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  1. Re:Sounds interesting on Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D · · Score: 1

    Um the average person can't create a filing system for their tax stuff, let alone hunderds of CD's.
    You and I have long term memory, but the average person is just above the level of an idiot.

    As for 3D rendering power in games, it is coming.

  2. Re:OMFG on Microsoft's Online Music Store · · Score: 1

    Transfer it to another iPod. You can't play it on a regular computer, but an iPod can play files from someone else's iPod. You have to manully transfer them, but they should play. That is unless they updated the firmware somewhere along the line.

  3. Re:OMFG on Microsoft's Online Music Store · · Score: 1

    Apple uses AAC the only propertiery part of AAC is the DRM called Fairplay. and the Ipod doesn't care about the the DRM it ignores it. It shouldn't be to hard for anyone using a AAc drm codec, to play Apple's files, they just have to copy the features of the Ipod used for playing.

  4. Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... on "Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I ran blackice for a while until I bought a hardware firewall. Instead of uninstalling it I just stopped it from loading at boat, but it still works as a fire wall.

    Why do I know this??? because my roommates win XP laptop got infected while he was updating to prevent infections off of my network. we started noticing massive slow downs of the network. When I started blackice back up I notice it had been running the entire time and log every attempt his machine did to try and infect my windows desktop.

    Of course the Linux box never gave a shit, she just kept humming along.(read that any way you want)

  5. Re:M$ ? on Hack This, Please · · Score: 1

    Yep goes like this 1)create product 2)clean out some bugs 3)force customer to buy it 4)hackers trash customer's computers 5)force customer to upgrade 6)profit 7)???? 8)world domination

  6. Re:Apple... on Why iPod Can't Save Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple is going out of Business , and BSD is dying does that mean OS X is dying to go out of business. If OS X is dying to go out of business then why does everyone want to copy it, are we sure we want MS to be dying to go out of business too.

  7. Re:Burn down the fucking US patent office. on Prior Art for Hyperlink Order Tracking in Email? · · Score: 1

    Actual the Patent system is brokent eh exsiting rules in place allow for your very distictions. The problem is that the patent office doesn't look for uniqueness, nor really look for prior art. The Net is so vast that they can't look fast enough though google should be helping. Worse it considers the internet something new and everything with it has to be unique and that is as far as it goes.

  8. Re:welll, yes, a laptop-but on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 1

    Well if you are using it now and running divx video's on it then it must be somewhat of a good thing. I then have to make two points

    1) does it run linux????? (okay bad joke)

    2)Microsoft's version will only allow wma files, no real, no divx. The only encoder for it is Windows media player, So windows is as windows does.

  9. Re:welll, yes, a laptop-but on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 1

    SO windows portable TV isn't going to fit in your pocket either.

    Also how are you going to get tv, and video's on the thing, you need to spend $2000 on a media center edition computer. So instead get an ibook, lasts 4-5 hours more useful screen, and you can surf the web from wireless points. For twice the price you get 5 times overall perfomace.

    All numbers are imaginary unless it is windows pricing.

  10. Re:Uhh.. I've never understood.. on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Look at the iPod, the only real reason why it is taking off is becase it is fashionable. If I had a cell phone, that had a bluetooth headset, and a pin that did the conecting I would be happy. I don't like carrying my phone around, but a simple decorative item(changable covers anyone????) with a bluetooth headset for a private converstion would be really cool.

  11. Re:Not as fast as Star Trek on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would there be delay in fast than light computers. What kind of geek are you that you have never read the Techincal manuls for Enterprise.

    The computers use a small warp field around the processors to increase calculation speed.

  12. Re:PVC Piping? on Wiring a House While It's Still Being Built? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't a snappy comment it is the truth. Drywall is supposed to have a hour or so burn rating? I would have to go look it up the exact time. At any rate any fire after an hour of burning would of long since killed the occupants unless they have a seperate oxygen source. I can fill a 2000 square foot home with smoke by burning breakfast. Now that can be cleared out with fans in an hour or so. You can tell what happened and the air is noticebly filled. So any fire that can burn through Drywall is putting out enough smoke to make it hard to escape.(this is were you are supposed to go crawling out, following the 4 year old) By the time the PVC starts melting it is long been to late in that section of the house for a human to live with out a fresh oxygen source, as well as the heat would several limit movement of, and damage any unprotected flesh. It isn't supposed to be funny, or taken in jest, just cold hard truth. I lived in an apartment complex, and I saw what happened to the apartment from one light cigarette. Actually the fire gutted 3 apartments, displacing 12 people from there homes. They got out two minutes before it was to late. Why Two minutes, it took me that long to wake up realize what they were saying in the lot, and look out the back of the building to the flames.

