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  1. Re:Up-To-Date Program on Apple Remote Desktop 2 Released · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Its not like your old one is going to break.
    Additionally, it has been known for quite some time that Apple was preparing a new release of Remote Desktop. Its not their fault you bought RD 1 late in the product cycle.

    I say it was a poor purchasing move on YOUR part.

  2. Re:Dear Japan. on Xbox Video Chat Includes Camera, Remote Vibration · · Score: 2

    Stories like this are fundamentally Japanese. Its just like all the strange stuff that seems to uniquely come from Florida.

  3. Dear Japan. on Xbox Video Chat Includes Camera, Remote Vibration · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please stop experimenting with your sexuality, its freaking us out.

  4. Re:Balloon - Troll? on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 1

    Actually, you know I think there is a distiction between the two. I like my signature better for its repitition of the word "know". But you know that.

  5. Re:Balloon - Troll? on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, lets not forget that Russia lost more people in WW2 than every other country combined.

  6. Re:DVD & Cinema Marathon on Lord of the Rings Home Marathons? · · Score: 1

    N00b I flew 10 hours to see it.

  7. Re:DVD & Cinema Marathon on Lord of the Rings Home Marathons? · · Score: 1

    Pshaw, us real geeks watched the extended editions of the first two in the theater and then watched the third, all in a row. Hah!

  8. Re:It's the resolution, silly on Large LCD HDTV as a Computer Monitor? · · Score: 1

    Nuh uh. 720 is way bigger than 27. but if you were projecting your screen to the local drive in maybe then it would be inches per dot.

  9. Orkut invite code. on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    Orkut looks cool. Can you give me an invite code?

  10. Re:Apple is as Apple does on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1

    Well obviously with the next windows OS, MS will bundle 200 free songs from their service buit into media player bundled with their new OS. And everyone will forget that iTMS ever existed except for the geeks who say things like yeah, Apple was the first to make legal music downloading into the mainstream, boy were they ahead of their time. Just like with Digital Cameras, PDAs, etc.

  11. Re:Why would we want to work with No. 2? on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I shudder to think how crappy the mac would be had the licensed off their technology. You know they tried it once. Power Compuing, Star Max, all they did was make Macs as a whole worse.

    Apple wouldn't be making the powerfull elegant machines they are today had they licensed their platform and had to compete with the lowest of the low cheap ass oems.

    Things are fine with Apple, and they're going to stay that way for quite a while. Unless Jobs dies somehow.

  12. Re:humptf, jobs is getting wrong again :P on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the deal is that it is super important that Apple maintain their foot hold on digital music distribution. They are out there pimping their technology left and right. They made a windows iTunes, added windows support for the iPod, licensed the iPod to HP, the pepsi promotion.

    This deal with Real, seems pretty obviously bad for Apple, so Steve turned them down, then went out and made more publicity out of it.

    Just the fact that Real went to them has pushed Apples Music products up a notch.

  13. Re:I WAS thinking this was a good idea on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad slashdot doesn't compare messages, I don't know how much horse power it would take but it seems like I see this stuff alot.

  14. Re:Create vs. Verify on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    The creation of computers with the capability of the creation of hyper-nominalized sentences has the effect of causing the confusion in the readers of the sentences.

  15. Re:Canada's former prime minister's "proof" on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If only he had the power of the internet.

  16. Re:Ok I am always confused about the difference. on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe its called the fallacy of the false delemma.

  17. Re:Rumsfeld, anyone? on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    Seems familiar.

  18. Re:Slow starting on OpenOffice.org For Mac OS X Hits 1.1.1 (Finally) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, you're right, after I posted that I thought about it a little. but I only need to do one char comparisons because thats what he is talking about how many chars are being compared... Its much slower if its got further to look.

  19. Re:Slow starting on OpenOffice.org For Mac OS X Hits 1.1.1 (Finally) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I must be missing something.

    [ Photar ] tmp~ cat strcmp.cpp
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string.h>

    int main(){
    for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 18000000; i++){
    strcmp("A", "a");
    }
    return 0;
    }
    [ Photar ] tmp~ time ./a.out

    real 0m1.240s
    user 0m1.230s
    sys 0m0.010s

  20. Re:Spam is not soo bad. on Junkie Loves His Spam · · Score: 1

    Well, the kind of checks I'm talking about are actual real checks that I could cash, but they're really just loans with about 30% interest rates.

  21. Re:Once again .. on Sharp Debuts New Transmeta-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    Thats a pretty impressive set of great unoriginal ideas. When I was in Jr. High, I wrote a program that would guess a number you were thinking. You'd enter a range, say from 0 to 100000 and then it would start in the middle and go up or down based on your answers. Years later it turns out I invented the binary search.

  22. Spam is not soo bad. on Junkie Loves His Spam · · Score: 1

    Its not as bad as junk snail mail. That stuff kills trees. Not to mention that I regularly get a fake check in the mail that looks very much like my real one.

  23. Re:Not what it is all about on Sharp Debuts New Transmeta-based Laptop · · Score: 1

    Maybe if Sharp wanted a 'killer' solution, come out with something like that, a PDA with a keyboard, wifi, term-server client already installed, a 1024x768 screen, a real slow CPU that sucks lightly on the electricity, and a fat battery to run for 20 hours. The entire thing could weigh less than 2 lbs and would simply scream when connected to a decent machine running terminal server. Thats exactly what the Smart Display is.

  24. Possible to it yourself method. on Improving Terrible Handwriting? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since you haven't elaborated more on your writing problem I'll assume that you don't know the correct way to write ANY character.

    First I'd find one of those alphabet posters that they hang up in 1st grade class rooms that have the little arrows that point in the direction you're supposed to draw each stroke.

    Then I'd have lock myself in a room with some pens a ream of paper.

  25. Re:Why shell? on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    #!/usr/bin/perl foreach $f ($ARGV) {open(IN, $f); @U=(); while(){ unless($i{$_}++) { push(@U, $_) } } print sort(@U); }