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  1. Re:hmm on How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online · · Score: 1

    What happens when artists self-produce thier own albums?

    I'm much more curious as to what happens when artists self-produce other people's albums.

    don't mind me i'm just grumpy and hungover today...

  2. Re:So what are you saying? on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see it die as well but as has been mentioned in previous posts, PNG is supported in almost every browser, even IE. You are free to use the superior format. Who even cares? I mean it's great to see silly patents die, but there's already a better alternative that is supported and widespread.

  3. Re:Look at those Screen Shots! on eComStation 1.1 Entry Edition Review · · Score: 1

    Ring.... Ring....
    Hello?
    This is 1991.... we'd like our Icons back.


    Hmmm, ok, I love linux and the bsds, I use them almost exclusively for day to day work - i even finally wiped out my win partition - but you gotta admit, those icons aren't so different from those offered by popular window managers that run on the operating systems most favored by the crowd around here.

  4. Re:OT - Bitters and lime juice... on Hic Hic Hooray: Hiccups Explained · · Score: 1

    Funny the way people work. My old roomate used to start sneezing and hiccuping like a freak whenever we'd go out drinking. I found it entertaining, till he sneezed in my drink anyway.

  5. OT - Bitters and lime juice... on Hic Hic Hooray: Hiccups Explained · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's the only cure for hiccups that i've seen work for (almost) everyone. Thankfully I'm always at a bar when i get hiccups - hmmm, maybe there's a correlation there...

  6. Re:Why not for free? on How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's a great deal. However, as someone in a band I can assure you that finding decent engineers with access to good equipment who are willing to record for free is an extremely rare thing. In general it costs money to make a good recording. Not neccessarily 250,000 but as others have stated, promotion isn't exactly cheap either.

  7. Re:clones on First Human Clone Born? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our hockey and donut-eating overlords.

    Forgive the ignorance of a non-Canadian but while I'm all for the donut bit, how exactly does one eat hockey?

  8. Re:wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    flamebait? sheesh, it was a joke. ah well, have fun modding this post down offtopic.

  9. Re:wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Occasionally, I substitute teach...
    In exchange for free TVs in every room (and the cable infrastructior [sp] along with it)...


    Maybe if you worked on your spelling they'd let you teach more often ;-)

  10. Re:You know what's cool? on A Digital Certificate For Every Canadian · · Score: 1

    heh, actually i think it'd be more equivalent to a 41 bit cert ;) got the exchange rate backwards.

  11. Re:Come on AOL, on AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover · · Score: 1

    they don't really need to purchase the company as there isn't one and the software is released under the GPL. This is an issue for them if they're concerned with the licensing which is entirely probable, but otherwise they don't even need to spend a dime and the R&D has already been done for them.

  12. Huh? on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    This seems to me to be analagous to demanding that all newspapers are printed in braile. This person does have other access to the information - the telephone for example. While it would certainly be nice of the site to comply with standards thereby broadening access for the blind, I don't see how suing them to accomplish this is in any way reasonable.

  13. Re:I'm curious... on Cortical Cybernetic Implants · · Score: 1

    Well, they do have cochlear implants for the hearing impaired. This link is to an article from 1994, so I'm sure you could find a ton of info with a google search. As for the rest, I wonder too ;-)

  14. Re:What does PBX stand for? on Suggestions for Home PBX/Key System? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, you could always search google, or for general tech acronym descriptions this site is often helpful. from the techweb site:
    (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). A PBX enables a single-line telephone set to gain access to one of a group of pooled (shared) trunks by dialing an 8 or 9 prefix. PBXs also include functions such as least cost routing for outside calls, call forwarding, conference calling and call accounting. Modern PBXs use all-digital methods for switching, but may support both analog and digital telephones and telephone lines. See IP PBX and WPBX.

  15. Re:My dad says... on AOpen Debuts The Funniest Motherboard Ever · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, the thing is that tubes distort harmonically while solid state amps tend to distort rather dissonantly and horribly.

  16. Re:Why do ppl use such a shitty browser anyways? on Google Releases Web APIs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ah, that would explain the not doin anything thing. forgot about that. don't mind my drunken ass...

  17. Re:Klerck releases PWP on Google Releases Web APIs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Um, jackass, that did absolutely nothing. have another line, and send one my way if you have some to spare :P

  18. Re:Has anyone actually read the article? on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1

    How in the hell is their trademark even remotely threatened by a yoga organization? That's just insane. No one is going to get the two confused.

  19. Re:OT: Software for those wall-size displays? on The Root of All E-Mail · · Score: 1

    The NOC i worked in used HP-Openview and NNM - slightly customized. This seems to be a very common setup.

  20. That's nice, but with these... on Homemade Gauss Gun · · Score: 1
    Hmm, well they may be able to knock over a tape dispenser with those little magnets, but with these you could probably do some serious damage ;)

  21. Re:Full-size gun on Homemade Gauss Gun · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right, but I'm tempted to find out just what the critical point is ;) I bet you might just get some decent velocity before you reached that point. Although in the article they mention that these magnets are fragile, so their 4 pack might just be around that limit.

  22. Re:Not unless they suggest improvements on Beta-Testers and Intellectual Property? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe you are smarter than the rest of us, but aren't many jobs about what you are speaking, that which is problem solving?

    I think you are missing the original poster's point. Problem solving involves more than just pointing out that there is a problem. In order to solve a problem, as the phrase "problem solving" implies, you need to have a solution. ;-)

  23. Re:Terrorists? on AES Announced as Federal Standard · · Score: 1

    um, "proper" english breakfast? hehe, that's subjective i suppose, not that the average american breakfast is any better mind you ;)

  24. Re:Release on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun. · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bleh, whatever... This comes up every time a kernel release is announced on /. I for one like to see these releases announced on the front page. If you don't like it, edit your preferences. Perhaps I should just check kernel.org every day and see whats up, or freshmeat. The fact is that I've grown accustomed to coming here as my first news spot of the day and generally just get new kernel release info from here - as it's always here. Personally, I don't mind a bit.

  25. Re:For 20.000 bucks.... on Upping The Softmodem Code Bounty -- To $20,000 · · Score: 1

    heh,
    you've got a point there i suppose...