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  1. How much is it worth to you to "own" the bits?" on Microsoft Prepares Alternative To Apple iTunes · · Score: 1

    About $20.

  2. Re:It's not shocking... on For Microsoft, Market Dominance Isn't Enough · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Halman: Perhaps we both have less freedom than we imagine.

  3. Re:Google on Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office · · Score: 1

    You can use wildcards to search Google (i.e. *).

    It's a handy way of getting past the 10 word limit.

  4. Google on Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this make Google liable (or indeed, most search engines in general) if you type in an incorrectly spelt search, and it suggests an alternate?

  5. Re:football (offtopic) on AIBO Robot Dog Soccer Competition · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Bush has something to do with this.

  6. impossible on What Games Have Actually Affected You? · · Score: 1
    "What game scared you to death..."

    None so far, fortunatly.

  7. Space Odyssey revisited on Brain Privacy · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the braincaps. Clarke portrays them as originally hotly controversial, but then accepted into daily use.

  8. Europa on Plankton in the Clouds · · Score: 0

    Attempt no landings there!

  9. Re:In the words of the Duke: Not Hardly! on How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux · · Score: 1

    Whilst i'm not saying the toolset, DM client and all is a neat idea, I expected (at least) a better campaign that shipped with NWN, that with what it did. Ion Storm might just as well go - here's a copy of 3dsmax, here a mixing deck, here's the source to the Unreal Engine, here's a bucket load of textures and a copy of UnrealEd - then stick *that* in a box and expect you to buy it - leaving you to create the game by yourself.

  10. Re:The Forbin Project on AI in Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    "Deus Ex Machina" is latin for "God from the machine".

  11. Re:The Forbin Project on AI in Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Aka a Deus Ex Machina.

  12. Re:Sort of offtopic... but related on Deathmatch for Dollars? · · Score: 1

    You could also try Spectating games.

  13. Re:Why bother? on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    Ah. Tasty. Thanks, i'll go take a look at it now.

  14. Re:Why bother? on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    I am wanting Gnome 2.2. I tried GARNOME, couldn't get it to work; thought i'd wait for - I thought at the time - RedHat 8.1.

  15. Blimey. on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    *Just* after I get my video drivers (NVIDIA), mouse (Logitech) and soundcard drivers (SB Live)all up and running.

    I'm running RH8.0 ATM, and am a big newb to linux. I am wondering what one needs to do after an 'upgrade' install when they have previous drivers/settings already installed/setup:

    Does the 'upgrade' ape all my settings?

    I have read here that I will need to wait for new NVidia drivers to come out, then go through the hassle of figuring out how to install these. I'm guessing I need to uninstall my 'old' drivers (as per nvidia's readme) *before* I would install the new ones?

    My Logitech mouse just needed a bit of tweaking to get working in X, in XF86Config. Will this setting be gone?

    I *just* finished figuring out how to compile/install/blah some drivers (http://opensource.creative.com) for my SB Live! 5.1 Platinum. Will these needed to be uninstalled before I 'upgrade'? Or perhaps removed and reinstalled *after* the 'upgrade'?

    Hope someone can answer these, and lend a calming hand. Thanks!

  16. Re:plain and simple on Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music? · · Score: 0, Troll

    your forgeting to include electricity and admin costs. My forget(t)ing what? ;)

  17. Re:explanation needed, please on Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    I will look into SuSE, Debian or Gentoo then. But is not Debian more "hardcore", as it were?

  18. explanation needed, please on Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now, I am a long-time user of Windows, but am (and have been always) increasingly tempted by switching to a Linux-based distribution, probably Redhat, on my main desktop machine.

    With that lack-of-linux-knowledge, could someone explain why precisly this is a "Significant Interactivity Boost in (the) Linux Kernel"? Thank you.

  19. already been done... on Grand Theft Auto Released For Free · · Score: 5, Informative
    See Freeloader.

    When I last looked at the site (a year ago, admittidly), it had GTA1 up for download then.

    Quick look shows it has GTA2, Hidden & Dangerous, and many others available for free download. All you have to do is watch some ads on your screen whilst the files download.

  20. already can be done on Presenting The CDR-ROM · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you burn a CD using a package such as Nero, and do not "close" the CD, you can use it as a floppy disk - i've rewritten to such a "write-once" media fourty times before the disc failed on me.

  21. imagine... on More on Grid Computing and Gaming · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...a beowolf cluster of these!

    Oh, wait...

  22. /. already on Thin, Flat LEDs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice to see we can slashdot a site in about 0.34 seconds.

    On the plus side; flat LEDs. New clothes for your computer!

  23. Re:Huh? on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 0

    No, the consumer (in the example provided with the article) only ever pays $0.50.

  24. Re:Ionosphere on More on the Mars Ice Cap · · Score: 0

    All "rocks" (planets and moons. what else? I've forgotten) have an ionosphere. What differs from ionosphere to ionosphere is the radius and, more importantly, the strength of these. How, or indeed why, these vary, well. I don't know :)

  25. Re:UK=burgeoning surveillance state nixing freedom on Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 0

    >Either you're an American troll (likely, considering your spelling of the word 'licence'), or woefully misinformed. It is perfectly legal to own shotguns and rifles in the UK, only handguns were banned in knee-jerk legislation following the Dunblane massacre.

    Woefully misinformed; thanks for the heads-up, I never knew that.