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  1. Re:Ditch ink, get a laser. on HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints · · Score: 1

    I only print a page once in a blue moon. My wife and daughter use the printer a little more than I do. We bought a non-color laser printer for $100 that does the job. We can print to it wirelessly over the network and it sits there basically off until someone needs to print something. The problem I had with ink jets is that every time I would go to print anything the cartridge had died up!

  2. Re:TAKS Test on RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is during Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test week At least he won't be missing anything important.
  3. Re:Lazyness, Popularity on Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE? · · Score: 1

    Macs don't have IE anymore - Microsoft canceled IE for Mac.

  4. Way to go Montana! on Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It · · Score: 1

    Let's hope other states follow their lead.

  5. Maybe with this on Star Trek Shields Now a Possibility? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe with this kind of a shielding system we might be able to put a man on the moon for real.

  6. Re:Just what we need on NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    No, you are a dumbass. This law will just be unconstitutional.

  7. Spam? on Top 10 Internet Crimes of '06 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why isn't spam on the list? It is a crime in many places to send certain kinds of spam such as forged headers. I would think this would the most common type of cyber crime.

  8. Just what we need on NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More asshat laws in NY.

  9. Simplified tax system on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since you want a simplified tax system, just send us all your money. You didn't need it anyway. Thanks a lot. Congress

  10. Re:Turbotax Issues on Turbo Tax Melts Down on Tax Day · · Score: 1

    It's really no different than if you left a $20 in your coat pocket during the winter only to find it the next year. Sure it FEELS GOOD, but, that could have been doing something much more useful than just sleeping in a pocket. What is the point of money if not to make me FEEL GOOD? I got a refund this year and I was happy about it. Having an extra $20 a week throughout the year might be nice too, but having a nice chunk all at once is also nice.
  11. Re:Bad idea on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    Experienced developers don't need to stay up all night and eat pizza, but a kid fresh out of school isn't going to turn himself into a great developer without at least a few all night code sessions with the cold pizza.

  12. Re:Bad idea on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    For example, if computer science courses over-emphasise a 'hacker culture' of all-night programming sessions and cold pizza eating If you can't stay up all night hacking and eating cold pizza, why would I want to hire you - especially fresh out of school??
  13. Re:Principal owes public apology on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After reading the more detailed article, I was even more upset that after the kid had been cleared the authorities still insisted on keeping him jailed in order to perform a mental health evaluation because he wouldn't admit to making the call. I hope that the kids parents decide to sue. I doubt that they will because they sound like they have no backbone. The principal should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

  14. Re:Be careful what you wish for on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    Don't talk to us about Europe. In France they would have been arresting the students who took video of the incident with their cell phones! In Europe most of these kids wouldn't have been in college - they would have been standing around in the streets unemployed.

  15. Bad idea on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think dumbing the program down to attract women is ultimately a bad idea.

  16. Re:That depends on who has all the guns on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    My way, nobody gets shot. Yeah, that worked real well today. You know that it is against the law to take a gun onto the VaTech campus, right? Therefore, the shooting didn't happen because the law deterred the criminal from bringing the gun to campus to shoot people. Your solution doesn't work. It just disarms honest people so that criminals have an easier time.
  17. Re:touchpad touch-clicking on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 1

    What kind of computer do you have where you can't turn this off?? Seriously that sucks. I only use the Mac and you have been able to turn that off on the Mac since tap clicking became a feature.

  18. Re:More than 20. . . on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    If only that were the case. There's too many firearm advocates arguing that ANY attempt to regulate gun ownership or require certification for gun owners is unacceptable -- that if you can't anonymously walk into a Wal-Mart with a wad of cash and walk out with a handgun and a box of ammo, that means the government's eventually going to use gun registration records to round up the gun owners and take their weapons away. Gun nuts seem to enjoy contemplating the "firefight with an oppressive overlord" fantasy. In most places the gun grabbers make the such that anyone who defends themselves from a criminal can be charged with a crime. There was a case in Boston I read about where a woman shot an intruder in her home who had already killed one of her children and had her backed into an upper story bedroom. The prosecutor argued that she and her two remaining children should have jumped out a second story window rather than defend themselves. Basically you gun grabbers want everyone to be so defenseless that they will continue to worship the police and vote higher and higher taxes so that you and your kind can loaf through life on welfare and maybe make a little extra on the side robbing houses without getting shot. My advice is don't try it in Arkansas. That is all.
  19. Re:Bah... on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 1

    They showed a picture of the Zune, but the item was about DRM which they called "iTunes". Come on, the DRM for iTunes is called "Fair Play" - get it right!

  20. Re:Ob. on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    Don't tell me how it ends, because I'm still playing Star Raiders!

  21. Re:What killed gaming complexity was 3D on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    You are totally right. Also, I find that many 3D games, I cannot play at all. I get nauseated after just a couple of minutes of playing the game or watching someone else play. This isn't the case with all of them, but a lot of them I have this problem.

  22. Re:Development costs and imagination on Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with this. However, I also think that playing on an emulator is just not as good.

    For one thing, you aren't using the same controller.

    Case in point, probably my favorite game of all times is a shareware game made for the Atari 800 computer called Gauntlet (not the arcade gauntlet - this is totally differrent).

    Playing it on my Mac using an iShock controller, I find that the ship is almost impossible to control. It is not as much fun as playing it on the original hardware. Unfortunately while I can download the game from the internet, I have no idea how to transfer it to an Atari floppy disk :-(

    Also, there is nothing like Infocom these days.

  23. Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before. on Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes · · Score: 1

    Another method was to make a hole in the coin, then use a thin fishing line to insert the coin, then get it back out as soon as the credit is registered. Does this realy work outside of cartoons?
  24. Re:Captivated market on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    How is Apple Mail more "standards-compliant" than Outlook Express? Is the mail storage format for Apple Mail easy to export to other mail programs on different platforms? You can export Apple Mail to a text file.
  25. Re:Who is being held captive? on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    This, of course, only applies to the new Intel based Macs. You can run other OSes such as Linux on both PowerPC and 68K Macintoshes.