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  1. Re:My submission about VMWare was rejected.... on Microsoft Providing Virtual Server Free · · Score: 1

    I guess dupes are necessary after all...

  2. Re:Lame. on iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served? · · Score: 1

    Uhm... I had that all nice and spaced out I swear! I missed the 'Plain old text' drop down. I apologize.

    My thoughts exactly.

    It really really annoys me when people tell me not to use/buy/see things because of their opinion, despite them not having used/bought or seen it themselves. Specifically - movies.

      "Dont watch Napolean Dynamite - it's so gay!"
      me: "Did you see it?"
      "No. but *blah blah blah*" ... That movie was great!

    On another note : I really hated the fact that they started to bundle QuickTime with iTunes (which installs iPodService, etc...)

    Yes, I am aware of the un-bundled download, but most end-users are never going to notice it's there or care...

    Anyways, that's how I ended up with iTunes on my desktop; and hey - it's not that bad! In retrospect - bundling was a genius idea-- it probably gave sales a good boost, and proved people like me, who thought they hated iTues, wrong.

    I bring that up because, when I said: ""It really really annoys me when people tell me not to use/buy/see things because of their opinion, despite them not having used/bought or seen it themselves. ""... it occured to me that before I ended up with iTunes, I kept telling people to download the unbundled version and not touch iTunes, ever..

    God damnit.

  3. Re:Lame. on iTunes, One Billion Suckers Served? · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. It really really annoys me when people tell me not to use/buy/see things because of their opinion, despite them not having used/bought or seen it themselves. Specifically - movies. "Dont watch Napolean Dynamite - it's so gay!" me: "Did you see it?" "No. but *blah blah blah*" ... That movie was great! On another note : I really hated the fact that they started to bundle QuickTime with iTunes (which installs iPodService, etc...) Yes, I am aware of the un-bundled download, but most end-users are never going to notice it's there or care... Anyways, that's how I ended up with iTunes on my desktop; and hey - it's not that bad! In retrospect - bundling was a genius idea-- it probably gave sales a good boost, and proved people like me, who thought they hated iTues, wrong. I bring that up because, when I said: ""It really really annoys me when people tell me not to use/buy/see things because of their opinion, despite them not having used/bought or seen it themselves. ""... it occured to me that before I ended up with iTunes, I kept telling people to download the unbundled version and not touch iTunes, ever.. God damnit.

  4. Re:Hmm...Porn? on Google Base Launches · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your use of the word 'most' disturbs me

  5. Re:Google this, google that! on Google Developing Database Service · · Score: 1

    And it whitens your teeth as you drive!

  6. Re:who comes up with this names? on Mandriva Linux 2006 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Vista?

  7. Re:Damn, Linux is fast on Mandriva Linux 2006 Released · · Score: 1

    I never understood why cars are like that...

  8. Re:But wait! There's more... on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    The "1 - 365" results are "Featured sites" and "Web Directory Sites";

    Once you pass those pages, you have "Web Pages" (in light gray, after the last web-directory sites link) which has approximately 15 989 646 pages.

    "I think its just a shoddy search engine made by them with their usual incompetence. "

    They approximate, just like Google. They may be biases but the difference in numbers you mentionned isn't incompetent programming; they just chose to show the number of "featured sites" instead of all of the web pages.

    And since the average windows/Msn user probably never looks beyond page 5, it's a good choice [IMO]