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  1. Re:obviously on Next Generation of MP3 Glasses · · Score: 1

    Goggles are infinately better at high speeds when they fit with a helmet and block out wind that otherwise dries out your eyes real quick.

  2. Re:The floppy on The Mother of All CPU Charts · · Score: 1

    nforce4?

  3. Re:The floppy on The Mother of All CPU Charts · · Score: 1
    The guy up there said that it was XP-64 which I would assume included the SATA drivers (I own the very first retail Athlon-64 board and it definately has SATA...and it definately came out a LONG time before XP-64)

    Every time I have had to install windows with a SATA drive, it has definately needed the disk. Even my slipstreamed SP2 disk (created not to long after SP2 so it IS missing updates) wont install without the driver wich HAS to be on a floppy disk

  4. Re:The floppy on The Mother of All CPU Charts · · Score: 1
    My friends slightly-smaller-form-factor computer currently has the floppy drive installed inside of the case facing backwards in a harddrive slot.

    You need a floppy to install windows onto a computer with an SATA drive and we decided it might be needed again...it was an ugly-assed drive without a bezel that was going into a fairly pretty case so we stuck it in backwards. All you have to do is slide off the side of the case and you can insert a disk (if it is ever actually needed again).

  5. Re:Ubuntu 5.10 on Ubuntu: Best Linux Desktop for Business? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They also only review Mandriva in terms of GNOME and well...being a KDE centric distro, my experiances with mandriva gnome have shown that it always requires extra setup and tweaking.

  6. Re:Try this... on World Cyber Games Come To A Close · · Score: 1
    Can anyone explain how the NFSU:2 tournament works?

    Do both people use the same stock cars or do they build up thier own car (whichever one they choose)? Why not gt4 (I love nfsu but...gt4 is a better racing simulator if you are just going 2 player mode).

  7. Re:Compared to ringtones, not so bad on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1
    I like my ring-tones to actually sound like some sort of ringing.

    Which is exactly why I made sure that the phone I bought was to have easily accessable mp3 ringtones. Not so I could put the newest black eyed peas song as my ring tone but so that I could have ANYTHING as my ringtone. With mp3 ringtones I can take any sound (such as a phone ringing) and make it work without it costing anything. Right now I actually have the sound of the god machine from the daily show and then a pause but the mp3 needs some gain because its quiet enough that you can barely hear it from my pocket (I use vibrate anyways...)

  8. Re:The chemicals seem okay to be next to DVDs and on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    What if you put the disk in a slim case and THEN into the ziplock bag?

  9. Re:Compared to ringtones, not so bad on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1
    The parent is probobly from the US and here...our mobile phone service sucks majorly. We get shitty phones and we get them later than everyone else and we have crazy companies like verizon which go so far as to disable features on phones if customers wont pay more...it sucks but its true and there are LOTS of phones here with no bluetooth or usb (without a custom data cable).

    Now if the american public knew that whenever they start with a new phone/contract they should go to amazon.com or somewhere and get it there (with extra rebates), they would realize that they can actually earn money (I've seen up to $75) on the cheap crappy phones and they can get better phones for free. I got my black Motorola razr v3 for free by doing this (yes its a rebate and yes it sucks but its better than the terrible selection of phones that the phone company was offereing free when I started the plan). My phone has bluetooth and a standard usb port and by going to amazon it was as affordable as the crippled bluetooth/usb-less crap they want you to have. Now only if I could get it without a camera...

  10. Re:Compared to ringtones, not so bad on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1
    My phone accepts straight mp3 files but unfortunately a full song is much too long for a ring tone and to use USB, you have to buy software from motorola (or pirate it or use the PST drivers which are just as illegal).

    When you buy a ring tone straight off your phone, you get the "best" part of the song all done up and ready for ring tone usage as well as sent directly to your phone. For the price of software you could easily get 15-20 ringtones in an easier manner.

    Not to say it isnt a complete ripoff...especially when your provider not only charges you tons for the tone but then proceeds to charge you for data transmission when you are shopping in their store. Come on guys...I am in your store, give me that data for free (it only costs me a few cents...and it costs you less).

