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  1. Plea to IBM on IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer · · Score: 2

    Please do not use a government worker's brain as the template.

  2. Re:The worth of Bobby Fischer on Bobby Fischer FBI Files Released Under FOIA · · Score: 2
    Hey Bobby, talk about chess. Not about your egotistical, "Singlehanded turnaround of the world's image of the US."

    Sure, the US has been guilty of many things, but putting it all of it in the context of racist fault-finding ain't gonna help your case.

    This recording is just amazing. So much hate spewing forth. When will people take responsibillity for their own lives, rather than trying to find some group to blame it on? Good 'ol Bob has got some issues and uses racism to deal with them. Makes me sad.

    I recommend listening to this interview, if only to enlighten yourself about what we all face. People need to evolve to get past the differences and prejudices that separate us all. Hate is learned.

    Bobby, you might be a good chess player, but you have a lot to learn.

  3. Re:As a longtime Yahoo Mail user... on Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit · · Score: 2
    It's been a long time since I signed up, and I have no memory, so you are most likely right on the space. :)

    Have you tried a filter that trashes everything but stuff sent to you? I found that a majority of my spam didn't even have my address on it.
    Ex. 'If To or CC - does not contain - radicalaxis@yahoo.com - move to trash'.

    That filter alone helped cut my spam down to almost nil. I also have taken to blocking a few addresses like lizzyNO@Spam.com that seemed to be on permanent Klez rotation. Add to that, Yahoo's "This is Spam" button has been added to the drop down box, so you don't even have to open it spam to quash it.

    If something important doesn't get through, I haven't heard of it yet. ;)

  4. Re:I've got so much karma on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DVD Details Announced · · Score: 2
    You are right. Gene Rodenberry said as much. "Star Trek is drama in space."

  5. Of course they are moving away from MS! on Japan Considers Moving Away From Windows · · Score: 3, Funny
    Windows doesn't support 50,000 button keyboards with 27 shift keys.

    You'd think that the guys who came up with the shortest poems in the world would have been all about a smaller character set.

  6. Re:Amazing! Virtual Mod point for you... on Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit · · Score: 2
    I can't believe it either! I started to use the service at work, was starting to like it and find uses for it - then *poof*. All gone. Sure, I could pay $100 bucks, but why? I have email, and an 'iDisk'(Briefcase) as a FREE Yahoo Mail user. The intergration was swell, but not worth 100 bucks.

    Is this another status thing? I don't need that kind of status.

    Steve must have had some powerful drugs in the office that day. What do all the "Switch" commercials have in common, what do all Mac users say? "It just works."

    Well, It doesn't work anymore.

  7. As a longtime Yahoo Mail user... on Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I get 6 megs of space for mail. My wife just signed up for it and she gets 4 megs. I believe when it first came out you could get 10.

    I wanter her to change for a several reasons.

    She was on Netscape mail. It sucks over there! No filters, no checking pop mailboxes, spam up the wazoo, and no customiztion. I could send her a message, and she couldn't find it, buried under all the other messages.

    Yahoo is good for people who like their own 'space'. You can change up the background, theme, and mail folders - Netscape had no options whatsoever. She now is changing settings all over, and customizing stuff like crazy. This is good, because she's getting less of a 'I hate computers' attitude, and more of a 'This is cool!' attitude. (Every little bit helps ;)

    With all the Klez and its ilk, nothing like having all that NOT on my local machine. I don't have to worry about if Norton got his coffee today. Outlook finally doesn't matter since I can check a couple of pop mailboxes too.

    Yahoo is making constant visible improvements to the mail system, making it easier to use, spam free, and nicer to look at.

    I recommend it highly. And I'm just using the free service!

    Now, the Yahoo Groups on the other hand, parcel info out like its methadone. It makes navigating to find a nugget of what you're looking for into a painful experience. I try to avoid YG and Geocities pages whenever possible.

    The mail is where its at.

  8. Re:Privacy Policy? on Charging Does Help Yahoo Make A Profit · · Score: 2
    I signed up for Yahoo Mail long ago, and did give them real info. At the time, the world was a more trusting place.

    Now, the world is a darker place, filled with spammers, and giant databases. I deleted what I could, and unchecked where it mattered.

    I am happy that I didn't sign up for Hotmail. Ugh. That's just a ticking time bomb.

  9. Will any of these posts be moderated? on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2
    God, I just want to browse at +6. So far I see Games, Work, Audio, Configuration, UI, and about 10,000 other reasons why people are still on Windows.

    The only reason I see why people run Linux on here is to get chicks.

  10. Linux needs to learn from OS X and BEOS on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2
    I use windows at home for audio stuff (My Ardvark Q10, which rocks all over the digi001, BTW, only supports windows - mac soon to come.) and graphics (Photoshop). I will be using BeOS as an mp3 server and player.

    I use OS X at work for layout (Pagemaker under Classic - must put a bullet in that) and graphics (Photoshop.

    I would use BeOS for everything if I could get the apps for it. If wine worked, or if Virtual PC for BeOS was ever made, I would be done with booting windows forever. I can't expect that developers are going to write my apps for BeOS, so I guess I can deal with running Windows in a window.

    Linux suffers from things that OS X, BeOS, and Windows figured out a long time ago. Make install, configuration, and USE easy.

    When OpenBeos is ready - I am there. There is no OS that is as easy and FAST. Use a CL if you want - or don't. OS X and BeOS have that figured out.

