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  1. Re:Here's a thought... on Lexmark DMCA Case Winds On · · Score: 1

    You don't pay more for electronics. He purchased the protection plan. You will pay more for the protection plan not for electronics should you choose to get the plan. Those plans are a rip if something doesn't brake. They make money of of them don't they?

  2. Re:Limitations of USian capitalist model on EMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 1

    wtf is USia are you refering to the US and Asia. I'm not sure why you hink asia has this same problem.

  3. Re:"measly"? on How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online · · Score: 1

    People would still listen to music even if all the labels stoped all the promotion. What scares the labels is that they wouldn't decide what people listened to anymore.

  4. Re:It's not a bug, it's a feature! on The Future of Digital Cinema · · Score: 1

    Yeah and tapes sound better than cd's.

    People need to stop holding on to some artificial feeling.

  5. Re:The killer app... on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    My experience has not been this way. I have a West Highland Terrier that is almost a year old and only a month ago he took a dump inside. I've seen cats only a few weeks old though that were shitting in a litter box. Which was followed immediatly by a dog eating the cat shit.

  6. Re: discussion... free speach... on GameCube ISOs Released? · · Score: 1

    >Slashdot is implicitly condoning this.

    No it's not. The tone of the article is completly neutral. If the New York times reported on warez groups being able to pirate the next generation of console games I doubt anyone would say they condone it.

  7. Re:Social Event on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yeah social as in everyone gathered around the big tv and surround system. All happy to see the matrix while also able to pause the movie in order to piss get snacks etc... All without having to be in the company of other peoples loud kids, the person behind you with the fucked up laugh or (insert your favorite annoyance here). Plus because of the bonus of no other people with you, your family can talk and be as annoying as they want. Furthermore there aren't too many movie theaters that allow you to drink beer while watching a movie.
    Watching the movie at home is superior to watching the movie at a theater where all you get is a bigger screen(audio quality can be better or worse depending on your home theater and the theater quality).

  8. Re:Before the flames begin. on ReplayTV May Drop "Commercial Advance" · · Score: 1

    We would watch all watch pbs.

  9. Re:Can someone please explain... on Buffy Series Finale Tonight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason that Buffy makes it to slashdot is simple. The people that run slashdot like it. Therefore they choose to run Buffy stories. That's one of the perks of running your own website.

    Either that or there's some kind of payoff.

  10. Re:maybe, just maybe on AIBO Robot Dog Soccer Competition · · Score: 1

    Well for a while I was thinking that sports suck in general, but now I might actually watch a little football again, you actually made it sound entertaining.

  11. Re:What has xine done on Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding · · Score: 1

    Yeah the, mplayer GUI is much more intuitive.

  12. Re:No More High Speed Pursuits on Build Your Own HERF Gun · · Score: 1

    The engine would continue to generate vacuum if it stalled at a high speed. Especially if the effected car had a manual transmission. Why because the engine would continue to spin because it is still connected to the wheels. The wheels would cause the engine to go and that generates vacuum. The engine would not really be running and would definetly slow the car down. This would work much better with a manual transmission than an auto because you could get the R's up yourself.

  13. Re:Why single out SDI? on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1

    You are thinking of older automatic transmissions. Many auto transmissions today are computer controlled and you can even get chips for cars that will allow you to rev the engine higher and shift harder.

  14. Re:Java on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I do realize this.

    But java programs still take lots of ram
    Java programs take up more cpu resources

    My computer feels noticably slower(subjectively)
    This was noticed by my wife too, and she doesn't know when something is running or not, so I consider it a double blind study.

  15. Re:correction on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It doesn't suck to be him. It sucks to be me. I would love to be him. So he doesn't get 11 million pounds today, big fucking deal. I won't get 11 million pounds ever.

  16. Re:Java on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I have give it a try on my 400 MHZ Celeron with 256MB or Ram.

    What a hog. It used up tons of Ram. It may be all well and good if that's all that the computer is doing, but computers are multi purpose machines. Running even one java program (freenet/limewire in particular) eats up way too much ram and other resources that you want for your other apps.

  17. Re:A rose by any other name on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    The Reiman Sum(counting boxes) approaches the actual value as the partition width approaches 0. This means that you can achieve arbitrary precision by "counting boxes". Since you can achieve arbitrary precision using a Reiman Sum it is no less precise than the solution given to you by symbolic calculus (especially on a computer) and the Reiman sum can be used where symbolic calculus cannot.

    Counting boxes is valid, and it's what computers generally do to calculate the area under the curve.

  18. Re:Standards and lies on Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at it with ie6 right now. See how the spiral under the blue side of the page repeats with ie and looks right with mozilla. IE definetly screws it up.

  19. Re:MS Price Drop Not Good...(TM) on OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen · · Score: 1

    Joe Blow isn't doing cartwheels around activation. He doesn't have 3 computers either.

  20. Re:Stop whinging - this is a good thing on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    > I hope you can sysadmin because you sure as fuck don't write code anyone i know would want to maintain.

    It's called perl.

  21. WRONG on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 1

    What part do you not understand.

    The atkins diet isn't about calories. It is strictly about carbohydrates. The theory is that if you don't eat carbs then you loose weight. It works for alot of people.

    Alchohol, more specifically ethanol is in no way a carbohydrate. Perhaps you missed out on this in your chemistry class. There are many different types of alchohols, like ethanol and methanol etc... There are also different types of carbohydrates such as glucose, fructose, galactose. Michelob ultra strives to decrease the amount of CARBOHYDRATES such as glucose fructose and galactose to cater to the people that believe that eating less carbs will help you loose weight. Ethanol is perfectly ok on this diet. Most beer contains plenty of carbohydrates in addition to ethanol because it is made from grain.

    If this doesn't make sense to you then go back to highschool, it is rather basic chemistry.
    At the very least stop spouting sensless drible pretending to know something when in fact you are proving yourself quite ignorant.

  22. Re:Wait.. on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are misinformed about Michelob Ultra beer. That beer isn't about low calories, but about low carbs. Many people on an atkins type diet appreciate this. Usually they have to take Vodka shots.

  23. Re:Statute of Limitations on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    People really need to learn math. Are you saying that your chances are 100% right now.

  24. Re:How about... on Sony: Case of Right vs Left Hand · · Score: 1

    (1) you can preview selected parts of selected songs with shitty quality of selected cd's on amazon. Relying on this I have bought shitters in the past.

    (2) Games are also more desired because they are more expensive.

    (3) I disagree, about kazaa but that's ok.

    (4) there was also an infrastructrure for trading music, but Kazaa makes games and music trading easy.

    (5) I certainly have been downloading stuff to preview it. It's caused me to be frustrated when I can't find something but happy when I don't buy crap cd's.

    I have purchased over 300 cd's in the past. That would make me the customer that the RIAA should cater to if they knew what was good for them. Recently I have been buying older cd's. Going all the way back to the 60's. Slowly crap has pervaded everywhere. Although there's still some shining stars.

  25. Re:Give us something that doesn't suck... on Music Biz Predicts 6% Decline in '03 · · Score: 1

    While not nearly as bad as Europe, it is not that easy to return stuff here. EB doesn't except video game returns anymore. Music returns are unheard of. It all depends on the business you go to. Just the other day, I couldn't return a waterbed tube even though they told me the one I bought would work. It was totally the wrong size, and I was sceptical, and the store clerk assured me it would work. No returns, that particular store is an exception, and I will do something to return the favor.