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  1. Re:One reason why I think on HP Dumped Napster for Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    rent for 15 bucks a month or own for a buck per song...hmmmmm

  2. Re:Taxes and you on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Democratic governor and 2 Democratic senators...hardly makes then republicans....the fact is that it is a very rural state and as such has a problem raising taxes since land is almost worthless and there is not a large enough tax base to make a new tax raise any significant sum of money with out taxing the population into the poor house.

  3. Re:That would BLOW (pardon the pun.) on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    because the other activities are not impairing your judgment, just your control.

    drunk drivers do not kill people because they are driving 30 miles an hour, they kill them because they drive at 100 mile per hour.

  4. Re:That would BLOW (pardon the pun.) on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    how about in order for a bar to sell alcohol, they make the patrons take a breathalyzer, and if it is over the legal limit, they get no more to drink until it is below the level, then you are only penalizing the drinkers. this of course does not regulate home use, but shit happens.

  5. Re:laws on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    yeah...because mandatory sentencing has helped reduce crime so much. NOT

  6. I hate Technocrats on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    they think that using technology to make sure laws are obeyed is not infringing rights.

    they are dangerous bastards.

    when I move to NM, I will be buying my cars in Texas.

  7. Re:This is an important decision on FTC Dismisses Complaint Against Rambus · · Score: 1

    sooooooo

    when the power goes out and you have no where to store your static data like the OS, you will have to reload it?

    and daily backups will be a mandatory issue for even casual home users?

    yeah, your a crack head.

    hard drives fail a lot less than the power goes out, by a factor of millions I would day.

  8. can the EU break them up? on EU Rejects Microsoft Settlement Proposal · · Score: 1

    I mean, MS is a US company, so I can see where we have the authority to order their break-up, but I wonder what international law says about this?

    teh US says "ok, no break up"

    but if the EU says "break-em up"

    does that mean that if MS wants to do buisness in the EU, there must be other EU companies that sell and develop MS software indipendent of MS?

    which would mena they could compete directly with MS in the US while MS cannot exist in the EU as an entity.

    weird.

  9. Re:Pixar's Linux Render Farm on Steve Jobs' Grand Vision · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux is outpacing Mac because it is out cheaping MS on cheap boxes.

    anyone who would say Linux is a better Desktop system than OS X are crack heads....and this is coming from a Linux desktop user.

  10. Re:Pixar's Linux Render Farm on Steve Jobs' Grand Vision · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read that book cover to cover and have absolutly no recolection of his talking about OS X...especialy considering that OS X was not even in public Beta yet when that book went to press.

  11. Re:Pixar's Linux Render Farm on Steve Jobs' Grand Vision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    10 bucks says that is exactly why Jobs had the G5 Xserve created.

  12. Re:Pixar's Linux Render Farm on Steve Jobs' Grand Vision · · Score: 4, Insightful

    their art work and prototyping is done on Macs..rendering is grunt work, why not do it on cheap machines?

  13. Re:English is the world language (maybe) on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 0, Troll

    well, that did not make it a world language....

    the only reason it became the international language of deplomacy was because the end of WW I and the legue of nations occured there. the Olympics uses it because a French man was the one who founded the modern Olympic games.

    the french language was not a transitional language at any point in its history, which is what makes a world language.

  14. Re:English is the world language (maybe) on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    French was a world language? I think it comes more from French influence on the English language than french being a world language.

    the English language has German words in it as well, but German was never a world language.

  15. Re:English is the world language (maybe) on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    it is more accurate to say that english is a transitional language. it is widly used and will likly be the medium that information will be transmited to future cultures, just as Greek and Latin were transitional languages.

  16. Re:Hard To Believe on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    the semantics and grammers are very english based.....the basis of a computer language is much more in depth than just the keywords.

  17. Re:Hard To Believe on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    Zuse developed the first high level language for computing.

  18. Re:Hard To Believe on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    umm...Zuse never put his language to use....but it is interesting about how advanced his language was...things from his language were not even thought of when it was discovered.

  19. VERY old news on Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    I have been using this to make slipstreams of XP Pro for me and my friends since SP1 came out.

  20. Re:Besides if it's legal or not... on Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers · · Score: 1

    ah... but the request for a new number is in the hands of the person who has the number....all that needs to be done is for a set date and time to be made and the person who bought the number has a good chance of requesting the number...my only thing is that.....are people in every area code really using that number already? otherwise, you could probably get it right now.

  21. Re:Not now..... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    my point was that there is no way to make one of the size needed for a car that can easily and safely be removed and replaced.

  22. Re:if only apple was x86 on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh · · Score: 1

    true, if Dell wanted to spend money on making an iMac type computer, tehy could do it.......but it would have to use a Pentium M, and tehy make pretty quiet desktops, but not as quiet as the G5, but of they cared, they cared they could, and they could design the inside of a Dell withthe ribbon cables and other cables tucked away leaving free open air flow in the space inside, but they don't and apple does.

  23. Re:if only apple was x86 on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh · · Score: 1

    the saw tooth never cost 3 grand.

  24. Re:Not now..... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    hydrogen is more energy efficent in a fuel cell than burning either gas or ethanol, so the hydrogen from 1 gallon of ethanol would produce more than a gallon of ethanol, and the yeild would go up when you use plants that are easier to distil...like hemp.

  25. Re:Not now..... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    so...what would you have us do mr. smarty pants?

    develop s nuclear battery the size of a pop can?

    yeah...good luck.