computer to do this, what software would you use to do it?

    Use a computer you're alright with having on all night, and find an alarm clock program that plays Mp3s at a specific time. Then crank your speakers up, it's sure to wake you up.

    If you have a Mac, there's a good one out there called Mp3 Alarm Clock that has the features you wanted (reducing snooze time, gradual volume increase).

    I've been scaring myself awake for a couple of years now, and I'm a very heavy sleeper.

  10. Changing p2p habits: on Pew Study Says RIAA Tactics Are Working · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm sure there are fewer users of Kazaa nowadays due to all the press that this campaign has had towards it.

    But there are still plenty of strong networks out there. I'm sure some of those Kazaa users have migrated over to them.

  11. Re:Except on G5 vs Opteron, Finally · · Score: 1

    According to Steve, 32-bit execution in the G5 is native, not emulated.

  12. And the Hebrews celebrated... on USB Menorah · · Score: 4, Funny

    for their UPS kept their menorah lit for 8 full nights after the Syrian army cut the power!

    Thus thou shalt celebrate for 8 days, lighting one LED each night.

  13. Re:Haitians??? on Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not to mention you kill a number of Cubans in the game too.

    But you don't hear Castro getting a hard on.

    The Cubman-made anti-Hatian remarks are CLEARLY balanced out by the Hatian-made anti-Cuban remarks they make back!

  14. Re:hmm... on Sonic Conquers UK's Favorite Games Poll · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Championship Manager I think is a game where you run a soccer team and trade players and such. You don't actually play soccer, but you watch your team play, I think.

    Now I don't know what it is, maybe it's because I'm not European, but I can't imagine anybody wanted to watch a virtual soccer game for 90 minutes and not interact with it.

  15. Re:Why $0.99? on Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes · · Score: 1

    You want to buy Tool's "Aenima" but don't want "Hooker With A Penis"? That $10 album just became $14.

    Think before you post.

    He could just buy the whole album, and delete the Hooker with a Penis m4p file that's going to download. That $10 album is now still $10.

    Of course, why you want to buy AEnima and not have that song is beyond me. Any real Tool fan likes that song as much as Stinkfist :D

  16. Re:Next Step on The Case for the Moon · · Score: 1

    Rocketing a ton of lichen to the rocks of Mars would turn most of that CO2 into lovely breatheable O2.

  17. Netcraft on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms: *Microsoft is BYING

  18. I work on Web Performance and QA Tools? · · Score: 1

    for a major software company, and we have licenses for Mercury WinRunner, LoadRunner, QuickTest, Rational TestSuite, and even a product we wrote ourselves. This comes out to millions of dollars in software and maintanence licenses.

    Now, I'm not saying the spending isn't wasteful. I think it is, but it's not correct to say that large companies are paying for expensive SQA software licenses anymore.

  19. Congrats NYTimes on Review of Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article states that the 10.1 upgrade was $130.

    The 10.1 upgrade was free. If you made an image of the CD, then removed one particular file of the image, and reburned the disc, you had a bonafide 10.1 full install.

    But the discs were free. You could even get more than one if you asked nicely enough at the Apple store.

  20. Well on Quality Assurance In The Games Industry · · Score: 1

    QA in most non-game software developments involved creating automation to pound a particular piece of the software quickly and reliably.

    This would be kind of hard to implement in games.

    And if you've ever met a game tester, yeesh.

  21. Tags on iTunes for Windows Reviews · · Score: 4, Informative

    as Apple apparently uses its own tag format

    Apple uses ID3 v2.4 (which added album artwork support).

    Your other media players are written by companies that apparently don't care about standards.

  22. Re:Can PC users tets it and report? on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    "The look and feel of the UI is not only inconsistent with the windows standards, but it's also inconsistent with itself."

    Ever used Windows Media Player?

    Microsoft seems to have a problem with that too ;)

  23. Re:Great! kind of on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    It was Apple's idea to take ZeroConf and apply it to sharing music.

    THAT is brilliant.

  24. Hmm on How To Add An External Antenna To AirPort Base Station · · Score: 1

    By Airport 2.0, are you referring to the Airport Extreme base station?

  25. Re:As just one customer... on Blocking SiteFinder Service · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call customer service. I'm sure they can direct you to a feedback voice mailbox that they'll never listen to ;)