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  1. Re:another batman movie? on Batman Begins Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    He's Welsh, to be specific.

  2. Re:How many crappy Bruce Waynes' can there be? on Batman Begins Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget Christian Bale's role in American Psycho and Velvet Goldmine (and we'll just pretend that dragon movie never happened, thank you.)

  3. Re:The real question is... on Apple Not Too Harmonious with Real · · Score: 1

    Wrong...user owns it all. Apple owns the copyright, which means Apple is the only one that can distribute the firmware. Copyright does not imply ownership; it means a right to distribute.

  4. Re:tinfoil hat on TiVo Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo Owners? · · Score: 1

    DirecTV competes against Dish Network and every cable company.

  5. Re:tinfoil hat on TiVo Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo Owners? · · Score: 2

    I think it's mostly for the purpose of DirecTV not having their customers defect to the competition, period.

  6. Re:GoogleGear on Google Loses Domain Fight Over Froogles.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why? He's not the one that sucks!

  7. My one permitted tin-foil hat question for today. on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OK, so if Microsoft comes out with an antivirus product, what incentive do they have to immunize Windows-based computers against worms that attack their competitors? (i.e. Google vs MSN Search).

  8. Re:A great, but ultimately dated, revolution on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1

    You sound like a candidate for an American Express Card. You have the pay off your balance in full at the end of the month. Think of it as a debit card with a 30 day delay on the funds coming from your checking account. You also get benefits like discounted movie tickets, automatically extended warranties and good seating for concerts.

  9. Re:What artists to the plants enjoy? on Using Plants as Speakers · · Score: 1

    "Vegetables: Boy-bands and Brittney Spears"

    Funny, I thought "fruits" would have been the appropriate answer.

  10. Re:Series2 Tivo on VoIP Questioned · · Score: 3, Informative

    You plug a USB ethernet adapter into the USB port. There is no Step 2.

  11. Re:Tivo does not require a phone line on VoIP Questioned · · Score: 1

    No Series 2 TiVo has to touch a phone line. Change the dial-up number to #401 if your unit has the older software. That will tell TiVo that you have a USB ethernet adapter. When I bought my Series2 Tivo in November 2002 it had version 3 of the software, which was the version just before they "officially" announced ethernet support. I plugged in a USB ethernet adapter and set the phone number to #401...nothing but net!

  12. Re:But what if you bank's stupid? on LiveCD for Secure Web Browsing? · · Score: 1

    Switch banks if it means that much. If I was able to use my particular bank's (one of the megabanks) online banking service comfortably with IE, Mozilla and Lynx for Pete's sake, then *nobody* has an excuse to make a browser-specific interface.

  13. Re:Upgrade questions on Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple doesn't have "upgrade editions" of OS X like Microsoft or other vendors. You buy the disk and the whole thing is on there. Personally, I get every *other* version of OS X because I don't want to spend $129 every year on incremental features. I'll probably pass on Tiger (got Panther now) and wait for OS X - "Big Pussy" in 2006.

  14. Re:What is with this mechanized/electronic voting? on E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the graphite dust from the pencils can introduce a whole slew of other problems, but it sure does make them look clever!

  15. I'm having a "Just Say No" flashback on Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans · · Score: 0

    Coke Kills!

  16. It's not as bad as it seems on Remote Controls On The March · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most universal remotes will handle multiple devices for you. A co-worker of mine has a $700 remote with virtual screens, etc. that takes care of his living room. However, when I asked him if his remote can access each device's special menus for things like brightness, contrast and other settings, he said he still needs the original remote controls for such purposes. However, how often do you need to fiddle with such minute settings? Stick the originals in a drawer and forget about them until you need them for very rare, specific purposes.

    Keep in mind that the alternative would be having a control panel of knobs and buttons on all your devices, which only provide more points of failure.

  17. Re:Watch for Apple on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    1. Window-based UI: popularized by Apple, invented by Xerox
    2. 17" screen: Probably referring to the Powerbook being the first 17" notebook.
    3. PDA: Newton.

  18. Re:Regarding conciousness on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1

    Of course, things like gravity are still real and have real effects at great heights.

  19. Re:Excellent on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 1

    I think you're reading into it a little too much. I mean it is good to expose children to things that they can build an immunity to when they're younger, like colds and chicken pox. The only way you can do that with harder diseases like Polio is via vaccine. In the case of alcohol, giving a child a beer is not going to help him build up a tolerance against alcohol, because drugs don't work that way.

  20. Re:Excellent on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Subjecting a child's body to alcohol, nicotine, polio, etc is provably detrimental to their physical health."

    Alcohol and nicotine are drugs, not diseases, so it makes no sense to give them any when they're young. What do you think they put in polio vaccines, or any vaccine for that matter?

  21. Re:Ahhh... on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's the maximum that you can have when you create a new file. However, you can keep adding more. I have about 600 some tabs in one workbook. The only real limit with Excel is that you can only have appx. 65,000 rows in a single tab.

  22. Re:.porn on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excellent idea...and how would you define it so as to not offend even the most paranoid of sexual sensabilities? Should we hold it up to the standards of Ron Jeremy, a Christan fundamentalist, the Taliban, or Chinese government perhaps? Point being, you can't please everybody, so don't bother with half-assed compromises.

  23. Re:Colleges on FCC: Only We Can Regulate Unlicensed Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Probably not, because that would be a de facto control over the wireless network. Last time I checked, radio waves didn't shoot out of our asses :)

  24. Re:Data is the challenge, not the software... on Financial Trading Software? · · Score: 1

    If you have the $$,$$$, Bloomberg is basically the premier source of financial data. This is the company that was founded by the current mayor of New York. They have tons of built-in analysis tools that you can apply to baskets of portfolios that you put together. If you have very specific needs, they offer a DDE service that lets you download data into Excel so you can do your own thing. I track about 600 or so closed end funds using our Bloomberg terminal and a little model I whipped up in Excel.

    The fact that the terminal is basically a modified X-server will also appeal to your inner geek.

  25. Re:My father, Linux, and the spreadsheet battle on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 1

    Even though there is no bullet formatting function specifically in Excel, I guess he could concatenate an asterisk in front of a formula result or the system code number for a proper bullet.