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  1. Re:Exactly! on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    Have you tried XFce? In my experience, it uses much less RAM than GNOME and is much faster, but has the advantage of still being based on GTK2 for integration with GNOME/GTK applications.

  2. Re:Not as interesting as it sounds... on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 1

    Not to my knowledge. Stress is one thing that affects it, for instance; the more stress the mother is under during pregnancy, the high the chance of the child being homosexual. I don't think that would be a direct connsequence of genetics.

  3. Re:Not as interesting as it sounds... on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Homosexuality isn't, as far as research can tell, genetic. It seems to be caused by conditions within the mother's womb, which causes the brain to develop in a slightly different way.

  4. Re:Saturn and Dreamcast on PSP Delayed Into 2005? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You'll note that that article also mentions that it did well in Japan; it understates it a bit. The system was pretty well neck and neck with the PlayStation in Japan until Sega killed it prematurely for the Dreamcast. It failed in North America and Europe partly because Sega of America/Europe have always been incompetent marketers, and partly because of a lack of quality games making it to those markets. A large number of the system's best games stayed in Japan.

  5. Re:Firefox is cool - on the PC on Redmondmag on Dumping IE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a very good point. I initially put Firefox on my Mac, to use the same browse I use under Windows and Linux, but stopped using it instead of Safari when I found it slower and less reliable on Mac than on other platforms.

  6. Re:Windows itself _IS_ Spyware ! on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm mistaken, that was one of China's conditions for buying - and then they decided not to use Microsoft's software.

  7. Re:Er...whoops. on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    iTunes allows non-iTunes purchased items to be played, as well. It plays MP3 and unprotected AAC, as well as a few other formats.

  8. Re:What makes Slashdot great on Computing for Near-Blind Children? · · Score: 1

    He was happy with the magnifier, but the OS itself has problems with accessibility in several places. (The colour scheme, for one - the OS itself doesn't let you change the look of the OS beyond the colour of a few widgets, and its light colours are extremely hard for someone with little sight to be able to see at all.) He's reporting the problems he finds to Apple, so hopefully it will be fixed up; but in general, OS X isn't yet accessible like Windows is (with 3rd party software).

  9. Re:Er...whoops. on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 1
    And you evidently missed the point. With this ruling, Apple can now sue EphPod and GtkPod or any other *Pod out of existence.
    Why? They're beneficial to Apple, since they don't make money from the iTunes software (which they give away for free) but from the sale of iPod hardware. I'm certain that Apple's happy with GTKPod, because of which I own an iPod to use with Linux.
  10. Re:How many? on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 1

    Actually, coyotes are a real danger to domestic cats in some areas; it's far from unknown for that to happen.

  11. Re:What makes Slashdot great on Computing for Near-Blind Children? · · Score: 1, Informative

    According to a visually-impaired friend of mine who is testing the new OS X accessibility tools, they're not up to par with the solutions available for Windows a the moment.

  12. Re:Can't get to site on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1

    DOSBox runs many DOS games very well, in my experience, and it's both free and has a nice Mac port. You can give the Windows port a try, first, if you want to see if the games you want to play run properly, or look it up in their reasonably exhaustive compatility list.

  13. Re:Telus and Voice Recognition on Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source · · Score: 1

    I remember finding that on Sierra's lines in about 1996 or so... I can't recall how well it worked, although since they just had you speak numbers instead of dialing them it wasn't very sophisticated.

  14. Re:This is what id like.. on The Perfect Online Music Store? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They pay royalties to ROMS, the Russian organization that handles licensing for radio, television, internet audio and so forth, and ROMS pays royalties in turn to the artists. In Russia, it's perfectly legal, and seems to be in other countries; it is a bit grey whether this is covered under export laws proper or not, but generally it's legal to import something if it has a legal license in the country of origin, to my knowledge.

  15. Re:PPC overclocking on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    Yes, the AmigaOne has been shipping for... a year and a half now? Something like that. It's controlled by dipswitches on the CPU module; they don't use OpenFirmware. Apple uses the same types of CPU modules, MegArray, so presumeably overclocking would work the same in one of their computers.

  16. Re:gaim is great, and I especially like Adium on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Adium is nice enough, but the spell-checking drove me up the wall. I prefer to do my own manual spell-checking, and as far as I can tell there's no way to turn it off.

  17. Re:6 GHz is not that impressive. on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    I know that G4s can be overclocked; I've heard of several AmigaOne users running their 7455 G4s at 1GHz.

  18. Re:Obvious compromise on US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion · · Score: 1

    Pan & scan isn't done automatically, furthermore... it's done with someone deciding what part to cut out. DVDs that are panned-and-scanned are that way on the disc, not automagically by the DVD player.

  19. Re:another option on Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    Possibly true. I'm not a lawyer; I'm not certain. I have read that it's perfectly legal for Canadians, as myself, to use it, however.

  20. Re:another option on Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yes. AllofMP3 and MP3Search.ru pay royalties to ROMS, which in turn pays royalties out to the artists.

  21. Re:SW Prequels - how about... on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's rather different from what Sky Captain is doing - saying that Tron is clearly basically the same thing isn't really true.

  22. Re:SW Prequels - how about... on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    According to the textbook for my cinema class, far less than that; it had CG in only 15 minutes out of its total 96-minute running time.

  23. Re:Disney has to be scared. on The Incredibles Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    First make certain to do it through the filter of Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor.

  24. Re:I found this out a while ago... on Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code · · Score: 1

    He's referring to Enlightenment, I think, while I imagine you're talking about emacs. e can be short for both, which is very confusing and not very helpful. ;3

  25. Re:Live Boardcasting? on Geek Olympics Code for Gold · · Score: 2, Funny

    Painful, if you get in the way.