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  1. Re:Windows only thanks to Flash requirement on "Interface-Free" Touch Screen at TED · · Score: 1

    Works fine on my mac!

  2. Re:Copyright is copyright on Finding Digital Scans of Sheet Music? · · Score: 1

    Almost none? Like Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, lets just say a shit load of classic kick-ass, right?

    I don't know about brass music, but it seems like SOMETHING should be available. Maybe someone can come up with a sheet-wiki?

  3. Re:9/11, late, anniversary on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    By the way, what exactly is a "comparative qualitative assessment" and how does it relate to the embarrassment that presides over this country? Those "realist ideologists" have really fscked up on the way to furthering "America's interest."


    "Uh, yeah, uh, North Korea, they're evil too! Real evil! They wanna make us all commies! The Lord knows all commies go to hell!"

  4. Re:9/11, late, anniversary on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    America is acting no different from usual so it is not right to claim it is run by violent religious extremists.

    That is unless it's usually been run by violent religious extremists and this just happens to be a war between two or more violent religious extremists. Course nearly everyone's a heretic these days anyways so who really cares? It's just as easy for them to claim that this is a religious war as it is to say it's purely political because people don't actually believe in or enforce the legal separation of church and state.

  5. Here they are: on What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games? · · Score: 1

    River City Ransom Mario Zelda 1 Snood GTA 2

  6. Drive electric. on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    Here's a couple of cornpones putting together a 3 wheeled electric car.
    br> http://www.driveelectric.org/cars/index.html

    There's a lot of good links to other sites with parts and kits and the like.

  7. Re:I am not an expert, but on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to see one of those high pressure accumulators get punched by a soccer mom in a suburban.

  8. Re:I Don't Know, Man on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even if you have insurance, they can drop you at any time for what ever reason, they can refuse treatments, and they will just cut you off at a certain point. It's pretty much bullshit.

  9. Re:why arent they also upset at Mac? on McAfee, Symantec Think Vista Unfair · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to clarify: Windows was first designed in the early to mid 80's. OSX, built on top of BSD, developed in the 70's from UNIX. ARPANET was designed in the mid 60's to connect the computers of the country (usa) in the event of nuclear war. Thats right, people have been connecting computers into networks for some 40 years. Windows just was not designed to be connected to the internet. OSX was designed to never be without the internet.

  10. Re:Limited playback on Why Microsoft's Zune Scares Apple to the Core · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah! No one in his right mind would display passion if he wasn't an apple fan boy! Apple fan boys are stupid! Apple fan boys suck!!
    Nanny-nanny-boo-boo!

    WINDOWS MONOTONE FOR LIFE!!!!

    I mean:

    [windows monotone for li--BSOD]

  11. Re:The Fatal Flaw, that will kill zune on Zune — $249.99 On Nov. 14 · · Score: 0, Troll

    From what I understand, there's a whole 24 hour period of whole family sharing that can go on before you have to plunk the cash down. At which point the song erases its self from yer un-pod and then proceeds to bsod until you pay up.


    GO AHEAD, PAY UP BITCHES.

    Or buy an ipod, where they'll take your money _and_ say thanks!

  12. Re:Contributing to planning schemes... on Reconstructing Real Cities in Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Build a taller building right up next to his and ruin his view. 'Course then you have to go through all the people that think the planet is big enough to house everyone plus some trees and a yard for the dog in single story houses that get slapped together by mexicans in a hurry. Who live in high rises.

  13. Re:Cost on Satellite Internet for Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, man, I would never pick to live in an actual house on an actual farm over a nice, cramped, sketchy apartment in a bad part of town! That would be stoopid!

    And OF COURSE there's no way that there are any rural parts of the country that get decent dsl. That dude should count his blessings and just live off his parents teets, happily shut away in his room playing computer games for the rest of his life sticking it out with, i don't know, a cell phone modem.

    He'll be just fine.

  14. Re:It's about materials. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    As it happens I'm a linux guy. I find a device that plugs into my computer -and just works- a breath of fresh air! I don't give a shit about scratches. I just can't see how people can fuss about little things like that. Moreover, my nano is an upgrade from the shuffle. I find that using the screen is more hassle than it needs to be and so I don't even use it. Instead, I keep the thing in its case, comfortably in my pocket and control it via the radio/remote. So, take it for what you will, but I won't believe you when you whine about scratches. Go buy a sony if it means that much to you.