    I WANT TO GET OUT! I have tried installing Linux several times - Mandrake, RedHat (purchased) and Lindows. Sure, I get them running - but how to do things? To install something on OS X I double click on it, or drag it to a folder. To install something on Windows I double click on it, or drag it to a folder. To install something on BeOS I double click on it, or drag it to a folder. Why should Linux be different?

    I want to hear sounds. Windows, OS X, and BeOS all work if there is a driver. Linux - I have to recompile a kernal??

    I want to get on the net and get email. Easy 'till I get to Linux.

    OpenBeos is going to be amazing. Just amazing. Incredibly fast, simple interface, customizable, uses old hardware to the max. Did I say fast? I can't wait.

    I'm done rambling for now.

  11. Re:Let's all say it together: on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2
    I'm going to go and get a CMYK Monitor - wait... I can't. Cause there is no such thing. Why? Because LIGHT and INK are two very different things.

    What do you get on screen when you mix Red, Blue and Green? - White.

    What do you get on paper when you mix Red(Magenta), Blue(Cyan), and Green(Spot Color or Yellow and Blue - Just like in primary school)? You get a muddy brown or black.

    When you print a photo on your pc at home - It may start in RGB (on the Screen) but when its on paper it is CMYK. (BlacK is K) Look at your color cartridge, there is no green. Just like there is no white. White is the absence of color - if you are printing on white paper, otherwise, no white.

    If you really care, I suggest googling CMYK, RGB, Offset printing, Color Space, and go from there. If you don't care, go be AC on k5.

  12. Re:Let's all say it together: on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gimp doesn't support cmyk. It also(linux) has crap for color management. Why not ask Adobe to port it?

  13. Re:There's nothing wrong with this bill on Congress Passes SWSA · · Score: 2
    What are you talking about? "Hours, days, and even weeks of effort, heart, and soul..??"

    You just covered a *Madonna* song, for Pete's sake.

  14. Re:I'm Done on Congress Passes SWSA · · Score: 2
    I'm afraid the RIAA usually gets a cut of concerts, t-shirts, and posters. It's all to recoup the 'loss' of recording the band in the first place. What the RIAA doesn't get, Ticketmaster will, and they'll rape you and me at the same time.

    You could go give the band a fiver, they could probably hang on to that.

  15. I tried reading the bill on Congress Passes SWSA · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Way the hell too many 'subparagraph B(iii) except after 'Section C'. Apparently to make sense out of it you need to be all coked up like our President.

    You'd thing after paying taxes to support a Congress to make 'laws' like this, they could spend a little to make it readable by the general public, which will have to hire laywers and subsequently be priced out of webcasting right there.

    If this benefits the little guy, I'm all for it. Unfortunately, I can't tell. 'Course it's Friday and I haven't had my Dr. Pepper yet either.

  16. IANAASCM - I am not an accountant, so correct me. on Microsoft Loses $177m on Xbox in Three Months · · Score: 2
    buuuuuut...can't they write that loss off? I read somewhere that Bill and his Co. don't pay much for taxes (say in proportion to a /. reader), doesn't this mean that the Gov will refund the lost $$$? So in other words, we are still paying MS for X-Boxen?

    If I am wrong, please tell me. I have an oogy feeling about it.

  17. I knew I should've got another! on Microsoft Loses $177m on Xbox in Three Months · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was trying for 200 mill, by pouring Pepsi in the boxes at Walmart. Now I'll never get my 'Corporate Killer Anarchist' badge.

    Billy Henderson always wins, 'cause his dad's the scout leader.

  18. Re:wonderful new artists! on EMI Promises Downloadable Music · · Score: 2
    But I've got all their releases on stone tablet, wax cylnder, magetized wire, reel to reel, vinyl, 8-track, cassette, digital cassette, DAT, minidisk, CD, DVD, SACD, and Holographic Cube already!

    Now I'll have to download them too?! Ah, hell...

  19. I still think this is a good idea, damnit. on EMI Promises Downloadable Music · · Score: 2

    Use the resources we already have. We've got a book section, why not a music section? Besides, there's only four /.ers that know how to read, anyhow.

  20. Re:When will they learn? on EMI Promises Downloadable Music · · Score: 3, Informative
    I think your anger is misplaced. Granted, CDs are too expensive. How much of that has to do with the artist?

    Sure M. Carey and JLo pull down the big $$$ and Michael-Circus-Freak-Jackson just complained about Sony ripping him off (ha, who wants to see old pointy nose grab his balls again, raise your hands), but how many don't get dough at all? Lots. Where does the money go? Into the hands of record execs.

    Methinks you should kill the messenger service, not the messenger.

  21. Re:Download all you want! on EMI Promises Downloadable Music · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm guessing that the selection is going to consist of whoever graduated from the 'Spice Girls School of Musik'. Can't wait for the bland selection. I'll stick to vinyl.

  22. Download all you want! on EMI Promises Downloadable Music · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just don't expect to *listen* to it anywhere - the files won't play on any computer, portable device, or cd player. It's their new business plan!

  23. After a long night of coding once on The Law of Leaky Abstractions · · Score: 2, Funny

    I looked down in suprise to find a leaky abstraction. Had to change pants.

  24. Re:mame on MAME To Become GPL? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you beat Algernon through the maze yet?

  25. OT - How many Roms are legal? on MAME To Become GPL? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    How many out there actually use Roms they have the licence to? I'm guessing the number of people who own a Tempest cabinet pales in comparison to the number of Rom files out there.

    Just a thought.