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  1. Re:CMYK? on Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode · · Score: 1

    WTF? Just use CMYK. It costs more money to print red and green.
    Only on CMYK printers. A large portion of professional printing uses spot color, where each individual color's ink is premixed and applied in separate passes.

    Often you'll use process color and spot color on the same target. Look near the bottom of a pack of Doritos or the like, and you'll typically see cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and some other custom colors that are used to increase vibrancy and sometimes even reduce cost.
  2. Re:finally! on Blu-ray Disc Among Top Selling DVDs at Amazon · · Score: 1

    Blu-Ray has more capacity than the competition this time
    ruh roh!
  3. Re:Er... on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    Why not actually try to read the article to see how the program works?
    Welcome to Slashdot!
  4. Re:Sony faces a formidible challenge this time on Games Industry Sees 12 Billion in Sales For 2006 · · Score: 1
    games like Halo 3 and Lost Planet on the horizon for 2007
    FYI, Lost Planet was released today.
  5. Re:What ever happened to policy? on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1
    Does Best Buy have to have legislation to ask for your ID when you pay by credit card? No. Do they?
    No. At least for the dozen or so Best Buys I've ever been in. Unless they started last weekend.
  6. Re:It's largely a Microsoft thing on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1
    Your confusing CPU instructions with Operating System services.
    You're confusing possessives and contractions. ;)
  7. Space has a terrible power on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 1

    PAK. CHOIE. UNF.

  8. Re:Oh goody! on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's September on USENET all over again.
    Me too!!!!!
  9. Hello?? on Arctic Ice May Melt By 2040 · · Score: 2, Funny

    HELLO? CAN ANYONE SEE THIS?

    I'm writing from the future to tell everyone that the polar ice caps melted in 2045, and Atlantis was found underneath what was once called the North Pole. The earth's magnetic poles are in the middle of swapping, so it's about 135 degrees Fahrenheit there today.

    Good news, though: Duke Nukem Forever is being released next year!

  10. Re:Invest in yourself. Assume no one else will. on Advice For Programmers Right Out of School · · Score: 1

    Oops, off your meds? =(

  11. Re:eBay on The PlayStation 3 Launches In the U.S. · · Score: 1
  12. Works fine on IE7 Blocking Google Image Search? · · Score: 1

    STFU RTFM

  13. Re:Why use the courts? on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1
    Basically, the unruly kids with poor parents have won.
    Don't you mean rich parents? The ones that can sue and have their way?
  14. Re:Click here to crash Firefox on IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years · · Score: 1

    Works fine for me. FF 1.5.0.7, WinXP SP2.

  15. Re:Yes, you can use hardware to track down bugs... on Big Challenges for Vista Bug Hunters · · Score: 1

    Did you install VMWare Tools? Then you were most certainly using third-party drivers. Furthermore, the Windows install CD comes with dozens, if not hundreds of third-party drivers for all sorts of peripherals. Doubtful you can even install XP without any third-party drivers.

  16. Re:20-40 times faster than CPU?! on Folding@Home Releases GPU Client · · Score: 1
    Or do the triangle rendering algorithms in the graphics card somehow help the folding calculations?
    Yes, yes they do. The 'triangle rendering algorithms' you speak of are vector and matrix operations, plus some trigonometry. That's exactly what folding calculations need. Also, GPUs are designed to perform many of these operations at the same time using something called superscalability.
  17. Re:It used to be your rights end where mine begin on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 1

    Wait, are we fighting EurAsia or East Asia? I can't remember... ;)

  18. Re:be a bit bored.... on Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles? · · Score: 1

    ScuttleMon K ey.

  19. Re:OT: What is the tune the ATM plays and why? on Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling · · Score: 1

    You mean the "charge!" tune? It's the electric motors and related equipment that pick up, sort, stack, align, and dispense the bills. The timing just happens to sound like a little ditty.

  20. Re:April 1st already? on P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    This just in: Sony not including seismic-monitoring hard disk cable with PS3!

  21. Re:Shatner is not pleased on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Pretty boxes?!? on Microsoft Encouraging OEMs to Beautify Computers · · Score: 1

    Do you really think all ~55,000 employees should be working on 'security holes, instabilities, and bugs'? Imagine, if you will, a company that employs people with diverse skills to work on different things at the same time. Now there's a concept!

  23. Re:Question moot. on A Closed Off System? · · Score: 1
    Sure for you... but what about your publically deployed kiosk... or your call center desktop or whatever. Definitely plenty of applications for such a deployment, I think it's just that this is already accomplishable using read only partitions/live cds/etc.

    Even better... boxen designated as Top Secret could benefit from this. Think Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrup, etc.
  24. Re:Linux still wins on OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net? · · Score: 1
    And CentOS, which is nearly an exact clone of RHEL is free. Debian is free. So are most linux distros. So you pick ONE distro out of HUNDREDS and claim that linux is not free????? Do you somehow believe that the ONLY way you can run Linux in a commercial environment is if you run RHEL or other commercial pay distro?

    No, no, no. You didn't read. Yes of course RHEL is free to download and use. Basic SUPPORT is $1500 for 1 year. Perhaps you've never worked somewhere where developer-grade Linux support was critical... I can understand your confusion in that case.
  25. Re:Linux still wins on OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net? · · Score: 1

    Basic Support for RHEL AS is $1500 too, you know, and that's anually. Not taking sides here, but it's simply not true to say "Linux is free" in a commercial environment.