  11. Re:It's tough to say. on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    My professional photographer father swears by the mitsui dye dvds and never applies any sort of marker or label. Usually it is a post-it note attatched backwards to the inside cover of the case (though I think he should be writing a reference number or something on the inner hub of the disk just in case).

  12. Re:Computers are great on Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City · · Score: 1

    My friend possesed a toaster that would refuse to toast again if you stuck the toast back after it popped up. You had to turn the dial to a darking setting and then push it down. Apparently it must have sensed a temperature or something instead of just a simple timer...complete pain in the ass.

  13. Re:I can't be the target market on Linux Tablet to be Released in Two Days · · Score: 1

    If it was a little cheaper, I would love using this here on my college campus. The entire campus is wireless and it would sure beat logging into any of the widespread sun thinclients only to be forced to connect to the shitty webmail (how hard would it be to make them configure thunderbird based on your username and password when you log in...). It's quite smaller than a laptop and lasts longer if you arent using it heavily.

  14. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 1
    I dunno...I've had trouble finding info about this at my school before (uchicago) and now I cant even find where it talked about not being routed to the dorms (it may have been another slashdot discussion).

    I live on campus and am definately on the campus network but as far as I can tell there is no internet2. I think I can get a shell on a computer that is (or go to a lab where there are connections) but that is hardly conducive to the use of i2hub...not that it matters at all. I should probobly try sshing into the machines I have access too and seing if anyof them have i2 access.

  15. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 1

    I wish my school had dorm-room access to i2 but sadly they dont. I will just have to stick with that fact that they dont really care what we do and thus all of my ports are clear and I have a world-routable IP.

  16. Re:Just do what the corporations do on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 1

    unfortunately its pretty hard to host it in a country that doesnt care about the legal system of the USA but still connects you to i2

  17. errp? on AOL Fight Narrows To Two Players · · Score: 2

    google and aol? anyone else think thats an odd combo...and fairly frightening?

  18. Re:Favorite Extensions on Favorite Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1
    I always just look at my weather widget which gives me todays weather (more info) as well as a true forecast several days out.

    Actually, I look at that less and less now that we installed a modded xbox with xbmc and a PSOne LCD into the bathroom of our dorm. I just take a peek at the day's weather before I step into the shower.

  19. Re:Downloadable TV on Slashback: OpenDocument, Intelligent Design, More DRM · · Score: 1

    Sure it would: The advertisement part of the file would all of the sudden start failing hash checks. Even though they are no longer actively downloading, the seeder should be able to realize that it has a corrupted file and redownload the changed sections. The initial TV station seed would then just have to be in a superseed type mode where it propogates the ads first to the people who have the rest of the show so that they can quickly propagate through the torrent.

  20. Re:state school on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    Thats why you should go to the university of chicago (well not really, they dont offer your major) where they pretty much dont care (but they also wont defend you if you get caught doing something stupid online). They also pretty much dont care about a lot of things...except living in chicago you have probobly seen the news coverage (or if you are an mtv viewer...) of the "straight thuggin" party that occured a while ago and has been getting raging publicity since then--somehow the administration decided to care about that.

  21. Re:why don't you.. on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 1

    My thinkpad also wakes up every time you open the lid with linux (though I have to tell it to suspend since I like closing the lid and keeping it running)...but X freaks out and flashes crazy colors on the screen for under a second before the destop comes back which scares me a little. Also, this hasnt worked properly until recently (the current release of my distro works, and the one before it worked with some tweaking) which is basically why powerbooks rock when you want something good to run on a laptop. Its the apple/ibm build quality without the troubles of running linux on said IBM.

  22. Re:why don't you.. on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 1

    My IBM works pretty damn well...and really...when you are talking about dell, its not about finding a reliable linux hardware vendor, it is simply an issue of finding a reliable hardware vendor

  23. Re:i can see it already... on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 1

    but going to autopr0n.com doesnt show you the prior art anymore

  24. Re:Just don't forget... on Learning Game Consoles for Young Children? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 6000 of me. God help us all!

    It sounds like your mom was kindof a whore...

  25. Re:Mine is... on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 1

    Arent some of the numbers related to birthplace/state and would therefore not allow a true "minimum"