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  1. Re:"Sampling an artists music" on RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping · · Score: 1
    >Normal "air" radio doesn't have
    >fees to pay to the RIAA

    no, the RIAA pays *them*.

  2. Re:fuuuu on RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping · · Score: 1
    I only buy from independent (non RIAA) labels. only go to shows if the band is non RIAA. I buy plenty of new CDs, but only when I know my money isn't buying a congressional lobby. RIAA stuff I'll borrow or I'll pick up used. mp3s I use to check out a new band and as a backup copy on my hard drive.

    I wouldn't mind dealing with the RIAA if they were more respectful of the music they commodify. but as it is there's nothing interesting being signed today to RIAA labels so they can shove it.

  3. Re:We need a few other firsts on 30 Years of Cell Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.

  4. Re:Close to lying on The Googlewashing Of Our Language · · Score: 1
    I would really like to see google implement a web-log filter for searches. I don't think I've EVER found any kind of interesting or useful information on a web-log page.

    google would vastly improve their product IMO if they simply erased all the most popular blog domains.

  5. Re:Give it up on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1

    obviously he means "MS is doing just fine without being O[pen] S[ource]." read the damn thread!

  6. Re:Grommit predates office dog! on Wallace and Gromit Game Preview · · Score: 1
    the penguin was created by larry ewing
    http://old.lwn.net/Gallery/

    he used GIMP 0.54
    http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/notes.html

    which was released ca.1996
    http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html?node14.htm l

    therefore it follows that feathers mcgraw predates the linux penguin. QED

  7. Re:A crowd Pleaser on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1

    thats the splash screen asdfkl;jasdfkl;jsadfl

  8. good work! on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1
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  9. Re:if you are used to Windows... on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1
    b: is reserved for the 'second floppy,' but (as always, cf dos 1.0) you can use one disk drive, but reference two disks on it.

    "insert disk for drive B:"

    of course you can also re-assign your drive letters...

    the reason it's letters is because people will have ten drives, but rarely more than 26. of course its also a little known fact that you can assign crazy drive names in DOS like "]:"

  10. Re:In Your Face on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1

    don't get me started on that OSX dock. that bulging stuff is awful. on the plus side, it took me 15 seconds to figure out how to turn it off.

  11. Re:Summary from the page...load of crapola, BTW on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1
    OS/2 3.x: 8.5 (excellent GUI, finally not bland)

    os/2 v3 was awesome. it's too bad MS didn't take notice of those drawers in the launcher - I'm forced to run win98 for protools (so out of convenience the rest of my audio apps partition follows) and, oh, what I would give to be able to expand folders from the quick start menu.

  12. Re:Who needs on The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison · · Score: 1
    nothing will ever replace Norton Commander, period. Midnight Commander comes really close. especially in 43-line half-screen mode.

    once my dad ran into Peter Norton in vegas. he came back with a copy of El Commandante Norton. even before I knew spanish it was insanely great.

  13. Re:In the exalted words of our esteemed former VP. on Flowing Water Discovered on Mars · · Score: 5, Informative

    qualye quotes (like gore quotes and bush2 quotes) are more often false. snopes does attribute this one to him though.