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  1. Re:BAH! on Studios Face Off in Next-Gen DVD Format War · · Score: 1

    I can't wait till DeathRay DVDs turn up and then we can all have fun disassembling the players and slicing each other to pieces!

  2. Re:Any other choice? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Mutt is nothing like Pine. If they really meant to make an open source clone of Pine they failed.
    Nano is an open source version of Pico however.

  3. Re:I filtered out all the crap on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Welsh is easy - it's rot13. :)

  4. Re:Any other choice? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I've moved *from* Pine (on my mail server) to Thunderbird (on my desktop) and I'm much happier in most respects.
    Quite simply Thunderbird's filtering makes the welter of spam I'm receiving manageable, plus emailing out under different email addresses is easy in Thunderbird. Pine's roles are long-winded to access.
    Pine is still the easiest terminal-based email program I've used though.
    I thought there was a very restrictive licence on Pine anyway?

  5. Re:Memory Footprint on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    No wonder I am having speed issues with my PIII 500 then....

  6. Re:Worst for 500 Years on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    The Earth's temperature obviously naturally fluctuates. What we're dealing with these days is human-assisted temperature change. The problem is that even a small rise in temperature and sea levels can do quite a lot.
    Forget 'The Day After Tomorrow', it will affect the climate for millions of people, and not always in a way that warms it up.

  7. Re:Which is how much space? on 1.6TB In a Shoebox, If You've Got the Money · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a year or two we'll see double the capacity of drives so even frenetic rabbit-like young men can find themselves sated.
    I am not sure that they will be able to download that much data or afford those many DVDs to fill it all though....perhaps they should bundle a cable modem/ADSL upgrade with it? ;)

  8. Re:s/din/dn/ on DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck · · Score: 1

    You need to have large enough batteries to put the shocks into the politicians. :)

  9. Re:So this means what? on UK Music Industry Sees Record Sales · · Score: 1

    Funnily no. The Streets are one of the few British-sounding acts to be around the charts these days.
    But let's consier...oh...Natasha Bedingfield...

  10. Re:So this means what? on UK Music Industry Sees Record Sales · · Score: 1

    The UK music scene has stopped copying the US scene slavishly? When did this happen?

  11. Re:Bah! on Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale · · Score: 1

    Where is this list? I've trawled around and can't find it...I am being dim.
    Does it have Spy VS Spy? And if so, have they reinforced the joystick to cope with all that side-to-side stick-killing motion? :)

  12. Re:Horses for Courses on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    Just to address your last point, the ads are served up by OSDN, not /.

  13. Re:Whose fault on NYT on EA Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The games industry can pay low wages and make people slave because it's "cool" and people want to be in it.
    Sad really.

  14. Re:Wasn't she the one on A New Elena Story · · Score: 1

    Not in the slightest. Just that the facts were checked and her story seemed deeply suspect.
    Then she admitted she'd made her original story up. Easy really!

  15. Re:When are we going to see it on the shelves? on HP Backs Blu-ray Disc Technology · · Score: 1

    If only hard drives were anywhere near as reliable and long-lasting as well-kept optical media....

  16. Re:So what if they sue? on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    One wonders what ramifications this has for, say, Red Flag Linux.
    You have to weigh up the willingness of China to promote itself as a country worth doing business with (following WTO rules helps here!) with its willingness to protect Chinese industry (and government projects) against the threats of US businessmen (ie. Ballmer).

    Maybe there will be some fudge. The WTO recently ruled against US gambling law which, failing appeals, might see the US using its right to change the conditions of its membership of the WTO.
    One can imagine a market with growth potential like China's being so attractive that they feel this is a strength in their hand when working out what they can get away with, but again you have to consider the amount foreign business will want to push things given they want to get into that market so badly...
    Oh for a crystal ball!

  17. Re:Netscape backed by firefox?? on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but shouldn't we be going all the way back to Tim B-L's original browser written on his NeXT machine that was intertwined with what we'd think of as the server?

  18. Re:If you wish to voice your concern, on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    I dare you to send that in as a complaint.

  19. Re:Google embraces Internet Explorer on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 1

    Those two-faced bastards!

  20. Re:Google embraces Internet Explorer on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 4, Funny

    This clearly shows that Google are in bed with the monster Microsoft and cannot be trusted etc. etc.

  21. Re:Tabbed browsing not important on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    Game support is better on XP IIRC.

  22. Re:Student Flashback on How Computers Work... in 1971 · · Score: 1

    My mother used to buy me lots of Ladybird books when I was very young in the hope I'd read them and learn lots (sorry to make you feel old :) however I think I'd have skipped over this one when 5 years old. ;)
    Reading it now shows how valuable these books really were. If only I had had more of an interest! Might have learned something...

  23. Re:Tabbed browsing not important on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    You switched to classic look pretty quickly then I take it.

  24. Re:Please tell me on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Moving across means just reading these instructions:
    http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/f aq.html#q2.2

    Glad it is not oly me asking this question!

  25. Re:Please tell me on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has had tabbed browsing for about 4 years now.
    It has had middle button opening tabs for me ever since that option appeared, which was before Firefox was conceived.