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  1. Eh sorry? on First HD-DVD Player Goes On Sale · · Score: -1, Redundant
    The player will sell for 110,000 yen (US$936) in Japan, which is less than the $800 price tag it will carry in North America.

    I may be dense, but how ti $926 less than $800?

    When is the first media due out?

  2. Re:socialist-democratic not communist on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the polar bears roaming the streets and the free love.

  3. Re:Read More on NASA Detects Nearby Mystery Explosion · · Score: 1
    Doesn't anyone read SciFi anymore? It's the Omega clouds!

    I think it's VGER.

  4. Re:I'm starting to think the RIAA picks at random. on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 1
    I hope you were using it sarcastically...

    Oh absolutely! I'm sorry - I figured that was such bad advice it would be obviously sarcastic...

  5. Re:I'm starting to think the RIAA picks at random. on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...the only reason there aren't more cases like this is because almost everybody is using P2P.

    Kind of like the old adage that goes something like "Discipline your child often. Even if you don't know what they did, they do." And no, I have no children. Yet. But it would seem clear that the RIAA really needs to look over their methods for collecting evidence. Didn't they end up suing a supposedly innocent Mac-user once, because they didn't realize that on a DSL or Cable subscription, you have dynamic IP? Maybe they need to be taught that *everybody* do not have computers, and *everybody* with computers are not using them to l33ch mp3s.

  6. Re:What about OO.org? on Microsoft Loses Office Patent Dispute · · Score: 1
    To the best of my knowledege, OpenOffice.org has no built in function to move data between Excel and Access.

    No, but since TFP doesn't refer to Access and Excel, that's irrelevant. It specifies 'spreadsheet' and 'database'.

  7. Re:What about OO.org? on Microsoft Loses Office Patent Dispute · · Score: 1
    Or unless OO.o implements the same idea in a similar way...

    Exactly my point. Can the same patent holder come after OO.org? I'm not familiar enough with OO.org to know if a similar feature exists in it.

  8. What about OO.org? on Microsoft Loses Office Patent Dispute · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is OpenOffice affected by this?

  9. Re:The Real Reason on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1
    Don't forget...

    * (bugfix)

    Sorry Rob - I just couldn't help myself. :D

  10. Re:Makes me laugh. on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and make better music.

  11. Re:Pendergast is a lobbyist. on Open Source In Public Sector Meeting Opposition · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Along the same lines...

    Worse, the policy represents an attack on market-based competition, which in turn will hurt innovation. The state has a disaster in the making.

    *cough* Excuse me?

  12. Re:Burning time on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1
    spouses that aren't wifes then

    Not to mention that it's spelled wives... but that's not important right now...

  13. Burning time on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 4, Funny

    How would you respond if someone accused you as being the reason for hours upon hours of neglected work, laundry, yardwork, homework, pets, spouses, wifes, dental appointments...? *guilty of all of the above*

  14. Re:The latest threat... on Australian Linux Trademark Holds Water · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh no! Recursive patents! I knew GNU's Not Unix was behind this!

    I wonder if the enforcement emails were sent using PINE Is Not Elm?

  15. Re:Situational awareness on Strong Emotions May Cause Temporary Blindness · · Score: 1
    I'm guessing that the mind is 'stopping' to process full information out of the shocking image

    Like a mental DoS?

  16. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice on Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just install vi for Windows and teach them the importance of :q!, dd, :set ts=3 and other commands.

  17. Re:Sony + Proprietary on Blu-Ray to Include New Copy Protection · · Score: 1
    Blu-Ray isn't Sony though, it was co-developed by most of the hardware makers on the DVD Forum, save NEC and Toshiba, I think, which made a competing format with 40% less capacity.

    According to a conference call I attended with Gartner, the minds behind Blu-Ray is Sony/Philips, with the backing of Disney. The DVD Forum (Tosh et al) are touting the HDDVD. From what I understood, the HDDVD format is not as technically advanced as Blu-Ray, but a lot easier/cheaper to manufacture on existing equipment.

  18. Re:yea on Xbox As An Indie Movie Studio · · Score: 1

    That is about completely and utterly wrong. Still going strong after 3 seasons. Funny, but yet not as disturbing as Salad Fingers (total of 6 episodes there). I may have to buy the DVDs. "And I though I told you to stop making up mythological creatures!"

  19. Re:ouch on Hidden Black Holes Discovered · · Score: 1

    Compare an interstellar bumpy ride to a ride down I-35 around Kansas City, MO...

  20. Re:Geek explanation required. on Hidden Black Holes Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think they don't really escape the black hole per se. They're just very high-frequency/high-energy radiation that leaves the super-heated gas BEFORE it 'falls over' the event horizon.

  21. Even X-rays isn't enough sometimes on Hidden Black Holes Discovered · · Score: 1

    Here's a Journal entry about previously unseen quasars (black holes, really) that was found by Spitzer, just by looking for infra red signatures instead of X-ray.

  22. Re:Are you kidding me? on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ever hear of grep?

    Old sysadmin wisdom: Never GREP a BISON by the INODE.

  23. Re:Her parents should be proud... on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ooh, and if your coworkers were mentally or physically injured (spat Pepsi upon), you can make it a class action law suit.

  24. Re:It's not GPL'ed either! on OpenOffice 2.0 Criticized on Use of Java · · Score: 1

    Rugburns, you mean as in "your" instead of "you're", and "I'd" instead of "I;d"?

  25. Re:Weak! on Black Hole Birth Detected this Morning · · Score: 1

    Uh, you're absolutely correct. :) That GRB must have scrambled some synapses.