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  1. Re:More white bread, please! on AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    Avril writes her own songs... thats why the're so shit
    Are you certain? I seem to recall that the songs on her breakthough album were written by the Matrix and Linda Perry, to name a few. Have you noticed how much Liz Phair's "Why Can't I Breathe?" sounds like an Avril song? I'm almost positive that it's because it was "produced" by the Matrix (I know she worked with them, just not sure which songs).

    -J

  2. Re:Lesson This Teaches on The Mathematics of Futurama · · Score: 1

    Another beer reference like that was in the first episode, when Bender was drinking a 40 of "Olde Fortran" malt liquor. It's that sort of attention to detail that made the show so amusing.

  3. Re:Nice... on First Looks At PCI-X, BTX, New Chipsets, And More · · Score: 1
    Right now, however, the only cards that actually needs the extra bandwidth it provides are graphics cards, so they'll function like AGP.
    For consumers, perhaps. In the enterprise space, PCI-X is pretty common. Quite a few fibre channel HBAs and gigabit ethernet adapters have been PCI-X for a while, especially the multi-ported ones.
  4. Re:Some people don't get it on Christian Game Developers Conference Plans Gathering · · Score: 1
    That's a fair statement. You can replace "Christian" with any ideologically-based music scene and the same will hold--straight edge, left-wing or even neo-nazi. Some people will either be into the message, or able to overlook it; others will be turned away by the message.

    -J

  5. Re:Some people don't get it on Christian Game Developers Conference Plans Gathering · · Score: 1
    Regardless, it's still contradictory. If he started listening to Christian artists because he didn't agree with the "message" of popular artists, more power to him. That's why they exist, and it's good for people to support artists that produce what they want to hear. But what I'm getting at is, why is Christian music special in that I should overlook its message any more than he should overlook the message of other pop?

    -J

  6. Re:Some people don't get it on Christian Game Developers Conference Plans Gathering · · Score: 1
    Quoth the poster (regarding popular music):
    ...it was because alot of the music of the day went against my beliefs, plain and simple...
    ...and later (referring to Christian music):
    But if you can get past the message there is some good stuff out there.
    I'm not one to criticize your preference for the Christian music scene, but this strikes me as a logical inconsistency.

    -J

  7. Re:pretty much is about oil.... but there's more on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1
    I think you're misunderstanding the parent post. While you're correct in that there are tactical plans for all sorts of (hopefully) unlikely scenarios, I'm fairly certain he was suggesting that the "current regime's heavyweights" had intentions of invading Iraq.

    It's the difference between planning to and planning for.

    -J

  8. Re:question? on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux · · Score: 1
    IBM Director (formerly known as Tivoli) comes free with every server.
    A little clarification here--IBM Director used to be a product called Tivoli IT Director. It was sort of a little brother (though they don't share any code as far as I recall) to the Tivoli Management Environment framework (TME10).

    -J

  9. Re:With no Volume. on 90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer · · Score: 1
    Actually, the parent post is correct. While you're correct in saying that the PPC 970 is a direct descendant of the POWER series (the POWER4 to be exact), the POWER series was in fact the basis for the PowerPC architecture. Read more at IBM's site.

    -J

  10. Re:160 grand!? on MIT Students Get an Education in Software Development · · Score: 1
    Actually, I think the article is suggesting that the degree costs the students $160k to get. That's about $40k a year, though I don't know if that's tuition alone or if it includes other costs. It wouldn't surprise me if MIT tuition is $20k per semester, though.

    -J

  11. Re:no no no on IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    I don't pretend to be an expert economist. I do, however, at least have class. Learn how to have a reasoned debate, AC, and then we'll talk.

    Supply-side economics are not a proven by any means.

    -J

  12. Re:Disturbing... on IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    Rich people will save it. Middle class people will use it to pay down debt. Poor people use it instead of building up debt.

    And that is exactly why, and how, it works.

    And the aforementioned "trickling down" is happening where, exactly? The entire point of trickle down doctrine (which worked so well in the eighties) is that the wealthy are supposed to spend the money (on things like yachts, presumably), benefitting the middle class, who then spend the extra money on consumables produced by the poor, and so on. Hence the "trickle down" name--money moves down the pyramid in increasingly smaller amounts.

    Rich people will save it.
    Saving becomes investment, as soon as our current overcapacity problem works itself out. [2]

    Middle class people will use it to pay down debt. Poor people use it instead of building up debt.
    Less debt means more consumer spending, which helps work out that over-capacity problem.

    You've got your causality mixed up. Money that is saved is not re-invested into the economy. People paying off their debt means that they aren't taking on new debt. Consumer debt makes our economy go. Did you ever wonder why interest rates drop during a recession? It's a reactionary technique. People aren't spending money or taking on additional debt, which contributes to the recession. Low rates encourage spending and taking on additional debt; conversely, they discourage saving.

    -J

  13. Re:Slightly OT, but related to OpenOffice: on OpenOffice.org Resource Kit · · Score: 0
    Just a guess, but as I recall, KDE has an option to apply your KDE color scheme to non-KDE applications. This would certainly explain why OpenOffice is picking up your KDE color scheme, but none of the other window managers' color schemes.

    -J

  14. Earthbound for SNES on Naming Your Character In RPGs? · · Score: 1
    When I was in high school, my friend rented the Super Nintendo RPG "Earthbound," which allowed you to not only name your characters, but also your favorite food and favorite thing in the world (or something to that effect). Being 16 at the time, we thought it would be really funny to put in "pussy" for favorite food and "breasts" for favorite... whatever.

