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  1. Re:Right click Drag and Drop of Files on What Mac OS X Could Learn From Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused as to what is being referred to here. I use Windows. I always left-click and drag and it's never a mistake. If the drag tries to create a shortcut, I just hit shift, If I want a copy I hit Ctrl. If I want a shortcut, I hit alt.

  2. Cut, copy, and paste keypresses... on What Mac OS X Could Learn From Windows · · Score: 1

    I have only one thing to say about this:

    Shift+Del, Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins, forever, baby!

  3. Unjust enrichment on Microsoft Sues Google For Hiring MS Exec · · Score: 1

    There is such a legal element as unjust enrichment, which these days needs to be brought up more often.

  4. He didn't use to be this way... on Dvorak on Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    kinda sad really.

  5. Re:Sorry that isn't covered in High School Physics on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 1

    I always thought that most of the energy was going wherever the current was, and that only some of it was dissipated as heat and therefore didn't make it to where the current is going.

  6. Re:Translation notes on American Anime Localization Company Tries Torrents · · Score: 1

    gochisou means "feast", and sama is a suffix signifying reverence, and the combination is said after meals. There are free programs out there that can give you the answers...JWPce comes to mind, Jquicktrans too, but Jquicktrans wants you to pay for it. Do a search for EDICT

  7. Re:Perhaps the wrong distribution model on American Anime Localization Company Tries Torrents · · Score: 1

    copyright (which is disrespectful in and of itself)

    I understand what you meant, but read another way it can mean that copyright is disrespectful in and of itself, a thing I find true

  8. Re:Sorry that isn't covered in High School Physics on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 1

    But current should be the speed. Part of the problem with the education process is that they don't use unambiguous terms and then don't fully explain what they actually do mean when they are using a term.

    Practically everyone these days are acting like Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland.

    If current is the water then does current = mass? If not then what?

    http://stripeys.com/stripey/humptyandalice.htm

  9. Re:Sorry that isn't covered in High School Physics on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 1

    You've missed my point entirely.

    You can say E=U*I all you want, but that doesn't demonstrate it so.
    It makes more sense to me that the heat given off should equal a percentage of current * resistance, so if that isn't true, I need to know the reasoning behind why that isn't true.

  10. Re:Sorry that isn't covered in High School Physics on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 1

    Power is not the same as power dissipation, so no I don't see.

  11. Sorry that isn't covered in High School Physics. on Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips · · Score: 2

    At least not in the USA.

    I always thought it was the resistance that caused heat and not the current.
    Anybody got any links that demonstrate what the correct situation is?

    ...and I want a good explanation, not one that just says it is so.

  12. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    And those who allow others to traspass for 7 years have been legally forced to grant them right of way.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%227+years%22+%22ri ght+of+way%22

    Adverse possesion and all that...

  13. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    Why should those who know what they are doing be held more accountable than those who do not?

  14. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    Philosophically, I believe in Vigilanteism. However, I do not believe in it in a vacuum. There are other things I believe in to balance it out. However, it isn't always clear to me how the things I believe in interact, so it's hard for me to elaborate, but I'll give it a try anyway. I believe that justice belongs in the hands of individuals, for it is individuals that justice is meant to serve. I also believe in the rapid elimination of conflict. Sometimes conflict can be resolved peacefully, but if the parties cannot do so, force should be brought to bear. For example in the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Israel is meeting certain demands. Once those demands are met, if hostilities against Israel continue from Palestine, I believe that Israel should endeavor to crush Palestinian independence once and for all and integrate them into Israel. It may be necessary for the Palestinians to be second class citizens for awhile.

  15. Re:This is a joke, right? on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, all the KVM has to do is pretend to be the mouse when the mouse has been switched and everything remains kosher to the PC

  16. Re:This is a joke, right? on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    But then on a PC, if you unplug a PS/2 mouse you have to reboot the machine every single time. It seems to happen that way with PS/2 keyboards sometimes too.

  17. Re:static dhcp ? on What's On Your Network? · · Score: 1

    Yeah the Nord Center http://www.nordcenter.org/ didn't have that so I plugged my equipment in and got yelled at for hacking. Later on they turned the incident into "hacking into government computers". The head of that place told me that his network person knew more than I did. That place is one big twilight zone that has no clue what it is doing, and hurts people more than helps. In fact Lorain, OH is just one big crooked cesspool.

  18. Re:I don't see the point on A Few Good G-Men - HL2 Machinima · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would have been cool if he posted the engine files and it turned out to be way smaller than the scene in a FMV(full motion video) format, but no he posted a FMV that's just as big as any FMV for an animation this size. I've long been waiting for the day where I could pan around scenes, download character models and sets and then all stories would be simply animation and sound instructions, and this is not it.

  19. Re:Machanism on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    People only have the rights they are capable of exercising. Furthermore, anything a person cannot be blocked from, they have a right to. Therefore, for the purposes of this discussion I was merely carrying your logic to the extremes. One can be given the right to murder or commit any number of what are now crimes. If as you say, it is necessary to ensure as few of those mechanisms exist that restrict rights, then to carry your arguement to the logical conclusion all of those must become rights.

    Poll tests are reach limiters.
    Used correctly, they prevent the corruption inside of people from making poor political decisions, thus limiting the reach of corruption.

    Just because I believe in empire doen't mean that I want to be the one who is emperor, though maybe for awhile.

    I feel I would like to live in a government similar to that in Crest of the Stars.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_of_the_Stars

  20. Machanism on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    All mechanisms, whether to restrict rights or expand them, can be corrupted. Does this mean that all mechanisms should be eliminated? The rule of one vote per person restricts a person's right to vote more than once. Should that be eliminated as well?

  21. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    It isn't the test that's the problem, it's the contents of the test. By the way, it seems to me that you are just pulling it out of thin air that the test is 'favored' by oppressive regimes. While it is undeniable that some oppressive regimes use a test of some sort, to say that it is bad to use a test in order to determine who can vote makes about as much sense as saying that because some oppressive regimes allow their citizens to 'vote' voting is a method favored by oppressive regimes and shouldn't be used in non-oppressive regimes. Right now, various states have various rules on who can be a write-in candidate and many try their darndest to make it appear that writing in a candidate is simply not possible (and it may be in some states as far as I know).

  22. Re:Final Fantasy Bashing on The GBA's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    I guess it just depends on what you do outside of battles that matters. I try to make weapons last as long as possible before breaking out for that new shiny one and (almost) never buy health potions, and go after the boss as soon as possible. Playing it that way, just pressing buttons does get you killed.

  23. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1

    Gaius Baltar really sets up some cognitive dissonance.

  24. Final Fantasy Bashing on The GBA's Last Stand · · Score: 2, Informative

    You clearly haven't played Final Fantasy. Pushing the same button.(using the same attack on the default target) over and over again is generally a good way to get yourself killed.

  25. Re:Interesting on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    I'm calling for the abolishment of the entire system. However, on the one hand, those who give up critical thinking should not be allowed to graduate from High School. Also, it may be a good idea to have to pass a test in order to vote or hold public office. However, a more robust analysis for the establishment of a new system may make such ideas irrelevant.