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  1. Isn't this obvious? on Second Life Recognizes IP Of User-Created Objects · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's like saying that when I create a document within the virtual world of MS Word, that I get to keep the copyright on the document...and then act surprised by it.

  2. Re:Spot the scam... on mp3.com Acquired by CNet · · Score: 1

    "I doubt Zod could hack a mainframe."

    I'm sure he could hack a mainframe with his bare hands. And by hack, I mean Lizzie Borden style :)

  3. Re:As I thought on Nintendo To Launch New Machine Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Switches cables? Haven't you people ever heard of a switch box? Here comes the science...All your devices A/V outputs go into your switchbox and your switchbox gets plugged into the A/V input on your TV. Then you just press a button on your switchbox that corresponds with the device you want to use and that device's A/V signals go into your TV? I have TiVo, PS2, Dreamcast and a VCR going into one box that plugs into my TV's only A/V port.

  4. Re:heh dvd? on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    "First of all, you should not be taking a 3 year old on an eight hour car drive. They are not built for that much sitting at a time."

    As a toddler in the late 1970s and small child in the early 1980s, I dealt with 8-9 hour flights to Europe quite often and didn't make a fuss. Why? Because my mom talked to me and threw me a coloring book now and then. That, and I was taught from an early age to not be a whiny brat. If 3 year olds can't handle a long trip, then the parents are doing something wrong.

  5. Re:TV in a car? on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not like there's anything to look at in the sky, like CLOUDS AND ALL THE THINGS YOU CAN IMAGINE THEM TO BE. No, let's put on SpongeBob and raise them like veal instead.

  6. Re:UK Advertising laws are different. on Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you've ever tasted Budweiser, you'd claim it to be more like the "Intern Under the President's Desk" of beers.

  7. Re:Some other ideas... on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 1

    "...unfortunately if you watch live TV around 1 or 2 in the morning..."

    You have TiVo and you still watch live TV? I'm guessing you've only had your unit for a week or two and it's still getting to know you perhaps?

  8. Re:Good Samaritan.. on Microsoft Forgets To Renew Hotmail.co.uk · · Score: 4, Funny

    That, or the individual has a Hotmail account and couldn't afford to lose access to his mail.

  9. Re:The Screen Actor's Guild is on it's way out... on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1

    It will take a team of graphic artists to accomplish it until the technology gets so advanced that digital actors (and their generation/rendering) will be an off-the-shelf commodity, like PC hardware and software.

  10. Re:Can someone tell me... on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because things are legal in the US until they're made illegal, instead of the other way around.

  11. In typical /. fashion... on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't read the article. What kind of fuel does thing use that will last until 2020?

  12. Re:Popping on the Conspiracy Theory Hat on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about tweaking OS X source code, I'm talking about buying a copy of OS X off the shelf at CompUSA and installing it on one of these PPC Xboxen. And realistically, Steve Jobs would be powerless against MS if this happened.

  13. Popping on the Conspiracy Theory Hat on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    I think MS may have figured out a way to leverage the fact that people like to use the Xbox as a cheap computer. Anyone care to bet that this new PPC-based Xbox will be intentionally easy to install OS X on? Thus, for the cost of the Xbox (say $300 when it first comes out) and a retail copy of OS X ($130), you could have a cheap Mac clone for less than $500, thus killing Apple's low-end ($800) hardware market.

  14. Re:A question on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    It was no secret. My NT4 CDROM has binaries for X86, PPC, Mips & Alpha on it. I bought it at the college bookstore in 1996.

  15. Re:Missing Songs.... on New Napster Off To A Solid Start · · Score: 1

    Looks good from the screenshot. MP3 Swiss Army Knife could also rename files based upon ID3 tag information, or vice versa - change ID3 tags based upon file names. You could also change the order of descriptive info in the filenames, ie track, name, artist.mp3" could be changed to "artist, track, name.mp3", etc.

  16. Re:Missing Songs.... on New Napster Off To A Solid Start · · Score: 1

    In iTunes, select a song, or a bunch of songs, right-click and select "Get Info." You can change ID3 tags to your heart's desire. I haven't seen such simple-to-use mass ID3 tag editing since "MP3 Swiss Army Knife" under BeOS.

  17. Re:I'm going to try it on New Napster Off To A Solid Start · · Score: 1

    "It was so much easier in the old days. At least then it was obvious that you were breaking the law. Now you just don't know..."

    Very insightful and true of our times! I have a feeling a lot of people are going to quote you in their .sigs.

  18. Re:iTunes on New Napster Off To A Solid Start · · Score: 3, Informative

    The best part about buying audiobooks on iTunes is that when you go to burn a particularly large audiobook to CD, iTunes will automatically span the audiobook across multiple CDs, if need be. btw, "Benjamin Franklin, Citizen" was worth the $7.95 (and 2 blank CDRs :)!

  19. Re:scarcity on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    Thus, filling out the old business saying:

    Time is money...BECAUSE LIFE IS SHORT.

  20. Re:What about quality control? on Napster Pre-Paid Cards · · Score: 1

    It's not a P2P program. It's an online store where you download songs from their servers.

  21. Re:coincedence? on Napster Pre-Paid Cards · · Score: 1

    Long term is more on the scale of 20-40 years. If you're in the market for a quick buck, you deserve everything that happens to you.

  22. Re:Sadly on Land Warrior Army Suits Simplified, Linux-ized · · Score: 1

    "Sadly, we run Windows NT."

    R. Lee Ermey would have a shit fit if he heard about this!!!

  23. Re:Overly concerned? on Satellites Used to Stop Car Thieves in Pakistan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If that's a problem for car rental companies over there, they should take out the A/C units, but that would be cost effficient and make sense.

  24. Re:IPO=Death on Google Considering IPO Auction Online · · Score: 1

    The only thing they've been required to file with the SEC so far is "Registration of sale of securities [Regulation D and Section 4(6) of the Securities Act of 1933], item 06", which is only on paper, not even electronic. It just means some Google shares changed hands between shareholders and I don't believe any financial data would be in those filings.

  25. Re:IPO=Death on Google Considering IPO Auction Online · · Score: 1

    16%? No way...Ibbotson's, the unofficial, official source of long-term rates of return for the investing community, says 10-12%.