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  1. NOTHING! on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How about "Nothing"? I can count on one hand the number of things I need to accomplish and places I need to go, other than my commute on work days, during the next 8 weeks. Stop living such complicated lives. You do not need to schedule a trip to the grocery store. When the thing you want isnt in the cupboard, go shopping.

  2. Re:I use my PDA on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    I would use mine but it isnt allowed on the premises at work. Damn security policy :(

  3. Re:Free works on New EQ Expansion, Free Tutorial · · Score: 1

    MMORPGs are, for most people, a chat room with something to do in between sentences. That's it. The only thing that keeps most people playing past-their-prime games like EQ and UO is that their friends still play and its how they spend the majority of their time with them.

  4. Re:And the heating system on If Bad Software Developers Built Houses... · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I want mine written well, but that's just me. :)

  5. Re:Oh, this doesn't have C&D written all over on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    No, you can not, because you are then selling a derivative work. The only reason censors and television stations do not get in trouble for this is because they have monopolies.

  6. Re:Exactly. One can't call that an "upgrade" on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    This decision is contrary to 20 years of precedent, both before and after, and will not hold any weight when placed up against piles of counter-precedent in any reasonable court.

  7. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I never understood how that decision worked... The makers of Bnetd never, necessarily, even bought/installed/played a Blizzard game.

  8. Re:Get a Micra on The Ultimate Leatherman? · · Score: 1

    You can buy one at any RadioShack although I suggest looking elsewhere for a better price.

  9. Re:Not for lefties. on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 1

    my keyboard is worn enough to show dimples in most of the keys, and ive worn all the way through the plastic where my fingernails touch A and S (and damn near W and D as well). also, my space bar is cut in half because the keyboard folds up. the right half shows most of the wear, but the left is not in great shape either. id say 20/80 for me, and im a righty who doesnt use 'normal' home row touch typing

  10. Re:typo on No IE7 For 2k, Now In Extended Service · · Score: 1

    Sure. Example #1: Any work that relies on operationg system functionality in XPSP2.

  11. typo on No IE7 For 2k, Now In Extended Service · · Score: 1

    ...[S]ome of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2...

    more accurately, this should read: ...[S]ome of the insecure work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2...

    When will MS realize that integrating the browser with the OS is never a good thing.

  12. Re:What's so expensive? on When Is It Random Enough? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is why no one generates 1s and 0s directly from the Geiger counter. The simplest safe method is to wait for 4 clicks, calculate the time between 1 and 2, then between 3 and 4, and output a 0 or 1 depending on which is higher (corrected for the logarithmic (inverse exponential? i forget my curves) increase in decay time over time).

  13. Re:asdf on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: 1

    The blurb is nice ammunition, but really immaterial. As long as you live in a state that has passed the UCC (over 80%) then youre allowed to return software pretty much all the time, as long as theres a clause in the EULA you don't agree with.

  14. Re:AJAX Won't Deliver... on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: 1

    This site best viewed in a Browser That Works Better than Internet Explorer.

  15. Deja Vu? on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 1

    Hasn't Sprint PCS offered this service as part of their 'Vision' package for like a year now? At no extra cost?

  16. Re:what the hell on Application Optimization with Compilers for LOP · · Score: 0

    Actually I read the first 2-3 pages of the article. It doesnt even mention PowerPC until the section on architecture-specific optimizations, and everything above that is 'duh, i already know -O2 does' material

  17. What? on Application Optimization with Compilers for LOP · · Score: -1

    I cannot be the only one reading this thinking "What the hell is Linux on POWER?"

  18. Re:Fixing dupes... on A Peek at Personalized Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, because that worked so well with the US patent system :)

  19. Re:Non Toxic Liquid Metal? on Liquid Metal Cooling in New ATI Video Card · · Score: 1

    I guarantee you centrifugal force is real... From the POV of someone standing on the rotating object :) It's all relative.

  20. Re:broadcast on Television on your Phone · · Score: 1

    And I cannot even begin to imagine what this does to your thumbs. Even with a nice 'full' keyboard on one of those fold out phones you would start to get callouses in jus`t a few days.

  21. Re:broadcast on Television on your Phone · · Score: 1

    That is 10 messages per hour, 16 hours a day, every day of the month. Maybe you should consider just CALLING PEOPLE and accomplishing 30 messages worth of SMS in about 90 seconds.

  22. Re:Lets see... on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    You cannot trademark a verb. Hence there is no protection against 'xerox'ing documents or 'google'ing terms. Google encountered this limitation when they tried to have their entry in an online dictionary removed.

    Spam, the noun, is trademarked as a meat product. Arguments about confusability aside, if you simply make your product for anti-spamMING then suddenly spam is a perfectly free verb.

  23. WTF is a mn? on CA's $1mn Open-Source Bounty Results · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are we just making up abbreviations now? What exactly is $1mn? Is mn some currency I have never heard of? Does it mean something special about the award?

    Seriously, after about 10 seconds I realized it stood for million, but lets refer to our good friend Google:

    Results 1 - 10 of about 4,220 for $1mn
    Results 1 - 10 of about 111,000 for $1mil
    Results 1 - 10 of about 621,000 for $1M

  24. Re:If nobody voulnteers no cures will be found on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. In most studies 1/4 to 1/2 of each group (secretly) would recieve a placebo, so that the placebo effect could be quantified as well.

  25. How about... on Company Takes Stand Against Booth Babes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Booth "KnowSomethingAboutTheProduct"s?

    I mean it. What I would love to see at an expo is someone at the booth that I can talk to about the product at hand. Sure, its nice to have beautiful women standing around, but it isnt going to make me any more likely to buy the company's product.