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  1. Calorie search is pretty cool. on MSN Search - From A UI Perspective · · Score: 1

    They should advertise more of the special features. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=calories+appl e&FORM=QBRE

  2. How? I need to show ID when I sign up.. on Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest · · Score: 1

    For my Shop Rite card here in NJ they ask to see a drivers license or some form of ID. Same with a couple of the other ones I signed up for.

  3. False. on XM and Sirius Merger? · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. I hope they bring back James Earl Jones.. on New Command & Conquer Game In Development · · Score: 2

    FMV in C&C was always so much fun.

  5. That's not a patenet, its an application on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    It says on there it's a patent application, not an actual patent. Still could get rejected.

  6. Would it be ethical to use a crack on this? on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 1

    Once a crack is released would it be ethical to use it in order to start playing the game?

    You spend your hard earned money on software and you are not even allowed to play it..

  7. How do I uninstall Firefox completely? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    How do I uninstall this sucker completely?

    I want to do a fresh install but everytime I run the uninstall program and then reinstall it all of the old settings are there. It has a history, keeps the extensions, remembers everything I typed into text boxes..

    How do I start over?

  8. How do I stop the install extensions warnings?? on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    How do I stop FF from asking me if I want to download a program from a website?

    Every stinking time I try to install an extension a stupid box pops down and tells me that if I want to download a file automatically from the website I need to add it to a list of allowed sites. I am getting sick of adding every single site I want to install something from onto some dumb list.

    Can't I just tell it to leave me alone and let me install and download things from anywhere I want? I don't want to keep adding something to a list and have it become super massive over time.

  9. Line camping pics! on Halo 2 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out the fun of line camping for this near Virginia Tech:
    http://www.78west.com/cgi-bin/blah/Blah.pl?b=42,m= 1100010063
    Hopefully Half Life 2 will allow for the same sort of geek fun.

  10. How to get SVG support in FF on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Just copy the NPSVG3 files (.dll and .zip) into the Mozilla plugin directory from wherever Adobe installs them using their SVG viewer install program and you are good to go.

  11. What a Moore lap dog... on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1

    Some quick searching shows you are a partisan hack..

    Deceits 1-2

    Fahrenheit 9/11 begins on election night 2000. We are first shown Al Gore rocking on stage with famous musicians and a high-spirited crowd. The conspicuous sign on stage reads "Florida Victory." Moore creates the impression that Gore was celebrating his victory in Florida. Moore's voiceover claims, "And little Stevie Wonder, he seemed so happy, like a miracle had taken place." The verb tense of past perfect ("had taken") furthers the impression that the election has been completed.

    Actually, the rally took place in the early hours of election day, before polls had even opened. Gore did campaign in Florida on election day, but went home to Tennessee to await the results. The "Florida Victory" sign reflected Gore's hopes, not any actual election results. ("Gore Campaigns Into Election Day," Associated Press, Nov. 7, 2000.)

    The film shows CBS and CNN calling Florida for Al Gore. According to the narrator, "Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy....All of a sudden the other networks said, 'Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.'"

    We then see NBC anchor Tom Brokaw stating, "All of us networks made a mistake and projected Florida in the Al Gore column. It was our mistake."

    Moore thus creates the false impression that the networks withdrew their claim about Gore winning Florida when they heard that Fox said that Bush won Florida.

    In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening--before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

    About an hour before the polls closed in panhandle Florida, the networks called the U.S. Senate race in favor of the Democratic candidate. The networks seriously compounded the problem because from 6-7 Central Time, they repeatedly announced that polls had closed in Florida--even though polls were open in the panhandle. (See also Joan Konner, James Risser & Ben Wattenberg, Television's Performance on Election Night 2000: A Report for CNN, Jan. 29, 2001.)