  13. Re:PVC Piping? on Wiring a House While It's Still Being Built? · · Score: 1

    Funny I work at an electrical wharehouse, and we sell tons pf pvc pipe. Of course we are talking about a huge wall thickness differeness from water pipe.

    Burning pvc?? why worry by the time it starts buring your dead anyway. no need to worry about fumes.

    Electrical 90's are good for wires, but fiber is a bit more sensitive though.

  14. Re:What's up with that comma, dude? on Making IE Standards Compliant · · Score: 1

    It was 6:35 am I had just gotten out of bed. I know the spelling was off, but I can't spell anyway. As why those comma's are there I can't say anything other than I have been using a lot of NyQuel lately.

  15. Re:Keeps me in work! on DARPA Aims to Redo the Internet Protocol · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahh I see you have your shiny MSCE out on the wall as well.

    You know there's this thing called linux that will make your life easier. :->. Instead of massive incompatibility and upgrade hassles, you get to spend hours compiling it your self, but it will work.

    tis a joke people get a life

  16. MS releases patch to fix Security bug in IE on Making IE Standards Compliant · · Score: 4, Funny

    MS released a patch today to fix a major Security Bug in IE today. MS offcials say that a malisious hacker, is destroying websites around the world, by making them compatible with other web browsers. We at MS can abolutely not have any competion, so we are funding a $1 billion reward to the person who finds this man and breaks his even hack. We would do it ourselves but all 80,000 of our developers are busy trying to get longhorn out by 2010.

  17. Notebook on A Handheld for a Primary Computer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's simple really, find her a small notebook, or tablet pc. If she has no probelm with the small screen, go for light weight. True a notebook is bigger than a handheld, but a tablet pc is right there. As for Net access drop down to dial-up. It won't blaze through the net but for general surfing, and email is still acceptable. Make sure it has a wi-fi card, and network card, so she can bring it anywhere and use someone elses network when she wants.

  18. Re:Dunno if the article says anything about it... on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House · · Score: 1

    Curved walls may make layout awkward, but overall is more creative. Check out the Geodesic(?) homes that are being built in CA. They are huge. (with the plus side of they look like a pair of tits) The windows are flat, but multifacetted. The rooms are large, though oddly shaped.

    http://www.aidomes.com/samplpics1.htm

    http://www.domehome.com/

  19. Re:The Difference. on What Differentiates Linux from Windows? · · Score: 2, Informative

    using KDE and Gnome, I haven't had a problem ctting and pasting between windows. It is a bit hard to figure out as ctrl-c ctrl-v doesn't always work, but selecting the text and middle clicking always does in my limited experience over the past few years.

  20. Re:I already have a hard enough time... on Overclocking Your Sega Genesis/MegaDrive · · Score: 1

    well dell was trying to help MS with it's netcraft uptime charts, and some of the server chips got dropped in laptops, cause dell is cheap and they had extras In reality it is shitty programing, and the windows programers knew that windows needs to be rebooted every few days, and they could use that to calculate swing speed.

  21. Re:Watch out on EBay! on U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off · · Score: 1

    no they aren't transferrable. well at least legally. :>

  22. Re:Ask to inspect the fuse box? on Testing Electrical Capacity of New Offices? · · Score: 1

    just rememember that you ahve to take 80% of the ciricut ratings for max load. so a 20 amp can have 16 amps on it, a 15 can have 12.

    having an electrician along, who knows what you have, and how easy it will be to add circuts later to the new place.

  23. Re:I guess nobody cares.... on Orange County: More E-Ballots Cast Than Voters · · Score: 1

    Tell the unvarnished truth about your motivations.

    If a politicain told the truth his head would explode, and nobody wants to see that.

    If humans are a virus, and Bush is the cure, is he committing genocide now????? wouldn't surprise me.

  24. Re:I don't get it on Orange County: More E-Ballots Cast Than Voters · · Score: 1

    The Feds would win, but not be in control, the US military, would have a a hard time killing it's parents and mother and fathers. You forget, at least a few of the soldiers going after the rebelion would have to shoot their own family. The rebellion would be put down quickly, but the haterd would run so deep very quickly, that the US goverment would be overwhelemed, people would stop joining the military, the draft would be reinstated furthering the cause of the rioters. Can you see the spiral?

  25. Re:Cold War Parallels on Linux & Microsoft as a Cold War? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are two kinds of communism. The first is the one you know well, everybody gets one dictator and what he says goes. The second was only practiced by the ancient greeks. A pure democracy where everyone was a part of the goverment. You had to vote, it was law. You had to take part in your town, city, and State. You had to do millatary service, but you also had to take care of the goverment. Capitalism was practiced, and encouraged, but everyone was also an active member of the goverment. The USA is a rebulic like Rome. we have a central leader, and a group of people to represant the population. And like Rome our leaders is getting to be pushy and controlling.