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  1. Re:won't get my money on Neverwinter Nights Tidbits · · Score: 1

    The cutscene movies are crap anyway... you won't miss much. The best part about NWN are the thousands of community-created modules, at least half of which are better than the included single-player campaign, and only a handful of them have any cutscene movies.

    Really, it's a fantastic game. Don't miss out.

  2. Jack Vance on Great Science Fiction that is Out of Print? · · Score: 2

    Jack Vance has written many excellent but out of print sci-fi and fantasy novels. But you can often find them at used-book stores. I recommend them highly; his mastery of the English language is astonishing, and his dialog is very witty.

  3. I thought Republicans... on CIA and Military to Have U.S. Snooping Powers? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ... were all about a smaller, less powerful Federal government.

    Can any of the Republicans reading this explain this to me? How do you explain the actions of the Bush administration?

    BTW, I have nothing against Republicans, and I am not a Democrat.

  4. What choice did they have? on Shuttle Assessment Tool was Inferior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems like a moot point to me. From what I understand they had no alternative but to attempt a landing. Maybe if they had somehow scraped together another shuttle launch right after the first one they could have all ridden home in the second one? Or maybe fixed the damage to the first one? I doubt it.

  5. Re:Magic? on Tempers Flare Over Ill-Tempered Sword Remarks · · Score: 1

    The SwordForum people are very knowledgable about swords, and if they say a blade is ill-tempered I'm inclined to believe them. Especially since I'm familiar with the Angel Sword people and I know what pricks they are.

  6. SuSE on First Look At SuSE Linux 8.2 · · Score: 1

    I usually define SuSE as AIX written by Germans on crack. -- Derry Hamilton, alt.sysadmin.recovery

  7. Re:So, what did one moss say to another? on Largest Living Organism Is A Fungus · · Score: 1

    Errr...

    Since when is moss a fungus?

  8. Re:2003...in 2003? on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1

    How do you know?

  9. How? on New UK Law Criminalizes Copyright Violation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How has this, or the EU directive it implements, become law without even debate, let alone outcry?

    Two words: Greased Palms

  10. Solid-Body Electric Guitars! on Technologies that Have Exceeded Their Expectations? · · Score: 1

    Long after their introduction, the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Telecaster are still the guitars of choice for a great many artists. They were the first two solid-body electrics ever manufactured, although which was actually first is still a point of contention.

  11. Duh... on Alternative Hyperbaric Chamber Use · · Score: 1

    Many hospitals have had HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy) units for years... they are particularly popular for treating non-healing wounds in diabetics.

  12. Warning: Flamebait on Never Mind The 25th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    English music is like a funhouse mirror of American music. While occasionally there are interesting results (The Beatles, Black Sabbath), it's mostly only a pale imitation with little "soul". The Sex Pistols don't hold a candle to American punk bands that came before them like The Ramones or The Stooges. No bands from England have ever quite had the visceral punch of, say, The Doors, Janis Joplin, MC5, Black Flag, The Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana...

    Anytime English bands get popular in the States it's only because they're superficially exciting in an over-the-top kind of way.

    Of course, American music is itself only a reflection of African-American music. I know that there are lots of black people in England, but they tend to be very... well... British. The black American has a very special creole culture that constantly innovates musically. You might think that punk rock is purely a white-boy phenomenon, but consider that the Ramones' sound is a simplified and aggressive form of 50's rock'n'roll ala Elvis and Buddy Holly... and Elvis' sound was merely a countrified R&B (country music itself was already heavily influenced by blues and swing at this time).

    African-American music is always evolving in it's own direction while the white boys jump on a tangent and run with it or take ideas from their current sound (note the influence that hip-hop currently has in rock music). Occasionally someone will step into the white man's game (Hendrix, Bad Brains) and prove that they can still do it better.

    Remember, rock'n'roll is just African-American slang for sex.

  13. Re:Oh come on, if you're going to go for hero batt on Superhero Smackdown · · Score: 2

    Oooooh! That's a toughy. Man, I can't pick a winner from that one no matter how much I think about it. Thanks a lot...

  14. Re:Rollins VS Danzig on Superhero Smackdown · · Score: 2

    Rollins would win. I mean, has Glen ever been in an actual fight that we know of? And no, slapping down some smart-aleck 14 year old punk rockers doesn't count.

  15. Reputation? on Lucky Green vs. Palladium · · Score: 5, Funny

    "He thinks that a challenge by Microsoft to his patents is unlikely: It would discredit Biddle and damage the company's reputation for truthfulness..."

    Hmmm... I didn't realize there was one to be damaged.

  16. Re:Step one on Floor Vacuum Robot for $200 · · Score: 2

    Yes, we need a robot to handle that part of the job as well. I propose; the Slob-O-Matic 3000!

  17. Re:Interesting on THG Looks at ClawHammer Mobo · · Score: 2

    Plus, they look cool! Makes you want to build one of those acrylic case kits to show it off.

  18. We may be poor... on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 0

    ... but we can kick all your asses! We're still young, but old enough to be crafty, so watch your mouths you old farts (and that goes for you young punks, too.)

  19. Re:Same here on Red Hat 8.0 For KDE Users (And Newbies) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The best solution is to alias whatever hostname you want to localhost. So if you want the hostname to be Cooter.Graw you would put this is your hosts file:

    127.0.0.1 localhost Cooter.Graw Cooter

    Cooter.Graw and Cooter will then just be aliases for localhost. (You can get rid of localhost.localdomain, but you need the initial localhost there.) So, in your case you would need to change the localhost line to:

    127.0.0.1 localhost green.rsn green

  20. There's nothing wrong with Mr. Novack... on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 2

    ... that a ski mask and a baseball bat can't solve.

    Pets Warehouse, meet Sports Warehouse.

  21. Speaking of Medical Software... on Debian Internal Projects Slides by Andreas Tille · · Score: 2

    has anyone gottne The Medical Manager to run on Linux or *BSD? SCO OpenServer is stinky.

  22. Re:And Now... (OT) on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 2

    No, that's Shel Silverstein.

    I would attribute it as such, but there's not enough space in a Slashdot sig.

  23. And Now... on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You get comments almost immediately! First Post!

  24. Re:All I have to say on Ballmer Wants to "Stomp Linux" Using MS community · · Score: 2

    Oh man... that's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

    /me wipes tears out of eyes.

  25. Re:All about image on US Geeks Recycle GNU/Linux Boxes for Ecuador · · Score: 4, Funny

    All women have hairy armpits except those Americans that shave them... oh, and whores in other parts of the world.

    What's the matter with you? Are you some kind of pedophile that can't cope with a post-pubescent woman's natural body?