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  1. Re:If you want CD-quality audio, buy CDs on Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC · · Score: 1

    I don't buy CDs because I don't want the clutter or the hassle of ripping them to a more practical location. The physical backup is nice, yes, but not worth the space it consumes.

    Also, online downloads offer us the opportunity to surpass CD quality. It's time for the CD to die.

  2. Fast != good on IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours" · · Score: 1

    And their rendering engine is still worse than everybody else's. So IE9 can render broken pages faster than any other browser. Whoo!

  3. Re:After reading the tech specs I can see on Nintendo Announces DSi XL · · Score: 1

    No, DS and GBA use completely different plugs on the device's end.

  4. How to make science popular again on Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells · · Score: 1

    "How To Make Science Popular Again?"
    "Scientists Find Master Gene To Switch On Immune Cells"

    Hey, that works!

  5. Re:Phenomenal browser on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Facebook's new brokenness in Opera has been driving me insane. You can join the discussion on it and bug report here: http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=34783

    It's fairly absurd, really. The push that broke things did not seem to introduce any visible changes to the site, only internal changes that don't work in Opera. The errors also affect Facebook Connect, so every site on the Internet using Facebook connect suddenly no longer works in Opera.

  6. Re:Smart enough... on "Good Enough" Computers Are the Future · · Score: 1

    The Windows desktop environment is at least as polished as GNOME, quite possibly more than GNOME as of Windows 7, and there are many shell replacements available if you don't like it.

  7. Re:They haven't ended the relationship... on Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure I understand what place free content has on The Pirate Bay...

  8. Re:Yeah.. on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    You're not using Blu-ray, so no wonder you don't need a dedicated theater!

  9. Re:Why stop there? on Bands Bypass iTunes With iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    I was going to say use "musics". These are the Internets... saying stuff like "musics" fits right in! Loved the parody regardless. Made me smile.

  10. Re:Adopt a git... on Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quoth Linus Torvalds, "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git." :)

  11. Re:Humorless bastards on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    If sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, irony must be pretty up there considering sarcasm + irony > all.

  12. Re:Pidgin + OTR on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 1

    This might be off topic, but there's a patch offers a Windows Live Messenger patch that can improve the interface slightly. Works very well from my experiences, and makes Messenger a lot more tolerable when I have to use it.

  13. Re:Oh Cool! on Toshiba Battery Charges In 10 Minutes · · Score: 1

    What happens at exactly 90%?

  14. Brain puberty on Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition · · Score: 1

    After two tremendous growth spurts -- one in size, followed by an even more important one in cognitive ability -- the human brain is now a lot like a teenage boy.

    So, if this is true, it must be that the human brain is now losing its strength and metabolism from being middle aged. It all makes sense!

  15. PETM on Seeking Signs of Ancient Martian Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    PETM (People for the Ethical Treatment of Martians) will focus its attention on whatever means of harming innocent Martians humanity may conceive. We will educate, protest, legislate, and even rescue Martians, with an undying dedication to preserving the valuable and sacred Martian life.

  16. I would, but... on ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkGEEK! · · Score: 1

    ...after reading Slashdot all day, I lost my ability to think.

  17. It finds spam, eh? on New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam · · Score: 1

    What a bummer. Everybody knows spam scanners should find Butterball.

  18. Second generation or later on iCopulate Romances iPods, Executive Pong · · Score: 1
    Works with any second generation iPod® or later
    Think of all the poor first generation grandpa iPods left out of the fun. Somebody make an "iVagra" hack for them!
  19. Re:The old interface on Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop Look-alike · · Score: 1
    You can disable it in the preferences
    Specifically, the option is located in "Appearance" section of the preferences, which is a child of the "Image Windows" section. You can also toggle it per window via the "View" menu.
  20. Neat tricks on PSP Reception Lukewarm in US? · · Score: 1
    The neat tricks seem to be the most popular. ... A blogger figured out how to batch convert e-books so they can be read on your PSP. ... PSP Vault has a great story on how to Use Non-Duo Memory Sticks on a PSP! ... Via Joystiq, a way to get Tivo content on your PSP.
    That's great, but could somebody please teach me a trick to get it to play games!?
  21. Students also do better without schools on Students Do Better Without Computers · · Score: 1

    I'm a product of homeschooling. While I'm not to brag, in college, I dramatically outperform my peers at both writing and math. Guess how much time I've spent on my computer each day for the past several years? Usually at least 12 hours; I'm obsessed.

    I actually use my computer to learn. I suspect that public school students focus too much on goofing off; there have been many times I've received IMs saying something along the lines of, "I'm in school! But I can't stay long or I might get caught."

    I can't say I blame them, though, as I was never receptive to having my education stuffed down my throat, either.

  22. Re:Can anyone comment on the usability... on Opera Signs Nokia Phone Deal · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not a CSS hack at all. Each page can have a different CSS for each different type of media, including screen, handheld, print, and more. It's up to your browser to decide which one to use.

    In the case of a mobile Opera browser, it will use your page's handheld CSS, if it exists. If it does not exist, the way page elements are displayed is simply altered to the default. For example, table cells are all displayed in one column.

    This is the way HTML is designed and meant to be. Pages should use a semantic structure, with elements such as <h1>, <p>, and so forth, leaving the way it's displayed up to the browser or a CSS file (separate presentation from content). Unfortunately, that's not the way most pages are written today, due to failing standards support on the part of Internet Exploiter and lack of willingness to adopt unfamiliar ways, so there's usually only one optimal presentation: your desktop's browser. For those pages, Opera's SSR simply does the best it can.

  23. Do web pages count? on Microsoft Will Pay If Its Bugs Damage Your Data · · Score: 1

    Do I get five dollars for every time IE incorrectly renders a standards compliant web page I write, thereby damaging the data by mangling it?

  24. Re:Work For Spam on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 1
    1) I don't store my IM's forever (I don't store them at all)
    You insensitive clod! I still have my IM logs from way back in 2001!
  25. DHTML pop-ups are also becoming more common on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has anybody seen DHTML pop-ups around? They effectively utilize JavaScript and CSS in collaboration to unhide a centered page element containing an ad. They tend to contain a link to activate a JavaScript function to hide the block. I've also seen them disappear after a short amount of time.

    How is a web browser supposed to block that kind of pop-up? Why don't we just all disable JavaScript since it is going to be abused so much? And like a previous poster has mentioned, not too many sites seem to absolutely require it; I surf with JavaScript disabled for quite a while before remembering I turned it off.