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  1. Re:Saw digital Phantom Menace on Star Wars Digital Projection Theaters · · Score: 1

    It still wouldn't be perfect unless digital projection replaced Anakin with a decent actor.

  2. Re:I do/don't get it on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    and knowing that it would run Linux really nicely, wouldn't you think some people would want to walk off with it?

    Those damn Linux bastards never want to pay for anything!
  3. Re:I do/don't get it on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    Why CRT when LCD is the way to go? Apple is pushing LCD (or some form of flatscreen) as the wave of the future. Why backtrack in this area only? If LCD is NOT the way to go, why not make the eMac available to all. If LCD IS the way to go, why not make it available for corporate and home users?

    The eMac should have been a redesigned Cube. It should be available for education and consumers, and it should come with an ADC -> VGA converter cable so that schools can go buy whatever CRT they want, and attach the Cube to them. Then, I could buy the Cube and attach it to a 17" LCD Apple display.
  4. Re:eMac huh..? on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1

    It's the education-Mac, dumbass!

  5. Re:Then what is Disney using nowadays? on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I knew Pixar developed CAPS. I wasn't aware that they weren't still maintaining it.

  6. Re:Then what is Disney using nowadays? on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1

    CAPS isn't Disney's. It's Pixar's. Pixar made CAPS for Disney before they did Toy Story. So, my guess is Disney runs CAPS on whatever Pixar tells them to.

  7. Re:I need a better solution than boycotting Adobe. on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1
    currently boycott Nike because of their labor policies. As an active sports enthusiast, I wish I could in good concience buy nike products, as often they have the best or most available products. But I find alternatives. Then I save the receipts, and mail them to nike with a letter explaining why I bought the competitors products.

    Are you crazy? There are many, many (often times superior) alternatives to Nike. Play soccer or fence? Adidas is a better choice. Run? Saucony would probably be better. Climb mountains? Adidas has better stuff than Nike and I'm sure some people are even more specialized.

    Adobe rules design. The closest competitor to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator is Macromedia Fireworks and it isn't even close. Even though Fireworks is significantly cheaper than Photoshop and Illustrator, it is still so far behind that professionals use Adobe products in a vast majority. The Gimp is light-years away.
  8. DreamWorks? Lord of the Rings? on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1

    DreamWorks didn't do Lord of the Rings! It was a Newline picture, and WETA did the effects.

  9. Re:incorrect assumption about privacy on iMac vs. VAIO Showdown · · Score: 1

    So did I. But, I choose to use a system that will have full support in the future and doesn't require Windows XP Product (de)Activation: Mac OS X.

  10. Re:incorrect assumption about privacy on iMac vs. VAIO Showdown · · Score: 1

    How do you choose not to participate in Windows XP's Product Activation?

    Oh, I remember now, you can't!

  11. Re:incorrect assumption about privacy on iMac vs. VAIO Showdown · · Score: 1

    Not once does Mac OS X refer to the command key as the command key. Mac OS X refers to the command key by the symbol that appears on it.

  12. Re:why give katz such a hard time... on Dog Bites Website · · Score: 1

    Taco, get rid of Katz's alter-ego account! If others aren't allowed to have alter-ego accounts for self-moderation why is Katz allowed to have a alter-ego account to "defend" his own posts?

  13. Re:Nope on Dog Bites Website · · Score: 1

    See? Chicks do post to Slashdot!

  14. WTF? on Dog Bites Website · · Score: 1

    WTF does "open-marketed" even mean? It isn't related to open source at all. It's just someone hawking their wares on the cheap.

  15. Re:An Evil Parody on Apple Deals with Devil, Communists · · Score: 1
    Apple because its logo is an apple with a bite (by Eve) taken out of it, is ridiculous.

    The bite is in the apple to make it look like an apple instead of a cherry.
  16. Re:An Evil Parody on Apple Deals with Devil, Communists · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been exposed to good old fashioned bible thumping then. I have. I live in Charlotte, NC. My freshman roommate in college swore that Jesus elevated him and all of his Jesusfreak friends into the air in my dorm room when I wasn't there. They do think like this. Listen to Billy and Franklin Graham sometime.

  17. Re:It angers up the blood. on Apple Deals with Devil, Communists · · Score: 1
    There is a spirtual (sic) side to the Universe.

    What is your empirical evidence for this statement?
  18. Christians on Apple Deals with Devil, Communists · · Score: 1
    it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an 'Open Source' license, which is just another name for Communism.

    If the computer elite are mostly Atheists and Pagans (probably a true statement), then shouldn't Christians quit using computers and go back to typewriters?
  19. ADVERTIZEMENT on Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great, now Slashdot is participating in stealth advertizing for movies!

    If you haven't made the connection, this article is designed to get you interested in The Minority Report.

  20. Re:receiving data on Tivo 3.0 'Firebolt' Hits the Wild · · Score: 1

    Dude, that guide information is piped out on the signals for each station. TiVo isn't using the cable company's bandwidth anymore than a couch potato would.

  21. A few questions about TiVo... on Tivo 3.0 'Firebolt' Hits the Wild · · Score: 1

    ...maybe someone will be kind enough to answer them.

    I don't subscribe to cable or satelite television. All of my television comes over the air. Does TiVo work with off the air reception?

    Another thing is that one of the three shows I'm interested in watching (Greg the Bunny) is broadcast in widescreen through DTV. Can TiVo record DTV (and/or HDTV) broadcasts? The other two shows are regular NTSC: The Simpsons (they aren't going to draw animation widescreen until 80% of the people have widescreen sets) and Friends (NBC is a bunch of idiots).

  22. .tla on Senate Bill Would Make Clandestine Video Taping Illegal · · Score: 1

    Why do almost all of the proposed TLDs come out to be TLAs? I would suggest ".porn".

  23. Re:subsidiaries on Deutsche Bahn to Sue Google · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know that free speech doesn't extend to publishing facts. Damn them for publishing facts!

    My opinion that you're a moron is protected, but my publishing of a 'how to' document is not?

  24. Re:subsidiaries on Deutsche Bahn to Sue Google · · Score: 1

    I don't know. There are publications about Area 51. ;) And there were publications and even plastic models of the SR-71 before it was declassified.

  25. Re:subsidiaries on Deutsche Bahn to Sue Google · · Score: 2, Interesting
    First off all the "Deusche Bahn" is AFAIK a private company despite it's name. So it's not germany "outlawing" free speech it's a private company suing another company.

    I did not confuse Deutsche Bahn with the German government. I was worried that German law enables Deutsche Bahn to file this lawsuit and expect to win it.
    Second, imagine some radical group in the US. posting instructions on how to hijack some planes and fly them into skyscrapers on the internet. Don't you think your FBI would shut these sites down as soon as words gets out?
    You're probably right, and that is a sad fact. Unfortunately, there is presently an overwhelming psuedo-patriotism in the United States today. These monkey spanks act without thought and support Ashcroft et al in their pursuit of limiting our freedom -- which is the most unpatriotic thing one could do.