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  1. Re:Upgrade cost on Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5 · · Score: 1

    They went with the PowerMacs only to upgrade to the Xserves a few months later so that they would meet the deadline for the Top 500 listing.

  2. Re:iPods predicted in 1984? on Apple History At folklore.org · · Score: 1

    The version that has been edited to include an iPod is here.

  3. Re:Although it sounds interesting to play around w on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that VT paid retail for the hardware.

  4. Re:Although it sounds interesting to play around w on Review - Mac OS X Server 10.3, Part 2 · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Virginia Tech.

  5. Re:FireWire on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    480mbps is USB's peak. 400mbps is what FireWire delivers to the iPod consistantly.

    I wonder if the 4th generation iPod will have FireWire 800...

  6. _s on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    You've got to love those underscores in the song titles! :)

    They're seriously apeing the iPod's look quite a bit with this one, though -- down to the white earbuds.

  7. Advertizing... on Forbes Sympathizes with Poor, Abused Fax.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you guys know what happens without advertizing?

    Nothing.

    That's right. If it weren't for advertizing nothing would ever get done. Fax.com is providing a valuable service to humanity.

  8. Re:Umm... on iCal 1.5.2 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, a really robust Entourage might one day interoperate with iCal. iCal already uses an established iCalendaring standard and can already use Outlook's iCalendar files. I'm not sure what Entourage uses.

  9. Re:Big challenges ahead for HD formats on HD DVD Coverage at CES 2004 · · Score: 1

    Now that we we have MPEG 4, maybe HD DVD should be based off of it. MPEG4's file format is based off of QuickTime's. QuickTime's file format is awesome and provides for a lot of interactivity. Although, to use some of it you have to have various plug-ins, but I imagine they could determine a DVD Core of media support similar to how there is the Core Java classes.

  10. Motor Movers on LEGO Mindstorms Will Survive · · Score: 1

    What do you guys think about this set? It does have a few specialty pieces, but from the large picture it looks like that only means the tail and claws -- which seems acceptable.

    I wonder if this is part of their newer focused lines or if this is one of the lines that'll get the axe. I obviously haven't kept up with Legos much.

  11. Re:Looks fine to me! on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    So, you're sterotyping the South because a few people in the South stereotyped someone wearing a BSD logo as a satan worshipper?

  12. Re:Looks fine to me! on NetBSD Announces Logo Design Competition · · Score: 1

    Only terrorists wear turbans! Don't you know anything?

  13. Re:Thats such great news on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    Why did your castle set come with a shark?

  14. Re:Under Windows... on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    How are you supposed to benchmark various languages/compilers with Microsoft's Visual suite unless you benchmark on a Windows box?

    I'd like to see the Java 64-bit math benchmark run on a PowerMac G5. I hear that Apple's Java implementation is superior to Sun's in this arena. But, doing so would eliminate the Visual stuff from the group -- unless you used Rotor. *sigh*

  15. Re:it's quiet because you're such a pussy.... on PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure · · Score: 1

    No, just put him in your contacts list so he'll be sent the Outlook virus that comes out next week and the week after that.

  16. Troll on PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure · · Score: 1
    Meanwhile, we can already see what happens when Apple has a broadly popular product that cuts across platforms. The Apple iPod is the number one MP3 player, and now that its companion computer utility, iTunes, is available for both the Mac and the PC, it has become a hack target. In fact, Jon Lech Johansen, the same Norwegian who cracked the DVD security code, recently circumvented the iTunes music protection scheme.

    An event like that occurring makes sense to me, since iTunes' popularity makes it a target worth hacking -- and whatever mystical Mac mojo there may be, it didn't go far in protecting a popular Apple product.
    This troll fails to acknowledge the fact that Steve Jobs has always said there is no way to 100% secure digital media. The fact that Itunes Music Store files are protected at all is because the labels wouldn't buy into it without it. We all knew it would happen sooner or later, well, I guess everyone except for Lance Ulanoff.
  17. Re:Brilliant on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Well, Win98 does suck...

    I'm just trying to be helpful.

  18. Re: Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1

    Then you're talking about their DRM, FairPlay, which still isn't Apple proprietary but is licensed from another company. All restricted media has similar issues.

  19. Re:Brilliant on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    You know, you could upgrade to Win2000.

  20. Re:Why isn't music like magazines? on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    It's because music is very reusable, so it makes sense to buy it. Magazine content is less reusable, so for some it makes sense to subscribe to it. However, others do buy (and collect) magazines.

    A better subscription service analog would be telephone or cable TV. Telephone is almost not reusable and cable TV has a very low reusability ratio.

  21. Re:Bad analogy on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    That's not an bad analogy. That is poor diction. Something that evidently you have trouble with as well.

  22. Re: Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1

    The iPod doesn't play any proprietary formats either. AAC is a codec developed by Dolby and is part of MPEG4.

  23. Half-Life on NYT on Game Mods · · Score: 0

    Perhaps Half-Life mods weren't included since Half-Life is a mod itself.

  24. Re:So right and So wrong on Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph · · Score: 1

    "A USDOT report on high speed rail identified the Southeast corridor as the most economically viable proposed high speed rail corridor in the country."

    SEHSR

  25. Re:Too bad the US doesn't invest in more trains on Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph · · Score: 1

    I found the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor Website.