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  1. Re:Think of the Economics on Chinese Government Sued Over Dog Height Censorship · · Score: 1

    How is that racist? Chinese do actually eat dog you know.

  2. Re:No, it has problems playing MP3's on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately playing a MP3 at high quality (14 bit, with AGA screenmode to ramp up the Hz) on a 68060 Amiga used 50% of the CPU power. However, I always liked the bassy Amiga sound.

  3. Re:Will it reach the right demographic? on Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming · · Score: 1

    Those people with bluetooth headsets (normally middled aged balding men) aren't actually on the phone. They're just trying to look cool. Instead they look like some kind of sad cyborg.

  4. Re:Maintenance requirements? on UK Wants Huge Expansion In Offshore Wind Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the UK already has at least 1 offshore windfarm at Kentish Flats
    Granted it's only 30 turbines.

  5. Re:Alarmist on EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable · · Score: 1

    Both the version on my PC at work and the one here at home are marked as read only.

  6. Re:Alarmist on EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable · · Score: 1

    Also boot.ini by default has System, Read-Only and Hidden attributes. You need to remove both System & Hidden before you can overwrite it (I'll leave it for someone else to check if the installer does this!)

  7. Re:I hate to re-post this but,.... on 90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista · · Score: 1

    I'm with you on all those Explorer issues. Another thing that bugs me is when Vista see a BMP in a folder and thinks 'Gee in amongst these 100 C source files theres a file called companylogo.bmp. Hey, he must be looking at his holiday pictures! I'll helpfully add 'resolution' and 'date picture taken' columns'.

  8. Runescape? on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    U N00B IM LEVEL 61 LOL!

  9. Re:So on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sound smore like the Rats of NIMH

  10. Re:Fool me once..... on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    The alternative is CEGCC. It's coming along nicely.

  11. Re:I read it for the articles on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those groups are useless anyway. Everyone knows Usenet is a 7-bit system that doesn't support binaries...

  12. Re:And we're to feel sorry?! on Ticketmaster Claims Hacking Over Ticket Resale Site · · Score: 1

    If the promoter had his way, your ticket would have one figure on it, the face value
    Actually sometimes that's the case. And sometimes TM take more than the booking fee (i.e. a kickback).

  13. Re:So I guess... on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My cheap Chinese player has an internal battery and charges via USB. Also has FM radio, mic, line-in etc. Only small capacity but plenty enough to get me to work and back on the train.

  14. Re:It's just television on FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, blocky MPEG artifacts rule!

  15. Re:Not much useful content at all, either on Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer · · Score: 1

    Me too and I think the ribbon really, really sucks. It's just a glorified toolbar and only seems to be popular with those people who use the mouse for everything. I never uised the toolbar in previous Office versions, but with 2007 I'm forced to hunt around until I can find the icon I need. Menus are much easier to quickly scan through.

  16. Re:Goodbye Pandora, Bonjour Deezer? on Legal Music Streaming Site Launches In France · · Score: 1

    Same here. And I know of at least one other person in the UK using Pandora.

  17. Re:Are you out of your mind? on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about Xena the Warrior Princess? She's a woman and she could kick most mens asses.

    But now we know the truth: She's a fracking Cylon!!

  18. Re:not really on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I thought it was just me. I've too work in IT in the UK (~14 years). I've seen maybe 3 Macs. And only 1 in the past 10 years which was used by some kind of Web designer / PR girl in my old office. I only ever saw the screensaver on it, and I used to walk past regularly as it was next to the exit.

  19. Re:What other media players already support H.264? on Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure H.264 support in Videolan comes from ffmpeg library.

  20. Re:Note absence of word "Microsoft" on Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage · · Score: 1

    It mentions Windows Update here: http://heartbeat.skype.com/

    "The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update."

  21. Re:Hazy Memory on The CD Turns 25 Today · · Score: 1

    If I owned a Dire Straits album I'd probably scratch it with metal pads too!

  22. Re:TJX? on TJX Security Breach Described · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it seems they're only in the UK & Republic of Ireland.

  23. Re:TJX? on TJX Security Breach Described · · Score: 1

    Or TK Maxx as they're known in Europe.

  24. Re:also on Adobe May Launch Office Rival · · Score: 1

    In what way do Office apps integrate? They don't. OK, so I can do a Word mail merge from an Excel sheet, but I can do that with any data source. Embed Excel sheets in my Word doc? It's only OLE/ActiveX.

    Maybe you mean the fact that Outlook can use Word to write emails. Big deal.

  25. Re:MS Office Rival Welcomed on Adobe May Launch Office Rival · · Score: 0

    Couldn't agree more. I've been using 2007 for 6 months or so and I still don't 'get' the Office Ribbon. If I want to do something out of the ordinary (say, mail merge) the only quick way is to try and remember the Office 2003 keystrokes because it's impossible to quickly find anything on those stupid toolbars. Did Microsoft ever read their own style guides? Obviously the Office 2007 programmers didn't.