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  1. Re:Physicality on Broadband to Kill Off DVD? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yup... DVDs will be gone right after the boobs!

    Fixed.

  2. Re:Big, cool art projects with no impact on anythi on Four-Story Pixellated Mario Mural · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as pointless art.

    Expand your horizons, man.

    There's more art out there besides Seurat.

  3. Re:I'd say a better example, on Open Source Journalism · · Score: 1

    Oh, for crying out loud. Can we please stop with this 'agenda' thing? The issue is not and has never been about agendas or bias. Why do we care for a second whether a person is a right- or left-winger? The only thing any of us should be caring about is THE TRUTH.

    Get out of my country, pro-truther.
    *sigh*, preview button, I know

  4. Re:I'd say a better example, on Open Source Journalism · · Score: 1

    [i]Oh, for crying out loud. Can we please stop with this 'agenda' thing? The issue is not and has never been about agendas or bias. Why do we care for a second whether a person is a right- or left-winger? The only thing any of us should be caring about is THE TRUTH.[/i] Get out of my country, pro-truther.

  5. Re:I think it's a mistake on Sirius Confirms iPod Satellite Talks · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there's a reason, then, that this story is hosted on "fool.com" :)

  6. Re:Another idea for a fun project on The Social Structure of Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    ....RMS gives Joe Blow I had to do a double-take when I saw that.

    Whaaaaaaaaaa? No way, he couldn't have... oh, he didn't. Thank God.

  7. Re:Real world vs. fanboy fantasies on Grokking Knoppix · · Score: 1

    Copyright (c) 2004 Mike Bouma, MCSE, MCDST, MS Office Specialist, widely respected Amigan, Amiga community representative Let's do a Google Search on this guy, eh? Dude, can I buy a house in LA? Please... ?

  8. Re:Statistics... on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1

    You of course mean "one in a billion per day events" I suppose if a world-wide lottery with odds of 1:1,000,000,000 (I know this isn't how lottos work) in which every human inhabitant of the world was registered were held, and $1 was given out every day, the organization would give out $6 a day - but many "one in a billion" events are not tested daily.

  9. Re:No... on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1

    And MA is involved in the sports superstition how? Yes, I'm aware that Sen. Kerry (D-MA) is from Massachussets, but what does that have to do with the sports aspect of this superstition?

  10. Re:Reality Czech on Xbox Hackers, Linux, the DMCA, And Modchips · · Score: 1

    Well, hoe would you feel if you agreed to let a friend borrow your car, but you charged him more than what it cost you to buy it, and then he resold it or modified it to his liking? Pretty damn good, I'll bet - you just made a profit.

  11. Re:And remember folks on Women Need Larger Screens for Desktop Navigation? · · Score: 1

    Well, once again, Ahnold teaches us that anything is possible if you try hard enough.

  12. Re:same old issues on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    Er, oops, please ignore above post.

    *goes back to his corner*

    I just didn't notice that you were replying to a reply to your original post :)

  13. Re:same old issues on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure the poster was referring to this, which I find to be one of the best underappreciated features of the whole Mozilla family. Why go to dictionary.com, find the box to put the word in, etc etc when I can just type "define foobar" into the address bar?

  14. Re:Not that big of a downside... on Web Server Packed into RJ45 Connector · · Score: 1

    Plus you get to see if little gnomes appear when you close the door and have little parties with their gnome friends.

  15. Re:Nerd != Smart on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that you have the nick "geekoid" while you call geeks dumbasses. Hi, dumbass. :)

  16. My views on anime on An Extensive History of Anime · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Japanese cartoon

    'Nuff said.

  17. Re:Fatal Flaws - Not quite. on Cashless Society · · Score: 1

    No, not a troll, a joke. Get over it.

  18. Re:Fatal Flaws - Not quite. on Cashless Society · · Score: 1

    > It's not that hard to build a device that does just that, either (IIRC).

    Yeah, all you really need is some sort of pocket-sized nuclear reactor to generate the EMP. Just stop by the good ol' Nuke-and-Go and you're set!

  19. REAL REASON MS CHANGED NAME on Palladium Changes Name · · Score: 1

    I got insider info from a friend at Microsoft who said the only reason it was changed was so lazy geeks couldn't point out its flaws anymore.

  20. Re:Duh! on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 2

    I think you need to brush up on your sense of humor: it was a joke.

  21. Re:This project will not last long on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 2

    Doesn't everyone agree that Microsoft would be foolish to not to "approach" them and just put this to sleep?

    Not exactly. The way Microsoft has handled the xbox-linux project in the past, it looks like XBOX is really just a guinea pig for DRM. So I think that privately, they want this sort of thing to be going on.

  22. Re:Blow Stuff Up! on Chemistry Sets for Adults? · · Score: 2

    BTW, raw sodium is pretty dangerous to handle. The same properties of sodium that cause great loads of fun with lakes can cause some not-so-fun effects with the moisture on your skin (or in the air).

  23. Re:A Simple Solution on EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game · · Score: 2
    Why this has never made its way into the online realm (MUDs, MOOs, and MMORPG) hasn't found an answer yet.

    It has. Dartmud has had this for a while now. Here are some more features.

    DM is one of the more realistic MUDs I've played. It has a numberless system (no xp, no levels, etc.) and learning skills is very real (practice doing progressively more difficult things), plus they have great fighting and crafting systems to boot.

  24. Re:which cd's? on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Simple. Pop the CD in your favorite CD audio player, put a cable between the audio out of the player + the audio in of your sound card, and record away.

  25. Looking at the picture... on Sharp C-700 English Conversion Pictures · · Score: 2

    I see that the keyboard swivels so it can either be a mini-laptop or a regular PDA. So, when you swivel it, the screen has to adjust from landscape to portrait. Does anyone know how this works?