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  1. kde-look.org on Richard Stallman On KDE/GNOME Cooperation · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've never heard of it before. I would have posted themes.org as the link. But that's me. kde-look is a very nice website, but is there a GNOME equivalent?

  2. Hmm... on DSLReports Study: 8 Hours 'til the Spam Hits · · Score: 1

    Someone should try and set up another study... Anyone up for the job? This seems too slow for the spammers, and I suppose it matters what kind of site you post your email address on.

  3. Re:Unrealistic on Humans Will Sail To The Stars · · Score: 1

    This is actually a small problem in a book I can't remember the name of... Breakthroughs Unlimited or something. The first oscilliation ships (FTL) pass the first cryoship (STL). The STL ship's charter says that they can't be picked up by passing FTL ships, they must continue their mission.

  4. Actually... on Will Barry White Songs Help Sharks Get Down? · · Score: 0, Troll

    It'll probably cause the sharks to eat the loudspeakers. Barry White? Yuck.

  5. Hahaha... on What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot · · Score: 2

    Wonder what it tasted like? Mmmm... Palm Pilot. However, the electronics don't look so damaged... Maybe it's salvagable?

  6. Re:Woah! $500 for a 40 Gig HD + Ethernet... on LinuxWorld Summary · · Score: 1

    hmmm... if you're spending $50 on a video card, you're not gonna get a whole lot... and $25 for a keyboard/mouse? where are you shopping? I can get both for $10.

    But in all honesty, you're right. :) You can assemble a PS2 equivalent as a PC. But having a PS2 run as a server would be soooo cool.

  7. Woah! $500 for a 40 Gig HD + Ethernet... on LinuxWorld Summary · · Score: 1

    + USB Mouse/Keyboard + TV Out + Linux? Neat. Sony's gonna sell a million of these. I see thousands of webservers or ftp servers in the near future....

  8. Huh? Golden Penguin Bowl? on LinuxWorld Summary · · Score: 2

    What's the Golden Penguin Bowl? Maybe I'm just ignorant... but....

  9. Could you have... on Review: Kung Pow · · Score: 1, Insightful

    put one positive thing in there? Geez, this guy is blasting the movie without any resentment.

    Summary of Review:
    The movie sucks.

  10. DSL v Wireless on Verizon High Speed Wireless · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes! And its uptime will be even better than its DSL, all the way up to 60%! And it'll have more features, like maybe even static IP built in!

  11. The Games? on Scott Draeker Interview About Loki's Demise · · Score: 2

    What's going to happen to those games that they've developed? Surely, as these games are propritary, etc, they're not going to be GPLed, which is what Loki would do if they owned the games. Does this mean that people will not be able to buy the games anymore? Or is some large game company going to snatch the games up and continue support + sales of the existing games? I'd hate to see such gems of modern gaming as Tribes 2 and Kohan become unavalible for the Linux platform suddenly.

  12. Um. Right. Yeah. on MIT Media Lab Tightens Its Belt · · Score: 2

    cellular telephones, first-class air travel, food at internal Lab meetings, and furniture

    They're going to cut back on FOOD and FURNITURE? Yes, of course, makes sense, have everyone sit on the floor and eat lint. Saves on cleaning costs too.

    But they got free first class airfares and cell phones? Wish I coulda been there.
  13. The first shot fired... on AOL Time Warner Files Anti-Trust Suit against MS · · Score: 2

    ...and not the last. As far as I know, this is the first direct confrontation in which the two media giants are not merely competeing with each other, but actually battling with each other. I imagine that these kind of battles will become more and more frequent, MS and AOLTW constantly suing each other.

  14. Palm? Slipping? on Palm Announces Separated Software Operations · · Score: 2

    I didn't know Palm was slipping! I thought that since they have a generic associated with them (think Xerox, FedEx), they must be doing fairly well. No one calls it a "Handheld" or "PDA" (other than the technical crowd, that is), I usually hear "Palm Pilot", even if it's Windows CE or whatever based.
    Are you sure that Palm's market share is really "slipping"?

  15. Repeat....? on Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS · · Score: 2

    I remember seeing this about a month back. A repeat, perhaps? If you can find it, please reply and post!

  16. Implications... on P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are these people implying that you can just go out and buy liquid nitrogen? Or that it is easy to create? Yikes! Where can I get some?

  17. One Minute? on New Wallace and Gromit Episodes Coming Online · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How can anyone accomplish anything in one minute? The real episodes were a little squished into their 40 min frame, and one minute is really pushing it.

    But what I really want is Chicken Run 2!

  18. Hoo... on Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How long is it until this becomes extremly dangerous? I'm not sure everyone can use one of these...

    Plus, being able to climb into a superhuman suit (superstrength) would be an EXCELLENT way to steal stuff. Crime would skyrocket, would it be introduced. Please understand that once something is invented, it is nearly impossible to uninvent it. Furthermore, the exoskeleton has no real peaceful benefit. And in today's age, no information is safe. Consider this.

  19. Hum... on Korea Replacing 120,000 Windows with Linux · · Score: 1

    Yay! But it is time for other governments to switch. Maybe one industrialized nation will help persuade the rest. But the HancomOffice choice puzzles me. They could use something like StarOffice (Korean Support) or KOffice. Unless, of course, HancomOffice is a clone of those too. And why are they "paying" for Linux? Is some bit propitary?

  20. Re:Totally, utterly wrong on X-Box Emulated (Not) · · Score: 1

    First off, I said I might be wrong. So you can't critize me.

    Second of all, Win2k == NT5.

    Third of all, nVidia's "next generation chipset" at the time of the XBox's announcement was the GeForce 3.

    Fourth of all, I could still be wrong.

  21. Re:Emulation? on X-Box Emulated (Not) · · Score: 1

    XBox:
    128 MB RAM
    nVidia GeForce 3
    6 GB Hard Drive
    Special Version of NT
    Pentium III

    I think. Not sure. Might be worth some research, though.

  22. TA! on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    I played it for a little while back... quite a game. Open Sourcing it would mean lots of high-quality, free RTSes, for AtheOS, BeOS, Linux, Windows, QNX and pretty much everything else. The one thing that non-Windows OSes currently lack are excellent multiplayer games. It's time. I certainly hopes this goes through. Perhaps the code will be bought by someone (RedHat, are you listening?). I don't think they're going to give it away.

  23. Computer Manufacturers on Computer Chips Exploding for Science · · Score: 2, Funny

    *boof*
    Customer: My computer exploded!
    Tech Support: Guess you have to get a new one.
    Customer: Yeah! Here's $1000 for a new one!

    Unethical computer manufacturers could get a lot of money out of this. And 1337 HAX0rZ can blow up people's computers. :D I bet that this is a farily silly technology anyway!

  24. Slashdot Effect ^ 1000 on Linuxwatch Budget System of 2001 · · Score: 1

    Good God! The server is so out of it that then ENTIRE THING is now off limits! They didn't take their server down, but it is quite a way to deal with the problem.

    403: Forbidden.

  25. Yay... on Slashback: Squashing, N'Synch, Yopy · · Score: 1

    Does this mean no Jar Jar and more space battles? All right!

    Samsung... Too bad. I would have liked to see some more diversity in PDA OSes. I guess PalmOS is decent, though. Anyone have word on whether or not there is a PalmOS Emulator for PCs?