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  1. Re:Still have a mark... on OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More · · Score: 1

    Well it would help if either of you would go on to describe what you do use and what you do with it. Professional writers and can't even do that?

  2. Re:Which came first? on What Came First, the Violence or the Videogame? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "On September 13th, a 25-year-old man walked into Dawson College in Montreal and went on a shooting spree that took at least one life"

    "Back in 1989 another 25-year-old, Marc Lepine, killed 14 people in a similar incident at another Montreal college."

    "Charles Whitman killed 16 people and wounded 31 at the University of Texas in 1966"

    Since videogames are cheaper than a college education, they are more prevalent. Therefore there seems to be more of a link between college education and violence. Ban all colleges!

    And the resemblance of Columbine High School to a college is even more proof. Quick! Someone do a study! Think of the children!

  3. Re:New here on What Came First, the Violence or the Videogame? · · Score: 1

    Looking through the chain, I'm older than the rest by id, and even then, it was a while before I stopped posting Anonymous Coward and signed up for an account. Of course, these days it seems like there's more of an incentive to either sign up or stop coming here sooner from the time of first arrival.

    And after going back and forth from having the appearance of a choice to see tags and getting the message along the lines of "Tags are unavailable". I still don't see tags, despite the current state the appearance of being able to turn them on and off and my selecting on.

  4. Re:wtf? on What Came First, the Violence or the Videogame? · · Score: 1

    Clearly the Crusades were an attempt by the Europeans to stop the cultural cancer of "Chess" imposed by the Moors from spreading.

  5. cause to hide under one's bed on Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery · · Score: 1

    Except I don't have a reliable baseline of "causes to hide under one's bed". Curse this overprotective society we live in!

  6. Re:styles broken? on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: 1

    And all the text shrunk! CTRL "+"!

  7. Wayback Machine Re:How many? on RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal? · · Score: 2
  8. How many? on RSS Feed Feed — Ultimate News Portal? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been using http://dailyrotation.com/ for quite a while now, and they've had lots of sites for quite a while as well. "Quite a while" in this case seems to be years. Does anyone else have any recollections?

  9. Re:other on Ultra HDTV on Display for the First Time · · Score: 1

    Other could still just as easily be Han Solo.

  10. The next step... on Finding a Disappearing Application in Windows? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After doing that and then downloading Process explorer to make sure it isn't replaced is to look in your startup with either MSconfig or startup control panel.
    http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplo rer.html
    http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

  11. Re:Trendy UI stuff on Slashdot Discussion2 In Beta · · Score: 1

    To some people if you are having layout headaches beyond just a navigation pane down the left side and content to the right, you must be engaging in trendy UI stuff.

    What are you doing, btw?

  12. Re:Getting what you paid for on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    No. He wouldn't be working at all and would have to go out and find another job.

  13. Re:Play analogy on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    No, my analogy is not that clear cut. It was designed to have similar qualities as an analogy as the original one for purposes of comparison to illustrate the original's suitability to the task. It was a foil to get a response like yours so I could then proceed to better understand and then point out what was wrong with the original analogy. One could just as easily say by showing up, the actor has given the playgoer opportunity to see the play in the same way that the professor has. But the expectations of actors and professors is that they will put their best effort into it at the price stated. By selling his lectures online, the professor has demonstrated that he hasn't put his best effort into it at the price stated, just as the actor, by refusing to learn the material demonstrates tha he hasn't put his best effort into it.

  14. Play analogy on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    Except when you go to the play, there aren't any expectations to learn the play. How would it be if an actor told the play's production company that they only paid for the actor to show up and not learn the material?
    The above is just as bad an analogy as your original one.

  15. Getting what you paid for on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, there isn't a document that spells out exactly what one is getting when one pays for classes.
    What, you think he should be compelled to do give his work away for free?
    No, he can always quit teaching at that college.
  16. Re:Even Apple would have been better on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    And have you been to every campus? They didn't sell lecture notes at the college I went to for my Associates Degree. Aren't you in fact a train spotter?
    http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode07.htm

  17. A fair price on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    $2.50 is a fair price if you didn't pay for taking the class. Sure it takes more effort, but then working takes more effort than being unemployed. If I could have gotten tapes of lectures, I would both get the tapes and go to class. Isn't it about time we expected more from our professors? Would he complain if a student wanted to record his lecture while the student was there?

  18. Re:interesting on MS06-049 Causing Silent Data Corruption · · Score: 1
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920958
    APPLIES TO Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 Standard Edition
    I use XP, so I'm safe. Whoo, I was scared there for a minute.
  19. Spam filter on Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune · · Score: 1

    The phrase "this letter will come to you as a suprise" alone should have set it off.

  20. Re:Extinction on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 1

    I think you've just hit upon a new theory as to why the dinosaurs went extinct. Is there any evidence, for or against? How well are the dinosaur extinction event and the magnetic pole flips narrowed down, and could the dinosaur extinction be a delayed reaction?

  21. Re:I know this is SERIOUSLY OT but I need to ask. on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are some things that are important in that everyone should know about it. There are some things that are important in that people should have nothing to do with it. I'm not so sure that 9/11 doesn't fall into the latter and could use some input on it.

  22. Re:Radio on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 1

    No the entire nervous system has to be retuned. And that's how to get the power. At one level it involves playing with magnets and coordinating the physical tug with the magnetic pulse. At another level, it can be done with antennas and conversion of a source signal to something already perceivable. It also requires that the nervous system properly combine low-level samples from individual nerves into one signal, so if your nervous system is poor in that area, exercises to improve in that area would be useful as well.

    My guess is that blue light isn't "required" so much as it amplifies the signal, which is to say that more sensitive pickups, or better combining, could make it work without blue light at all.

  23. Re:Shadow... on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 1

    Dude, you're made out of stuff that casts a shadow, unless there's no light.
    Though several of the proceeding posts appear to take one or both of these into account.

  24. You may not be aware. on XBox 360 Laptop Mod Created · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing is more common on Digg, where someone makes a post saying this or that has been posted elsewhere. If you had been the first person to do this sort of thing, you might not have gotten the reaction you did, but by now it's kind of old and people are well aware that there are other sites with the same information, and that it's a fairly frequent occurrence. It's not a big deal that it happens, but the volume of people bringing it up makes it seem that way, and it's built to what feels like an almost obnoxious point.

  25. "think you'll find" on HP's Dunn as Newsweek Cover Girl · · Score: 1

    After being wrong on inconclusive on so many occasions, I've given up thinking you'll find anything is the generally accepted version.
    BTW, I remember it as "meddlesome priest", and seem to recall hearing it as such from a play recorded on video played in an American classroom.