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  1. Re:riiiight on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1
    However. Nintendo would be far more likely to capitulate on this than Microsoft
    Nintendo is doing fine. They have tons of money and are in a very good financial situation.

    I think the OP intended to write capitalize, not capitulate.

  2. Re:So how long... on StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA · · Score: 1
    Sure, you can legally change it yourself, but you automatically loose a warranty

    And ironically, that loose warranty can only be tightened by the manufacturer.

  3. Re:Wow on Sports Highlights via AI · · Score: 1
    I never noticed that was there. Services are such a great feature. I don't understand why they're so underused.

    Me neither. But maybe your first sentence is a clue.

  4. Re:The neatest thing about this, IMHO... on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1
    Actually, there are quite a few people that claim we're evolving forward into higher life forms. Most of them call themselves "evolutionists" or more coloquially, "scientists".

    Buddy, If ignorance were cornflakes, you'd be General Mills.

  5. Re:The neatest thing about this, IMHO... on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you ask me, we're quite pompous to assume that we're evolving to be more intelligent as time goes forward, just because we don't see evidence of the ancients being as advanced as we are

    We're not going to ask you. Nobody assumes we're becoming more intelligent. We're more advanced because we learn. And once writing was figured out we were able to progress much more quickly.

  6. Re:Plato the story teller on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1
    Having said that, a real quote from Mr. Barnum.
    "EGRESS!, Twenty-five cents."

    That's not quite right. He had the problem of getting people to leave a sideshow building, as there was no natural "end" to the show. So he painted a door with the words "This way to the egress." He didn't charge people to leave, he just wanted them out so he could let in the next crowd.

  7. Re:We've "found" it dozens of times... on Atlantis: Discovered at Last? · · Score: 1
    And every single time, it turns out to be false.

    Well, yeah. That's how looking for something works. Until you find it, every place you looked was wrong.

  8. Re:Innovation = copying after 5 years? on Is Microsoft Money Crushing Microsoft? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I do not know what you regard as "new" and "innovative", not to speak of "technology".

    He's using sarcasm to make the point that what MS is just now trotting out has in fact existed in several places for several years. And that that's innovation, Microsoft style.

  9. Re:Fixed in new firmware, available here: on NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open · · Score: 2, Funny
    Helps if the URL doesnt have a space in it. Hmm.. slashdot seems to be mangling it.

    How To Make a Clickable URL
    1. Type <a href = "">
    2. Insert the URL between the quotation marks.
    3. To the right of the closing angle bracket, type the text you'd like the link to say.
    4. Finish with </a>

    Done.

    P.S. No ...Profit!!! jokes, please.

  10. Re:Nice treatise on A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom · · Score: 1

    "techno geek" should have been "wizard hacker." Lazy copy and paste by me.

  11. Re:Nice treatise on A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom · · Score: 4, Insightful
    No, you are not a techno geek if you cannot get your windows machine stable.

    He didn't say he was a techno geek. He's a typical person trying to get his work done. And why does he have "get it" stable? Why isn't it already that way?

    TAKE A COURSE IN MS OFFICE!
    If he has to take a course to learn how to use bullets in a word processor, something's wrong with that software.

  12. Re:The Problem With Darwin on Evaluating Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Maybe I feel Darwin should useful on its own.

    You're saying that without Airport support it's not useful? That's a rather narrow definition of useful.

  13. Re:You think it's funny, but actually ... on SCO and Baystar Strike a Deal · · Score: 1
    This smells like hogwash....

    Odor or not, it's accurate.

  14. Re:You guys are all INSANE on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1
    I'm in a good sized Latin American capital city, and it was a bit after dark.

    San Jose, CR?

  15. Character on Harmless Pranks During a Downsizing? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is one of the times in your life that defines you. It's easy to behave yourself when the consequences of not doing so are severe. But comporting yourself well when you behaving badly is easy is a mark of strong personal character.

  16. Re:I hate to be a pushover... on New Largest Prime Found: Over 7 Million Digits · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have pi tattooed on my dick. It usually says 3.14, but man when it gets angry, it goes all the way to 3.141!

    Wait, I didn't tell that right.

  17. Re:its all about the accessories on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    many moderators choose insightful instead to give the author their karma points.

    They should use underrated, then.

  18. Re:Wow next thing you know... on Online Plagiarist Sues University · · Score: 5, Funny
    Also similar to the "I didn't know smoking was bad for me" argument

    Except that the University (presumably) didn't place ads showing beautiful people having a wonderful time and enjoying life because they were downloading papers off the internet.

  19. Re:Someone's gotta say it on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: -1, Troll
    Roland Piquepaille

    Piquepaille piqued a paille of piquiled peepers.

    If Piquepaille piqued a paille of piquiled peepers,
    how many piques of piquiled peepers did Piquepaille pique?

  20. Re:Extensions for Mac OS X on Unsanity Developer Comes to APE's Defense · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Badly coded APE modules do, in the same way as badly coded apps do.

    Badly coded apps do not make anything but themselves unstable. A badly coded module makes every program unstable.

  21. Re:Been done on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1
    Just because it isn't set up how *you* want for modding doesn't mean it's not moddable.

    OK, in that sense any program is modifiable. Heck, with enough effort a Windows installer could be modded to install Linux instead.

  22. Re:alright! on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1
    Nice map, almost 100% accurate.

    Perhaps you missed this part of the introduction: "...the placement of most locations is arbitrary..."

    You're right about the Burns' thing, though.

  23. Re:THAT is an old story... on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This isn't rocket science. Hopefully Apple has some rocket scientists

    Well, if it isn't rocket science then what good would that do?

  24. Re:Links and thoughts.. on Hardcore Java · · Score: 2, Funny
    Master this subject and you will not need to learn anything thing else...

    What is this anything thing of which you speak? Sounds like Dr. Suess:

    It's the anything thing
    this thing that I bring.

    Use it for surfing
    use it to sing.

  25. Re:DO NOT INHALE HELIUM! on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1
    Seems to me that none of those cases had anything to do with the fact that it was helium. The two kids sucked on the end of a pressurized tank. Even it had been filled with air they could have had problems.

    The other guy passed out from lack of oxygen. Again, nothing to do with it being helium; the problem was that he didn't have any air. Well, yeah.