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  1. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So I don't suppose you object to those savages decapitating Berg.
    After all, in your book, it's better to take the pawns out and leave the King and Queen to prosper. It's safer that way. And you make a statement alright...

  2. Re:Remote hole!? on SuSE 9.1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    If this were an MS or Apple product we would have either not heard about it, or would have found out 6 months down the line when some script kiddie managed to throw your bank offline.

  3. K.Y. Ho? on Interview with ATI's soon-to-be CEO Dave Orton · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean come on? What's next?
    Vas-Elene B. Atche?

  4. Re:WOOO... NO MORE REAL PLAYER!! on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 1

    Actually, the BBC has started acting more as a broadcasting "company" as of late, than anything else.
    They decided that since their R&D department is not bringing in any cash, they'll flog it to the highest bidder... I'm not sure if they've already finished getting rid of the department.

  5. Forget about Atlantis on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    Go to Santorini for the best sunset you'll ever watch.

  6. Re:Microsoft "Buildy" on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 1

    I prefer "Buildy" to Real Office.

    Imagine if you had to go through the "I'm sorry Sir. The toilets are busy and you must queue."
    "In the mean time, feel free to be "Buffering... Buffering... Buffering..."

  7. Re:LSongs/iTunes similarities on LinSpire LPhoto and LSongs: bring on the lawsuits! · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Interesting.
    Do you also propose that whoever first had the idea of making the steering wheel round and placing it on the left/right sue all other manufacturers? How about the levers for the lights? They keyhole? OOhh. I know. The PEDALS.
    Nah that's ridiculous. Maybe we should just stick to suing Sony and the others for placing the volume button on the left and the extra bass under it on our car stereo. What do you mean everybody does it?

    You see, I could have modded you down to hell, but I chose to show how ridiculous and tiresome your Mac fanboyism is...

  8. Actually on New South Wales Traffic Authority Switches to Macs · · Score: 1

    Both IM protocols are proprietary.
    The difference is that MS has released all the specs of its protocol and people can write their clients, whereas Oscar had to be reverse engineered. So next time, please don't let your Mac favouritism cloud the facts.
    As far as search engines go, neither MS nor Apple force you to use their default choices, which of course goes for most of things you have mentioned. Yes, Google is better than MSN, but I suppose being free and all stops when it has to do with Google, right?

  9. Free Speech Is One Thing on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 0, Troll

    Decency is another.

  10. Re:Another blow for Edisons patent portfolio on A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented · · Score: 1

    Interesting... See, movies are sequences of frames. And *Shock* *Horror* the frames are stills!

  11. Use VideoLAN on Nvidia Drivers Enforce Macrovision's Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had this for a while, some dvds refusing to play with PowerDVD, simply because my GF2 MX400 PCI has a TV-OUT I've never used. That TV-OUT is on by default, NVidia provides no way to disable it or turn it off, so they simply took my choice from me.
    That is the last NVidia product I will ever buy, even if it means I have to live with sub-par (which isn't the case currently) hardware.

    Back to the point, VideoLAN had come to the rescue. Plays all my dvds, to their full extent, it's free, practical and light.
    Oh. Cross platform too...

  12. Save Dialogue on GNOME 2.6 Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Disclaimer: Have only seen the screenshots, not used.

    Does that "save" dialogue make sense to anyone?
    I'd have thought that saving would be the easiest thing in the workd and yet it's not obvious where the file is being saved at.

  13. Re:Soaking up the gamma on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep I have to agree, that picture doesn't do it justice.
    I saw this at the experimental reactor they got right in the middle of Athens, and that blue light is quite possibly the most beautiful light I've ever seen.

  14. Re:question? on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As far as I know SuSE have one of the two best PPC linux distros out there, the other one being Yellow Dog.

  15. Re:Great on New Dr Who Actor Named · · Score: -1, Troll

    To the twits who modded me as redundant.
    Perhaps you may have liked to have instead commented on the spelling of Eccleston's name instead of modding me as "Redundant."
    Oh hell, I forgot, this is /.
    And no I'm not bitter.

  16. Great on New Dr Who Actor Named · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Christopher Eccleston to play Dr. Who 0:11 Saturday 20 March 2004 Rejected

    Only submitted this last night, but what do I know, I only heard it from the horses mouth, ie BBC radio 5 news....

  17. Hmm on Asteroid to Make Closest Recorded Pass to Earth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Either there's an ever increasing number of asteroids coming ever closer to Earth (unlikely methinks) or this is truly indicative of how blind we have been all thse years to what was happpening in space.
    Sort of puts our achievements into perspective...

  18. Re:My Gosh, we did it!! on Who Are My Neighbors, Mr.Search Engine? · · Score: 0

    And there's always a KillJoy like you. Lighten up buddy.

  19. LOTR: Riverdance on LOTR to Become a London Musical · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all, Legolas's antics were not far off....

  20. Actually on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 4, Informative

    He doesn't have to have commited crimes in Australia. If the US consider him to have, and assuming they've followed the procedures by making him a suspect internationally, by passing his name on to Interpol, the Aussies have to pick him up.
    And then it's up to the Australian judicial authority (judge/panel/court I don't know) to extradite, or not, based on what the extradition request and the arrest warrant ask for.
    At least, that's how things should be working in theory.

  21. Re:US Goverment != Democracy on Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are just plain wrong.
    Rebublic has exactly the same meaning with democracy, the former coming from the Latin word for democracy and the latter from the Greek.
    The two concepts you seem to want to present are those of "direct democracy" and "representative democracy."
    The reason why your US forefathers equated "direct democracy" to mob rule was because like all politicians they abhorred the concept of anyone and everyone having a say and a system that would enable them to follow their words through.

  22. Re:.mob? on New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming · · Score: 1

    It's only obvious to Americans.
    The Brits call them mobiles. The Germans handys.
    And guess which country lags behind in both technology and usage...

  23. Turbo Codes? on Turbo Codes Promise Better Wireless Transmission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People have been working on them for ages and yes there are significant advantages.
    However, the latest word on source and channel coding though, is Space-Time Coding. Especially convolutionsal S-T codes are very very promising and quite naturally perform even better than block S-T codes...

    What I don't understand is why this now? It's like running a feature on GSM, instead of writing about TDD or FDD in 3G, or even the discussion going on about how 4G will shape out to be...

  24. WHO'S GETTING LAID? on Linus on Intel's 64 bit Extensions · · Score: 0, Troll

    eh? hehe

  25. Re:alas tis true on Kodak Lagging in Digital World · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This means changing what Kodak is about. It's not changing your "business model."
    At least, if I got you right, you expect Kodak to either get involved in home printing -and they're going to challenge Epson/Seiko and all the other heavyweights how exactly?- or professional printing, which of course has its heavyweights too.
    What Kodak need to do is either do some heavy R&D and convince consumers they need it or tap into the current market they were so aggressively almost pushed out, by employing the same (if not more) aggressive tactics.