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  1. Re:An even better solution on Audio Fingerprinting Via Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    yeah, same here, I submitted somethign about a week ago on bioinformatics on the US/Canada border to identify people, but it never got selected, a quick reject tho....I wonder if it has to do with Karma?

  2. Re:Huh? on Abiword: Support Expectations · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh, it gets better: on the home page itself: "AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth."


    Not


    "AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word, Including Tech Support It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth."


    I see no problem comparing the software, while tech support is different. Its been the same way with share ware for years, and windows people have been sucking off that for a long while now and dont seem to have a problem.



    Honestly I dont think it is really that important that we make Linux easy, and convienent. I think that we(the linux community) needs to make it what we want, to solve the problems we have, and it will work fine. Linus didnt write the first kernel with the goal of ridding the world of microsoft, but to scratch his itch, and that it has gone this far is very admirable. Now if people want to make it easy and convient, more power to them, they get to charge for tech support, ie RedHat. However, because redhat wants it to be newbie friendly does not require that Abiword makes it so.

  3. Re:MP 1900+ same as XP 1900+ on Athlon MP Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I would say that you shouldnt mix and match, even if you can. more than likely it will cause the better proc to opperate at the lower proc's specs. I mean, these days AMD's are dirt cheap anyways so buy two. I would also try to find "matched" chjps. My experince with Intel has shown that chips that are from the same batch work better together than mixing batches. However I am inclined to think that the AMD might not have this problem to the same degree, it seems to me that AMD Does It Right(TM) when compared to Intel when it comes to Bigger Better Faster (see RDRAM vs SDRAM, Higher clock speed Vs Higher opperations, Higher price Vs higher performance)

  4. Re:Um... what about... on Thermal Solar Plant To Be Erected In Australia · · Score: 1

    thats better than diesel/coal/gas that requires expendatures of pollutions duiring the construction of the generators, the fuel and while thy produce power.

  5. Re:That's a scary thought... on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Quickies · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think they are trying to prevent that, its much harder to slik your wrists with an AOL CD, than the little metal door from a floppy. god knows I would do it, right their at the mail box if I get another

  6. Re:386/486/pentium on Workstations For Poor 3D-artists · · Score: 1

    because time is money, if your an artist or a CEO, the less time you wait, the more money you can(theoreticaly) make. Now this might not be appropriate for you, dont desparage other people who choose to spend their money on their source of revenue. (I wonder if pixar said, well we can do Monsters INC on a bunch of 386's, it will just take 12 years to render......dont screw up a scene!)

  7. Re:Prediction on Review: ZapStation Media Box · · Score: 1

    slashdot being payed to make a bad review, novel buisness idea

  8. Re:This community drives me nuts... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    gotcha

  9. Re:This community drives me nuts... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    what does virtual memory have to do with memory protection?

  10. Re:Put down the crack pipe, please. on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    your math sucks, trying to dived performance by clock numbers on any platform, then relating it to a different generation of processsors, sucks. period.

  11. Re:It's all part of the same kind of thinking. on MS Chief Security Officer to work for White House · · Score: 1

    you dont get out much then do yah....thats about ohhh 6 years old ;->

  12. Re:Nice but not the end of entropy on Waste Heat to Electricity? · · Score: 1

    hey, 3 phase alternators(thats what about every car has, it just gets rectified to DC, gives you a nice tight little ripple with almost no components) still has almost shit for output when idiling so this problem is solved throug a battery, store the high output occasions(acceleration)

    and 2 very few modern cars have only 100 hp and dont really need much current to run anyways

  13. Re:1 week battery life and integrated fast etherne on Rolling Your Own Laptop? · · Score: 1

    funny thing about japan, half of their system is 50Hz, the other 60Hz ;->

  14. Re:Rampant speculation is a good thing on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    wow, score 2, but no actual information contained in the post, just what could be randomly spewed numbers....got any refrences....electronic or paper even? especially for the quote of the kid?

  15. Re:Catastrophic bird strike caused crash? on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    A 777 is just an air frame. the engines are selected by the group (read airlines) that purchases the plane. So all of those theing you just refrenced, while still are valid, are not about the 777, but about whatever brand of engine under the wing id GE, pratt-whitney, RollsRoyce, etc

  16. Re:Uh, No. He's Adding Support, Not Replacing ext2 on ext3fs in Linus' Kernel Tree · · Score: 1

    Then OS X is a drasticly overdue bug fix for MacOS 8 and WindowsXP is a bugfix for win3.11, or how about dos?

  17. Re:It's later than you think. on White House Frowns on National ID Card · · Score: 1

    when? Mine has it on here, but admitidly its about 2 years old.

  18. Re:Insurance on White House Frowns on National ID Card · · Score: 1

    get liablity only, so that when your(not YOU specificaly, but anybody) poor ass tbones me in an intersection totaling my Subaru. I get a nice fat check to replace the car or repare it. however, if you dont have inssureance, and your total net worth is 30,000 dollars of debt to a school degree, the I still have a car.

  19. Re:Well... on CEO of RIAA Speaks at P2P Conference · · Score: 1

    you heard a big pile of shit, not the truth. go check out Loves article at the salon. and keep in mind that the record industry has never said otherwise, they just say that by pirating, poor old Metallica wont be able buy their 37'th gold plated ferrari............

  20. Re:Strategy Variants of RTS's on Making Strategy Games with...Strategy? · · Score: 1

    One that I tought had a good start on changing the way RTS are done was Homeworld. I really liked the 3 nature of the game, and thought that, executed well, could be cool in a land based, or even cooler marine based military RTS. but I cant seem to find anythign elses that is along the same lines.

  21. Re:Transcript: My HP Experience on Do Manufacturers Adequately Support Their Products? · · Score: 1

    Thats incredable.... You get my +1 Funny

  22. Re:Backwards compatible? on New GPS Standard Published · · Score: 1

    been done....very spendy, and very accurate I guess.....but I have nothing to back this up, I cant seem to find any links

  23. Re:Easy. on Why Linux is About to Lose · · Score: 1

    No, EE's are normal compared to CS students. the creme of strange studetns is Theater tho.....

  24. Re:Procuring supplies cheaply on Building Cheap 100 Inch TVs · · Score: 1

    wow, You must go to the University of Idaho, that exactly describes where our surplus is ;->

  25. Re:Solid state drives. on Why Not Solid State Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    really! its amazing what people have hacked old POS technology to do ;-> I'mean look at x86...Unix..... ethernet......will never fail to amaze me