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  1. Re:Any other obsolete products still in production on Sony Ceases Production of PSOne · · Score: 2, Informative
    I would love it if I can buy a brand new [...] sony walkman
    hi there
  2. question on Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution · · Score: 1

    since some games were released on both the genesis and the snes, but one console had what was widely considered the superior version (example: the nhl hockey series was always better on genesis while other multi platform games benefitted a lot from snes' superior graphics capabilities), are they going to release BOTH or ONE of the versions in this case? i mean even if it was 15 years ago nintendo probably wouldn't want to admit a genesis version was better than the snes one... or would they!

  3. Re:No so overprice on Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed · · Score: 1

    it comes with a KEYBOARD?!

    holy shit that seals the deal!

  4. Not only China on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google does not only do this in China. In Germany, national socialism is largely forbidden, so the well-known NS/WP site stormfront.org is blocked. Try this link from German google, and notice how it claims to find no matches on stormfront.org. The same search on American google.com returns 53,500 matches.

  5. Re:Who would buy intel? Who would use onboard... on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1, Informative

    VIA's Intel boards might be cheap and crappy as well, but they do not have the well-documented bug that several of VIA's AMD chipsets have that makes high-bandwidth PCI usage a fucking hassle at best and impossible at worst. Again, I DO NOT USE A SHIT SOUNDCARD. I said I speak from experience, so kindly believe me... Even if this is Slashdot, infamous for people talking out of their asses.

  6. Re:Who would buy intel? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1
    THANK you. I'm glad to have someone else who actually knows exactly what problems I am talking about confirm it. So apparently, some nVidia chipsets now work better than VIA crap. I don't think I deserve -1, Troll for not knowing that -- alright, some newer chipsets might work better, but I'm never buying AMD for serious use again after experiencing what I have, and you need only search Google for a couple of minutes to see that I'm not alone.

    Although, what do I expect posting a pro-Intel post on Slashdot... It's not like I wouldn't want to see the cheaper, less evil stuff be better, but from my experience, it just isn't. For advanced PCI stuff like pro audio cards, it's worth spending the extra bucks to get the reference implementation and be ASSURED things will work.

  7. Re:Who would buy intel? Who would use onboard... on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    Listen -- I speak from experience, I KNOW what I am talking about. I use M-Audio soundcards, and there is a WELL-DOCUMENTED BUG in several VIA chipsets that makes PROFESSIONAL -- not AC'97 gaming -- use more or less impossible with these chipsets. As other posters have mentioned, there are some patchese, but in my experience those help slightly at best and make the problem worse at worst. KINDLY know what you are talking about the next time you are going to reply.

  8. Re:Who would buy intel? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    That was very much beside the point, though. I considered mentioning that, but this is really an AMD/Intel discussion, and if you're going to do audio work on an IBM compatible, you will be using Intel.

  9. Re:Who would buy intel? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 0, Troll
    Anyone who cares about using their computer for professional audio applications, for one. Sorry, I used to be like you, but experience has led me to realize that if you're going to do any serious A/V work, AMD -- or more specifically, AMD motherboards with cheap, ultra-crappy VIA south/northbridges and the like -- just won't cut it. You will get crackles in the audio, all around shitty performance and will have to apply about 200 patches to get things working at all.

    If you're going to do anything more than play Quake ]|[ or browse the WWW and write Word documents, getting the CPU and chipset which is considered the reference implementation (meaning Intel chipsets on Intel motherboards with Intel CPU's) is worth it.

  10. Site is getting very slow... on NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mirror on my University's T3... Hey, not MY problem if their pipe gets bogged down ;)

  11. Potential uses on Self-assembling 3D Nanostructures · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Copper as strong as steel? ... But the real beauty of these methods is that they can be applied to almost any material

    Maybe Slashbots can use this technology to make their nanococks hard as steel.
  12. Doom with a better engine on A Look at the CounterStrike Source Beta · · Score: 3, Informative
    Imagine if Doom 3 had been just like the original Doom, but with a better engine

    Oh, like Doom Legacy...
  13. Re:Short memory... on 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage · · Score: 1
    people will find a good use for 100 T within a matter of months

    Not really. They will certainly find some use though.

  14. Re:A little JavaScript, a little DOM on Mozilla Starts Work On XForms · · Score: 4, Informative

    Untrue. There's , used like so:

    <label for="textbox" accesskey="t">Input text here</label>
    <input type="text" name="textbox" />

    http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/l ab el.html

  15. Re:That would be a wise move on How Microsoft Could Embrace Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. Microsoft did provide TCP/IP for Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It didn't have PPP or dialer software, which Trumpet Winsock provided... But again, Microsoft provided the same starting with MS Internet Explorer 5.0 (which isn't really relevant though.)

  16. Re:Monkey Island comes to mind on HP Markets Cheap 4-User PCs To African Schools · · Score: 1

    That's the second biggest four-headed computer I've ever seen!

  17. Why is this a major release? on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    This current trend of only bringing minor release numbers up to 1 or 2 before hopping on to the next major only to keep up with other distributions is getting silly. If there was some major change in this, like a switch to Linux 2.6, that would justify a major number bump. This release doesn't really have anything of the sort.

  18. Re:A question... on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    man 8 removepkg

  19. Re:Something similar in U.K. on Big Screen for NYPD · · Score: 1
    We're now living in a Big Brother world, aren't we? Of course, if it helps catching criminals, then so be it.

    You do realize that this type of thinking is exactly what enables leaders to take more and more steps towards an actual Big Brother society? Say you use it to catch criminals, then move on to other, less innocuous uses...

  20. Re:Innovation? on Indie Game Jam 2004 Recounted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point is to show that you can make vastly differing games with the same "engine." You don't need to make a Quake clone only because you use the Quake engine. Some people use open engines to make games that are very different from the games the engine was originally developed for, like Unreal Annihilation, Total Annihilation (a Real-Time Strategy game) reimplemented with the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine.

  21. Re:ludicrously critical on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    What you do is have a small (100 kbyte-ish) installer app on a trusted site which also holds the files with the MD5 sums. The installer then fetches a list of mirrors and lets the user choose the nearest mirror. It downloads the tarball, checks it against the trusted MD5 sums and if all is OK, it untars it. Bandwidth requirements would be fairly low with this method.

  22. Re:ludicrously critical on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    MD5 checksums. Use 'em.

  23. Re:That reminds me... on Slackware 9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I started out running (GNU/)Linux with Slackware 3.2 in 1995-ish

    Slackware 3.2 was released in 1997.

  24. Re:You know on Groklaw Sends A Dear Darl Letter · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Operate company dynamically
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  25. Re:name change? on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    The artwork on the screenshots comes from an original Warcraft II CD. You can play FreeCraft with the original graphics pack if you have it, i.e. if you've purchased an original copy of Warcraft II; if you don't you can play with free graphics which are not nearly as attractive. Actually, most of them are terribly ugly.