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  1. Re:Finally! on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you ever looked inside a Pages or Numbers document package. It's almost self documenting. Images in folders accompanied by a gzipped xml file.

  2. Re:Nokia E65 on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 1

    Just between you and me, given the choice, iPhone or Smoking, choose iPhone. It's cheaper, cooler and takes longer to cause cancer.

  3. Re:Reason for using solid-state drives on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    The Internet Wins.

    I would not be at all surprised if Blue-ray is the last distributed physical media for movie distribution.

  4. Re:Reason for using solid-state drives on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    I don't see the advantage of SSDs in desktops
    Speed. By the end of the year SSD will be faster, both reading and writing than HDD. There's some pretty hefty physical limitations on the spinning disk paradigm and everybody is really used to those. SSD doesn't have many of those limitations. Give it a year ;)
  5. Re:Could we see an end to Magnetic Media? on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Survey says 5 years, tops.

  6. Optical Drives in Laptops on Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that this can't be generalized to everyone, but just as food for thought... I don't use my laptop's optical drive. In fact I wish it wasn't on here, it's deadweight, and a waste of space (perhaps a bigger battery?). I just as soon copy movies to my hard drive and play them from there (and if you can't do that with blueray yet, it's just one more reason not to use it)- or even over the network. Even if I did have a Blueray drive in this thing I'd probably never use it for movies- too noisy! I'm looking forward to the day when optical drive are no longer required for software installs and all of my content is on my solid state drive. Hopefully that's not too far off. I was so glad when floppy drive were finally banished, I don't miss them.

  7. Re:Analog has its place on Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday · · Score: 1

    True that. My analog (TriMode, running in analog mode) phone got a horse dispatched into Yosemite backcountry to cart out a teen with a seriously broken leg. All the digital phones that people had brought failed to connect. Talking to dispatch sounded more like a two-way radio than a typical phone call, but it worked.

  8. Tragically... on Science Debate 2008 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Over the years our use of the term "evolution" became so vague that I'm not even sure what it means to say that someone "denies evolution" **sniff*sigh**

  9. Eye Pee on Anti-Piracy Group Violates Swiss Law to Track File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Wait, could you clarify, once more, what this "IP" means???? Sincerely, Confused

  10. Re:Free Speech Zones on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Maybe its because some people at university are there to learn- and without regulation college protests would pretty much make the school continuously useless. FSZs are a pretty good idea if you ask me. Maybe (ok, definitely) not ideologically perfect but I think it's a pretty good compromise. It kept the classrooms and labs open for me to complete my degree while still allowing my peers to protest or push their political views.

  11. Re:The answer is quite simple actually: on Apple QuickTime DRM Disables Video Editing Apps · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? Pablo has been working for years, since like quicktime 4. I don't now anymore because owning Logic Studio licenses quicktime without a serial. I think iTunes is available separate as well with an extra click.

  12. Re:That META tag is... on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 1

    lowercase please ;)

  13. Re:windows7 on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Imagine how much better windows could be if they weren't afraid to break backwards compatibility. I don't like it when things don't work but I love that Apple is willing to depricate things that have depreciated.

  14. Unionize Them! on A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers · · Score: 1

    At first I read that as "un-ionizing" . . . and I kind of wondered what exactly that would involve.

    Hmmm

  15. Re:Logic vs Faith on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 1

    Heehee- but monkeys are funnier to talk about that apes!

    Cheers!

  16. Re:Logic vs Faith on Science Text Attempts to Reconcile Religion and Science · · Score: 4, Funny

    if evolution(){
          u = monkey++;
    } ;)

  17. Re:The RIAA is correct for once! on RIAA Not Suing Over CD Ripping, Still Calling Rips 'Unauthorized' · · Score: 1

    Yeah- and who uses AAC/MP3 for backup??? If anything the lossy file is for primary use and the CD/FLAC is for backup.

  18. Re:Avoid wireless on How Would You Design Your Dream Office? · · Score: 1

    All that static noise you hear is natural radiation on radio frequencies. Been around since God was in diapers.
    So like 2005 years? Merry Christmas man :)
  19. Re:Not suprised on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    I've actually gotten pretty good and figuring which jams are accident related and those that are just people being retarded. Me too. My personal method is to look for the crash.
  20. Re:You'd think... on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1

    . . . but everyone like Targets more than Walmarts *ducks*

  21. Re:Parent has a halfway decent point on Users and Web Developers Vent Over IE7 · · Score: 1

    You sir, are obviously not a web developer. Cheers, Ed.

  22. Re:Funny you mention this on YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation · · Score: 1

    So did you get in anywhere? :p

  23. That reminds me... on YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation · · Score: 1

    In a world where Everybody Votes, telephone poles are made from wood by-products, not tall trees.

    People.

  24. Re:What a waste of time... on US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    Probably.

  25. Wrong wrong wrong on Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan · · Score: 1

    ...Ahy wait a minute...that's ME you're pointing all that traffic at!!!