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  1. Re:The most beautiful 12" Powerbook is the BEST on Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? · · Score: 1
    yeah, it's the RAM.

    why don't ya send me half of it, you can probably get another hour or two of battery life.

  2. Re:Gnome isn't too big, nor is it ugly... on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8 · · Score: 1
    "OK...But have they fixed the bit where it randomly crashes every 5 minutes?"

    Ohhh....uh, yeah. the 'Clicky something crashes' bug...

    uh huh, they've fixed that.

  3. Re:The media device manager... on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8 · · Score: 1
    a question about this though. why / what exactly are the positives to having to unmount devices (perhaps it's just not the best way for a flashdrive?) ?

    i mean, i hate to bring up windows (and i don't really miss this tiny 'functionality') but i could just yank out the drive and it'll be fine.
    what has to happen and why, in linux that it can't just write the data to the drive? is it because it's all in the RAM cache? i wonder if you could change that behavior for certain devices ...

  4. Re:Taxing Wi-FI on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 1
    back to wired we go? are you serious? do you think they're going to tax the devices so much that all of a sudden you'll change you're network plan just to re-tether yourself? it's not like wired/less networks are feature neutral interchangeable. i appreciate the added benefits of having no damned wires, so i pay much more for the equipment than i would for cat5 stuff. if i have to pay a little more, heck even a goodly amount more, i will (and i bet most people too) realize that if the feature is needed/wanted enough, you deal with it. it's not going to set back wireless networking markets devastatingly or anything.

    besides, this is japan. do you think their tech consumers are going to balk at a TAX and just mutter and make do with being tethered instead of not?

    oh no! it costs 15% more for wireless! i guess i'll jut go back to TEH SUCK! intead of paying a little more in one time costs!!! sob!

  5. Re:My College has ONE Mac ... on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1
    yeah, learn it to the exclusion of anything else. hell, let's ditch any math studies past basic arithmetic while we're at it.

  6. Re:Off by default on Reverse Firewalls As An Anti-Spam Tool · · Score: 1
    very good point. i personally have a myriad of options between adelphia high speed internet and thousands of dial-up providers.

    well, perhaps i'm being a bit bitchy. i could just set up a long distance custom wifi link from a friends house a mile down that has dsl.

    oh...yeah, i mean there's satellite too...

    and the Postal Service.

  7. Re:Well, that's fine for america. on HP Memo Predicts MS Patent Attacks on Open Source · · Score: 1
    lindows wasn't shut down, they accepted a pay off to drop a lawsuit that would have very likely ended up with microsoft losing their trademark made from a generic term, "windows".

    yes, enough said. enough of what though exactly?

  8. Re:Lion battery life. on New iPod Design Pictures Leak · · Score: 1
    aren't they normal lithium ion batteries? i would think they would do just fine being run down (not all the way of course, that is damaging) to about 12-15% and then being charged.

    i would think all that intuitive circuitry in lion chipsets is designed to eliminate battery shenanigans.

  9. Re:Nevermind on Build Your Robot Online · · Score: 1
    what security? this is mostly for prototyping i would imagine, or the occasional custom part. if you're designing a stealth bomber or some super secret $$$ potential part, have your military or r&d people do it.

    you seem kind of...paranoid

  10. Re:Ah... I can't... oh no... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1
    but the actual light levels in quakes world (ie on the walls) were pre-rendered. anyone that used to make levels remembers waiting for light to render...it sucked

  11. Re:Ah, LSD on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    drugs, like many things can open your mind awesomely. if you have no interest in an open mind and or ideas (intentions?) to make the experience a productive one, it does little good.

    many people seem to not be aware of these things though.

  12. Re:More information... on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    hmm, yeah...that's a good point there. maybe we could have this research led by perfectly moral robots or something.

    anything but humans! they're the worst for anything ever!

  13. Re:A close friend of mine was an E3 booth babe on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1
    i also found that comment a bit snobbish (not trying to offend, but also not sorry in any case) and i have actually lived close to (as in a block or two, traversing required) or in a neighborhood that had definitely seen better days.

    but really, who gives a fuck that you've been to a 'real life ghetto'? does that give you more credibility somehow in any respect? i just happened to find that particular comment hilarious, in a terribly sad/sick sort of way.

    god forbid the person you're replying to one up you by having had to circulate amongst poor colored people on a regular basis for some reason.

  14. Re:IHRA Drag Racing 2005 girl quote on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1
    or uhm...disgusting

  15. Re:Hot Girls on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
    i just look at porn and read the New Yorker.

  16. Re:Strange pull on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 1
    you're obviously not a geek then.

  17. Re:that space would almost fit two cars on Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car · · Score: 1
    uh huh...riiiight...

    so you musta strafed your car into the space huh?

  18. Re:Bad yes, Clear Channel no on FCC Move Could Shut Down High School Radio Station · · Score: 2, Interesting
    i remember a few years ago when i lived in north county we had Y107, and for a long time while i guess they were looking fo djs, they didn't have any! it was jut music. ok music, sometimes git ood music, but it was a beautiful change. i think it used to be modern rock Y107 from arcadia, but couldn't compete with kroq, and now it's a spanish station...

  19. Re:Be careful on JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme · · Score: 1
    yes, and that would be libelous material you'd be posting too.

    ;)

  20. Re:It's sad on JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme · · Score: 1
    link to article that doesn't require registration here

  21. Re:One question on JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme · · Score: 1
    WTF is google?

  22. Re:Great on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 1
    you have to customize the hell out of firefox et al just to make it featureful for all intents and purposes. i'm in favor of smaller, lighter browsers but having to download 15 extensions with no way to even aggregate them (that i'm informed of) kind of sucks.

  23. Re:And the followup is... on Upgrade Your DVD Writer to Double Layer -- Maybe · · Score: 3, Funny
    using cdr/dvdr media for archives is trouble anyway, unless you use RW which has a different ink layer composition (metal-ly based if i remember).

    it's all been covered here before, recently, ad infinitum...

    basically, no difference...

    for true archiving, i just rig up a clockwork orange theater setup, knowing that i'll never be able to get whatever i subjected myself to out of my head...

  24. Re:Must have been considered a liability on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: -1, Troll
    " "One person's experience" does not constitute a habit. I have used Paypal for years -- since its inception -- transferred tens of thousands of dollars with it and never had a serious problem, and only a handful of minor ones (most during the first couple years)."

    slashdot hive statistics says: PayPal is only scamming 50% of its users!

    ;P

  25. Re:Tsk tsk... on Anti-Spammers Infiltrate Private Online Spam Clubs · · Score: 0
    probably.