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  1. Re:ugh, propaganda disguised as an article on A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom · · Score: 1

    In XP applications generally can't and don't.

    You may be having driver issues however, esp if you're using any generic hardware (nic, video, etc) Example: With my kyro II video card (never buy one) the XP drivers were so shit they would cause BSOD and reboot in many popular games, it would appear as if the game was crashing but it was the video driver

  2. Re:the "universal standard" on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Okay, fair enough for you. However I'm left handed as well, but I mouse with my right (as do the majority of lefties i know) In my case (and all right-handers I'm thinking) ctrl-ins is about the same reach-over-and-stretch as ctrl-v is for you

  3. Re:the "universal standard" on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    Intuitive or not, CTRL-C and -V are alot easier to reach as key combinations, especially assuming you're mousing with your right hand

  4. Re:*cough*kickback*cough* on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    Take off your tinfoil hat for a moment
    They reccomend Dell and Apple at my university as well.
    Reason? Nice student discounts.

  5. Question about his methods on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 1

    Quoth the article:
    To create the video I had to capture the entire movie (25 gigs or so), extract it to single frames with VirtualDub, delete 99 out of 100 of them (left 10,000 frames), color correct and...

    What's the purpose of removing so many frames? Just to reduce size further, or when speeding up something like this does dropping frames make it appear smoother or something?

  6. Re:Couple of things... on Blimps... In... Space... · · Score: 1

    +1 (Sluggy Freelance reference)

    First one i've ever seen on Slashdot.

  7. Re:....Right.... on The Future of Cars According to Toyota · · Score: 1

    an 800 pound car would be great

    until you get hit by a 3000 pound one. or hit *any*thing.

  8. Re:It could improve resource usage on The Future of Cars According to Toyota · · Score: 1

    I think you have the groceries and funparkland switched aroudn dude. Go to the park once a month and get groceries once a week fits more families i know.

  9. Re:The world is stranger than you can know. on Kill Bill, IBM vs Microsoft · · Score: 1

    asking about perversity on a site that regularly references the goatsex man :p

    A sense of humor, you have

  10. Re:Funny that. on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If china ever has 20% of the world's wealth, you can bet it won't be in the hands of the people.

  11. At UNC-Charlotte on SETI@home Turns Five Today · · Score: 1

    Here at the university of north carolina at charlotte (uncc.edu), the entire engineering computer lab (windows machines at least) run SETI as a screensaver. Engineering department, kindof makes sense. I think some other ones around campus do likewise.

    However on my home PC i run protien folding. Hell i'd run it on my account at school if they'd let me.

    Why?

    Odds are astronomically in favor of myself or someone very close to me developing cancer, as opposed to catching a bad case of aliens.

  12. Re:Worst reply i've GIVEN.... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    This is also true in every single highschool-level computer textbook in existance apparently.

  13. Re:Worst reply i've GIVEN.... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes I can say i've actually told a customer they had an ID10T problem
    =D

    While my boss was in the office.

    She laughed.

  14. Worst reply i've GIVEN.... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a former tech i've had to make up some pretty lame ones for people who were too dim or uninterested enough to comprehend the real explanation.

  15. Re:Typical schooling apologist on IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future · · Score: 1

    ""Performance" based teaching is totally moronic."

    Why should teachers who can't teach continue to be paid the same amount as teachers who can? Why should they even be employed? What's so special about teaching that the same kind of performance-based pay that applies to most other jobs shouldn't be applied to them?


    Performance based teaching gives teachers an incentive to pass students whether they know the material or not, as failing them,even if they deserve it, will automatically be seen as "that preson can't teach well"

  16. Re:Could laptops once again be portable? on Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled · · Score: 1

    For 10 lbs you could have a shuttle system that would blow the hell out of any laptop

  17. Re:Fix a different problem... on Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled · · Score: 1

    it would keep your balls warm too

  18. Re:When Bored Scientists Attack on More on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    You think acid rain is junk science? In that case please head up into the appalachains, specifically near Grandfather Mtn and Mount Mitchell and let the thousands of acres of forest which are DEAD due to it know that they should leave off dying right now and start growing again.

  19. Re:7 shows at once on Sony PC/DVR Incorporates 7 Tuners & 1TB HD · · Score: 1

    If you're a talk show host you have a staff to do that for you.

  20. Re:Why? on Microsoft Reward Leads to Arrest of Sasser Suspect · · Score: 1

    Both lockpicks and functional viruses have very little legitamite use unless one is in a very narrow band of professions.

  21. Re:General question... on Anti-Missile Laser Weapon Successfully Tested · · Score: 1

    China is friendly to the US only as far as our pocketbook, and not an inch further.

  22. Re:How many similar images... on Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the mutual respect and honour shown by men sent to kill each other was clear. I don't see that sort of respect nowadays.


    That's because in WWI there were clear cut combat lines with both sides adhering somewhat to rules of combat. You didn't have germans hiding in crowds of french women firing at allies or pushing baby carriages full of TNT up to checkpoints. They were able to cut each other slack, each man knowing that the other side was more doing his job than acting out of any personal hatred. In iraq, if our troops tried that, they'd be shot stabbed or blown to pieces, guaranteed.

  23. Re:Severe brain damage... on Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism · · Score: 1

    That would be great if only you could trust journalists not to take and publish pictures that jeapordize operational security for the sake of ratings

  24. Re:Well, there's the problem, you see. on Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism · · Score: 1

    Explain to me how Bush's words have any effect on the training or professionalism or attitudes of a soldier at the bottom of the food chain?

  25. Re:One local mail tree? on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    if i can use TB filters to separate accounts i dont see why you cant use them to consolidate.