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  1. Re:The facility in North Carolina is really strang on US Government May Not Approve Sale of IBM PC Unit · · Score: 1

    Say something about how much easier it is to cook the pig over a gas fire instead of pit-cooked over a wood fire. If they offer to stone you for your heresy they're genuine eastern NC residents.

  2. Re:piezo? on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1
    Opening the case (without damaging anything or voiding the warranty) and soldering wires to the circuit board simplifies the task? As opposed to sticking a microphone next to the pizza-electric buzzer and wrapping it in foam rubber? You aren't claiming that your way is faster as well, are you?

    (Okay, popping the hood and impedence matching is cooler from a hardware geek standpoint)

  3. Re:Read the fine print on Verizon and Microsoft Partner for IPTV · · Score: 1
    "i can only have 3 settop boxes and 1 hdtv box in my house"

    I'm sure you'll be able to have as many as you're willing to pay through the nose for.

  4. Re:Trendy on Verizon and Microsoft Partner for IPTV · · Score: 1
    "I like how Microsoft, like Apple, is moving beyond just PCs."

    You left out HP and Sony.

    Yeah, it's about time that Sony and Hewlett-Packard made something besides computers :-)

  5. Re:XBox works best on Rolling Your Own Jukebox System? · · Score: 1

    Please excuse proprietary spelling of "non-propritary".

  6. Re:XBox works best on Rolling Your Own Jukebox System? · · Score: 1
    "Which bit of that surprises you? :-)"

    The part where MS actually uses something non-propritary, perhaps?

  7. Re:Low bit rates works well with speech. on Low-bandwidth Net Radio · · Score: 1
    "I'm no scientist, I just like to observe things and try to come up with a reason why they happen."

    Allow me to suggest this as your sig file.

  8. Re:What about old school? on Rolling Your Own Jukebox System? · · Score: 1

    Back in the day I used to use jukeboxes as coin operated games by figuring out how they queued selections and then doing my song selection and order of song selection so as to create a good "flow" to the "mix", so even in bars where I wasn't the DJ I was still the DJ.

  9. Re:XBox works best on Rolling Your Own Jukebox System? · · Score: 1

    So MS used USB for their controllers but proprietary-ized the physical connnector just to screw with everybody?

  10. Re:Just a random thought here, on Low-bandwidth Net Radio · · Score: 1

    I used to be an announcer at an AM station and kept the transmitter log during my shift as well as the program log, which meant that I recorded plate voltage and plate current for the transmitter at regular intervals. Since the transmitter was in a room adjoining the studio I looked in on it several times per hour in addition to the "official" observation times. Maybe it was just atmospheric changes but it seemed that what I saw tended to reflect a varying "load", i.e., number of tuner front ends adjusted to offer a low impedence to the station's frequency, that went up or down in synchronization with the change in audience numbers that you would expect depending on time of day (lots of listeners during morning and afternoon drive, fewer midday, and even fewer at night).

  11. Re:great news except.. on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    Well, there's Hollywood the individuals, like Streisand or Heston, who give according to their own political leanings, and then there's Hollywood the corporations, the **AAs, the TimeWarners and the Disneys, and they give in order to own politicians. That heavy bias towards Democrats is probably the result of the donations of wealthy individuals.

  12. Re:What can you do with old memory? on What Can You Do with Old Memory? · · Score: 1

    Lost how, exactly? And what kind of system do you have with the 64Mb? How many DIMM sockets, etc.?

  13. Re:Tipper Gore on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    Care to provide some evidence?

  14. Re:You need a card for EVERY tuner. on A Brief FAQ on CableCards · · Score: 1

    That's what the cable companies want, to be able to charge per tuner rather than per household, just like they used to be able to do.

  15. Re:At the risk of revealing a proclivity ... on Firefox Continues Gains against IE · · Score: 1
    "Now, where's that can of vaseline.... "

    If it's in a can it's not vaseline, it's axle grease.

  16. Re:Beowulf Movie? on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1

    In this one, Beowulf shoots first.

  17. Re:TIVO on A Brief FAQ on CableCards · · Score: 1
    From the link...

    With CableCARD, consumers don't need to rent set top boxes from their cable company.

    By the most amazing coincidence you'll have to rent the card from them for at least as much money if not more.

  18. Re:Maybe something like HSS? on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1
    "Is there some computer somewhere telling people to make Beowulf clones?"

    Not a computer, more like a clu...

    On second thought, never mind.

  19. Re:Sig Advice on Programming Until Retirement? · · Score: 1
    "...and doesn't end a sentence on a pronoun."

    Perhaps you're thinking of the prohibition against ending sentences with a preposition. After all, "F--k you!" may be vulgar and impolite, but as far as I know it's not considered grammatically incorrect. :-)

  20. Re:Is it just me? on Chinese DVD Makers Sue Over Royalties · · Score: 1
    "Whoa! So the industry the MPAA represents owes its very existence to a bunch of IP Pirates?!!

    Forgive me, I always screw up the definition.. Is this Ironic?"

    No, just business as usual. The first rule of capitalism is to use someone else's capital to generate your profits.

  21. What can you do with old memory? on What Can You Do with Old Memory? · · Score: 1
    "What can you do with old memory?"

    Well if you're a manufacturer of PC100 128 or 256 sticks you can charge twice what they were going for a year or two ago.

  22. Re:Is it just me... on Korg's New Keyboard Powered by Linux · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't just you. I just hope that whoever designs their webpages has no influence whatever over their actual products. Or anything else used by humans.

  23. Re:All well and good... on Korg's New Keyboard Powered by Linux · · Score: 1
    "If her sister wasn't famous, she'd be nowhere. Not sure why her sister got famous, though. It's certainly not her brains."

    I saw and heard her (the older one) on television a few months ago and it quickly became apparent that the two big reasons for her stardom weren't her vocal cords.

  24. Re:What day? on 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? · · Score: 1

    When it runs on UPN is one thing. When (or if) it airs on one's local UPN affiliate is often another.

  25. Re:I have to mention this... on 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? · · Score: 1

    Not totally without humor, but not nearly as funny as your sig about the Ayatollah Coulter.