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  1. Re:iPod not entirely ready for PCs on iTunes Disables MusicMatch · · Score: 1

    You could have purchased a firewire card for the price of the cable.

  2. Nothing. on Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid · · Score: 1

    Nothing. But google isn't offering up enough stock to allow anyone else to get even remotely close to a controlling share. Just because you are offering stock doesn't mean you are selling out your entire company or controlling interest, in this case, google is selling some of it self to the public instead of VCs.

  3. Re:Carrying capacity on Lemming Population Flux Solved: Mass Suicide Not to Blame · · Score: 1

    Birth rates are dropping on an almost global scale. As societies modernize the birth rate falls at a blistering place.

    For example in India:

    Birth Rate per 1k @1970 - 41.2
    Birth Rate per 1k @1995 - 28.3

    Sure improved medicine helps but so does the education and rise of women's rights in societies. We are currently in the end of our world's population explosion for humans.

  4. Re:One line that sums it up IMO on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually if he had taken the time to debug he could have found the offending process and killed it. It pains me to see people who would do the same thing if an X app froze up your WM become stupid when it happens on another OS. Hell, many GUI locks on XP can be averted if you have terminal services running and want to login and poke around.

    Is this the ideal behaviour for most people? No. But if this had happened on an X session would this reviewer have just assumed X itself was locked and kill it?

  5. Re:just a different scarcity ? on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    Traffic Jams are a result of an outdated interstate system. As people move to the suburbs eventually business does as well.

    Instead of having people working in the city and living in the city as the local climate changes to one of people living in the suburbs and working in the city. As cities reach larger sizes smaller business ventures move further and further out until they are located in the suburbs. Now we end up with people living in one suburb having to work in another suburb which is often on the opposite side of downtown in the host city.

    The interstate system was designed to funnel major artery roads into a city for easy troop/resources transport. For long haul usage it serves that purpose well. Unfortunately we now have a glut of cars who must enter the city from a suburb to reach another suburb. Loops are often poor at reducing traffic because they are outdated by the time of their completion and often offer far too few spurs to route around major incidents.

  6. Re:As a real sysadmin on SuSE Going For Red Hat's Market · · Score: 1

    I guess he was just a REAL sysadmin at a company with no REAL money. Veritas is a friggen hack for those who want SAN like features without paying the price.

    Obviously the poster to which you responded has never had any real issues with Veritas. When you do, they definitely aren't pretty. I've had FS contents disapear under veritas volumes only to be told after extensive troubleshooting that the cause is unknown. "Don't worry it is an aberrant behaviour, won't happen again." Then a couple months later when you lose another FS contents out from under your Oracle DB it is your REAL ass on the line. I make a point of phasing out Veritas anywhere I go, anything it can do, you can do cheaper and better if you can't afford SAN storage.

  7. OT: About Atari on Panther Released into the Wild · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Atari also had another system which was never released called you guessed it, Panther. Panther was set to come out about the same time as the SNES... had it come out it would have been by far the most superior console for a year or two.

  8. Re:AirPort Difficulties and Control-D on Panther Released into the Wild · · Score: 1

    Control-D works just fine for me in terminal on an upgrade install.

  9. Re:The price drop is unlikely, but is still possib on Possible PS2 Price Portent Pondered · · Score: 1

    If you look at the financials for hardware expenditures and profits in the GC division Nintendo was making a hefty profit on the GC hardware before so they may not be incurring any losses at all while at the $99 price point. In addition Nintendo was farming out manufactoring to China which was expected to cut costs.

  10. Re:Heads up on the sarcasm folks. on Even Grues Get Full · · Score: 0

    This wasn't sarcasm... it was just pathetic. The only thing that might even be ironic about it was the score was high and the review so negative. The attempt at being "funny" in the review was just that, an attempt. Then again given the actual book it was about is rarelt funny maybe it will actually appeal to the target audience.

  11. Re:Timeline change for cracking AAC? on Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Google around, there are already ways around the AAC protections being used by the iTunes store.

  12. Re:what is with people? on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Nice contradiction in your own post.

    The guy you asked the question to was telling you to "look it up yourself" or as you mentioned with scroll lock key, just try it.

  13. Why the typical slashdot Hate? on Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Firstsly, personally I am not really into the "blogs". Despite my thinking that the whole term is retarded; the segregated and "showtime" nature of that particular slice of the net doesn't apeal to me much.

