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  1. Re:Printer Ink on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 1

    But HP says they are charging cheaper prices than ever for better ink than ever!

    It seems to be a better value for the HP ink than previous years, but I don't know for sure.

  2. Re:Woot, another 3D screensaver card on NVIDIA 6200 w/ TurboCache Released · · Score: 1

    I am one of those sales droids, unfortunatley. I will specifically tell people what each component does if they will listen to me, and when I say it will play a lot of games fine, but not most newer games, they will tell me, "oh, I don't want it for games anyway." and then bring it back in a week saying that their kid couldn't play Doom 3 on it.

    So, it's not just the sales people that create this problem, it's customers not listening to the sales people. I will, however, admit I do sometimes tell someone "oh yeah, it'll be great for games" because that is their one and only question and they won't believe me when I say no. Sometimes the customers just make it less of a hassle to do it that way.

  3. Re:Dear Slashdot, on Dealing with Network Politics and Insecure Users? · · Score: 1

    If you can find the answer to this on google in 5 minutes, let me know, because I'm not even sure what to look under!

  4. Re:file size on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 1

    is there really a difference between saving in 5 seconds against saving in 15? I honestly have not noticed a diference in time to save in either program as it is, so I may be wrong.

  5. Re:Is it any coincidence on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    Is your sister really *that* bad?

  6. Re:Tim Burton has lost it on War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers · · Score: 1

    I personally thought his rendition of Planet of the Apes wasn't that bad, if you take it as not a remake, but a new film in it's own right. The problem is that people see these films as remakes, not the new director's take on a base story, which was changed for the first movie, and will be changed differently for the "remake". If his remake was supposed to be on the same level as the original Planet of the Apes movie then I would say that it's a pile of crap. In truth it was an action movie that happened to have that particular backstory as its' basis.

  7. Re:Email vs. IM on In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    I have almost exactly what you describe with my personal mail server. I have my client check for new mails ever 5 minutes so nothing is more than 5 minutes old. I don't need anything more immediate than that. It also lets me connect through a webmail frontend which I had to set up secondhand.

  8. Re:Max OS X is great, but... on Running Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    Works in Mandrake 10.0.

  9. Re:Wait, what about "hand boiler" technology? on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does.

  10. Re:RFID? Don't they mean RF? on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    You don't have to lift it up to get on the pad. You just make a pad that has the charging pad in the middle. That way you have a seamless very large pad and if you need to go off the charging pad you can, but you can just return it to the center.

  11. Re:She?! on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    it's feminism at work. Too many feminists were pissed about journalists using "he" so much that more often they use "she". Enough do it that the feminists can no longer complain to the magazine as a whole about their magazine being sexist as the other articles balance out each other.

  12. Re:Funding? on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids · · Score: 1

    I currently use Tmobile and previously used Verizon. So far Tmobile has given me better reception in most areas than Verizon ever did, especially near Chicago. The one place I can hardly make a call is my workplace, but I hope to be out of there within a few months. Anyway, all I have to do is step outside, and if it is that important I can use the company phones and they won't even notice.

  13. Re:To everybody who loved Firefly: on Serenity Pushed Back to September · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. We want someone other than Fox to pick it up this time. Someone who doesn't beat every good show into the ground.

  14. Re:What more is there to say, except... on Serenity Pushed Back to September · · Score: 1

    how about: :'(

  15. Re:Or not on Desktop Pentium M Motherboard Review · · Score: 1

    Intel already said a while ago that they were going to use the Dothan processor base in desktops. I don't remember where it is on the site, but they have a road map saying that the P4 type is going to be phased out relatively soon.

  16. Re:This is a true disgrace on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 1

    Maybe we have all found the reason that your IP address was banned by the editors....

  17. Re:a somewhat logical reason on MPAA Looks to Sniff Internet2 Traffic for Sharers · · Score: 1

    Ok, well then why doesn't the MPAA sue Microsoft for creating Media Center Windows, or HP and everyone else for creating Media PCs?

  18. Re:Before everyone screams go back to paper... on E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome · · Score: 1

    I live in northeast Illinois and I think I got the same exact volunteers as you....

  19. Re: Distributers (Publishers you mean?) on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad HL was funded almost entirely by Gabe Newell, and HL2 was funded IIRC entirely on HL(as well as CS) profits.

  20. Re:While Vivendi may be pure evil... on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    I think of it this way: Valve has been working on Steam almost since the original HL became big. They announced it over 4 years ago. I believe that predates any agreement they had with Vivendi. Also, they said from the start that they wanted to release full games over steam. I remember when they said they wanted all CS updates and the like to go through Steam, but I know that took long enough to happen that I had already stopped playing CS, if it ever happened.

    Now, I'm not saying they're right, but Vivendi is nothing but stupid if they didn't see something like this as a possibility.

  21. Re:30 lives on A Brief History of Contra · · Score: 0, Redundant

    up up down down left right left right B A start = 30 lives

    how can anyone forget the Konami code!!!!

  22. Re:what's the archival life of digital photo paper on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes · · Score: 1

    They have the 2200 now. It looks beautiful, better than any consumer level photo printer, but it's also over $1000. I believe it's a pigment-based, as it's supposed to be one of their best for long-lasting prints.

  23. Re:50 years?? on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes · · Score: 1

    Make sure you print it with something other than an inkjet. Even text documents on inkjet, or even dot matrix for that matter, fade over time.

  24. Re:Umm on Bit Rot Stalks Your Digital Keepsakes · · Score: 1

    I hope you haven't given up on digital altogether. You can do the same "print only these pictures" at about any photo developer nowadays for cheaper than printing them at home, and definitely cheaper than the cost of film plus developing for a whole roll. Also, I personally like having the nice photo printer for one or 2 prints now and again when friends or family come over and want a copy of a specific picture. True it's more expensive, but if I'm doing it once in a while and it's convenient I don't have a problem with that.

  25. Re:Today Ashcroft on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    Will you pay my first month's rent and all that too? If so I'll take you up on that offer, because I couldn't move otherwise.