    The favorite... whatever... was the name of the most powerful spell in the game. It was worth a chuckle or two to cast "breasts" on the enemy. However, what really had our retarded teenage minds rolling with laughter was that everytime the main character would go home to rest, his mother would say something like, "Eat some pussy and scoot up to bed!"

    Yeah, you know you did it too. Perverts. ;-)

    -J

  15. Re:and look at the buttons. . . on A Palm for Every Purpose · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice that the music in that video was an obvious ripoff of No Doubt's "Hella Good"? Creepy...

  16. Re:Why Aren't The Costs Passed On? on Cheap Audio Production · · Score: 1
    There is NO WAY IN HELL that Vig's entire studio is $15k at Stone tries to make out...I wouldn't be surprised to know it was on order of $150k at the MINIMUM.
    I'm sure that's true (ProTools, the Mbox and a G4 has to be more than $15K, not counting microphones, etc.), but keep in mind that the article is talking about Butch Vig's home, not Smart Studios where he does his professional production. In which case, we're probably talking well more than $150K.

    -J

  17. Re:Windows Hater Book, Entry 1 on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 1
    William Jefferson Clinton the "only" impeached president, you say? Ever heard of Andrew Johnson?

    "In March 1867, the Radicals effected their own plan of Reconstruction, again placing southern states under military rule. They passed laws placing restrictions upon the President. When Johnson allegedly violated one of these, the Tenure of Office Act, by dismissing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment against him. He was tried by the Senate in the spring of 1868 and acquitted by one vote."

    Also, you shouldn't forget that had Richard Nixon not resigned, he was facing impeachment. Don't they teach you kids anything in school these days?

    -J

  18. Re:Human Brains on Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL · · Score: 1
    The human brain can't focus on two distinct tasks at once
    Don't you mean the male human brain? :)
    I think Faro has pretty thoroughly debunked this myth:

    http://www.dead-beef.com/comic/067.html

    *chuckle*

    -J

  19. Re:fiber, not fibre. on Do-It-Yourself Fibre Channel Array · · Score: 1
    The AC says:
    fiber, not fibre
    Maybe someone ought to tell the Fibre Channel Industry Association! They've got it all wrong!

    -J

  20. Re:You forgot one on Linux Audio Developers Conference · · Score: 1
    Audacity on Linux (well, the 1.0 series) is only good if you don't need full duplex recording. Which means you cannot do any multitrack recording with it. It shows promise, but it has a long way to go.

    -J

  21. Re:Cheap home recording!! on Gibson to Embed Guitars with Ethernet · · Score: 1
    Want a simple solution? Buy a cheap mixer. It's a good idea to have an external mixer around, anyway. I had the same sort of problems you experienced, but with the mixer, I was able to record decent quality demos on a modest PC with a SB Live Value. Mostly, I was toying around, and I mic'ed a cheapo amp (I live in an apartment, so the half-stack would be a bad idea ;), but it works pretty well. Plus, any decent mixer should have phantom power for condenser mics, something the soundcard can't provide.

    What you can do on some mixers is use the 2-track in and out to go to your sound card output and input, so you can record track-by-track. Make sure the 2-track in doesn't go to the main mix unless you want an infinite feedback loop. I personally use a 20-channel Behringer (around $200, but you can get a decent smaller one for under $100) and I've been very satisfied. I now use an Echo Audio Mia digital audio card (~$180) but I still use the same mixer.

    -J

  22. Re:Assasination of Malcolm X == on The Nation of Macintosh? · · Score: 1
    I have a feeling most of those posts were from the same mac zealot people who get overly zealous and frustrated and therefore react in the same way as the nation of islam people did when malcolm X "betrayed" their group.

    Well, that and the fact that the MS "switch" article was complete fucking astroturfing...
  23. Re:Graphics @ ASU on Are Colleges Helping to Maintain the Microsoft Monopoly? · · Score: 1
    Sorry, but as a graduate of your in-state archrival, I only have one thing to say:

    Ha, ha!

    If it makes you feel any better, I turned off my +1 bonus...

    Seriously, though, this is just plain wrong. At U of A, the graphics course I took was taught using OpenGL and GLUT. Information was provided on using these libraries on Windows and Linux, plus it was supported on Solaris since that's what the department server ran. Everything had to compile on Solaris to be graded, but we all had access to the lab where we could use X clients on the department server. In general, I never felt forced to use a particular product, besides the reasonable requirement that your code had to compile on Solaris.

    This all may have changed since I graduated, though. I've been told that the Computer Science department was sold to Microsoft for a healthy sum (only halfway sarcastic).

    -J

  24. Re:Graphics @ ASU on Are Colleges Helping to Maintain the Microsoft Monopoly? · · Score: 2

    Since it was most likely a programming course, they were probably using OpenGL, and maybe GLUT to make it easier to set up things like windows. Both are available on most platforms.

  25. Re:Wouldn't work on Dreamcast Modem Is Reverse Engineered · · Score: 2
    Actually, I think it might have been able to tell which bounding box you shot. Now, this is all from half-assed memory of my old NES, but I think it flashes the bounding boxes in order, so it knows what you hit by when it registers the hit. Although, I could be nuts.


    -J