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  1. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    But all retarded websites use flash video instead of quicktime/HTML5 video-tag :(

  2. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, google update check for sure will cripple my machine to a halt, and use 2 GB of my RAM!

    As if it mattered with Safari and flash already doing all of that..

    I doubt it really consumes any system resources worth mentioning.

  3. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    I don't see the problem, "omg, this software checks for updates!"

    Sure once every time it's loaded would be enough but except that?

  4. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    What does MAD stand for? Mutual Ass Destruction?

  5. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    Also why would Iraq listen to UN? UN is a useless parody, with all the veto countries it's useless and no-one trust that shit.

    If USA, russia, china and so on did anything or didn't wanted something to happen UN couldn't do shit about it. Why care for such an organisation?

  6. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    What? UN decided to invade Iraq? I've never heard something such.

    US allies = UN?

    Other countries = UN?

  7. Re:Duh on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    I would assume they want to charge the hefty "all you can eat" fee as you put it so I would assume it would be included to.

    Personally I rather pay for what I use, since it's not much at all.

  8. Re:Granted I'm not a geneticist... on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    Parent moderated (Score:2, Funny)

    Funny? I was serious, I do believe all meat eaters, milk drinkers, egg users, wool bearing, down sleeping, leather feeted, silk wearing people suck.

    Stop abusing others for the benefits of yourself.

    And you still think it's hilarious? :D

  9. Re:enough on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    But we don't want huge assholes, or well, maybe the porn industry does, but most people probably prefer tight assholes filled with huge things?

    That sounds wrong ..

    "Omg, you were tig... errr.. shit, what is this? Or wait ..."

  10. Re:To bad on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    Thereby the "imagine", anyway, thanks!

  11. Re:To bad on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, imagine if we could make a device for turning on / pointing at things at a distance (I don't remember what he used it for or called it so joke fails ..)

  12. Re:Granted I'm not a geneticist... on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 2, Funny

    More people accept cows dying for the benefit of humans than apes. Simple as that, you all suck!

  13. Re:enough on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Vaginas? You don't nearly watch enough porn.

    In todays environment two assholes would make more sense, or maybe three, or maybe asshole coupled together with mouth at each entry for easy A2M. Assholes with teeths?

  14. Re:How we would treat 'sub-humans' on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    Sign me up for 15 catgirls.

  15. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    For a desktop it's a somewhat safer choice though the only reason to not use spdif or regular toslink must be the extra hole in the case, which is a sad excuse imho.

    But for a laptop this suck. It's made for connecting minidiscs and such which would most likely lay on top of the amplifier with no pulling in the cables, it suck on a laptop.

    Yeah, I found a 1.5 meter cable with rotating ends to at Biltema here in Sweden for 64.50 sek (like 7.7 dollar), much better than 59.50 for the adaptors. But it's too short so to connect it to my 5 meter toslink to toslink I would have to get a toslink female to toslink female which they also sold for 59.50, but I won't buy anything more from them because he didn't accepted giving me that one for free after the two others =P

  16. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yahoo and Microsoft Live don't seem to work either, I downloaded Yahoo IM 3 beta for OS X and even that can't use webcam with MSN. Hell, it can't even download the avatars ..

    Gtalk does AIM? Since when? Or are you talking via jabber transports?

  17. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Use ICQ if you want ICQ.

    I mean in iChat .. You know, AIM and ICQ use the same protocols.

    The camera doesn't work in Adium (Pidgin based) which is the only decent client for OS X.

    WMAs can be set to be converted right out of the gate when you add them to iTunes

    I don't want to convert my music ...

    XM support? Are you fucking serious? Who in the HELL uses that for general music/audio? Mod? Again, who the hell uses that for general music/audio? It's mainly found a home as video camera audio. I fail to see why iTunes needs to support that. S3M? Again, who the hell uses that for general music/audio? Seriously, why the hell are you whining about this? These are file formats with specific niches and uses. They're not general audio.

    MOD a video camera audio? Ok, if you say so ...

    They are indeed general audio, I had various choices of music players on my Amiga which could play multiple formats, I have various choices in Windows, I have various choices in the open source OSes, why can't I have a choice in OS X? Because Apple kill all third party applications with their own decent-but-not-perfect applications? If atleast there was a plugin for iTunes which made it possible to play those format.

    I don't give a shit if you don't want to play your "video camera audio"-files :D

    Why the fuck would I convert mod, s3m and XM? That would be pretty stupid ..

  18. Re:Duh on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Personally I think it would be quite nice to say "hey, could you help me out deciding which of these shirts I should get?", or "I've got a new haircut."

    Also Apple have shipped macs with webcams forever and have nice integrated support in iChat (aslong as your friends used the same system atleast ..) so it seems like it's a feature they like.

  19. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yahoo and AIM? Source? Where?

  20. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Other smartphones are around 5000 sek here, so around $600.

  21. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Lightroom and Aperture give you similar results but the way to get them is somewhat different, I tilt over somewhat to Lightrooms approach because I find it faster but both is workable.

    Price used to be the same but I don't know if they still are.

    Lightroom offers two major benefits though, it's faster, yes also on a mac, and you wont have to be stuck with a mac and OS X forever when you have worked with your photos, you can get the same program and use a Windows PC to.

  22. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    No, I know Windows live messenger don't do AIM, but iChat is pretty cool with the webcam, application sharing and photo albums and such but I have no-one I can use it with so it's useless for me.

    I'm stuck with Adium which mean no webcam or aMSN which mean slow as fuck. I can't find trillian astra alphas somewhere.

    Though AIM and jabber isn't Apples products either, and they don't have their own protocol or network, they use others to begin with, and for their users it would be EASIER TO USE A MAC if communicating with their friends JUST WORKed.

  23. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    iChat works with AIM, which is fine

    It's not fine then no-one in your country use ICQ any more. It's not like they will switch for my sake... It would be different if it offered some plugin support or something such which made it work.

    As you say, no-one use ICQ any more, but over here no-one has every used AIM. We are in europe, no AOL here.
    Apple write iChat ...

    their format support is dandy.

    Yeah, who would had wanted to be able to play WMA?
    Or mod, s3m, xm, ...

    I have Perian and Flip4mac, not that that will improve iTunes anyhow.

    Maybe that's because IMAP stores your email server-side instead of downloading them to your computer like POP3 does. ... You have to teach the spam filter. It's not perfect

    Yeah, but Mail seem make a local copy of every mail anyway, atleast when I read them, why can't it just fetch the downloaded mail and mark and sort them? Why are there no check box for that?
    I know you have to teach the spam filter, but there's probably better ones out there ...

  24. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    My mom don't user computers. Though I guess you have a valid point, so maybe Apple would be for me if I was my mom .. Which I'm not.
    The applications and hardware don't have to be crippled to be easy to use though, MSN support and webcam/voip over all protocols wouldn't make iChat harder to use. Similar results out of iPhoto vs aperture wouldn't make it harder to use either, just leave the shadow and highlight default values as is but let the user change them to if needed. Though Lightroom is better imho.

    I know there is a help system, I didn't knew if it included full manual, is it within the applications or on the web? Where?
    Though I prefer reading from dead trees.

    I really hope, Steve is way to old an un-imaginative nowadays, we wouldn't make a good couple. Steve in the early 80ies was the shiet though.

  25. Re:Why not sooner? on Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except when you switch applications because they aren't good enough so you end up with Adium, preferably something else than iTunes or atleast a mod-player to, Lightroom, Pages & Openoffice, and so on it don't work as good together longer.

    But yes, I like integration, which is why I also like KDE.