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  1. .cda? on Non-MP3 Codecs? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whatever it is that comes on these shiny round things I get from the music store...that's the one I use.

  2. Oracle on Accounting Systems on Linux? · · Score: 1

    Oracle has a small business accounting package that provides just about everything a small business could ask for. It's $99 a month.

    http://www.oracle.com/online_services/smallbusines s/index.html?content.html

  3. debug the KDE and its apps... on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    Add more KDE-GNOME compatibility, and it WILL be easy to use.

  4. I'm going to come out with a scripting language on Interview with the Creator of Ruby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm going to call it ASS, which will stand for Active Scripting Somethingrather. People will use it because theirs won't stink, but everyone else's will. Of course, they will know that everyone else's stinks because of the power of Open Source - everyone will want to packet-sniff everyone else's ASS to see how theirs is configured, which one is pretty, and which one stinks.

    I long for the day when I will have an o'reilly interview where I get to sit and talk about ASS.

  5. Your answer is in daytime tv on What Do You Do When CS Isn't Fun Any More? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hit the networks. See what Oprah recommends. Maybe Maury can help you out. Find someone to scream at(maybe a professor - pick a feisty one) and duke it out on Springer.

  6. Re:What should be done... on NSync Copy Protected CD · · Score: 1

    What makes you think this will work? I'm sure they'll have some kind of return policy that circumvents this.
    "Does it play in your CD Player? Then it's not defective. See that label? It's not supposed to work on your computer, just your CD player. I didn't sell you a defective product."

  7. I've got an idea on Salon Goes For Annoying Jump-Through Ads · · Score: 1

    How about you subscribe for premium content, thereby eliminating the ads altogether? Not only do you support the company buy paying for reading their content, but you also get more content/articles/etc. when you do. It's a win-win situation.
    Support free speech and buy your own beer(or at least don't bitch about the quality/conditions of the free beer).

  8. All Ethics Aside on Casinos Hit the Data Jackpot · · Score: 1

    That has to be a pretty interesting job, to put together these massive data systems to retrieve all of this information. Say what you want about the ethics of the whole thing, but I say give their IT people the credit they're due for making something like that possible. If anything I'd like to know more details besides the fact that one of them use SQL Server.

  9. Re:My Dearest Robert Merkel on Ask Robert Merkel About GnuCash Development · · Score: 1

    There may be no purchasing price, but there is a pretty hefty cost when it comes to trying to get all of the dependency issues resolved and get it to compile right. Until then, I'm content to shell out cash for something that will actually install that I can use anywhere I need to.

  10. Re:Top 10 (11!) Signs You've Over Dosed on Star Wa on Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    moron.

  11. Zope on Reporting Functionality for Web Applications? · · Score: 2

    www.zope.org

  12. Re:This could be used for Land Warrior... on Fuel Cells For (Military) Portable Computing · · Score: 1

    I was afraid when I saw the name of the company building it, until I realized that it wasn't Pacific Consultants :)

  13. LandWarrior on US Army Digital Exercise · · Score: 1

    I didn't see anything on their site about LandWarrior. LandWarrior is the mobile computer unit that soldiers carry into battle and use to communicate, situational awareness, planning op orders and the like.

    A "training system" is being coupled with its software and the gaming engine for Delta Force 2 to develop simulation software for the troops to use for (duh)training purposes.

  14. Re:I already have a Linux gaming console on Indrema Dead in 30 Days? · · Score: 1

    Even though we have much better computers today, the games are mostly crap which depend more on eye candy than game play. What's worse, if you play one of the games you have played them all because they just tend to be variations on a theme.

    good point-it's just like going to the movies. When a movie that comes out that gives the appearance of being a really good movie, it's in fact only a pretty decent movie(not as good as it seems) because the movies around it in the theater are so lame.

    Fight lowered standards!

  15. what never ceases to amaze me about these findings on 11 New Extra-Solar Planets Announced · · Score: 1

    Is the level of detail in which they can describe the planets they discover.

    insert sig here for great justice

  16. Re:I've heard him before on Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds · · Score: 1

    gouged? nickeled? dimed? I get all my service packs for free - same as my rpm's that need upgrading when THEY break. Despite the different operating systems, I think ALL software developers share one cross-platform feature: you don't always get it right the first time. The anti-Microsoft rhetoric on this site is not only getting old, but starting to sound ridiculous.

  17. While this IS news for nerds... on Following April Fool's Day Around The World? · · Score: 1

    I hardly find this to be stuff that matters.

  18. decent help on What Isn't on the Internet? · · Score: 1

    specifically, how to set up an ATI XPert2000 video card connected to a Voodoo2 card on SuSE 7.1.

  19. Re:What a guy on William Hanna Dead at 90 · · Score: 1

    I like Bill Hanna just like everyone else, but I have to say his cartoons were anything but 'educational'...except maybe to other cartoonists.

  20. There's only one true multimedia-friendly OS... on CNET Reviews Windows XP Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    and it's BeOs.

  21. Re:Holy F*CK on CNET Reviews Windows XP Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    The biggest, baddest install of Debian I can come up with is smaller then that, and we're talking about enough development tools and libraries to recompile the kernel, the display server, the UI... I don't even want to think how big Visual Studio XP will be.

    How big is the biggest, baddest SusE install? I bet it can easily fit over 7 GB worth of stuff on a hard drive. Surely you can think of something better to bitch & moan about than that.

  22. Mathematica on Programmers for Scientific Research? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried software that is supposed to be oriented towards getting non-programmers to be able to do scientific research? This person seems to be looking for something that a program like Mathematica (or similar) "should" be able to provide.
    Maybe instead of looking for hackers/developers they should look for software that lets them do what they need to get done without the need for programming...

  23. internet taxation on Congress Reconsiders Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 2

    Given my VERY small understanding of how/why things are taxed, it seems we have things that are heavily taxed to compensate for things that are lightly taxed. If we were to create a creative and effective internet tax system that was small enough to not wreak havoc on the Internet economy we could use that revenue to lighten the burden on the heavily taxed items, therefore creating a lighter, more evenly balanced tax burden on everything. Oh well, at least it made sense in my head...

  24. Living in Utah on Do You Consider Your Social Life When You Choose A Career? · · Score: 1

    Utah is a good place to live if: 1. you are Republican 2. you hold strong Christian values 3. If you agree that Big Business should have a heavy influence in state government policy(or does that refer back to #1?) None of this, however, guarantees that people will be nice to you or treat you with mutual respect, even if you fit into one of the three categories above. My experience with Utah has been overwhelmingly negative, which I see as a shame because it can be a very beautiful place to live and work.