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  1. Re:Floppy Records! on PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image · · Score: 1

    I had a tape for some band that had modem noise on the b-side. It was a kermit transfer of the lyrics.

  2. Re:They forgot... on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    That's not a verb I recognize...

  3. Re:Sad Mac and Startup Beep on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having obnoxious sound clips attached to every event you can think of was the epitome of the early 90s.

    "Game over man, game over!"

  4. Re:Not all as it seems on IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha · · Score: -1, Troll

    I refuse to trust any website registered by proxy. As long as groklaw and PJ continue to be anonymous, the rumor that IBM owns and operates groklaw will continue to gain traction.

  5. Re:The question is... on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    The awesome bar ranks your history. Bookmarks before non-bookmarked pages, pages you visit often before pages you rarely visit, etc.

    Make "news" the keyword for the news.google.com bookmark. Awesome bar will rank that above everything else when you type "news".

    See.. it really is awesome.

  6. Re:Per-tab processes are great on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    Tried it out on Chrome on my Windows box, and no such problem.

    That's because you got lucky. Go here and watch the video in Chrome. It slows your entire machine down to a crawl, and the only way out is to kill the entire browser.

    So much for having flash in its own process.

  7. Re:We ain't dead yet! on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will your browser have it's own video and printer drivers?

    There's no reason why it can't. In embedded space it even makes sense.

    The other two examples have nothing to do with whether or not something is an OS. Just your narrow definition of one.

  8. Re:Not all-or-nothing on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    An IT union would hopefully be better run because we'd use wiki's etc. to work out policy instead of smoke-filled closed doors.

    You're delusional. How many people at work are forced to use IE because IT hasn't approved firefox?

    IT departments everywhere make retarded decisions now.. it would only be worse if it were unionized.

  9. Re:Hell no. on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    Plus a unionized IT would require some form to be filled out in order to upload stuff to the server.  Then they'll decide that the version control system counts as a server.  Pretty soon, no one is using version control because it takes a week for IT to approve the code checkin.

  10. Re:Scripting language. What is it? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    I posted this to the xkcd forums last year:

    #!/bin/sh
    /usr/bin/gcc -xc - <<EVILEOF

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main()
    {
            printf("C as a shell script\n");
    }

    EVILEOF
    ./a.out

  11. Re:Scripting language. What is it? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    I've never, ever seen JavaScript used for or run in such a way that it's not intended to be used with a webpage

    CouchDB uses javascript to do queries.

  12. Re:The cable company is a local monopoly. on Psystar Will Countersue Apple · · Score: 1

    During the MS antitrust trial, Judge Jackson ruled that the Macintosh market was a separate market from the PC market. Apple has a monopoly in the Macintosh market.

    So either the MS antitrust trial was a sham, or Apple is a monopoly.

  13. Re:In a word... on Psystar Will Countersue Apple · · Score: 1

    A $500 PC might have a better video card, but very likely won't have IEEE1394

    Have you looked at PCs lately? I bought a $400 HP early last year and it came with litescribe DVD burner, firewire, wifi and a 11-in-1 card reader, all in a micro-tower case.

  14. Re:The Greatest Idea on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    Did you used to work for Sierra back in the 80s?

  15. Re:Now wait a minute on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seinfeld was doing HP commercials last year.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BraU_cpfBeI

    Guess he just decided to switch.

  16. Re:Maybe it's the service on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 1

    because people all over the globe are reporting the same problems. The only common denominator is Apple.

  17. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    I am sure that a corporate sale of 2500 copies (for example) would garner a discount.

    You'd be wrong.

  18. Re:Police thugs on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 1

    Every cop on the beat is participating in the persecution of marijuana smokers, for instance

    Not the cops in california. For the most part, they leave that to the DEA.

  19. Re:Police thugs on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 1

    So one anecdote, that wasn't even sourced, is all the proof you need?

    Here's a counterpoint then.

  20. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    How about instead of "never" we say "not until Apple starts doing volume licensing"? Is that better?

  21. Re:yes, let's be honest on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    - None of these offer an easy way for non-technical users to download and install applications on their phones.

    The providers do. Alltel has the Axcess store which is just like the iTunes store, selling ring tones, themes, and apps/games.. only the Axcess store has been around for over 5 years now.

  22. Re:Netflix sucks if you use linux on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    The roku player works just fine no matter what OS you use.

  23. Re:Not impressed by my trial. on Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments · · Score: 1

    NetFlix seems hard to search IMO.

    It is, and they know it. Remember that big brouhaha last month when they announced they were getting rid of profiles? They were getting rid of profiles because they're looking at redoing their entire front end, and working profiles into the new front end would slow development.

  24. Re:What exactly is so special about these systems? on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 1

    Apple decided that they didn't want to make a cheap computer, they wanted to take a cheap computer and make it "the smallest ever!"... thereby making it an expensive computer.

    Just when a certain technology becomes affordable, Apple covers it with diamonds to increase the price.

  25. Re:I can't stand Apple anymore... on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 1

    that's reflected in the price of the boxed OSX.