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  1. Re:It's that bad? on Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12 · · Score: 1

    Playing with Pamela Anderson would suck.

  2. Re:What the... on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, he implimented parts by using available documentation and personal experience then filled in the rest with his own work. Unix was not reverse engineered to create the Linux kernel.

  3. Re:Impact of TV on my life on Our Ratings, Ourselves · · Score: 1

    Oh your right, just the other day, I saw a whole group of people go to some island to see who would last the longest. Before that, I saw like 8 college students waiting hand and foot on some asshole for the opportunity to get fired. I saw these two guys after they passed their detectives exam, I could tell because one was kind of had this Italian look, you know with the black kinda messy curly hair and mustache, and his partner was a tall, clean cut black man.

    Its a good thing I got this credit card the other day, man their was this chick with huge boobs selling this toolset, for some reason I just had to have it I don't know what came over me, I don't even know how to use it, I'm just this skinny weakling. That doesn't matter though, I have a tonne of girls after me though because I know what to wear, say, eat, drink and how to act. It just comes unconsciously over me, I just know.

    I watched TV as a kid to, even fondly remember some commercials and look to download some music videos I remember. I can think for my self, and so can everyone else, just because they don't doesn't change that.

  4. Re:Impact of TV on my life on Our Ratings, Ourselves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It lowered my attention span. It made me blow my money on crap I don't need, and really did not want, but was so taken in by models who look so hot convincing me I really do need it.

    You can whine all you want, it doesn't make it true. Ever heard of personal responsibility? Self Control? Watching TV didn't make you do anything, you chose to.

  5. Re:This article contains material on evolution. on Early Earth Atmosphere Favourable to Life · · Score: -1, Troll

    Other then the idea that the universe magically created itself and everything in it, exactly what parts of '200 years and thousands of independant(sic) pieces of information and the entire biology branch of science' have to be ignored? Creation is no more far fetched then evolution, your just changing what your god is.

  6. Re:Represents WHAT??? on Mandrakesoft Changes Name to Mandriva · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mandrake is supposedly big in France. Conectiva is big in Brazil. Both are at least known of around the world. They combined the two to have a name that has parts of well known names but is not currently tied to any main geographic location then they told the world, or at least the parts that cared. Seems pretty global to me.

  7. Re:Represents WHAT??? on Mandrakesoft Changes Name to Mandriva · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, its a terrible name that one does not associate with Linux. They should have chosen a name like Maya, Excel, Trivoli, Firefox, Bryce or Java. You know names that don't just set a product apart but immediatly discribe what it does.

  8. Re:Competition? on Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard · · Score: 1

    What arcades?

  9. Re:Identification of sites he's accusing? on On the Integrity of Hardware Review Sites · · Score: 1

    Prepare to be very suprised. A true SMP setup won't increase performance anywhere near double, why would a dual core processor?

  10. Re:No worries. on Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Flowers
    By
    Irene

  11. Re:Ubuntu target is...? on Mark Shuttleworth Answers At Length · · Score: 1

    eXPeriance. XP, GNOME and Ubantu are all terible if you must have descriptive names, but then again, people don't have decriptive names either, jsut something to set them apart from others, and that seems to have worked out.

  12. Re:Gamers won't be interested on Preview of Intel's Dual-Core Extreme Edition · · Score: 1

    You mean retail outlets only sell the newest machines? I'M SHOCKED, SHOCKED!

    Well not that shocked. If I recall corectly, they didn't keep selling 486's either once the P1 took hold. People like you are idiots.

  13. Re:Advantages? on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    SNMP. I also have to download and compile extra libraries for database access, but my biggest gripe, beyond the significant whitespace was no completed SNMP libraries.

  14. Re:the word being "could" on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse · · Score: 1

    Lots of viruses never kill the host unless they have an already compromised immune system. When was the last time someone without AIDS died from a cold. On top of that, a computer virus could be defined as a program made to cause havoc. Killing the host system removes the chance of that instance infecting others, making a poor virus. That is probably one of the reasons you haven't had to worry about mysterious formatting going on.

  15. Re:Longhorn on Windows XP X64 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    MS being a monopoly has little to do with the fact that no one would care if they didn't ship a 64bit consumer OS before Longhorn. The general consumer has no idea what 64bit means, the little fanboys and kiddies think that simply having an Athalon64 makes them 1337 and people who actually know what a 64bit system brings to the table know that there is currently no reason to have support for it on the desktop anyway.

  16. Re:OpenOffice on Novell's Race Against Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would argue that Sun has done more work then any other organization with regards to OpenOffice, it doesn't seem to have translated into a large amount of cash. On the other hand, Novell does have a history of some great network management products, the Directory services spring to mind and I personally have never heard anything bad about ZenWorks. Red Hat would have nothing comparable if Novell were to whip them out and make them what I remember of them. I always liked the NDS.

  17. Re:What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus? on Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive Without Linus · · Score: 1

    What if Guido was hit by a bus. Open source people are so morbid. Apperently they think followers of other languages are dangerous.

  18. Re:Eve Online on In Space No One Can Hear You Sigh · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the one everyone went to when Mankind started to blow?

  19. Re:NASA sends nanotech to Mars on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no no I saw this happen once. See after living on Mars once this nanoswarm makes the atmosphere livable you'll begin to have people that can travel through time and space.

  20. Re:Let's all hear it folks on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 1

    Makeing money or not is irrelevent here. Copyright law covers use and distribution, and in both cases, downloading music and the rebranding of PearPC, the distribution that is occuring is outside the granted rights of the original consumer. The only difference selling it would make might be in the size of the penalty. There is actually nothing in the GPL that says that the company 'producing' CherryOS couldn't fork the code and sell it, but it does explicitly state exatly how you can go about it. They are not so they are not granted rights under the GPL, which now falls back to any rights granted by simple copyright law which states you can't do that without permission. They are illegaly distributing PearPC code the same way that P2P users sharing music are illegaly distributing copyrighted music.

    BTW yes I do download music, but I pay a royalty on blank media for the ability to do so.

  21. Re:Evidence is pretty overwhelming on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 1

    They still give out stickers? Kick ass.

  22. Re:You think? on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    He said random, not retarded.

    No offense intended.

  23. Re:Ironic... on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    Just don't forget the make -e. Everything else works with make install DESTDIR, but Gnome needs the -e. As for the scripts, I haven't run into that problem yet. Biggest problem I have ever had before with building gnome is an index.sgml wouldn't get built but nothing would complain until the install phase. Thats been a bug since 2.0 but it seems that it has finally been fixed.

  24. Re:Ironic... on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh yes they do, at least the 2.10 ones do.

    make -e install DESTDIR=/tmp/[gnomepkgname]

    Yes I am makeing packages.

  25. Re:Ironic... on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See this is odd. I'm sitting here making Gnome 2.10 packages for Slackware right now and I'm wondering exactly what the problem with packaging it is.