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  1. Re:Game vs. Movie on EA Working On New GoldenEye Videogame? · · Score: 1

    I think Goldeneye was the best of the Pierce Bond films. After that he really starts to rely on women to do his fighting for him.

  2. Re:Nice spin doctoring ... on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 1

    Fry's (I know they're not in all markets)

    Twice in the past month they've had 50-packs of blank CD-Rs for $8.99. I think the sales typically lasts two or three days. Check your local paper.

  3. Re:MS on Egyptian campuses on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    My old university has a campus agreement with Microsoft. The school pays a reduced rate for a license for every student. They then charge the student $10 for the media. The student doesn't get any support from Microsoft through this agreement. The university recently implemented a policy where to purchase a product (which your tuition dollars already paid for) you have to pay a $50 fee for them to install it. If it is an operating system they will charge you an additional $30 for each CD worth of backup. There is no way to purchase this software without paying that extortion.

    The school is probably making back the cost of the license plus more.

  4. Re:Take it with a grain of... on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been led to believe in the past that the best value ranking has a lot to do with the amount of financial aid the institution gives out.

  5. Re:Australia, please hit them harder. on Australian Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines · · Score: 1
    I am a U.S. Citizen, and I would like nothing more than to see all members of the RIAA and the MPAA dry up and blow away.


    I am also a U.S. citizen. However, our justice system isn't equipped to deal with the members of the RIAA and the MPAA the way I see fit. I was thinking more along the lines of "getting medieval on their asses."
  6. Re:Backwater? on Polybius Game Urban Legend Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    Milwaukie certainly isn't backwater. I'd argue that if you kept go east of Milwaukie to Carver and Damascus and all of eastern Clackamas county then you'll find backwater.

  7. Re:Needs two slots... on New Linux-based PDA due September · · Score: 1

    If it is only used once then why bother making up an acronym at all?

  8. Re:Needs two slots... on New Linux-based PDA due September · · Score: 1

    WMPCAATWOTWTFI? (Why must people create acronyms and then write out the words that form it?)

  9. Re:Beautiful on Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008? · · Score: 1

    Tom Wolfe wrote something in The Man in Full along the lines of, "a paradigm doesn't do anything except for shift."

  10. Re:USPTO: Asleep again. on RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million · · Score: 1

    I think you've been beat to wireliss car audio. It's called radio.

  11. Re:Someone's gotta do it... on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    There was an article about a Navy ship having to be towed into port when its Windows server went BSOD.

    http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2 .h tm

  12. Re:Missing the point on Microsoft Writes Off Corel · · Score: 1

    Actually, Wordperfect was out on Linux 2.5 years ago.

  13. Re:Thoughts. on Got Tracks? · · Score: 1

    I came across this wheelchair when I was researching inventions. It's able to climb stairs and be used on sand (or so they claim). It also goes up on two wheels to make you taller. Pretty cool. http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/body_wheelchair.h tml