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  1. Won't the military have something to say about it? on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they are using it so heavily, surely they won't give it up easily, no?

  2. Re:The reality... on Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions · · Score: 1

    Not quite buddy. The last server version of Windows is Server 2008. Server 2003 did have a desktop equivalent built off the same kernel, which was Windows XP Pro x64. Try again.

  3. Re:BZFlag on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    You probably would. I used to be big in tourney play years ago, but I haven't played in 4 years or so other than occasionally popping on for 5-10 minutes.

  4. BZFlag on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.bzflag.org Free, Open-source, multi-player tank battle ala Battle-Zone.

  5. Re:Sad to see them go on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of the reputation the IN9 32X-MAX has garnered, and I'm sure it may be deserved. However, I haven't had any issues with mine, and it is running like a champ. Though I've not gotten around to overclocking with it yet as I'm piecing together a watercooling setup and am still using the stock Intel cooler. I'm not expecting much of an overclock from it, but that's ok. This board will get me through for a while, then I'll look for something preferably in an Intel chipset.

  6. Sad to see them go on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    I've been using exclusively Abit boards for my main PC for the last 6-7 years or so. I've loved every one of them, KR7A-RAID, IC7-MAX3, and now the IN9 32X-MAX are the ones that stick out in my memory best. Always top quality, and top performance.

  7. Re:In Australia on Ratio of IT Department Workers To Overall Employees? · · Score: 1

    That sounds very similar to my company. Semi-Global, 350-400 employees, 3 full-time IT staff. 4 if you count the one guy we have in our Italy office that does 80% Plant/Process Automation, 20% handles hands-on IT issues.

  8. Re:Opera is awesome! on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Took the words right out of my mouth. I don't know how I ever lived without mouse gestures. I've got nothing against Firefox, but it's Opera all the way for me. I've been using Opera for 6-7 years now I think and find myself trying to do mouse gestures in Windows and when I'm forced to use IE (when working on a users PC).

  9. Re:That is a lot of... on Stored Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try installing Gentoo Linux. The current minimal installer for x86 is about 57MB. The rest is downloaded during the installation.

  10. Re:Um No on Orac^3 -- Not Your Everyday Casemod · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you take a look a the new Apple G5s they are already liquid cooled. http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html

  11. Re:ingenious concept on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    Oh come on! Was I the only person who got that allusion? Damn.. I'd mod you up but I already posted a reply to you.

  12. Re:Value out of bounds on Sedna May Have A Moon · · Score: 5, Informative

    I should think that it was a typo. They probably meant -400F, as absolute zero is -459 Fahrenheit.

  13. Re:OK... on Microsoft's Take on iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm curious about this. Can you, instead of burning to CD and ripping back to MP3, just convert the MP3 to WAV and back to MP3?

  14. Victims on Acxiom Hacking Details Made Public · · Score: 1

    Do they know exactly what info was taken? If so, how were the victims notified? I know if it was my info in there, I'd be pretty pissed if they didn't tell me about it.

  15. Re:Wooohooo! on Gentoo 1.4 Final Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget the bike, how many miles on the girlfriend?

  16. Re:Distributed target tracking? on In-Flight Reboot? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm really, truly, very sorry... But I just have to say it. How about a beowulf cluster of them?

  17. Re:Remarkably frank ... on In-Flight Reboot? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey... At least it is the truth. For some reason you strike me as one of the people who has no problem eating beef, but gets uneasy talking about the slaughter house. Killing is what these machines were made for, why beat around the bush?

  18. Re:MS on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that the company was already purchased by Sony/Phillips and I don't think they'll be letting it go for pocket-change when they potentially have much more to gain by litigation.

  19. Re:Now all we need is some miniature plastic sheet on Duct Tape Goes Minature · · Score: 1

    Ok.... Now that was the funniest comment I've seen on slashdot in months. Why oh why did I waste that mod point earlier??

  20. Re:Grandma wolf on DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers · · Score: 1

    How is this flamebait?

    I bring up the fact (FACT) that all these people who run around disrespecting the flag are breaking rules and even laws, and I get modded as flamebait?

    The ettiquette of the flag is in Federal Law.

    For more info see the US Code at: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

    Specifically Title 4: Chapter 1

  21. Re:Grandma wolf on DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers · · Score: 2, Insightful
    And what's more is the pathetic way these people treat the flag. I'm a young person, but I still know the rules of the flag.

    Don't leave it out overnight or in inclement weather

    Never allow the Flag to touch the ground or get dirty

    The Flag can only be disposed of by a proper burning or by burial

    When hanging above a street, the Union faces East on North/South roads and North on East/West roads
    There are plenty of other rules too. Does anyone follow these? I have a neighbor up the road (A vietnam vet I might add) who has a nice flag pole with flowers all around it. And atop this nice pole? A tattered flag that hasn't been taken down in the year that I've lived here. Through rain, sleet, wind, and snow.

    I see people driving with flags on their car antennas flapping and beating against the car, ripping more and more everyday. Then you get the people who tape them down to the hoods of their cars... holding the front of the flag down by slamming their hood down on its corners.

    Immediately after 9-11 American Flags were in a shortage. Being sold by the thousands to people who were never interested in them before, and don't know how to properly care for them. Sold for outrageous prices (I personally saw a small 6"x8" flag sell for $25) to people who then turn around and stick it on their car only to have it shredded by the wind in a week or so.

    Even worse than that... The same people who were spending $25, $50, and $100 for a flag are many of the same people who couldn't afford to donate to the funds set up for the families and survivors of the attack on 9-11.

    Many people were proud to be an American after the 9-11 attack. Personally I was ashamed and disgusted.

  22. Re:Oh, give me a break on Cable TV Ruins Bhutan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And then again, many of us are not. Look at today's population. Do you spend any amount of time conversing with the "average" person? As a helpdesk tech I spend most of my day explaining assinine things such as "no the computer won't work in a power outage". I even found myself explaining what a power cord was and what it is used for. Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people who says we should change the amount of sex/violence/whatever on TV. Quite the opposite actually. The way I see it we have two problems: 1) Violent/sexual content on TV 2) People dumb enough to model their lives on said TV content Instead of altering the TV content to suit the idiots of the world, we should be working on reducing the amount of idiots present in todays society. PS: If this post made no sense whatsoever, please disregard it. In typical geek fashion I'm currently running on 2 hours sleep in the last 2 days.

  23. Re:Page counter on Investigating Angular Velocity · · Score: 1

    Probably because this poor guys webserver just recovered about a week ago from the last time it was slashdotted.

  24. Re:free games on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? · · Score: 1

    As an avid bzFlag player (2-4 hours each day) I heartily agree. Game play is insanely addictive, and the community of players and developers is awesome.

  25. Re:I'm in! on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Whoops... take out that $ before the 15,000 I meant to say 15,000 $300 shares.