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  1. Re:So, will it FINALLY have block structures? on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    You sure use a lot of punctuation for someone who thinks whitespace is better indicative of structure.

  2. Re:The good old days on The History of the Apple II as a Gaming Platform · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is just nostalgia talking, but a lot of games back then were just plain fun.


    Some of it is nostalgia... but some of it is true. Dogfight is still fun to this day.
  3. Re:Competition is GOOD on Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're lying on so many levels. Let us count the ways:

    1. iPhone is not available in Japan because it doesn't support wCDMA/EVDO
    2. iPhone can't be tethered.
    3. iPhone doesn't have 3G.
    4. Japan's fastest network maxes out at 2.4Mbs (and is not symmetric: 2.4 down, 144kbps up)
    5. Japan doesn't use euros.

  4. Re:Tool Batteries on A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions) · · Score: 1

    Simplest solution: corded tools. I have no need for a cordless tool that's going to have a dead battery in a year.

  5. Re:filechooser is terrible... on The Notable Improvements of GNOME 2.22 · · Score: 1

    2. The CANCEL and OK buttons are reversed from almost all other GUIs. Cancel to the left? Cancel above OK? What???


      Except the one that everyone on here raves about. Gnome's Cancel/OK button order is identical to OSX.
  6. Re:WiFi? on Math on iPhones Just Doesn't Add Up? · · Score: 1

    Then they'd be part of the unlocker group. You can't use an iphone for anything (not even as an mp3 player) with activating unless you hack it.

  7. Re:As always on Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps · · Score: 1

    I guess it's about MacOS X proper, because the only thing that happened was some 3rd party softwares having problems with video.


    Not just 3rd parties. Quicktime Player lost the ability to play a wide variety of mp4s. They play audio only, no video.
  8. Re:What are you talking about? on What Bugs Apple Fans About Apple · · Score: 1

    Except the Mini, and the G4 iBooks which were $800 and dropping before Apple killed it.

  9. Re:the shit hits the fan! on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 1

    Without root, malware is annoying, but not difficult to get rid of.


    Except it can modify all your applications.. trojan itunes, trojan safari. On top of that, you don't need root to turn a machine into a zombie.
  10. Re:"Suddenly"? on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 1

    A CD can accurately store (slightly) more dynamic range than our ears are capable of hearing


    Yes, it can. That doesn't mean it does though. Modern mixes crush that huge dynamic range into roughly 8db. Look up the "Loudness War". Buy a CD today, and it will have less dynamic range than the vinyl version simply because the CD is crushed to hell. That's not the case for the vinyl because the guy mastering the vinyl actually cares about the music (he wouldn't be doing vinyl otherwise).
  11. Re:This is anti-competitive on Sony Announces DRM-Free Music at Amazon · · Score: 1

    An interesting idea, but it ignores the fact that the iTunes Music Store arrived *after* the iPod was already a run-away success.


    That's like saying MS stopped predatory tactics after they gained 95% marketshare.
  12. Re:Apple already did with EMI - They were first! on Sony Announces DRM-Free Music at Amazon · · Score: 1

    There is no difference whatsoever between a ripped mp3 file from iTunes, and a ripped mp3 from an album.


    Are you on crack? A 128kbit AAC is nothing like CD quality.
  13. Re:Apple already did with EMI - They were first! on Sony Announces DRM-Free Music at Amazon · · Score: 1

    No-ones doubting that Apple was first, but for Sony to do this is a big thing indeed.


      I am. Yahoo was first. They started selling DRM free music (from an RIAA label) over a year and a half ago.

    http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2006/07/71427
  14. Re:Java == Jobs on Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 0

    I don't get it? Is it not obvious to create a Node class that has a data, and next attribute? What kind of responses do you get?


    Maybe he meant a doubly-linked list. Which is pretty difficult to do without pointers.. ;)
  15. Re:hmmm on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do I care? I'm anti-closed source, not anti-microsoft. OSX is a closed system built on the backs of open source programmers.

  16. Re:silver lining on Antitrust Suit Filed To Halt Apple 'Music Monopoly' · · Score: 1

    The ridiculous markup is an indication that Apple has a monopoly.

  17. Re:sampling frequency and signal frequency !mix-up on Speculation On a Lossless iTunes Store · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. If a 400 Hz sine wave is sampled at a mere 800 Hz, it can be reproduced perfectly, as long as your equipment is designed properly.


    Misleading. If a 400 Hz sine wave is sampled at 800 Hz, you have enough information to reconstruct the original sine wave... but you have to do the actual reconstruction. If you just play it back, you get yourself a 400 Hz sawtooth wave.. not a sine wave.
  18. Re:How does vertex programming work? on The History of the Vectrex · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've ever even seen a vector display in real life other than my oscilloscope (which uses vectors to draw little snippets of text).


    Think of it as a black&white TV with the gun electromagnets software controlled. So instead of scan lines, the scan is wherever you want it to go. I suppose you could probably make your own if you knew what you were doing. Just bypass the sync hardware.
  19. Re:My testing on A Little .Mac Security Flaw · · Score: 3, Informative

    Step 5. Notice that clicking the big LOG OUT button doesn't affect iDisk.

  20. Re:It's a matter of taste. on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    Synaptic is easier than dragging an icon into a folder?


    Synaptic is easier than googling for your application, skipping over the immense amount of crap that comes up whenever you try to search for anything related to apple. Downloading the program. Mounting the disk image. Dragging the app into a folder... and finally paying for it when the demo expires.
  21. Re:The first thing the headline brought to mind on Army Opens New Office of Videogames · · Score: 1

    Well, Mrs. Peterson, I'm afraid your little Johnny was spawn camping in America's Army III.


    I know you're going for the funny, but in America's Army, there is no spawn camping, because there is no spawning. You're alive at the beginning of the round, and if you die, you're dead 'til the round is over.
  22. Re:Sadly, you've got a point on Army Opens New Office of Videogames · · Score: 1

    They don't teach you how to "murder" people.


    You mean you don't murder people by clicking on them?
  23. Re:A more interesting question on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    By the way do the 12 months in a year have anything to do with the 12 hours in a day?


    It used to be 10 months in a year. Thus September=7, October=8, November=9, December=10. January and February came later.
  24. Re:I don't think so. on ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages · · Score: 1

    I really don't think that ISPs are going to "insert" kiddie porn, "illegal" music or movies, or "terrorist" content in your Web page requests


    True.. but they are fucking with the DOM.. causing the highly dynamic pages I'm serving to not work correctly.
  25. Re:Credit card on Why Xbox Live Doesn't Take Exact Change · · Score: 1

    The PlayStation Store has a number of items for sale at $1, and it doesn't use a stupid points system.


    It does have a $5 minimum though.. so you can't buy just one $1 item from PSN.