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  1. Re:Motivation? on Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X · · Score: -1

    You're using KDe - that's your problem. Use a REAL window manager, like Fluxbox.

  2. Re:I vote for CRT, for now on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: -1

    I've yet to see, however, a LCD that makes me want to replace my beasts.

    I read that as "I've yet to see, however, a LCD that makes me want to replace my breasts."

    0_0

  3. Re:Linux anyone? on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: -1

    Woah - why the hell are you grepping your entire drive? wtf?

    If you have so much trouble with your files that you can't even narrow down a recursive grep, then you shouldn't be running linux.

    And yes, I realize that you're trying to grep the entire drive to compare it to a desktop search, but knowing where your files are + limited recursive grep is why linux doesn't need one of those.

    Also, grep CAN handle word documents. It's called 'strings':

    find . -exec strings {} | grep texttofind \;

  4. Re:Copernic... on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: -1

    Or you could just use "grep" . . .

  5. Re:call me stupid on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: -1

    sucks total dogs balls and then eats the dogs shit and takes 3 days of hard work to then shit out that shit which then stinks of crap.

    What. The. Fuck.

    I pass no judgement on your opinion, but seriously, wtf?

  6. Re:I'll Never Understand... on Samsung Announces Zero Dead Pixel Policy · · Score: -1

    Why anyone would ever actually believe that you couldn't return an LCD (or laptop) with a dead pixel. This is a manufacturing defect, plain and simple. Every customer expects there will be NO dead pixels, so my guess is that proving to a court of law that a dead pixel is a de facto breach of various implied warranties (and probably express warranties that come with the unit as well) would not be difficult.

    If everyone had believed that when LCDs started, they would've never gotten off the ground. 15-inchers would still cost several thousand dollars (with all those dead-pixel returns, they never would sell at the scale they do now), and CRTs would still be the only viable monitor option. Get your head out of your ass and learn about the manufacturing process before you moan.

  7. Re:Hope they're all right.. on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow this is pretty major. Unpredictable or overlooked? At any rate I ghope they're ok.

    Yeah. Who would've thought that Id Software's creation could do so much damage? I guess that's what happens when you open-source an engine . . .

    Wait . . oh.

  8. Re:The truth on Russian Supply Ship Docks At ISS · · Score: 0

    Maybe next time they should leave behind Homer Simpson

  9. Re:Well, I'm glad Bush is in power on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 0

    Wait - so France will not have a better idea? You're completely sure? Absolutely positive?

    Well.

    In that case, could you enlighten me on this new system of logic you seem to possess? I wasn't aware that High Probability == Certainty.

  10. Re:Yeah, right. on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 0

    People that don't know "mozilla" or "firefox" know "Netscape". Yeah, and they also know that Netscape is Old News. Besides geeks, nobody hears about them anymore. You might as well say that t's the browser preferred by Millie Vanillie.

  11. Re:f(sex) = on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 0

    "Baby, I wish I were a derivative, so I could be tangent to all your curves."

  12. Re:Vote with dollars on MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers · · Score: 0

    Uh ..AMC tickets aren't overpriced - just go during the day. Up until at least 5PM the tickets are only $5.50: not too bad.

    And all you people whining about the commercials: Just go to the movie TEN MINUTES LATE! It's not that hard! You see maybe one or two commercials, the previews, and then the movie.

  13. Re:glad to see on Software Patents Circumvent European Parliament · · Score: 0

    As far as I knew, patents are there to protect the inventors not the public. In the short term, yes. In the long term, the purpose of patents is to help the public by causing more inventors to create things. In software, we have enough invention without patents that the overhead from the tremendous number of ridiculous patents would not be worth any gain.

  14. Re:Searching file content! on Yahoo! Releases Desktop Search Tool · · Score: 0

    Naw. It's much butter to do 'find / -exec cat {} >> index \;' :)

  15. Re:Seems somewhat reasonable. on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 0

    b gets you ad revenue. a does not (well, it does if people read the stories, but not so much as a. And I think a lot of people just look at the summaries.

  16. Re:Most interesting "wild speculation" on Going, Going, Gone: IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo · · Score: 1, Funny

    If this gets me apple notebooks with two mouse buttons and a trackpoint, then sign me up!

  17. Re:One internet? That's nothing! on History of the First Internet · · Score: 0

    Yes, but he referred to "rumors on the internets", so he was assuredly referring to the one we all know and love, rather than any government ones or internet2. Secret department of defense networks aren't exactly the rumor-mill kings of the world.

  18. Re:Wow! What a fantastic idea! on Nintendo Eyeing the Big Screen · · Score: 0

    Even if you just went for the action, I fail to see how this could satisfy - the action sequences were terribly choreographed, incredibly obvious, and completely unoriginal.

    Not everyone has seen shitloads of action movies and spots unoriginal action scenes from a mile away. Don't assume that everyone else is as jaded as you apparently are, and don't assume that just because something is unoriginal it can't be good.
    IMO, RE2 was good if you were expecting campy as hell action, and i was. Not everyone was expecting "OMG THOSE WERE THE BEST ACTION SCENES EVER >OR@!!!!!1!!".

  19. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 0

    Just because it's the only definition that doesn't wiggle and slide doesn't mean that it's the best definition.

    However, I would argue that the real argument is not in defining humanity, but defining what makes a person. An embryo isn't a person, but it is a human. Somewhere in the womb it becomes a person. The defining point is a wiggly one, but one can always take it safe and go with brain activity as an indicator.

  20. Re:Safari is better... on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 0

    I think that's covered by the "Learn how to spell" extension. You may have heard of it from elementary school.

  21. Re:The sequel to Licensing 6? on Downhillbattle.org Bounty For P2P Gaim Plug-in · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Last time I downloaded and tried Knoppix, it threw my Radeon 9000 video card into unaccelerated VESA fallback mode, which I don't find comfortable even for 2D apps such as OpenOffice.org.

    Uh ..that's becuase it's Knoppix. They do shit like that. You'd need to get a real distro to get better drivers.

  22. Re:Maybe it's just me... on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 0

    My guess would be that existing computer-based systems are generally safer or they wouldn't have been deployed.

    My guess is that they're cheaper and more effective. I'm not sure how much safety was considered.

  23. Re:Photoshop on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 0

    Adobe makes money of photoshop by giving out cheap copies to students. When the students who have learned on photoshop get jobs, their companies buy photoshop. It's worked that way for a while.

    And the 1/6th-cost program of Photoshop exists - that's what PS Elements is for.

  24. Re:At last! Intel realizes that.... on Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip · · Score: 0

    Whoa! Only 40Gb storage? And you expect to be sufficient with just that? Do you NOT download porn?!?!

  25. Re:actually with a 5200 on Doom 3 Demo Available · · Score: 0

    The question is, which is faster: the files unpacked, using the OS's file system; or Doom 3 handling the unpacking of resources? My guess is id probably did a good job and had a good reason for packing the files.

    Uh, yeah, they had a good reason: to save disk space! That and to make it a little harder for people (who don't know what they're doing) to modify things, perhaps. But mainly to save disk space. It's quite possible that D3 doesn't load quite everything from the zip that it needs before it starts running, to save on startup time. Although I agree that it will probably be all cached.