    The false announcements that the polls were closed, as well as the premature calls (the Presidential race ten minutes early; the Senate race an hour early), may have cost Bush thousands of votes from the conservative panhandle, as discouraged last-minute voters heard that their state had already been decided; some last-minute voters on their way to the polling place turned around and went home. Other voters who were waiting in line left the polling place. In Florida, as elsewhere, voters who have arrived at the polling place before closing time often end up voting after closing time, because of long lines. The conventional wisdom of politics is that supporters of the losing candidate are most likely to give up on voting when they hear that their side has already lost. Thus, on election night 1980, when incumbent President Jimmy Carter gave a concession speech while polls were still open on the west coast, the early concession was blamed for costing the Democrats several Congressional seats in the West, such as that of 20-year incumbent James Corman. The fact that all the networks had declared Reagan a landslide winner while west coast voting was still in progress was also blamed for Democratic losses in the West; Congress even held hearings about prohibiting the disclosure of exit polls before voting had ended in the any of the 48 contiguous states.

    Even if the premature television calls affected all potential voters equally, the effect

  12. Anyone know where I can bet online for election? on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a link to a quick and easy election betting site? I want to put $100 down on Kerry winning.

    I tried google but could not come up with anything good.

  13. Guildwars started today if anyone cares.. on Halloween Massive Gaming News · · Score: 1

    Started a day early in case anyone out there cares..

    http://www.guildwars.com/

  14. EUREKA!!! on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    That's it!!!! For some reason that file was not in my plugins directory. I copied that one and the NPSVG3.zip into the Firebird plugins dir and it worked perfectly!

  15. yup, no luck on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    Yup, I have tried that one too.. nothing. Still comes back saying I don't have SVG support.

    Seems like my computer just refuses to view SVG graphics with any Mozilla product.

    Sucks.

  16. Re:Tried 4 times on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    Going straight to the logo does not work either, all I see is:

    ]> Design- Design- Ireland Ireland Version 4.1

    Seems like no matter what I do I will be unable to view SVG graphics. Makes no sense that everyone else can except me. I have tried fresh installs of Mozilla and this newest version of FF as well. This page is just one example but every other SVG site out there does the same thing, works perfect in IE, wont work at all in a Mozilla based product.

  17. Tried 4 times on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    I have tried installing that plugin many many times.. everything works perfect in IE but Mozilla / Firebird refuse to see the plugin..

    Here is an example:

    http://www.design-ireland.net/graphics/svg-demo. ht ml

    IE can see the logo, no matter what I do Mozilla / Firebird just displays a blank screen.

  18. I wish it had SVG support. on Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My company portal uses SVG graphics and no matter what I do I cannot get Firefox/Mozilla to view them.

    Sort of makes it useless for me on a coorprate level and that makes me very sad.

  19. Is there an adapter for s-video to normal video? on Apple Announces New iBooks · · Score: 1

    It has an s-video port on there which is worthless since no tv's I own (or anyone else I know of) have an s-video jack on them.

    Is ther anyway to convert s-video to a standard rca video in?

  20. X-Box Live streaming radio would be intense.. on GTA: San Andreas Radio and Soundtrack · · Score: 1

    Imagine on the x-box they set it up so instead of listening to the radio off the dvd you can instead use your x-box live account to connect to streaming radio stations from Rockstar.

    The playlists could be massive, the talk stations could be updated and topical, they could have live radio events where people would play at a certian time and hear exclusive interviews and what have you..

    It would be a very unique use of XBL.

  21. Dreamcast anyone? on Star Wars DVD Changes XBox Dashboard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe this will open up a whole new world of ways to run things, much like the Dreamcast was eventually able to run unsigned code with out a seperate loader cd!

  22. Re:Cross our fingers on Matrix Online Ship Date Announced · · Score: 1

    That game did have a good lesbian kiss though...

  23. Is this guy really John Carmack? on Doom 3 Gets Reviews, Piracy Questions, Exultation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just wondering....

  24. Re:New site linked to ilovebees.com found!! on Halo 2 Website Puzzle Confounds · · Score: 1
  25. New site linked to ilovebees.com found!! on Halo 2 Website Puzzle Confounds · · Score: 1

    http://www.capitallism.org/

    Go look at the very bottom, a link to ilovebees.com!!

    Perhaps the riddle gets deeper?