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  1. Re:100 miles to the nearest commuter train, on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    where does on get $75/year motorcycle insurance? I had an old little 650 motorcycle and still had to pay $250/year.

  2. Re:Slashdot is against the wrong monopoly on Apple and AT&T Announce iPhone Service Plans · · Score: 1

    I don't think that program is right. I keep getting compile errors with gcc.

  3. Re:The results... on Music Listeners Test 128kbps vs. 256kbps AAC · · Score: 1

    You said:
    > BINOM(8,10;0.5)=0.04. Small enough to conclude that the listeners could tell the difference with the Apple headphones.

    It should be a two-tail test because you don't know beforehand that either is better - the null hypothesis is that they're the same (who knows - there may be some weird properties of the software or hardware that mean 128k "sounds" better). A probability of 0.04 isn't small enough to reject the null hypothesis with 95% confidence in a two tail test.
    You must also remember that you are performing two independent tests thereby increasing the probablity that you will find a difference by chance (type 1 error). The corrected p would then be 0.08 (0.04*2) making it insignificant even in the one-tailed test.
  4. Re:I'm a little skeptical on Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing · · Score: 1
    from the article......

    They were, you know -- Karl Rove, people think he's an evil genius, but that's only about half right. I mean, he's not necessarily the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he and his guys were mistyping their email addresses, sent them to georgewbush.org, instead of dotcom, which is an email domain owned by friends of ours, who shot them right to us. .org, .com, with autocompleting email programs, do this once and if you are not careful, you may end up doing it MANY times.....
  5. Re:Upgrade My WinXP Machine? Why? on Windows Vista Beta 2 Available for Download · · Score: 1
    For now, I do not see any reason to upgrade to Windows Vista, but we'll talk again in 2008
    If Vista is released by then... I think 2009 is more realistic..... maybe a servicepack 2 by 2010 :)
  6. Re:Seems Fair to Me on Wal-mart's Wikipedia War · · Score: 2, Funny
    nativity?

    How does one accuse someone of nativity?

    No really, I want to know....

  7. Re:the truth about objective-c on Python IDE for Mac OS X? · · Score: 1
    Where do you think the "NS" prefix comes from?

    ummm... NetScape probably, they use to throw tons of NS software on my computers back when they were big.

    *ducks and runs away*

  8. Re:Is GamePC really Intel's target here? on Intel Dual Core Xeon Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Game PC: "Thanks manno, here's your check and keep up the good work."

  9. Re:DAMNIT on iMacs Freshened with 2.0 GHz G5, Bluetooth, WiFi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why did I have to buy the mac mini? I want one of these guys instead!
    because you are cheap?
  10. Re:Management on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1
    I don't know. My management just feels fuzzy.
    And why exactly are you feeling your management? hmmm?
  11. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? on Solaris 10 to be Open Source · · Score: 1


    shame it's on itanium though....

  12. Re:Funny Quote at Article's End... on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1
    But we already own a copy of the song. Why do we need to buy it over again? Didn't the Recording industry get our money once already? or even twice if you had a cassette collection and maybe even three times if you had it on LP?

    There should be a class action suit or something.

  13. Re:Score 1 for the consumer! on One Man's Check From The RIAA · · Score: 1

    actually, since this is a settlement and not a real fine nothing is going to change here. so even though you geta $13.86 check, they are free to do as they please with no real LEGAL repurcussions.
    Christ I hate court settlements.

  14. Re:Just because the extended editions are superior on Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown · · Score: 1
    one thing you have to keep in mind, the theatricals have to work together, they can't rely on extended edition footage to work.

    But that is not true, TTT theatrical relied on extended FOTR for several things not the least of which is the fact that Frodo new golums real name. which was only descibed in the extended FOTR.

    I mean sure you can just assume all sorts of things that happened off screen, but you are not suppose to in a good flowing film.

    the extened editions so far have worked together better because they are the versions of the films that PJ intended and not the cut down versions that the studio wants.

    And I am not talking about the scouring of the shire. I am refereing to the death or sauruman that was suppose to occur at Orthank thereby wrapping up a plot element. just because he is defeated doesn't mean that he is no longer a threat. he is still a wizard with powers to be reconed with.

  15. Re:Will it really be good? on Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown · · Score: 1
    Faramir in TTT:EE is a much better thought out character. Most of the added footage for the EE is for his benefit. He comes off more as a young man torn between duty to his father (taking the ring to gondor) and his phylosophical views on the war itself which is often the thoughts of an intelligent soldier. He wants the war to end as soon as possible, but questions the good/evil relationship of the enemy. Add into it how the EE shows how much he looks up to his brother Boromir (the favored son) and how much he broods over things and all of his assinine behavior becomes understandable ifnot acceptable.

    Theoden, being treated as a coward who is constantly questioning his ability to rule, except when Aragon questions his decisions is very different from the book where he gets pissed at being the pawn of saruman and goes on the offensive only to be driven back to helms deep when he sees the numbers that he is facing.

    Treebeard and the ents decision to sit it out until they are tricked by the hobbits into seeing what saruman has done to Fangorn is foolish when you are suppose to believe that the trees in fangorn talk to eachother thus they should have known (as they did in the book) all the evil that saruman had done to the trees to being with. Not to mention how it just shits on the "don't be hasty" lifestyle of the ents...

    ok, that is enough... I am tired of tyoing...

  16. Re:technoglogy on Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    trixie technoglogy, we hates it...

  17. earning it's hype on Wired's LOTR III Tech Breakdown · · Score: 5, Insightful
    probably not. mainly due to the cutting that has happened already. like the loss of the resolution to the sauruman plot.

    Most likely ROTK will not live up to the hype until the extended edition comes out.

    And I speak from the experience of two extended editions of the other two films that are both superior to the theatrical releases

  18. Re:Sun? on Ars Dissects POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon · · Score: 1
    ... I am a huge fan of IBM's chips, especially in Apple computers (I am a proud owner of a 12" Powerbook).

    I am sorry to break this to you, but the 12"PB has a Motorolla chip in it...

    it just had to be said....

  19. ide raid on University Chooses Apple RAID for Linux Cluster · · Score: 1
    I have picked up two hardware raid systems (Tornado) from these guys for about $7K each for 2TB in RAID 5. They have worked great so far and I have not had one problem (knock on wood).

    I am aware that the apple product is theoretically a little better due to the fiber chanel over the LVD SCSI that I purchased but I think that for most (not all) people the LVD performance would be good enough.

    I personally would recomend these Tornado RAID systems to just about anyone needing a lot of storage for a small price tag.

  20. Re:Target 100 million on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Well, considering they will be giving away 100 million songs with Pepsi starting in February, I think that might help get that number....

  21. Re:iTunes for Windows Screenshots? on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    go to the apple frontpage and see the screanshot there...

  22. Mac OS X on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sure this will get modded as a troll, but if you got this software, you would not need to dual boot between linux and windows.....

  23. Re:real application! on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1
    Note, he said WinXP or higher . . .

    For My money, Linux is way higher than WinXP

  24. A whole book in vi? Can you say . . . on Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat · · Score: 1

    masochist? I new that you could . . .

  25. Re:Oh no! lets try and get a bunch in in one shot on Athlon 64 Debuts · · Score: 1

    Come now, think of the possibilities, you could have a hell of a gaming system that doubles as a food dehydrator, or a rotisserie oven or a (insert funny warm gaget here) . . .