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  1. Re:Partisan politics isn't getting worse... on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Only for very large values of one.

  2. Suicide on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    Bush aside it should be noted that right-doing of any kind is often Political Suicide.

  3. Re:Internet in Iraq on Bringing Bandwidth To Iraq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thanks for your service.

  4. At least on 'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine · · Score: 1

    If you're going to announce that it doesn't glow green the least you could do is provide pictures of it fluorescing pink before submitting to Slashdot- we like pictures!

  5. Re:Right... on Browser Wars Declared Over? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he is but the least you could so is provide a clickable link: blast.

  6. Re:Temporary on MS Silverlight a Step Back For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Realizing of course that you meant Mac & Windows weren't the only two platforms.

  7. Temporary on MS Silverlight a Step Back For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    It always starts out that way...just until they convince the content makers...

  8. Re:Nice indeed, but... on Firefox Usage Near 25% In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Internet Explorer works decent enough for the average user
    For me it's always been that Internet Explorer doesn't work for the developer .

    The reason it works well enough for the average user is that we developers make it work by piling on hacks and generally jankie code. I'm fat because I eat and I eat because I'm fat.

    I just wish there was a way to break the vicious cycle of IE usage quicker.

  9. 4th on Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders? · · Score: 1

    Clearly that depends on if you're speaking fourth.

  10. Wasted time! on Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they're going to make it so big the least those billy goats could do is use 2xSaI. *sigh*

  11. Oh yeah that fiber... on Preparing for the Worst in IT · · Score: 1

    There actually is several secret links in case of catastrophic failure. :)

  12. Re:no hd? on Apple to Offer MGM Movies · · Score: 1

    The point is establishing the distributions system and the licensing.

    Higher Resolution will come, HD even.

    But first this has to be.
    -Edified

  13. Re:Mirror on Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    Probably about $99,999.90. Im guessing that the mirror had to be specifically designed!

  14. Re:Group spam detection on Live spam-catching contest at CEAS · · Score: 1

    Botnets. Now they're programmable!

  15. Re:Group spam detection on Live spam-catching contest at CEAS · · Score: 1

    Yeah- I'm waiting to see algorithmically generated spam where no two messages are alike. Bleh! That being said gmail does a tremendous job of letting through legitimate messages (which is no doubt the hardest part of making a spam filter these days).

  16. Bad idea on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    Domain names are to easy to fake. That's all. Perhaps a better name system?

  17. Re:Come on /. you can do better on Google Website Optimizer · · Score: 1

    Someone farted at google??! I knew it!

  18. Apple VS Dell on How Long Does it Take You to Tweak a New Box? · · Score: 1

    I work with both Apples and Dells. On Dells the first step is to begin removing software. Actually it's the same on XP OEX (Which I had the pleasure of installing six times last month). On my Macs the first step is always to add software. Funny actually.

  19. Re:Other things interest me besides... on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 1

    And I've heard that blue hair comes from interbreeding with blueberries.

  20. Yeah on Lenovo Tops Eco-Friendly Ranking · · Score: 1

    Just remember- if you wanna be on top of the news page, put Apple at the bottom of your list.

  21. Re:a good chunk... on Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro · · Score: 4, Funny

    flint/flame/inferno/etc./etc
    ...All we ever got was a little Spark *sniff*
  22. Re:Technological superiority at last! on Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah I'm running him in bootcamp.

  23. Re:Better than CD? on Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes · · Score: 1

    I agree. I've been using 128 AAC for all my encodes and I love it. It's a great file size (battery life) to Quality trade off. I'd be more inspired to buy DRM free 128s- in the mean time, in the interest of supporting EMI and Apple in this venture I'm gonna budget some money to buy DRM-Free tracks online starting this month. I expect that the 256Kbps size will be less of a barrier as flash based storage quickly improves in price, power and capacity. Ed

  24. Slow Word on Why Microsoft Should Fear Apple · · Score: 1

    Here's some anecdotal for ya: Two days ago I was writing a lab report in word. There were all kinds of delays- copying and pasting was especially slow. Last semester I used TextEdit and Pages for all my writing. This semester all my lab documents are emailed in Word so I thought I'd try it out (again...I use word intermittently). so I'm writing and all of a sudden I though "This is stupid, I'm waiting to paste." So between that and the goof text formatting tools I hopped back on pages where my only real complaint is having to use the font panel instead of a font menu. Still it's fast.

    I'm using a clean 2.0GHz 20" G5 iMac with Mac Office 2004.

    I constantly think to myself that word processing should be a freebie and should be excellent (is it really that hard? oOO blah blah. Mimicing Microsoft is not a way to make good products- although sometimes I suppose that's not the goal).

  25. Re:What I hope it has on Firefox 3.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    I'd even be happy with native volume control.

    Stop should be for stop loading (click it again to stop timebased media?)