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  1. Re:Apple video SUCKS on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 1

    QVGA, which is Quater VGA. It means exactly what you think it does

    It comes with a motorized logic debug system?! Sweeeeet! http://www.quater-research.com/

  2. Any flavor except strawberry? on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 1

    I can rip everything in the FORMAT & BITRATE that I choose

    Unless the format you choose is AAC, right? Did I misread the handy chart on that link you sent along for Rockbox that shows that you can't listen to AAC files either with the iRiver's own firmware or with the Rockbox firmware?
    Well, AAC is my format of choice. I guess I'll keep using my iPod. ;(

  3. Wonka? on IGN Talks Games Industry Salaries · · Score: 1

    Well Wonka A pays nothing for health insurance

    Wonka A? That would be Gene Wilder, correct?

    And that is on topic, there is a video game...
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472063/

  4. OpenDoc?! on Office + OpenDocument, Never Say Never · · Score: -1, Redundant
    More like Never Say Never....Again.

    I know Microsoft was known for copying Apple, but OpenDoc is already serious legacy technology. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/Le gacy/OpenDoc/opendoc.html
    Pity though...I kinda liked it.

  5. Re:No Divx...No Problem on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 1
    Playing video is one of the functions of the PSP. Whether I am watching a movie, or an episode of a TV show, or a music video doesn't really matter. I happen to do all of the above. The source material is a mix of DVDs, XVID, Divx, MPEG1,2,4, WMV, etc. Sony's own software for converting your own videos is shite. Not a problem, PSPWare does just fine. Shareware saves the day.

    I'm sure if Apple decides not to provide the tools required (at the risk of raising the tempers of the studios/networks/record labels/etc) and there are Shareware or Freeware alternatives it will work just fine.

  6. No Divx...No Problem on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My PSP doesn't play Divx (or XVID, or WMV, etc.) But that doesn't stop me from watching a lot of my weekly video content on it. With an app like PSPWare to do the conversion from a myriad of formats to the quality setting of my choice, I don't have a problem. As the iPod with Video plays H.264 and MPEG4, I would imagine a similiar application will work just fine to do the conversion and loading for you.

  7. I prefer a PB that looks like a ThinkPad on IBM Thinkpads now in Titanium · · Score: 1
  8. Scoff all you want on X-15 Pilots Finally Get Astronaut Wings · · Score: 1

    But Goose could have been saved if only Maverick had known this move! Wait, on second thought...

  9. Curtesy? on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    That sounds a bit.....dirteh.

  10. Re:Bro on Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention? · · Score: 1

    Beat me to it. Mod this one up. Bro watched over the network at the Nat'l Lab that I used to work at. Impressive stuff.

  11. after a couple hours of intense gameplay on PlayStation 3 Unveiled · · Score: 1

    "after a couple hours of intense gameplay, my hands ache from trying to squeeze something so small." I understand this a common complaint on /.

  12. Correction on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Major Nucular Arsenal! Or so they claim...

  13. Re:PC Jr on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I thought when I saw it the first time. Thankfully my Mini makes redundant my Speech sidecar and my 768KB (736K usable) hacked Microsoft memory sidecar. No need for my Cluster network sidecar or parallel printer port sidecar. But what do I do with all these 3 1/4" mini floppy discs from the dual mini drive expansion module? What a bizarre little disc format those were. I think I saw them on music synthesizers at one point in the 80s. And here I am on a Mini with a wireless keyboard... 20 years later (shudder). The more things change... Mac Mini, the Banana Junior for the 21st Century!

  14. A nickel for every blowjob? on Court Denies Smucker's PB&J Patent · · Score: 1

    " I'd like to get a nickle everytime your girlfriend gives you a blow job." If the stories are true, /. readers will not be making you very much money... Better try one of those ... 3. Profit model ideas.

  15. Yes, BeOS on a G3 on CherryOS On Hold · · Score: 1

    Designed to run on a G3, no. Doesn't run? Not true. Plenty of people with G3 upgrade cards in their machines still running BeOS to this day... http://www.lowendmac.com/backnforth/010430.html

  16. Good Guys you say? on Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows they wear white hats, not red ones.

  17. Just another lawsuit on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then NBC would have to sue the guys that squat on clownpenis.fart once the domain is available. And yes, I did say "squat on clownpenis." Better post this anonymousl...whoops.

  18. Mod UP! adzoox knows what he is talking about on Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Been following this guy's sleaze and slime for years, adzoox is right.

  19. Forget a PSP Emulator. on The PSP's Birthday Party · · Score: 1

    I know the parent was being funny, but on a serious note. Forget a PSP Emulator. What I want is a PSX emulator FOR my PSP. Add a nice little program on my computer to dump PSX ISOs to Memory Stick and I would be one happy camper.

  20. "Develop for it? I'll piss all over it!" on A History of Icons · · Score: 1

    True....to a point. Last time I checked, Microsoft's Mac Business unit is producing Office, Media Player as well as the acquired Virtual PC for, what can only be described as the current incarnation of NeXT...the OS I am booted into at the moment, Mac OS X. Funny, all these years later the game continues. TIme to dig out the .AVI of Revenge of The Nerds fo a chuckle.

  21. Who was the governer of Navoo? on Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill · · Score: 1

    Princess Amidala?

  22. Jobs quote about Microsoft on A History of Icons · · Score: 1

    All I could think of is the Steve Jobs interview where he says that "the trouble with Microsoft is they (just) have no taste." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

  23. Re:Clockwise or Counterclockwise? on Australian P2P Sites Disappear Overnight · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be anti-clockwise?

  24. Re:The guts of a Mac mini on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 1

    I thought it was an eMac without the CRT, not an iBook without the LCD...

  25. Re:If it isn't free... on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 1

    OK, well, how about on my 7 foot screen displaying from my 16:9 projector in the living room. The one hooked up to the surround sound receiver and, oh yeah, the Philips DVD player that support DivX on Demand? Huge screen, check. BTW - Who is the Graduer chap and what illusions does he perform. Is he a decent magician? Or does he perhaps have Delusions of Grandeur?