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  1. Re:I wonder... on Oregon Government Supporting Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No.

    I know. I'm from Oregon. Oregon is just a liberal place. And, yes, admit it, Open Source/Free Software is very liberal.

    There's a lot of Open Source activity here in Oregon, anyway, without the government. For example... what's that guy from Finland? You know, the guy who founded some big Open Source project? Whatever his name is, he lives here.

    Then again... Washington and Oregon are both on the west coast (and blue states). So if you mean, by proximity, "on the west coast", you're right.

  2. Re:Not ALL of Oregon Govt. on Oregon Government Supporting Open Source · · Score: 1

    Supporting doesn't mean using. I'm sure Ted Kulongoski still will use a Dell running Windows XP and Office. Honestly, hardly anybody uses Linux on desktop. Linux is mostly only used in servers, and that's where the Oregon government is going to use it. (I'm an Oregonian, by the way.)

  3. Re:Your father must be proud on Transferring Mail from AOL? · · Score: 1
    If you were a real geek you'd set up a mail server and give your Dad a free, *private* mail account.

    If you had a life, a job or even a school you were attending, you wouldn't have nearly enough time to set up and maintain a mail server. And if you weren't just trying to be cool and out-geek somebody, you'd go the easy way.

  4. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? on MTV Nominates Game Tracks, Misses Point · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why wasn't GTA:SA nominated? It has lots of fun stuff on the radio--suprisingly for a video game, it actually got quite a few good song to put on the rock stations. It's fun listening to the hillbillies on the country stations, too....

    And after all, I'd think that MTV would like sex mini-games.

  5. Re:Can you read this? on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    I think average open source coders either a) already have hit fifty or b) never will hit fifty, because so many new open source developers will come along constantly.

  6. Re:The version number game on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1
    Are people really that silly to think that the (soon to be released) IE7.0 is almost 6 versions "ahead" of FF?

    Uh... yeah.... since when have people not been silly? I'd like to meet these people--although I imagine they would be sort of boring.

  7. Re:One IBM developer was heard muttering on User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2 · · Score: 1
    No, Einstien disagrees: "There is no cat."

    "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

  8. Re:Just what Linux Needs on User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uh... old news. Linux already "competes" not only within itself (in the form of distrobutions), but also against Solaris/OpenSolaris and the BSDs. If another operating system turns open source, it's a good thing: then,from a Stallmanistic, ideology-based point of view, more people are using Free/Open Source Software (without even thinking about it--everyone who uses OS/2 automatically now uses an open source operating system), which advances the cause.

  9. Re:Cool... on Elive Beta: Enlightenment Sans Commitment · · Score: 1
    Most OSes with extensive package repositories (say... Debian) will have packages for it.

    Or you could just try compiling it from source (which is actually really hard for Enlightenment, since you have to go through each directory and compile each library, which takes forever, at least for CVS).

  10. It's been predicted on Microsoft May License Out XBox Software · · Score: 1

    The death of standalone consoles have been predicted before-with hand-helds, with PCs. It won't happen this time because it didn't happen last time.

  11. Re:I wonder... on Linux Chess Supercomputer Overpowers Grandmaster · · Score: 1

    It is possible, I suppose, but there are just too many moves and too many possibilities to do that. But somewhere out there, there is a strategy in chess that cannot be beaten, although we will probably never reach it.

  12. Re:I call DUPE! on Initial Review of Microsoft's Acrylic BETA · · Score: 1

    This is a review, comprised almost entirely of opinion. That is an announcement, with very little opinion. Even if you RTFT (the second "T" is for "Title"), you could tell it's not the same thing.

  13. Re:Beer on The First Annual Underhanded C Contest · · Score: 1

    RTFA - They're sending some of their local beer.

  14. Re:How to make a case... on TIE Fighter Case Mod · · Score: 1
    1. Obtain a TIE fighter...

    Yes, but that's not all!

    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  15. You know 1984 on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    If everyone believes 2 + 2 = 5, 2 + 2 does equal 5.

  16. Re:Why Bother with the Courts? on Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I really hate facists, too. What, with all their faces and all.

  17. Obvious on $300 XBox 360 by Thanksgiving · · Score: 2, Funny

    The obvious price is $360.

  18. Just another problem... on Software Glitches Stall Toyota Prius · · Score: 2, Insightful
    could we be heading into an era where our automobiles will require software updates and fixes to keep them from literally 'crashing'?

    Isn't that what recalls and engine checks have been doing all along, except for physical parts?

  19. Re:smells of elderberry on John Cleese To Write Next Aardman Film · · Score: 1
    Technically, of course, the guards aren't French.

    French guards launch cows at people.

  20. Re:Microsoft. Where do you want to go today? on Meet Microsoft's Linux Lab Head Bill Hilf · · Score: 1

    The only problem with that idea is all the employees would probably quit their jobs to work for Red Hat.

  21. Impossible! on Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy · · Score: 0
    I saw the movie yesterday. It was alright, but two things about it make it difficult to accurately make a few sequels (namely 3 and 4, if I remember correctly).

    In the movie, the world is returned to how it was just before it blew up. That's fine for all of us (although it's better if the Campaign to Save the Humans saves us all in book 4), but what about Arthur and Ford on prehistoric Earth in Life, the Universe, and Everything? It won't work. And in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, he meets Fenchurch, which wouldn't make sense if he was already with Trillian.

    I probably should have put "Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow." like they have in Wikipedia at the top of this post.

  22. Re:Good idea on Viacom Launches Podcast-Only Radio Station · · Score: 1

    Except it's not exactly local.

  23. Re:Right angle? on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    What's the alternative?

  24. They're sort of taking a step back... on Xbox360 Name Confirmed · · Score: 1

    ...when the obvious OS and "System" to use were released in 1964.

  25. Re:Try Free Geek on The Linux Modem Problem? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Free Geek is awesome.

    They don't get new modems. Actually, most machines they take in are recycled (aka destroyed) rather than refurbished. They just take the good modems they get. This is always an option, but then you have to be prepared to throw away some machines.