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  1. Re:In the beginning there was no DRM, and it was g on MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM · · Score: 1

    That's not necessairly true. Many bands have no ambition past signing to one of the indie mid-majors. I can't imagine too many of the bands on matador or subpop leaving for a major. Those labels are large enough to provide everything the band needs but still fairly small and outside the RIAA.

  2. Re:Perfect! on All Three Next-Gen Consoles at e3 2005 · · Score: 1

    Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo... Question answered. Of course I would like to pick up a game cube at some point for Mario Kart and Super Monkey Ball.

  3. Re:Sigh on AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    He was talking about star wars :)

  4. Re:This guy is retarded! on Top 50 DVDs · · Score: 1

    And bottle rocket was left of the list! of course that may be because the DVD is pretty plain jane, but it's easily my favorite wes anderson movie. "On the run from johnny law, ain't no trip to cleveland!"

  5. Re:This should solve a dilemma on Re-Pet a Reality · · Score: 1

    This isn't necessairly the case. When a female cat is in heat, she hasn't actually released an egg. She doesn't do this until she actually mates with the male. And the kicker is that she can do this multiple times. My girlfriend's female cat had a litter (before we could get her fixed, she escaped) of four cats. Two are obviously twins by the same father. The other two came from two different male cats.

  6. Re:EA probably allowed players to go into the stan on NBA Rejects EA Deal · · Score: 1

    To get a good idea of what this looks like visually, go to a Seattle Supersonics game. Their mascot (Squatch) is supposed to be a sasquatch, but looks like some sort of weird cross between chewie and teen wolf. And he dunks!

  7. Re:Or maybe not (Re:Sony Quality?) on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1

    It's sad to know that the WEGA line is no longer very good. Is there a higher line above the WEGA, one that is only sold in specialty shops?

    It used to be pretty easy with Japanese electronics. There was a line that was sold at the regular shops and a line that was sold in high end shops. You paid more but got a better product, a longer warranty, and much improved build quality. I've been out of the consumer electronics loop for a while, but I don't recall having any problems with the high end stuff from Denon, Onkyo, Yamaha, Pioneer Elite, or Sony ES.

  8. Re:Big deal. on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1

    mine was out of warranty when it broke. I had had it almost two years. I called described the problem and they said they were aware of this issue. They had me pack it and ship it to them and it was back to me fixed in 2 weeks.

  9. Re:Or maybe not (Re:Sony Quality?) on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1

    I've never had great luck with most sony equipment. However, when buying ES audio equipment or their WEGA lines of TV's, the quality is much improved. And these products usually have the warranty to back it up.

  10. Re:Big deal. on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1

    But Sony did fix mine for free... and it's been working for 3 years since.

  11. Re:Marylin Manson meets Willy Wonka... on War of the Worlds, Chocolate Factory Trailers · · Score: 1

    I just viewed it on my linux box... what crack are you smoking?

  12. Re:First things on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    But is there a reason we need more horsepower now than we did 10 years ago?

  13. Re:Statistically invalid samples on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    Dude, I don't know where you're from; but we have eliete math schools. I'm pretty sure every state has at least one. In Oklahoma (where I went to public school) they have the Oklahoma School of Science and Math. Of course going to a place like that ruins any chance you have at a high-school social life.

  14. Re:Daring Fireball covered this on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not the skipping that's the problem with jogging. The large memory buffer handles that fine. It's the extra wear and tear on the drive itself. I'd be interested to see someone do a study about the MTBF of those drives comparing them operating motionless and operating under the shock of jogging.

  15. Re:Buy a VCR... Now! on The VHS is Dead · · Score: 1

    I paid about $300 for a fairly decent JVC S-VHS VCR about 2 years ago and am very happy with it.

  16. Re:Here's the cast it SHOULD have on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't want to get into a casting arguement, but the one thing I would be adament about is that Rorshach can't be played by a known actor. If that is the case, the entire plot of him being the crazy doom crier has to be thrown out. As soon as people see Johnny Depp (or someone else famous) in that role, they're going to figure out he's rorshach.

  17. Re:Warning: He will probably destroy this movie... on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Do keep in mind that the directors do not write the movies. Someone else adapted the books into screen plays and then the directors visualize those scripts into movies. I thought the directos did very well in both movies. The scripts may have been a little lacking, but the directors easily could have gone down the Michael Bay path with the them and did not.

  18. Re:JPEG image compression in a nutshell on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    That part I know. I had to create a jpeg encoder as a project. The question is WHY the DCT packs the information. No one has ever shown me a proof as to how this works.

  19. Re:Infinite Resolution on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    But riddle me this. Why does the discrete cosine transform work for data compression? No professor could ever explain that one to me.

  20. Re:Good chance to put your money where your mouth on Wilco on P2P, Digital Music and the Internet · · Score: 1

    I missed them too... I heard they were very, very good though. I instead went to see the magnetic fields on the 12th.

  21. Re:Boston Globe example on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1

    So what is the reason that they get married less often? The point I'm trying to make is that they may have figured something out.

  22. Re:Boston Globe example on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1

    But, if the marriage rate per 1000 is higher in the south and the divorce rater per 1000 is higher in the south, can't you assume that the less people are willing to enter bad marriages in massachusets?

  23. Re:Boston Globe example on How Journalists Distort Science with Balance · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is that people in Massachusetts are smart enough to avoid entering into bad marriages, while those in the south are more likely to enter into a marriage that will end badly?

  24. Re:iTunes (for Windows) on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    I love the winamp playlist format. It makes it easy to autogenerate with a script while I'm converting from flac to mp3, or ripping to flac.

  25. Re:Don't. on When Is A Good Time To Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    This is true to a certain extent. In speakers for instance, the technology hasn't changed much in the last 20 or 30 years. Speakers that sounded good then will still sound good today (assuming they didn't rot). A 20 year old 2 channel amp that sounded good then will still compete well with a 2 channel amp of today. However, the technology does improve in certain areas. The first CD players didn't sound as good as the ones that are now being produced. SACD sounds better than CD. DD and DTS are better than pro-logic. So there is some technology involved. The key to buying audio products is knowing when to upgrade your technology, and investing more heavily into the pieces that aren't going to wear out (speakers, amps, etc.).