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  1. Re:Old != Bad on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: -1

    Put two optical sensors in your mouse (or use a Wacom mouse) and you can simply ROTATE your mouse to rotate your view - you could then use a scrollwheel or something similar to look up and down. that should work pretty nicely - either that or two mice...

  2. Linux can overcome! on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: -1

    Here's a list of things linux needs to conquer windows.

    1.) cleartype fonts
    2.) automatic directX compatibility for games
    3.) one solid universal gui

    It's a pretty short list, and I just don't think this project is filling the gap just quite yet.

  3. Conquering Windows on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: -1

    Here's a list of things linux needs to conquer windows.

    1.) cleartype fonts
    2.) automatic directX compatibility for games
    3.) one solid universal gui

    It's a pretty short list, and I just don't think this project is filling the gap just quite yet.

  4. Re:Should the US go for the 1st time at least on Forget Mars. Should We Go To The Moon? · · Score: -1

    YOU went in the '60s? Wow! What was it like up there?

  5. Re:Strange understanding of ethnicity on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: -1

    It really doesn't make sense to label people with black skin as African Americans, even if they are Americans. Black (and negroid) is acceptable because it is descriptive - as is white (and caucusoid). It now seems unacceptable to describe those from China as 'yellow' or 'mongoloid' despite those two terms being much more properly descriptive of RACE than 'asian'. For example, in the USA 'asian' is always understood to mean someone from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam etc whereas in the UK it would be understood to denote someone from the Indian sub-continent.

    So let's stop pussyfooting around. Black, white, yellow, red, brown. The very inadequacy and imprecision of those words makes them LESS powerful in the hands of racists, not more.

  6. Re:Spam vs Crackers on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: -1

    Surely pork and ham are the same thing? Is a ham not a cured piece of pork?

  7. Re:Morally? on How India is Saving Capitalism · · Score: -1

    Unless you're a (US or EU) farmer, of course. They play by 'special' rules that don't apply to the rest of us.

  8. Re:The Times... on British Chicken-Warmed Nuke · · Score: -1

    "(british broadsheet)"

    Thanks for that, I'd never heard of The Times.

    It's only the most famous newspaper IN THE WORLD.

  9. Re:Easy answer on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: -1

    border

  10. Re:Nice on Rent A Bit Of Weta Digital · · Score: -1

    There's nothing cool about LoTR.

    Or Slashdot.

  11. Re:Yes, yes, yes, Apple's dying, blah blah blah on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: -1

    If roads = information superhighway then your analogy makes absolutely no sense.

    And it's BRAKE.

  12. Re:Yes, yes, yes, Apple's dying, blah blah blah on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: -1

    Cadillac premium?

    You couldn't GIVE a Caddy away in a lot of places. The same cannot be said for PowerMac G5s.

  13. Re:Come on CA on City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups · · Score: -1

    dragged, maybe?

  14. Re:Really... on Junkie Loves His Spam · · Score: -1

    what does "virii" mean?

  15. SO VERY WRONG on Yet Another PC-Mac Case Mod · · Score: 0, Funny

    It never ceases to depress me...

    If these guys have such low self-esteem that they have to PRETEND that their PCs are Macs then there's really very little hope left for them.

    DON'T let it happen to you.

    Buy a REAL Mac tomorrow.

  16. Re:Japan is protected. on Robotcop III Set to Fight Crime in Hong Kong · · Score: -1

    knowlEdge

  17. Re:Just to be a bastard on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I hardly think you can call this a bug when you have to deliberately switch off your machine at a certain point in it's boot process and swap out a drive!

    Is it a bug in MacOSX that it doesn't work if you delete the Applications folder while running a program from it?

  18. LARGE COCK on Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    QuickTime isn't a CODEC.

    This was a public information announcement brought to you by the Pro QuickTime League (PQL).

  19. Re:I won't be shopping at EB, will you? on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    THAN

    Apart from that, you're an idiot. I sincerely hope someone steals your stuff and uses EB to fence it. You deserve it.

  20. Re:making a big screen on Matchbox Sized Color Projectors? · · Score: -1

    Well, they don't actually RECORD surround sound...

  21. Re:Look at how fast they adapted on Tracking Via Anonymous SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    They listen to EVERYTHING, of course. What the hell do you think they have been spending all that money on for the last 50 years? Tanks?

    You should do a little research into all the KNOWN satellite launches since the start of the space age, even with the ones we know about, military launches outnumber the civilian by an incredible margin.

    Personally, I'm happy to believe that the western intelligence organisations do as much as they are technically able to and pay no heed to moral or legal objections, to do any less would be pretty irresponsible.

  22. Re:Military applications? What about students? on Powered Exoskeleton Legs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You DO rule the world you stupid, drunken Yank. You just do it REALLY badly.

  23. obligatory on Powered Exoskeleton Legs · · Score: -1


    Powerrrrr Exxxtreme!

  24. Re:Curse of the F's on Firefly Movie Gets The Green Light · · Score: -1, Troll

    Muppets in Space meets Buck Rogers?

    Yeah, real good.

  25. Re:word perfect on WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness · · Score: -1

    Why not dump both and use Freehand? It's MUCH better.