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  1. Re:Games from different regions? on Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    I got the R4 because it was ridiculously cheap.

    Just running ROMs doesn't necessarily mean piracy.

  2. Re:Games from different regions? on Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    "The fact remains that the moon is made of cheese."

    See? I can reason like that too!

    (Someone needs to look up what "exclusively" means).

  3. Re:Games from different regions? on Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy · · Score: 2, Informative

    What? You do know the R4 has an SD slot, and it's not a sealed flash cartridge. It would be super easy to tell them apart.

    I have an R4. All of my games personally dumped from games I own (NDS Backup Wi-Fi Tool rules), but some of the better games are 100% homebrew - VideoGame Hero and DScent are two that I really enjoy.

    So "entirely for counterfeiting and piracy"? My lone personal example proves you 100% wrong. Thanks for shopping.

  4. Re:Roasting chestnuts on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    They make guitars too, though under a slightly different name: http://www.music-man.com/instruments/

  5. Re:Maemo on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 1

    So did I. Generally wasted money.

    Check out the number of apps on maemo.org: Maemo5 (n900) - 80 apps, OS2008 (n8x0) - 493 apps. Think you'll find the app you need in there? The odds are against you. These are the hard numbers from standing behind a fairly commercial-hostile platform...

    If you're ready to vote with your wallet, you should be willing to give software developers some of that cash.

  6. Re:How can this be? on Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk · · Score: 1

    Wow. Get back to us when you understand what Time Machine actually does.

  7. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your sense of humor, OverflowException()

  8. Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    I meant the seeder/sharer, not Lars.

  9. Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    Copyright would mostly apply to the person that provided it, correct? So could it not be interpreted that Lars implicitly authorized the person SHARING it to breach the contract?

    It seems to me that copyright only restricts you from distribution, not from acquiring something.

  10. Re:How are we getting screwed on this one? on FCC Unanimously Approves White Space Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, how about anyone and everyone at at concerts, conventions, sports stadiums, or churches?

  11. Re:A bit of trivia... on Alpine 1.00 Brings Pine Back · · Score: 1

    Mutt is amazing... All you need is a pine muttrc file, one example is here

    http://www.dotfiles.com/files/27/263_.muttrc

    and then check out Tesla Gwynne's muttrc for more fun:
    http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/muttrc-1.2

    The online muttrc generator
    http://muttrcbuilder.org/

    It may not win you over, but wow, mutt can be super quick to do mighty things.

  12. Re:#6 - duct tape the right mouse button on How to Turn Your PC into a Mac · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in Windows, you absolutely need to right-click. That's why it's so hard for Windows-trained users think it's so vital. In Windows, it pretty much is.

    The design of the Mac UI did not rely on there ever being a right-click. Think you absolutely need to right-click in Mac OS? You're wrong. You might be missing or ignoring the other way to do it. Give it a chance, it might even be a better way to do it. If you disagree, get another mouse, they're plentiful and cheap. The OS supports a crazy amount of buttons.

    The extra buttons on the mouse are for more awesome for things like Expose anyway.

  13. Re:Ms, your case is lost on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else notice the lack of a *link* in the actual article?

  14. Re:Oh! on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Another strong vote for Reaper. I downloaded it back in the day when it was ".99MB" thinking it couldn't be all that great. Boy was I wrong.

  15. Re:Too Many Kings on "Spam King" Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court · · Score: 1

    "The people versus Lord High Spam, Circumventor of Bayes, Embedder of Speckled Images, Supplier of Questionable Wristwatches,..."

    "Skip a bit, bailiff..."

  16. Re:what's on Web 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Nope, looks like that one is taken.

    http://yousirareanidiot.com/

    Unless you get the .info domain which hopefully would explain why...

  17. Whoa on Why KDE Rules · · Score: 1

    I've used KDE since ~'96 and I had absolutely no idea you could do all of that. The dcop stuff is amazing!

  18. This must be common on Accurate Project Time Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Reading your comment and a number of others, I had to keep checking the names to see if I accidentally posted this. Weird. Looks like quite a few of us have this problem.

    I tried quite a few digital solutions, my best success is a Hipster PDA Get 3x5 cards, punch a hole in them and use a binding ring. Each project gets its own card. Write down start and stop times (and task description if you like), and that's it. I aggressively avoided paper for so long, it's amazing how much better it can capture what I need.

    To me the advantages are a) you only have one task in front of you (top of the stack) so it's not as easy to get distracted. b) You can do all the math later, and write it on the side of the card c) when you invoice for the card, void the card somehow (I use another hole on the next line down). Use another card if you're not done. This prevents double-billing and (worse) forgetting to bill.

  19. Re:95% of all problems.... on Top 10 System Administrator Truths · · Score: 1

    Or a steam engine...

  20. Re:GOOD! on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 1

    I was very hesitant too, until I read of all of the ways you can "unbrick" the box. dd-wrt is sweet.

  21. Re:biggest mistake ever on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not one of those people. When I want an app, I'd really not rather have to compile it, chase down libraries & dependencies, etc. If I can if at all possible use a binary, I will. If it's too clunky, I'm off to my Windows or Mac machines. My task is USING THE COMPUTER for high-level tasks (and when I program, I use rather high-level languages, too, so that doesn't count). Thanks for judging me.

    Read my original post. If someone was going to school to learn auto mechanics, you'd better believe I expect them to "build their own car" (whatever level of "building" the depth of the course requires).

    Work on a support line for a while. Too many people that depend on computers for their livelihood have been so coddled, protected from "that computer stuff" that when something goes funky, they have to call over someone whose eyes didn't gloss over once it went any deeper than "start button". Nice if they knew SOMETHING about the system.

    Stop working in absolutes. "everybody", "forcing", "force", "everyone has to know everything", "HAVE TO", "required". I said nothing of the sort.

  22. Re:biggest mistake ever on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Exactly, but ask yourself what is "their task"?

    Let's not confuse this with "our tasks", that is, "surf the web, write emails, play games". The point of these machines is to teach them about computers. Teach them how to install Slackware, how to compile an app from source, how to build apps... ...who knows, we might end up with people that actually *understand computers*, and not just "[Windows | Mac] users"

  23. Re:Liked the Intellivision controller?! on XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Tron Deadly Discs wouldn't have been the same with anything else...

  24. Re:On my Mac right now... on Google Desktop 2 Live · · Score: 1

    I don't have Tiger. I do have Quicksilver, though both its functionality and Spotlight's are a little different from GD. Dashboard might be a better analog (Though I don't have that either)

  25. Re:On my Mac right now... on Google Desktop 2 Live · · Score: 1

    Uh, no thanks, but that avenue's already taken care of.