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  1. The cost will be $15Mil on George Lucas Predicts Death of Big Budget Movies · · Score: 1

    but the ticket to see it will be $20...

  2. Re:Put a layer of indirection on Legal Issues of Opening Up Proprietary Standards? · · Score: 1

    umm.. why not just package it...
    meet with the company's marketing folks and decision makers..
    offer them the Linux-communication interface/driver/etc...that you've developed through reverse-engineering their product...
    come to some agreement on a fee/hired position etc...
    and be done with it...everyone wins in the end..

  3. Re:ID on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    ya might dig a little deeper and find it was the Catholic Church.

  4. Re:ID on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    catholics also believe and state that the Pope is God's authority on earth...
    even though he is elected by "peers"
    and apparently was given the authority to change the 4th of the 10 commandments.

  5. I think Google should... on IE Flaw Utilizes Google Desktop Search · · Score: 1

    reject any requests for pages on any of their sites from IE...and force the masses to utilize those browsers superior like Firefox and Opera...

    Wanna see how many machines would have Firefox if they blocked all IE browsers?

  6. Re:Electric resistance-based quite common on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    yeah, I being from the usa had never seen one until I went to visit my wife's in Brasil...Imagine my surprise when I see electrical wires inside my shower! I stopped and went back to my wife and got reassurance that it was safe to take a shower with electrical wires. (she's an architect) She explained the whole concept to me...and they actually SAVE electricity by heating their shower water thus.

  7. French labor laws... on Another Round of HP Layoffs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    are STUPID.
    HP will likely save as much in trimming those ~6k jobs as they did in getting rid of the 15k previous.

  8. Re:Email is mostly broken on Ending Spam · · Score: 1

    so is snail mail...
    I receive just as much "spam" in my mailbox as I do in my "inbox"...the difference? I can use anti-spam software on the inbox..and the mailbox is USPS property :(

  9. Re:PLEASE DON'T MOD PARENT DOWN on Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team · · Score: 1

    I provide great tech support for a few K per month as well..oh wait..I call that a JOB. =)

  10. Re:I love PHP on Spring Into PHP 5 · · Score: 1

    try ruby on rails http://www.rubyonrails.com/

    I doubt you'll be disappointed

  11. Re:This shows half of ITs problem. on Establishing an IT Budget for a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    A professional, when he accepts a job, will do what's right for his customer within his area of expertise, no matter his own personal opinion on the customer or the customers direction.

    Finally someone speaks the truth!
    I'm a Linux/Mac/MS/Novell supporter =)
    Ask me and they ALL have their place in almost any IT infrastructure(Novell work'n with SUSE has helped a lot in many areas no doubt, and Mac OS/X as well!)
    But MS at the desktop is still undeniably crucial for people doing more than simple word processing/e-mail and web browsing(90% of a student's activities).

    Good point mate.

  12. Re:Short sighted on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    this argument is tired and wrong for those who have no curiosity on how things work..
    When I was a kid I constantly asked how things on the car worked...and was lucky enough to have a dad who knew!

    Most kids I know(I work in a high school) DO what to know how their computers work...and even more of the elementary school students I meet from our feeder schools. As for your illustriously illogical argument...assembling something is not the sole method of finding out more about it. Nor building something from scratch. Dismantling, is equally effective =)

  13. Re:Short sighted on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    people bought windows 3.1 in droves because it installed itself...didn't run off of floppy disks...
    and in all fairness 3.1 was crap and 3.11 was the popular one...semantics I know =)

    Bill had a vision of where HE wanted computing to go...Jobs did too...Jobs focused on Education..Bill focused on home users knowing damn well that if it was used in the home parents would push for them to be in schools. And Bill had a better business model to begin with.

  14. Re:Short sighted on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    value?

    $250 and remain an ignorant computer user.

    or

    FREE and continually learn more about your computer and it's OS

    lets see which has a greater value

  15. Re:Freak on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    OSS does not mean it runs on Linux.
    OSS does not mean it doesn't run on Windows either.

  16. wow...RTFA! on Sixth DebConf Ends in Success · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's most interesting with pretty much zero insight as to what made it "successful"...

  17. Re:Use gmail. on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Need some invites??? I got 50! =)
    woah that's more than 10% of what you need!

  18. ahh but at least... on Microsoft Continues Anti-OSS Strategy · · Score: 1

    YOU have the choice to add things to it or NOT!
    Whereas with windows you get all the junk/crap/bloat even if you do NOT want it.
    Then again when using IE a lot of things got added that I did NOT want..after about 3 months worth of use.

  19. Re:His comments on open source... on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. I use K12LTSPin a secondary school setting and coupled with Pykota for printer quotas the school has managed to save quite a bit of money and provide more resources to students while making use of "junk" as thin clients. I do what I can to support these projects in technical support and $.

  20. Re:Inconsistent Rant on Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF · · Score: 1

    I'll take 3.1 over XP any day!
    at least my icons stayed EXACTLY where I wanted them to stay!

  21. Re:"interestign abotu Russia" on Update on the Optimus Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I guess you can't read pictures either...
    no matter WHAT you configure your keyboard as is how it will diplay the function of those keys.

  22. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    hopefully you are not off the mark with the 2nd season hopes...

    and Firefly was oddly nifty...
    BSG did rock though =)

  23. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    BSG a late 70's early 80's sci-fi along the time as Buck Rogers...

    Was at the time a very good show!(30yrs old m'self) so watched it as a young'n...OLD sci-fi channel back when it was satelite only was when I really got into it during my summer vacation with nothing to do in my po-dunk town.

    Got the box set of the original series, and am re-watching them as well...still beats SG-Atlatis in acting and plot though!

  24. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    Atlantis sucks...
    the acting is on par with B-movies like "The Toxic Avenger"

    SG1 is much much better!
    and BSG...one of the better remakes I've seen ever.

  25. can she turn your iPod into something wearable on Last Year's Gadgets Get New Life As... Jewelry · · Score: 1

    But can she turn my broken iPod into something wearable?"

    Just like that old skool rapper who used to wear the Clock around his neck...