    However sites like Livejournal rock. Sure there are tons of young girls and boys out there looking for an outlet for their typical teen angst and there are just as many people using as a hookup service (luckily friendster is taking over that function nicely).

    The saving grace is for groups of friends. Thanks to my working in the Internet world as do many of my friends we have found ourselves scattered all over the place. By using livejournal as a replacement for the group emails we have now made easily searchable, archived places to communicate. This works out a lot better than lists ever did because people are more open on something they can call their own private place. Comments allow easy flow of conversation and links back. Also it removes the time constraints found on emails, usually if someone doesn't reply in a day or so no one else is even following that thread anymore. Finally the whole friends of friends thing has introduced me to a lot of great new people who I never would have met before.

    Most of those who are so quick to pan are the typical elitists who can't find anything good in a thing unless it is something they personally use or participate in.

  14. Re:And I thought suing for spilt coffee was insane on Register.com Loses Class action Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    Coffee isn't acid.

    How on Earth is this insightful?

  15. Re:Oh, because corporations are always trustworthy on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Houses are connected to streets which are a public medium.

    Just because something is connected to the net doesn't give you rights to explore it. The free-willing, let's have a party and XXX.edu's servers have long passed. Stop pining for them and pretending the rest of the world didn't show up.

    The Internet is no longer the wild west; that is a simple fact that lots of people need to accept.

  16. Re:Shipped with books? Getting more complicated? on Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory · · Score: 1

    Wow this is pretty wrong.

    Those early RPGs came with those documents because they didn't have the storage to include that info in that game. Even then they were simpler because those games actually told you what the items were and did. In addition many of those early games came with everything in docs to help stop piracy.

    So tell me exactly what does a Plasma Sword +12 (Yellow Element) do? Without resorting to FAQs or insane play times figuring these things out beyond the basic (plasma is like fire) ideas is a chore and isn't really fun.

  17. Re:Can these interface to a computer? on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1

    They can if your computer supports the bluetooth headset profile. The problem with this is only TDK makes a card now that supports the headset profile so your choices are limited. The TDK card works but isn't currently built in to any computing devices. Even after getting this don't expect anything stellar, the quality is low and there is no way to easily set different audio input/outputs when turning on the headset (no "roaming" profiles).

    Still it is quite cool to start up a yahoo voice chat with someone and walk around the room talking to them. Using them with a program like Dragon Dictate requires you to redo your profile which takes for fricken ever.

  18. Re:Oh come on... on Details of Linux-in-Munich Deal Revealed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not really into bashing Microsoft continually, that was so 1995 and BBS-like but...

    I guess the news here is that parts of the world outside the tightly wound tech community are starting to realize how over priced Microsoft software is. In this specific instance they noted this condition when Microsoft kept dropping their software prices. Sure it may only be one government, but soon it may be many and eventually the U.S. one as well. Hopefully the competition will continue to drive down software prices for everyone in the WinTel world.

    The other good thing here is that it shows the OS war isn't over completely. So maybe someday in the future we may see some serious OS innovation again from some small upstart company or group of individuals. As great as linux/the bsds are they are a refinement not an innovation.

  19. Re:Already one mistake in this article... on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    It isn't an Ad Hom as you obviously don't have the proper mental capacity to understand a clearly written sentence. You need to go find an English teacher from 5th-7th grade and ask them how to diagram a sentence. Once you learn that, apply it to the sentence in question and be amazed!

  20. Re:Already one mistake in this article... on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    No you moron, English doesn't do mulitple inheritence when written like that.

  21. Re:Already one mistake in this article... on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to reading comprehension?

    The final portion as written refers to the Matrix not to Neo.

  22. Re:and... on SARS Contained · · Score: 1

    People spit to cleanse out the "bad spirits" and "diseases".

    At least thats what I've been told.

  23. Re:ssh-hhhhh on AOL Dropping RIM for Danger Sidekick · · Score: 1

    There is port of putty to the P800. Not exactly a small phone but much smaller than what you were carrying before.

  24. Re:oohp on Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari · · Score: 1

    Apparently the newest betas of safari include some new frameworks for browsing. Apple will probably me making these new APIs available during WWDC later this month, msoft could have been talking about this.

    (Still doesn't matter though)

  25. Re:credit checks - wtf? on False Positives, Few Matches Plague 'No-Fly' List · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not every check shows up on your reports, it is possible to make an overall query that doesn't get mentioned. FICOs scores are done this way.