  15. Re:Plastic pipes. on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 1

    No, I got a good look at one and there are metal pieces on both ends but other than that the pipe was just like abs with a yellow stripe down it that was pretty flexible. They do that so that they can use this pneumatic burrowing device about a meter long to tunnel through the ground instead of tearing up the whole thing with a huge trench. It's pretty awesome to watch actually. It just snakes its way around tree roots and concrete and all that to get where it needs to go.

  16. Re:I'm skeptical on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 1

    I second that, why not just eliminate the pipes and go for the uwb over the air? It *IS* a wireless protocol, isn't it?

  17. Plastic pipes. on Broadband Over Gas Lines — a Pipe Dream? · · Score: 3, Informative

    All the newer gas pipes around me come out of the ground as a flexible plastic rather than a metal pipe line. And I live in New Orleans, where we're getting a lot of new gas lines! Is this supposed to be carried by the metal in the pipes or is there going to be some kind of translator in the streets that takes care of it? This is, of course a moot point, since we're supposed to get muni wi-fi, but don't other cities have plastic pipes too?

  18. Bad dudes. on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 1

    I knew a couple of negative strangelets a few years back. They wear some bad dudes. They kept eating all my stuff. So I hooked up with a positive normlet and she really took care of those guys!

  19. Re:It's about materials. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    You can't come up with a good argument, so you insult me by calling me a fanboy. Well, go look for yourself how many nit pickers there are out there screaming about how badly their nano is because they didn't think to protect it. Just because I have an opposing viewpoint doesn't make me wrong, dude.

    BTW, my grandfather makes his living replacing watch crystals.

  20. Re:It's about materials. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you use other diamonds. Also, depending on the structure of the thing your scratching with, you could use a material with less hardness, you know, on the hardness scale.

    Also, anyways, don't you think it's a bit of a nit picky thing to point out the chemical makeup of a particular device's case? I mean, I'm surely wearing through the paint on the case of my nokia, but I don't go around saying "Sheesh! You'd think they would powder coat these plastic cases instead of just painting them." (Or what ever process they use.) Take, for instance, this rolex that I have here. (Yeah, I wish!) Sure, it's got a sit load of shiny glass crystal on the outside. And I am going to scratch it, cause I can't very well wear it around if it's in it's case all day long, eh? But it's fine, cause I know that I can go to the jeweler and get him to fix the thing for me (for a good chunk of change) and my flash rolex is good as new, right? Well, does the fact that the rolex scratches mean that there's a design flaw, or does it simply mean I'm going to pay if I'm not careful? Eh?

  21. Re:It's about materials. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    Actually, the point being, if you carry something around with you, it's going to get scratched. If you put it in a case, the case will get scratched instead. If you make it out of diamond and keep it in a velvet case, sure it wont get scratched, but you have fun doing that. For me, I'm satisfied with the knowledge that my stuff is naturally going to wear and so I take steps to protect it. I just don't understand why people think that apple has to make stuff out of magical material that doesn't wear for some people to be happy.

  22. Re:It's about time. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    I've had my nano in a hard plastic case since the day I bought it. I've never had my cell phone in a case, ever. Guess which one gets more scratches. Thats right, it's my phone. Does that mean that my phone has design deficiencies? No, i think it just means that if you don't want something to get scratched, you keep it in a case.

    [insert mocking whine about scratches here.]

  23. Re:Not just DRM but client fatigue. Free is better on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah man, it was so hard for me to plug my ipod into the usb slot on my mac and then sit there while itunes automatically opened and started configuring my ipod for me. I don't know what I would have done if I had to, I don't know, go on the internet, find and advocate an itunes replacement, download it, install it, and hope it runs on my ipod and picks up the 160 gigs of apple lossless music I have. I probably would have not even bought the thing, right?

  24. Re:why pay for single-OS content? on Amazon Unbox Video Store Launches · · Score: 2, Funny

    he was using the operator. Yes, the one at the other end of the phone.

  25. Re:south paw? on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like the bible, exactly.