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  1. Re:Stickin' it to the man on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 0

    Except that your example doesn't work, since downloading MP3 diles hasn't hurt the CD market share, whereas this could hurt Canon's bottom line.

  2. Re:Criticism without Solution on Bruce Sterling On Lovelock's Pro-Nuclear Stance · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is one waste product from nuclear plants that people seem to always overlook. They raise the ambient temperature of whatever area they are in. This is a small amount, and I'm not even sure that it's noticable anywhere, but it is there, and will affect the environment over time.

  3. Re:Actually Helpful to know on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Without GBAs? · · Score: 1

    GCs are a dime a dozen if you and your friends like the system. Out of about 10 friends, over half have GCs, and about half of them have GBA players. But I don't think that's really the norm.

  4. Re:the pdf file on Periodic Table of the Operators · · Score: 1

    That's why I've started just downloading PDF files instead of opening them in the browser. I've noticed IE does the same thing with Acrobat...

  5. Re:Does this affect the hubble constant? on More Blackholes Discovered... · · Score: 1

    Just not in your lifetime, right? ;)

  6. Re:Microsoft's history of dishonesty and crime on Linus Not The Father Of Linux, According to Report · · Score: 1

    I only have one comment: as for the closed-source drivers for ATI and nVidia video cards, there are legal and business reasons for them to provide only closed-source drivers even for an open source OS. They said that the MPAA was concerned that with open sourced drivers you could remove the macrovision protection as it wasn't exactly hard-coded into the TV-out chips. Also, if they open-source the drivers it's easier for the competition to see exactly how their GPU does its' work (yes, this is a weak argument and is more likely to cover up how badly some of their coders code, as far as readability and ease-of-debugging go).

  7. Re:Okay, now this is dirty on L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For Spyware-Linked Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're talking about popup ads, not banners. Read the fucking synopsis of the article.

  8. Re:Prior art? Easy... on Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows · · Score: 1

    I used the Win2K API for transparency through a version of Winamp. It worked beautifully. Got sorta bored with it though as the transparent winamp didn't really do anything for me.

  9. Re:US Army on Future Weapons of War in the Works · · Score: 1

    The heater left itself on. Are you trying to tell me the heater isn't a sentient being?

  10. Re:US Army on Future Weapons of War in the Works · · Score: 1

    How about a sharpshooter and a rifle instead? more accurate and better range.

  11. Re:until now on New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago · · Score: 1

    You've never had any of the higher math classes have you? (and I'm not talking about anything as simple as calculus)

    In short, yes, 1+1=2 is probabilistic.

  12. Re:2 Billion Years Ago ?? on New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago · · Score: 3, Informative

    ummm, no, he's wrong. Read the article, not the headline. The article states the correct 250 million years

  13. Re:Let's just get this out of the way... on More on Global Dimming · · Score: 1, Informative

    When the "long waves" hit the ground they are radiated back as shorter waves, and that's why the stuff lets it through but then traps it.

  14. Re:There's just enough time! on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    Or you could have high detail gameplay.

  15. Re:and then . . . on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    Seems like it. They weren't doing too badly until they started playing the Rockies.....

  16. Re:Pixel Shaders are important. on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    Here is a review of the new X800 card. It seems to have the PS2.0 like you say, but with extensions. Other than that it's comparable, but faster (raw pixel pushing and such), than the new nVIdia card. Now, I prefer ATI cards for their raw speed, but I acknowledge that nVidia's card may possibly be faster or prettier in the new engines.

  17. Re:Requirements on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised, those are almost the same framerates I got on a GF2MX200 with an Athlon 1800+.

  18. Re:Linux version with..... on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 3, Informative

    umm, he could also be talking about playing it on an x86 FreeBSD box. Or did you forget there was something besides x86 Linux, Windows, and Mac.

  19. Re:Mac Version on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    He would, if he had ever experienced it. I won't tell yo uof it because it's better to keep the plebeians in their place by not telling them what they are missing.

  20. Re:None English programming languages? on Non-English Programming Languages? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have to say that not everywhere has someone who speaks English. I was driving cross-half-country in the US and stopped for gas in a small town down south. All the signs were in English, but nobody seemed to speak it.......

  21. Re:Not for me, personally... on ACPI and S3 Sleep on the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I've used hibernate in WinXP for my desktop, and exclusively used suspend/hibernate on my laptop when it was running Windows. I'm sorta pissed that now I have my laptop running Linux that suspend and hibernate don't work :(

  22. Re:Sleep on an x86 machine on ACPI and S3 Sleep on the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen, S3 didn't work well til 2000, and only on certain configurations. When XP rolled around, both worked on every single machine I tried.

    I know that doesn't help you, but that's my experience.

  23. Re:NOOO... on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Thunderbirds?

    Ick.

    I can at least watch battlebots once in a while. Thunderbirds just made me want to gouge my eyes out.

  24. Re:Morgan Webb has been offered a new position... on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 5, Funny

    stupid AC

    He deserves the funny mods, seeing as just about any single male here (and many who aren't) would love to say the same thing. Oh, and lesbians, I haven't counted you out, I'm just not part of the group so I don't feel comfortable making blanket statements about your sexual desire for Morgan.

  25. Re:Stupid enough to cancel the wrong channel. on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Just rest assured: G4 is as bad as everyone says it is. There is once in a long while a gem among their programming, but then they sweep it under the rug once it's played once, or they play it so much that you forget that it ever aired.