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  1. Gamers are cheap, oems are just stupid. on Trident Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    If trident didn't have such a bad reputation for reliability (they stink fyo), gamers would probably get it, we're talking $200-300 for 20% performance. We all know Athlons are basically a better processor than P4, and they're less expencive, but P4's are slightly better in games. OEMs will probably just stick with their Nvidia TNT2, or maybe even a VANTA. So pathetic...

  2. OLD OLD news on Speed of Light Inconstant? · · Score: 1

    This is actually very old news, like 60 years. The truth of the matter is, the rate at which the speed of light decreases is too fast for the "age of the universe" A couple billion years and light would be moving slower than your grandpa on sunday.

  3. Re:Oil? Oil?? on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    I'm not the coward posting anonymous though. Most of the power? No way, most of the power is still being generated by old coal plants that get grandfathered in and dont have to meet new environmental regulations that make things hard. President Bush recently did some things to fix this, but the media has done so well at making him look like a earth destroying idiot, nobody really belives it. Natural gas powered turbines... how dumb.

  4. Oil? Oil?? on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    You got a oil powered computer?? Your power company certainly isn't running on oil. Coal or Nuclear, get the facts strait dude. Todays laptop does beat the desktop of 3 years ago, but we commonly call 3 year old desktops obsolete. You still dont get the same hard drive performance though, and cdrom is way down there too.

  5. Laptops aren't usually feasible. on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    And, they aren't here either. A typical desktop computer of today has a lot more than your normal laptop. For example, if you got a new desktop, you wouldn't settle for less than 1.4ghz, a dvd drive, cdrw, a big hard drive, and a cool video card, and you'd really want a dvd-r and a geforce 4600.

    In a notebook the best you'll get it geforce2go a small hard drive, and a dvd drive with your mobile athlon 1.2ghz. BIG difference, and this will cost you more than the desktop.

  6. E-Cliner. on DIY BMW Computer Chair · · Score: 1

    Laz-y-boy made a "E-Cliner" a while ago, it showed up on slashdot too... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/10/144823 5&mode=thread&tid=159

    It's not a ultimate chair, but I doubt this one is too. When it comes to getting lazy, people get aweful inventive ;-)

  7. Crimping? on Category 6 UTP Standard is (finally) Here · · Score: 1

    Well, its actually better to wire a connection than to crimp it. Aweful tiring though, and harder to do in the dark ;-)

  8. Re:Urie needs a clue-by-four. on Music Industry Staggers While Film Industry Blooms · · Score: 1

    Nah, the riaa is failing because music is fading out, for the time being. It will come back, but it might be different then. Another factor is, a 74 minute cd ends up costing $12-$18 retail. Videos hardly ever go over $20, and are about 90 minutes long, and it's a video.

    The truth is the riaa wants to steal from everyone, and now they're feeling the consequences.

  9. Re:will firewire ever work? on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 1

    It works now stupid. Maybe you shouldn't embarrass yourself, and actually try it before you say it doesn't work. Dont ask me how to compile your kernel.

  10. Good thing this isn't debian... on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 1

    Or we'd have to wait 3 days :-)

    I dont dislike debian btw.

  11. Maybe... on Nixon Tape To Reveal Secrets at Last? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe we'll here about what really happend during Clinton's presidency in 30 years. Maybe we dont want to know. Nixon had his problems just like all Polititions have. Mostly I think he was just dumb.

  12. This is a milestone on Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is a milestone, not a regular release. Many people will want to wait for the mozilla 1.1 release. This kind of stuff makes you look forward to mozilla 1.1 already though :-)

  13. Re:Wow... on Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You · · Score: 1

    Dont forget, Microsoft was probably notified about this weeks ago. Microsoft has a way of getting a bug fixed soon after it's public, but never before.

  14. Re:Open NIC on ICANN Releases Reform Plan · · Score: 1

    Alternate roots can be bad, they make things confusing, but how are we supposed to control ICANN? The first reason listed here is not valid, because OpenNIC uses their own tlds, and if there was any problem with that, it would be ICANN's fault. Dead links, that's a inconvenience, it's not really a reason that alternate roots are bad, eventually OpenNIC may be as big as ICANN, and then there is no problem.

    OpenNIC is free, so if you dont get universal resolvability, you haven't lost anything either. I disagree with their conclusion, A single alternate root such as OpenNIC (which is a well organized project), would be better to be large than small. What would be bad is if we had many small alternate roots, so that nobody knows what dns roots to use for going to a site.

  15. Too much work, yes. on RTFM = Read the Funny Manual? · · Score: 1

    Most of the time stuff you buy has a manual that doesn't tell you common problems, but merely stuff you should be able to figure out on your own. I'm not dissing Unix manpages here, but manuals generally are not even helpful. Of course, many companies might decide to revise their manuals, and provide some information too, I doubt it though.

  16. Re:Open NIC on ICANN Releases Reform Plan · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Link is actually OpenNIC Sorry about that.

  17. Open NIC on ICANN Releases Reform Plan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you'd like a domain name without having anything to do with ICANN, look into OpenNIC.

    You can get free domains, on their tlds, .glue, .geek, .null, .indy, .parody, and .oss However these are not official ICANN domains, so you need to setup different DNS roots for your dns server, and obviously a dns server that supports these domains for users.

  18. Re:Doesn't "plan" on SuSE Denies UnitedLinux Per-Seat License Model · · Score: 1

    Well, merely saying you haven't planned to do something is different than saying you plan to not do it. Theres something in your mind that doesn't quite make sense if you can't follow this.

  19. Re:Slashdotted already on SuSE Denies UnitedLinux Per-Seat License Model · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the Google Cache

  20. Doesn't "plan" on SuSE Denies UnitedLinux Per-Seat License Model · · Score: 1

    He said he didn't "Plan" to do per seat licencing, but he didn't say he DIDN'T plan to. Basically he's just saying what we want to hear now.

  21. Re:Evo Stupidity on Compaq Evo Tablet PC with Transmeta processor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh, this is a Offtopic post, not a troll, stupid.

  22. Evo Stupidity on Compaq Evo Tablet PC with Transmeta processor · · Score: 0, Troll

    With compaq you always need a stupid name. All their consumer products now start with "Evo", and they get awards for it. So much for creativity.

  23. Re:Opera vs IE, no, Opera vs Mozilla. on Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers? · · Score: 1

    1.5%? How stupid! I'd guess there's more people still using netscape 2.0 than 1.5%, and definatly 20% using some version of nestcape 4.x or earlier. You can't run a website well with such stupidity, and you might ought to get training from one of those "Open Source fanatics". Sorry, you're just being dumb.

  24. Terrorists. on Your Online Marketplace for Classified Jet Parts · · Score: 1

    These guys must be terrorists, Why else would they want this cool stuff?? I'm just a little tired of the news always talking about terrorists, thankful it wasn't mentioned (yet) in this story.

  25. Opera vs IE, no, Opera vs Mozilla. on Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers? · · Score: 1

    Opera doesn't have to beat IE as a browser, it has to beat Mozilla. Opera is a good browser in ways, but it's got to be a lot better than Mozilla to attract a market.