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  1. Re:Dont forget on RIAA Loss Report Contradicts Nielsen Sales Record · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait hold the phone, you are saying there are ten people that listen to creed?

    --Joey

  2. Re:We should kick it like the Nike-haters. on RIAA Loss Report Contradicts Nielsen Sales Record · · Score: 1

    No. If I am a business I can say things are bleak if they are great or things are great if they are bleak. They aren't misreporting the numbers they are merely not giving the full picture.

    --Joey

  3. Re:Will we find out... on Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Perhaps more specifically asked is...Why do people choose to read so much about and into other people's lives and so little into their own?

    Because not much is written about my own life...except for my blog...which I actually read more often than is considered normal and acceptable.

    --Joey
  4. Re:A Poem! on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    LMAO!!!! Mod parent up!

    --Joey

  5. Re:Look at all these posts. on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    Then why not use limericks which are better for humor. In fact, a skillful limericist(?) writes arguably the finest form of poetry.

    --Joey

  6. Re:Best. Excerpt. Ever. on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 1

    The interviewer asked technical questions because the issue is technical, the interviewer is technical and the intended audience, is, yes, technical! That said, I wish he would have asked why we needed the CTEA et al to protect content that is 70 years old. Also there was no fair use mentions such as making a still from your favorite flick your wallpaper, etc.

    --Joey

  7. Re:Crashing back to Terra, er, Earth... on For Sale: Lycos.com · · Score: 1

    Which hand?

    --Joey

  8. Re:Linux: My Observations(Certified MS Professiona on Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review · · Score: 1

    That is because the mods are unpredictable...

    Actually that is not true, the mods are highly predictable. This will get modded up because of that mention.

    Also, the difference between -1 Flamebait and +5 Funny is the mood of the reader.

    --Joey

  9. Re:"Images" on Best Images Yet Of Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    I don't think we will see the surface, won't it die before it lands?

    I don't think there is a parachute.

    Someone correct me if I am wrong

    --JOey

  10. Re:Surprised by Wealth! ... slightly off topic end on OpenIPO and Lindows · · Score: 1

    It seems easy, but shorting is very dangerous. Because all you need is some heavy buying, some good news, etc and suddenly "Hello Mr. Investor, yeah, we'd like you to buy some of that stock you sold" and now you are having to cover your assets during a short squeeze. I look at the short ratio when I buy stock.

    Oh and just for a little editorial comment: Many people say the stock market is just like going to Vegas, I say, look at the amount of people that make money in the market. Look at the people that make money in Vegas! There are "safe" bets like betting on broad indices (QQQ - Nasdaq, DIA - Dow, SPY - SP500, EWJ - Japan, IWM - Small Caps) and the earlier you do it the more you end up with when you retire, I have been investing since I was 19 (about two years ago) and have made ~35%.

    You only need $500 to start, and with some mutual funds, you can buy in small increments without paying much/any commission.

    Don't think you need to be an expert to invest and to profit.

    --Joey

  11. Re:Oh god.... on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    Mea culpa, yeah I was going to write .025 amps then thought, hmm, better make it 25m so everything got messed up. My calculation is right though?

    Other than the assumed current and forgetting one of them ;)

    --Joey

  12. Re:Oh god.... on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    well if you run them at 25mA and assuming the batteries have a life of .2amp hours then I would think it is 4*.2/.25m = 32 hours?

    I haven't taken my power course yet, so I am just going on my gut instinct.

    That idea does sound pretty cool btw :)

    --Joey

  13. Re:I don't use calculators. on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    LOL!!! Awesome, MOD parent WAY UP!

  14. Re:*calc are dying on HP Releases New RPN Scientific Calculator · · Score: 1

    My Ti89's resolution is fantastic and gives me tremendous insight on a function. It also can integrate practically anything, solve simulataneous equations etc.

    I like my Palm Vx but for work, it is the 89 all the way baby.

    --Joey

  15. I don't use C# soI am waiting... on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...for the prime number equivalent.

    Thanks,

    Joey

  16. Re:Have a baby. on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the fuck does that mean? Go out and start boning...

    --Joey

  17. Re:A few points on RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sick of pointing this out--kids today LOVE the music coming out. The fogies at Slashdot think that their niche opinion represent the majority. Today's computer users aren't downloading music because they don't like the whole albums--they're downloading because it's free and available

    No we don't. We like certain songs. We just get sick of paying 15 dollars for a cd when we hear a good song radio. I have stopped doing this. For example, this week I am going to buy two cds. Ocean Avenue by YellowCard and Palm Trees and Powerlines by Sugar cult, the cds are 7.99 and 8.99 at Circuit City, respectively. Those seem like fair prices, I know I will like 3 songs total guaranteed (as I have already bought them off itunes) With those prices I am willing to chance the sample(s) were misleading (other than the ones I bought of course)

    I have/will purchase/d 5 cds in the last 12 months. but to say I am thrilled with music today is like saying I am thrilled with movies, because I liked Master and Commander and Lord of the Rings.

    --Joey

  18. Re:You can say that again. on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    That "Latino" is actually a Maori native of New Zealand.

    --Joey

  19. Re:Wireless on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny you mention that. I have an Intellinet wireless card that Win98/2k couldn't recoginize for love or money (or drivers). So just for shits and giggles, I throw knoppix in the box. Boots up with an ip address, web access, the works.

    There are other areas to work on imo like sound support etc.

    Though I haven't been running Linux since last summer, but will as soon as school is over and have some time to tinker with my windows box.

    --Joey

  20. Re:Morally? on How India is Saving Capitalism · · Score: 1

    Duh! If you are going to not save any money why move the jobs to India in the first place.

    Don't forget, companies aren't doing this because they hate Americans, they are doing it because they save money. So we either,

    1. Accept it
    2. Regulate
    3. Provide incentives to keep jobs here.

    Or some combination of the 3. I would pick a combination of 1 and 3.

    --Joey

  21. Re:TV Shows on DVD on You're Watching Less TV · · Score: 1

    This year has been a decent one for reality programming. The Apprentice is pretty good, and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance was hilarious.

    --Joey

  22. Re:Pop ups on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 1

    Dubbya has "big government socialist friends"?

    --Joye

  23. In related news... on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 1

    ...Einstein and Newton are pounding out an agreement.

    --Joey

  24. Re:"Progress"? slightly OT on Can Your ATM Play Beethoven? · · Score: 1

    I had something cool happen last night. I went to a coke machine to get a mr. pibb. I hear it fall but it is not below. So I pick up the flap and feel a can, so I pull it out, and another can comes with it. Neither one is a Pibb. So I open again, and feel a can wedged vertically creating a backup. I got 2 more making a total of 5 cans on 60 cents.

    WOOOHOOO!!!!

    best day ever...

    --Joey

  25. Re:Hah. on 1,028,000 Digital Photographs · · Score: 1

    As a fellow Tampa fan (15 years of fandom) I heartily agree. But even I know SB38 was a much better game than SB37

    --Joey