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  1. Re:hahaha on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1
    You might just as easily say that only the Mac version doesn't use an MDI interface

    The original argument was that Photoshop on Linux couldn't happen if MDI wasn't supported. Pointing out that the Mac version does not was done to counter that argument.

    since Photoshop was designed with MDI in mind, then adapted to fit the Mac idea of what's "usable."

    Photoshop was first developed for the Mac, so it seems more likely that it was the other way around.

  2. Re:Stainless Steel Rat on Cable Box Piracy Ring Busted · · Score: 1
    Then, one of the fools got greedy and decided to print up a forged ticket for a practically impossible series of bets, which paid off in the millions.

    Makes no sense. They were only duplicating tickets for winning bets which have already been made. So how could they then forge a ticket worth millions? I think maybe you're not quite remembering it correctly.

  3. Re:Wright Brothers == True Engineers on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1
    That is the funniest thing I have ever heard.

    You need to get out more.

  4. Re:Kind of like colossus on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1
    I don't believe everything I read blindly

    The things I read blindly, well, I have trouble seeing them.

  5. Re:This is what's needed on X-Prize Progress Update · · Score: 1
    how much is a metric buttload in pounds?

    Maybe it's a volume, not a weight.

  6. Re:Why? on SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review · · Score: 1
    Well, considering /. displays all news of the day on the front page, then what are their options?

    If you think that all slashdot stories are on the main page, then there's a whole lot of slashdot you're missing.

  7. Re:Apple sets the pace on iTMS Named Fortune's Product Of The Year · · Score: 1
    That's what I don't get... iTMS is a pretty good idea, but Apple keeps telling us they aren't making money off of it.

    They make somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 per iPod, and they've sold hundreds of thousands of those.

  8. Re:Why Sad? on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    This one is pretty good.

  9. A few more details on Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light · · Score: 3, Informative

    This article gives a few more details, and here is the actual press release.

  10. Re:It doesn't bother me! on Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent · · Score: 1
    How many people use your apps compared to a popular website?

    Well, a lot of people use Windows, too, but I still don't write for that.

  11. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1
    Another is that theft is taking something you don't have permission or legal rights to.

    And your word "take" is misleading as well. To copy is not synonymous with to take.

  12. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1
    Another is that theft is taking something you don't have permission or legal rights to.

    But that way does not fit the definition. It is one part of it, but not the complete definition. If theft doesn't mean what you want it to, you can't just pretend that it does. You have to find another word.

  13. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1
    But if I would have chosen option B....Utility is maximised.

    Yes. Omniscience has its rewards.

  14. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1
    The individual has NOT been "wronged".

    Under those pesky rules we call "laws," he has.

    "Harmed", maybe, if his business model depended on charging high prices for something easily copied.

    If he's charging too much, your legitimate choices are A) pay it anyway, or B) do without. Option C, "fuck him, I'm gonna have it anyway" is not a legitimate choice.

  15. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If something is stolen from you then by definition you no longer have it. With copyright violation, you still have your work. Therefore it is not theft. I'm not saying you haven't been harmed, or wronged in some way, but it is not by theft.

    Words matter.

  16. Re:China, Russia and the Space Race on Buzz Advocates Lagrange Point Spaceport · · Score: 0, Troll
    In Soviet Union, toll pays YOU!

    Why would you post this? Do you think it's even the slightest bit funny anymore?

  17. Re:In all areas on The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators · · Score: 1
    My title is senior programmer.

    Well see if you can program those seniors not to pee in their pants, then.

  18. Re:In all areas on The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators · · Score: 1
    Don't tell me to "Google" something that you can't explain yourself.

    I agree one hundred percent! And I'm not just spouting off, there's actually a very good reason why he shouldn't. But it's complex and difficult for me to put in words. I'm sure you can find it online somewhere, though.

  19. Re:In all areas on The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators · · Score: 1
    Booze is for the weak.

    And even more so, for the week end.

  20. Re:its that pesky Y2.003K bug! on Computer Glitch Causes Havoc and Losses on Nasdaq · · Score: 1

    UNfortunately, your reading skills are lacking. This has already been covered, had you bothered to read the thread. Also, it obviously had little to do with arithmetic, and more with me not noticing the decimal point. While there is also not a "-1, Literally Incompetent", there is a -1 redundant. Perhaps you'll get one of those.

  21. Re:its that pesky Y2.003K bug! on Computer Glitch Causes Havoc and Losses on Nasdaq · · Score: 1
    The subject line was Y2.003K.

    Oh yeah, look at that. I withdraw my smart ass remark.

  22. Re:its that pesky Y2.003K bug! on Computer Glitch Causes Havoc and Losses on Nasdaq · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fortunately Y2003K is a long way off.

  23. Nothing new on First Hover Flight Test of X-50A Dragonfly · · Score: 1

    This is nothing new. I don't know why, but the article says it's revolutionary, and so that's a guarantee that someone will post about something vaguely similar if you squint just right, and so claim that this thing is nothing new.

  24. Re:Finally... on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 2, Informative
    You have to pay interest on the short

    You receive interest. You sold the stock, and money came from that. That money is collecting interest.

  25. Re:There are only 3 posts... on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 5, Funny
    and yet somehow this site is slashdotted. Go figure.

    Defies the notion that nobody reads the articles before posting, doesn't it?