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  1. considering the Dell quality on Dell's Gaming Monster · · Score: 1

    I will be buying an Alienware befor I think of Dell.

    Dell is good at cheap, not good at quality.....*sites this month's Consumers Report, last year's Consumers Report, etc.*

  2. Re:so sad on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years · · Score: 1

    ahead of its time how?

    1986, there already was the Mac.

  3. Re:Screw Fedora. Run Mandrake. on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1

    if you need Red Hat corprate backing, then use RH Enterprise Linux!!!

  4. Re:What about java for browsers? on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1

    if you are a j2ee guy, why not download the SUN binary, install it, then link to the ns6 plugin from the mozilla plugin folder in /lib/mozilla ?

  5. Re:i386 on Fedora Core 2 test1 Released · · Score: 1

    not to mention that most of those programs they are compiling in 1386 form are not even programed with that processor or grade of computer in mind anyway....I mean....Gnome on a 386?

  6. Re:1st Amendment? on TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline · · Score: 1, Informative

    I hate morons like you. the first amendment just protects people from the government, NOT private citizens or companies.

    that is why boycotts of the stars at events durring the war were legal. you can say what ever you like and the government will not touch you (out side what thurgood marshal set forth about dangerouse speech). but that does not mean you are free from paying consequenses for what you say from other non-governmental groups or individuals.

  7. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    well, let me just say that what we have here is a diffrence of opinion. you base yours on life sciences background, and I base mine on a mathmatics background. I am arguing from a purly logical stadpoint, while your point of view might be common sense, logicly, it is still a theory because you can not deduce from observable data that the same theory holds true for the univerese of objects in question, which in this case is animals.

  8. Re:DLP or digital projectors on Display Format Technologies Comparison · · Score: 1

    hmm, ok, I think I will let patrick norton on screen savers know (that is where I heard it).

  9. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    my point is that you are basing your idea on assumptions that you cannot verify for the entire population of animals. therefore you are citing a theory which just happens to make a lot of sense.

  10. DLP or digital projectors on Display Format Technologies Comparison · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the only way to go for non CRT TVs. plazma and LCD get burn in, and right now cost way to much for that to be ok.

  11. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    really? that sounds like a theory to me.

  12. Re:what if theory didn't exist? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    who knows, all we know is that this explanation is the only thing that explains why type 1a supernova change in luminocity with respect to each other.

    read some of Michio Kaku;s books on the subject...he does a good job of explaining it for people that are not theoretical physics students.

  13. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    the fact that 1+1=2 is not what is assumed.

    the meaning of the symbols (1,2,+,=) are assumed.

  14. Re:Sorry to be nitpickin' on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    yes, and einstein's theories have been shows to be undefined at small sizes, and quantum mechanics has been shown to be inaccurate at large sizes.

    some where there is an accurate, defined theory that will explain all observable phenomina.

  15. Re:Natural selection has been shown, not evolution on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    well, since spontanious generation of a creature is so much more improbable, if not impossable, I would say that until a person can come up with a more probable solution to the origin of species than evolution, the prudent scientist would accept evolution as the best explantation and use it as a base assumption to build other work on that depends on an explantation of where species come from.

  16. Re:Natural selection has been shown, not evolution on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    so you are saying that:

    evolution => natural selection

    we then can also say the contrapositive is true,

    ~(natural selection) => ~(evolution)

    but we cannot say:

    natural selection => evolution.

  17. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    well, when you put it in a certain way like "only those animals that survive and procreate and give birth to viable offspring will pass their genes on to the future gene pool"

    that is a tautology. that is a factual observation.

    then you can extrapolate reasons for animals to survive, at that point you enter the realm of theory.

    so really, you mixed the theory and the tautology up into one statement.

  18. Re:Theory. on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    proove to me that the sun came up yesterday....and don't go showing me pictures of the sun coming up or anything, but an actualy demonstration that the sun came up yesterday.

    how foolish you are.

  19. Re:what if theory didn't exist? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    umm, the universe is on a constant acceleration, not deceleration.

    the theory that explains this disturbing observation is that empty space has a property that makes it want to expand at an ever increseing velocity, and the prsence of matter inhibits this.

    so, galaxies are not moving appart, the distance between them is just growing.

  20. Re:what if theory didn't exist? on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    actualy, the universe is expanding at an ever increseing rate of acceleration.at some point, the universe will expand at a rate faster than the speed of light and we will not be able to see anything but our own galacy/galactic cluster.

    this acceleration is not caused by matter traveling that speed, that is impossable, but space itself is expanding. it apears that empty space has a property that makes it expand, and the presence of matter inhibits this property.

  21. Re:Doesn't work on California Man Sues Penis-Enlargment Firms · · Score: 0

    5 inches is average size, so I think you mean tehy are admiting tehy have a 3 inch dick.....that, or tehy have a 9 incher and the chick loves to get split wide open.

  22. Re:I'll show you significant impact! on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    well, to me, it is no more difficult than plug-ins were back in 1990. back then you had to drag the plug in into the plug in directory....now thay have fancy schmasy installers that decompress the VM and copy the file for you...big deal.

  23. Re:facing social isolation and loneliness on No Harm, No Foul in Heavy Net Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    at least books were enriching.

  24. Re:I'll show you significant impact! on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    log in as root, navigate to the java plug-in directroy in naugt or konq, right click, make link, cut link, navigate to /lib/mozilla/plugins, paste link.

    that is the pointy clicky way of doing it. if you are a fast typer and know the entire paths, you can do it in about 5 seconds in the terminal.

  25. Re:Wrongo. on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    a system wide menu bar for applications is a good idea though, at least as an option.

    IMHO, it looks better.