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  1. Re:Man flamebait or what. on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 1

    Napster has a 14-day free trial. Not that I'd recommend their service to anyone, but there it is.

  2. Re:Too late? on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 1

    Have you had any problems printing PDFs that require fields to be filed in using that embedded text field thing? I've seen some problems with those using Acrobat Reader 6.

  3. Re:GET BACK TO WORK ON LONGHORN on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 1

    It'd be a pretty big feat, even for microsoft, to unseat PDF.

  4. Re:Holy Crap on Serenity Trailer Finally Released · · Score: 1

    It really was nice of them to push it back to September. This way "Revenge of the Sith" won't be completely overshadowed.

  5. Re:Man flamebait or what. on RealNetworks Invests in Legitimizing Free Music · · Score: 5, Informative
    They're not even "giving" away 25 songs. It's 25 plays.

    From this more complete AP article:

    Users who download RealNetworks' new Rhapsody software will get to select the 25 tracks - it could be 25 different songs played once apiece or the same song played 25 times - from a library of more than 1 million tunes, the company said Tuesday.

    Forgive me if I'm not busting down Real's door to get this.

  6. Re:Pre beta review on Longhorn Beta is Disappointing · · Score: 1

    And didn't microsoft just say that beta was good enough for production? So pre-beta can't be far behind.

  7. Re:Steve Jobs Sneezes, News at 11 on Apple Updates Pro Media Apps · · Score: 1

    I never liked Final Cut that much. Though that other video app they bought is quite nice, other than the nerfed price on Linux and Irix.

  8. Re:A question for RMS on RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I'd written emacs I'd still use vi. So what's your point?

  9. Re:Does anyone understand this? on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new to corporate america.

  10. Re:You already have! on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1
    The constitution doesn't actually grant you any rights to free speech. This is a common misconception.

    The first amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    You have no right to say anything, nor does anyone else. The government (federal, mind) just isn't allowed to pass a law against you doing it. The side effect is that in general you can say whatever you want, but it isn't protected in the constitution.

    Of course this is the same amendment that people have misrepresented to mean that religious organizations can legally not pay the same taxes levied against non-religious corporations of similar size and income.

  11. Re:You already have! on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1
    Nihilists believe that there is "nothing".

    Agnostics refuse to take a position.

    I think you would be less confused if you considered the difference between believing something on credible evidence (for instance, I believe Australia is a continent and does in fact exist, despite never having seen it for myself) and a belief (aka faith) in something without evidence (god/gods, unicorns, fairy dust, etc).

    You should really check out Jonathan Miller's A Brief History of Disbelief. It's an excellent documentary on the subject and you'd probably learn something.

  12. Re:This shows .. on Forgent and Microsoft Sue Each Other Over JPEG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We'd all be better if O'Reilly had never published any books.

  13. Re:Who's copying whom on Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To the masses? Even if it could do such a thing, seeing as how it'll only be on OSX it won't. Need a much larger installed base to count anything as "the masses".

  14. Re:AOP?! on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you really got your head around this one, slugger. AOP is definitely only for Java.

  15. Re:Good Grief, M$ was born to Suck. on New IE7 Information Announced · · Score: 1
    First of all when it comes to inovation have you ever read some of the discussion boards or blogs or email logs in the open source community. Let me tell you what I see alot of the time. "Oh oh M$ is coming out with (Insert feature here) we gotta beat them to to it". Or "Wow did you see what Apple just did, damn it we gotta implement (Insert feature here) too."

    Stop reading the gnome development lists and you won't see so much of that.

  16. Re:So long, Firefox on New IE7 Information Announced · · Score: 1
    Which wouldn't really affect Firefox's marketshare so much as potential marketshare. In order for it to take away FF's marketshare it would have to be unsucky enough for people running windows and Firefox to switch back to ie.

    And I think it's foreslash and backslash, like the two sides of the hand with which you can smack someone.

  17. Re:contact info link on Federal Grant Applications to Require Windows · · Score: 1
    Grants.gov has been working with Pure Edge to offer a viewer that is compatible with as many operating systems as possible.

    Look, they've already got it working with FIVE operating systems! There's Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP!

    I bet they're working on Windows 95 right this instant. Or maybe Windows CE is next on the list of priorities.

  18. Re:impromptu poll on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    locate. whereis. find. ls. grep. done.

  19. Re:Agreed on OSS Developers Provide A Glimmer of Hope · · Score: 1

    Yes, because Linux has a single file in which all important system settings are kept...

  20. Re:It's quite simple really: on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You got to look on the bright side though. OpenOffice's microsoft office file support is quite a bit better than microsoft office's OpenOffice file support.

  21. Re:lets get him... on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't need the download page, the link on the front page should take you to the correct download for your operating system.

  22. Re:Answer on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 1
    OSX does a good job of simplifying things, but a lot of functionality is left out; to fine-tune things (such as the resolution and paper type on my Epson color inkjet), you have to use the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631).

    That's what you said. And you don't "have to use the CUPS web interface" since you can setup multiple printers to do the job. It does seem though that if apple really made "user friendly" interfaces that they'd have made it possible to change the settings from their print dialog.

  23. Re:Translation on Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future · · Score: 1
    Where did you get the idea that opening a million windows was a good idea? I also never said either was spatial, I said that they can be made to work like gnome, aka to suck.

    You kids really need to calm down. We all know what "spatial" means to you, we just don't care because it's fucking stupid. The practical difference between a system that opens everything in a new window and one that has a seperate window for each directory and remembers the location of each of those windows individually is small enough as to make no matter. They both suck, so quit getting so sandy about it.

    And don't ever say something as childish as "in god's name", it just makes you sound like a moron.

  24. Re:Translation on Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future · · Score: 1

    Maybe because so many of us prefer the commandline due to speed. I personally can't remember the last time I opened a graphical file window in Linux.

  25. Re:Translation on Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future · · Score: 1

    No.