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  1. Re:omg on Mac OS X Intel Build Addresses Pirating · · Score: 1

    And that's what it's really about. The switch to Intel has been done so hastily that they're running into all kinds of issues now that third party developers are hacking on it.

    It isn't "done". The transition as a platform won't be done until late 2007...at least. The transition as an architecture won't be done until shortly before the first Intel Mac ships.

    Change the binary format? Probably to fix some severe deficiencies... but marketed well under the anti-piracy guise.

    Marketed? If its marketed at all, its in the release notes...as bug fixes. Your entire post is just...smelly. I bet you work at a "help desk".

  2. Re:No Gigabit Ethernet ? on Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC? · · Score: 1

    Did you ever think that maybe he/she was acquiring DV off of a firewire cable and may want to be broadcasting the data as fast as he/she is acquiring it?

  3. Re:Commercialism gone bad. on Virex 7.2 Hazardous to Fink's Health · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, lemme tell you how much a company that isn't Microsoft would WANT to break software on the computer it is being installed on. It wouldn't, plain and simple. Users have a funny way of bitching REALLY hard when new software breaks their currently installed software. Therefore companies don't want to break shit. Stop with the bullshit 'Apple is evil' trolling in disguise.

  4. Re:How do they tell? on Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Deep Blue was taken apart shortly after its matches with Kasparov. Interesting, being that Kasparov accuses that Deep Blue was given hints and help by humans. Therefore there can be no match of Junior vs. Blue. GG Kasparov

  5. Re:Cool! on Apple's Present: iTunes Supports Ogg Files · · Score: 1

    no...microsoft introduced Movie Maker. its "stealing". _that_ is anticompetitive.

  6. Re:That's one reason I... on MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist · · Score: 1

    your point is lost in one contradiction. a cashiers check is just as good as a money order, which is just as good as cash. the fact that the cashiers check was counterfeit is really no different than if it was a counterfeit money order, or counterfeit $100's. he would still be out the same amount of money. having received payment in a different manner doesnt magically make the problem disappear. the guy was a counterfeiter.

  7. Obvious on MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think by now it is glaringly obvious that this story is true. Yes, the author seems to embellish thoughts and emotions. This is more the sign of a competent writer than a hoax. Of course the slashdotters expect a whitepaper on the scientific process of catching a thief. No thank you. It was a good read.

    This story has proliferated throughout the web now and made its way onto many well-regarded websites, one of them being the register. Judging by their article, it looks as if the information at the core of the story indeed checks out. So what if the guy is emotional? I would be too. I believe we all would be.

  8. Re:Strange naming on Midweek Upgrades · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Chimera was originally Chim-Chim on Mozilla's pages. It is basically a project to continue with what was then the Cocoazilla project. Up until .2 it was called Chimera in all of its forms, but since .2 was released it has been called Navigator in its browser form. I believe that Chimera basically refers to the entire project, where the browser UI is being called the Navigator. Also, there have been hints, even by the original creator himself (Dave Hyatt), that Netscape may end up adopting this as the Netscape product for OS X. But that would be much further down the line. Think about it...Netscape scraps current browsers and uses Chimera Phoenix to cover three platforms with great browsers.

    Maybe its a little optimistic tho, being that AOL is running things.

  9. Ha! on No Windows Allowed On Ex-Battleship Cruise Liner · · Score: 2, Funny

    So like, I was gonna fire my cannon and stuff....and my ship started going BEEEBEEPBEEEPBLIPBEEEP...and I missed. Then I had to try and shoot again but it wasn't as good...cuz I was dead. It was kind of....a bummer.

  10. Re:Nice Animation, but... on Trailer of Pixar Movie 'Finding Nemo' · · Score: 1

    > Just some of the reasons I don't care about this movie or any Disney related movie/show/website/commercial/cd/dvd/app/video/*.*

    well...anyone still living in a world where file extensions rule his or her computing experience has an excuse for all that rage...

    Living in a m$ world takes its toll.

  11. Re:The Marklar. on Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what the marklar are marklars marklaring about here in this marklar? only marklars with lots of marklars can actually believe this marklar. its marklarily marklar that this marklar is just plain marklar. the marklar from www.thinkmarklar.com has taken a marklar on all of you marklars. marklar can't believe that this marklar made it to be marklardotted. take me to your marklar.

  12. Re:I used to love OS9 on Apple Releases Security Update 2002-08-20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah well if you arent running a webserver or using the ssh server, then just dont update. but i have to ask, did apache and ssl run on your os9???

  13. Re:Why don't you just get a REAL instant messager. on AOL and .mac IM Not Entirely Integrated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol this guy is so funny...do you ever sleep??

  14. Re:Too little -- too late on New Power Mac G4s Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this is really an old argument. anyone with any inkling of computer knowledge knows that if you want all around power and nothing else, you get a p4 in the desktop world. no g4 or athlon is going to touch it. it also helps that they are much cheaper than the avg apple machine. however, people do not buyapple products strictly for their power. apple provides a combination of power, ease of use, versatility, and stability that no one can really match in the computer market. i bought a mac on the belief that computing was going to be fun again. i was not disappointed. that is a first. i have been continually disappointed with every x86 OS yet. Windows XP was almost gonna make it, back in the Beta2 times, but i believe it got to their heads.so yes, i bought an iBook 600, and bought just about every accessory i could semi-justify, because i just couldnt wait to get home and play. apple makes the best consumer operating system around, which is continually being improved. These improvements come not only in the way of under-the-hood changes, but with user interaction as well. As this improves, time spend doing work in the computer is cut by a factor much larger than any pentium4 or athlon can give you. kudos to the microprocessor manufacturers, its too bad we can't harness it. When it comes to the total package, there is no other choice but Mac OS X for the end-user/programmer/writer/artist/producer/etc. Notice i didnt say anything about servers. Well thats not what im talking about now is it?? :)

  15. Re:MSN Messenger on Will Apple and Microsoft Renew their Vows? · · Score: 1

    If you are thinking that Fire is buggy as hell, then try Proteus. www.indigofield.com thats the client i use now after i got tired of fire. they may still be having some issues, but you can find it somewhere im sure.