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  1. Re:They are also ridiculously expensive on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 1

    8-9 USD, christ! That's over £6!!

    I only pay £4 at my local cinema here in Winchester, and the staff makes sure everyone always turns off their phone. The popcorn is great, and the portions huge.

    It's worth mentioning this cinema is independant by the way, could that have anything to do with it?

  2. Re:Don't Forget IE on Creating Applications with Mozilla · · Score: 1

    How exactly? You can change the background of the rebars and the title bar text, but that's it. You must not understand exactly how open Mozilla is. With the source code and the APIs you can do absolutley anything.

  3. Re:It might look something like this on Wartrapping? · · Score: -1

    This reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode where Pooh is executed....

  4. Re:Linux is free... on Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    Rubbish! This article takes time into account. "The Windows technicians, however, only managed an average of 10 machines each, while Linux or Solaris admins can generally handle several times that."

  5. Re:A similar show in the UK... on Survivor Meets Junkyard Wars for Scientists · · Score: 1

    This was on the BBC, produced for the Open University.

    I remember it being very good, but because it was for the OU, it was shown at about 1:00 AM so only insomniacs could watch it.

    Check the show's site

  6. Try this... on Why Software Piracy is Good for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I thought about releasing some shareware, but it was difficult logistically (I'm under 18). Eventually I decided to make it freeware, but accpets donations through PayPal.

    It has been a great success, I have had over $400 in about three months, and I am sure I have got much more money via optional donations than forcing the users.

  7. Re:Just dont buy one.. on HDTV and Its Impending Problems? · · Score: 1
    there is a lot of television not worth watching but that's pretty much true of any media.

    Think of all the rubbish posted on slashdot...

  8. I can't switch! on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 1

    Although Ogg is better I have thousands of MP3s and reencoding to Ogg will simply reduce their quality below that of the MP3 version. For lots of the files I don't have the original, unencoded versions, so I can't switch without reducing the quality.

  9. Re:Business-model? on .Com Millionaires: Where are they now? · · Score: 1

    Someone on slashdot, always anonymous, keeps on making this joke!

  10. Re:Public vs State on Public vs. Private Sector? · · Score: 1

    No, I'm English. Here Public = owned by public. People pay to get in. State = run by state. Free to get in.

  11. Public vs State on Public vs. Private Sector? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about public vs state schools?

  12. Why? on Virtual 1930s Harlem · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What's the point? Why not simply go there?

  13. Seems rather expensive... on The Continuing Rise of E-Mail Marketing · · Score: 1

    $25 for 1000 people seems incredibly expensive. Loads of those messages will never reach people because of spam filters, and how many actually respond out of a thousand? Must be pretty low.

  14. Fine people on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 1

    I go to a college here in England where the maths department has imposed a 50p fine if your phone goes off in lesson, and they actually enfore it - it's no threat.

  15. Re:Throw him a frickin bone here! on Crusher Crushed from Nemesis · · Score: 1

    I thought Wesley was rather cool. When I watched the series he was a bit older than me, but he got to play around with this cool space ship.

  16. I think it's a good idea on OEone HomeBase Desktop · · Score: 1

    This is perfect for web browsing only computers such as those in libraries and schools.

  17. Browse compatibility on AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser · · Score: 1

    I don't understand everyone talking about how it will make web designers make their sites compatible for all browsers. I use Mozilla and have never come accross a site that renders with serious errors. Most pages look the same in all browsers.

  18. Re:Not a good open source citizen on Transgaming's WineX 2.1 - Supports WarCraft 3 · · Score: 1

    "ActiveX"??? I think you mean "DirectX". ActiveX is a Windows COM system.

  19. Re:Flash Crowd on Smart Mobs, Swarms, and Flash Crowds · · Score: 1

    Why "exponential"? So if my site logs do not conform to an exponential curve I cannot consider it /. effect? "Exponential" means something - it does not just mean "high acceleration" as the author of that quote seems to think.

  20. Re:Not a poor understanding of XUL on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 1

    I agree. I think the tone of "reviewing how good this review is" (how good = how much they agree with us) is patronisin.

  21. Re:Remember slashdot when the iMac first came out? on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you just FTP into her account on the mac? Then you could use any FTP client on the other machine to transfer them.

  22. Narnia on Douglas Adams, Narnia, and Trailers · · Score: 1

    I hope they do the Narnia books in order, and they had better be as good as the BBC productions that they used to show before Christmas here in the the UK. They were really great, watching them in front of a real fire with my family when the weather was getting colder outside. Makes me feel all christmassy inside :)

  23. Drugs on Gaming Zone? · · Score: 1

    Don't drugs also let you achieve these higher states? How about a long, hardcore programming session?

  24. Utilities and tools on Motivating Your Co-Developers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If your project needs any small utilities or tools (such as some build stuff or file utilities) get them to do these. They can write a whole program themselves, making it a personal project they are more likely to finish.

  25. Give it a go on Take a Mac User to Lunch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I recently got a G3 mac for free from someone who no longer wanted it. I had never used a mac before and I was kind of curious how they worked. It had MacOS X on it, including the developer tools which include command line tools all Linux developers are used to. After a few minutes of playing around with the interface I was hooked. Everything is so clear and tidy. The Unix core is not hidden away, but it never gets in the way. Real hackers have everything they need, but in an interface that makes the interaction with this Unix power elegant. Now I have the mac I am porting my softwre to support it as well as Windows and Linux. It is a pleasure to develop in, and I am really glad I found it. Give it a go.