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  1. Re:Deskset on Mars & The Teachable Moment · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend is a museologist and yells at the screen when the people on antiques roadshow touch thinks without gloves.

  2. Re:In other news ... on Winny P2P Software Creator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Not to rain on your parade. But guns aren't mentioned in the constitution, arms are. What are arms? Weapons. It could be anything from a sword to a H-bomb. It leaves it up for interpitation.

  3. Re:Motives on RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments · · Score: 1

    Well, if he's not in Tahoe (or they would have found him) why should it go to Nevada? He could really be in California or Oklahoma or Texas. If the business who owes the money is in NY, it makes sense for the money to go there.

  4. Re:Well done guys! on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Exactly how do Avalon, XAML, and WinFS force .NET into obsolesence?

  5. Re:I want to be able to play all kinds of music... on Sony Connect Online Music Download Store Launches · · Score: 1

    The list is too short because it doesn't include FLAC. I have 500+ albums ripped to FLAC and I don't want to convert them to Apple Lossless.

  6. Re:Simple. on Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC Tags · · Score: 1

    90% of what I buy can't be purchased at wal-mart, so even if all of their suppliers join the fold I'm pretty much safe. Of course eventually everyone is going to on board with this, and by then the only safe things I buy will be produce and used clothing.

  7. Re:Missing: Basic Features on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    Because listening to something in iTunes that you couldn't then sync to your iPod would defeat the purpose, which is to provide the complete iPod experience and sell more iPods.

    If they have the support for playing those files it's trivial to do an unencode/reencode to mp3 or AAC to synch them with the iPod. My creative player only plays MP3's and WMA's, but I store all my music in FLAC, I just reencode it to MP3 when i want to load it on the player.

  8. Re:its in their history. on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    I thought the W16 in this case was really just two of the V8's used in the audi a8 put together and tuned to perfection. The same way the W12 was two VR6's.

  9. Re:Solve the world's problems on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    I have a hard time believing that biodiesel takes more fossil fuels to produce than it yields. Especially since you can use waste oils that are left over after doing other things.

  10. Re:Solve the world's problems on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    What about biodiesel?

  11. Re:Cost of transforming energy? on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1

    All the gas ovens I've ever used do not have the combustion in the actual oven. The combustion takes place in a chamber below the oven and then radiates up through the floor of the oven. This would keep the water vapor out of the oven.

  12. Re:This is a Joke, Right? on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've heard of not reading the article, but didn't you read the summary? It said clearly 9 distros.

  13. Re:Flaming Lips? on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    Definately worth checking out. I'd stick to everything after and including The Clouds Taste Metalic. The best works being their two latest albums: The Soft Bulliten and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. If you really want a night of fun though check out Zaireeka. I believe it's out of print, but it's not too hard to find. It's a 4 disc set, but the weird thing is that you have to listen to all 4 at that same time. that requires 4 cd players, 4 amps, and 8 sets of speakers. The beauty of it is though that it never is exactly the same. Inevitably you play it on a mishmash of home stereo's, boomboxes, and the like. The same disc is never in the same player, the speakers are always in different locations, no one ever hits play at exactly the same time, and there are minute differences in how fast each CD actually plays. It's quite a fun expereince.

  14. Re:An LP? Those are like DJ mix sets, but worse! on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    Sasha has always contended that the riff in godlike was not sampled and just happens to sound a whole hell of a lot like Angel of Death. Whether or not you believe him is another story.

    Not all RIAA artists have quit making albums. Radiohead is on Capitol, and I wouldn't say that their albums are filler. The Flaming Lips are on Warner Brothers and there albums are definately works of art (I mean one of them requries 4 freaking CD players to play the discs simultaneously). The Polyphonic Spree is on Hollywood (a division of Sony). Wilco is on Nonesuch (a division of Elektra/Warner). They all put out full albums. The problem is that people look at the past with Rose Colored glasses. They remember the Beatles, and the Who, and The Doors, and Led Zepplin, and Pink Floyd; but they forget Donna Summers, Bobby Day, The Surfaris, or Carl Douglas. There was just as much crap then as there is now, but after 20 years the cream floats to the top. 20 years from now people will be making the same arguments but saying XXX is hardly Radiohead.

  15. Re:This is what artists refer to... on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    But not all music is Brittney Spears. The 60's or 70's equivalent to Brittney would have been something like Sonny and Cher, most Motown records, David Cassidy. They didn't put out albums either. If you want to find the modern equivalent of The Beattles or the Who or Pink Floyd try things like: The Ployphonic Spree, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, or The Flaming Lips.

  16. Re:Rock Operas are dead (thank god) on The Joy of Random Shuffle · · Score: 1

    You're just looking at the wrong music. Radiohead, The Shins, The Postal Service, The Stills, Death Cab for Cutie, Underworld, etc all put out albums that are intended to be listened to as such. You really do loose something breaking them up. You pine for the good old days, but they weren't much better you think the artists had much control of disco in the seventies? How about Motown in the 60's? Do you think Elvis decided his track listing in the 50's? There have always been albums that are just a collection of songs that don't flow and there have always been albums that are cohesive works (at least since the album has been a format). If you think cohesive albums don't exist, you simply aren't looking.

  17. Re:Hello, ClearChannel? on AT&T Wireless Announces Music ID Service · · Score: 1

    I will give Clear Channel one point. All of their stations here in seattle seem to use RDBS to tell the station call letters, the current artist and song, and what comes up next. Very often they flash the weather during commercials. I don't know how many people have radios that support it, but I quite like it. If only KEXP would support it.

  18. Re:Yes on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 1

    what if it prompts for a root password first? My girlfriend gladly inputs her root password into her OSX box whenever it asks.

  19. Re:They're not playing fair... on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    Fair use says that you can make copies of your cd's for personal use. You can also rip said songs to mp3, ogg, flac, or whatever. How can you even say iTMS has a less restrictive license than a regular CD with a straight face?

  20. Re:Actually on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    Labels often loan the band money to go on tour. Someone like Britney can get corporate sponsorship and guranteed payouts from the promoters. But someone like The Polyphonic Spree isn't going to get enough guaranteed money upfront to cover their intial start up costs, their label most likey would loan them the money. If the tour flops and the band doesn't recoup, the label is out of the money. This isn't always the case, but it is frequent with medium small acts. Smaller acts generally don't have much in the way of startup costs (they only need a van) and bigger acts don't need the labels support. But any well selling band on an indie label (Death Cab for Cute, the Shins, Interpol, etc) probably needs the labels help to start a tour.

  21. Re:They Just Don't Get It on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points today. You are exactly right. If the artist considers the album a work of art, you should have top purchase the whole thing. I've never seen anyone clamoring to purchase one chapter of a DVD and claiming it was their right.

  22. Re:mist effects make that irrelevant on Asteroid Impact Simulator Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually the germs from your own digestive tract aren't that harmful to you. It's someone elses you should worry about.

  23. Re:On the other hand, CS textbooks on Why PHBs Fear Linux · · Score: 1

    Ohhh the dinosaurs! How they tormented me in college.

  24. Re:Several things: on Sun and Microsoft Settle Litigation · · Score: 1

    There are alot of Irish Mc* names as well. Why do you think the deragotory slang term for Irish was mick?

  25. Re:Spiffy, but... on New Zaurus Linux PDA Available In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    You require a man bag. Call it a purse if you want, but it made my life a whole lot easier. I can now where clothes without pockets.