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  1. Re:personally on Gateway as Content Distributor? · · Score: 2

    All your facts are pulled directly out of your ass. Sure, it sounds nice to say that Britney subsidizes Savatage, but...umm... where is your data? Where are your references? How did you come upon the Truth that has eluded the rest of us?

    Seriously, I'd love to know whether anything you said was true.

  2. Re:XP Embedded on Gates Admits Stripped Down Windows Possible · · Score: 2

    On quality and price? You mean the way IE 3 was cheaper and every bit as good as Netscape? Then how IE 4 was light years beyond Netscape, and still free? And how their input devices are among the very best (and best selling) on the market and no more expensive than competitors?

    I think I'm starting to see what you mean.

  3. Re:I need a better solution than boycotting Adobe. on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 2

    Kinda like "Those who wouldn't give up their privacy for security deserve neither privacy nor security"?

    The original quote made sense, neither of these do not.

  4. Re:MS-DOS on DoS Attacks Persisting, On The Rise · · Score: 2

    Isn't the same thing totally possible with Debian's apt servers, OpenBSD's cvs servers, or Red Hat's update servers?

  5. Re:Great Timing Guys! (Keep Congress out of this) on Mastercard Cuts Off Third Party Transactions · · Score: 2

    Have decent credit. Have a business plan. Go get merchant account.

    Excuse me, but NONE of that is Mastercard's
    #%*&@$ BUSINESS. We pay our fees. Our service bureau should not be punished by some arbitrary decision.


    They're a credit company. They can refuse to give you CREDIT if you can't prove you'd be a good investment.
  6. Re:Doesnt the ATI AIW do this? on Review: Creative Labs Video Blaster - Digital VCR · · Score: 2

    It is fairly processor intensive, but my Radeon lets me pause live TV, do timeshifting, "etc.."

  7. Absurd lie. on What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software? · · Score: 2

    Did you go to the site?

    Did you click the download link?

    I was able to download several ports of this project with one click.

  8. Re:Wrong... on AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case · · Score: 2

    And how many complex GUI applications do you know that will run on absolutely every Linux installation in existence?

    Oh, yeah. There are none.

  9. Re:no analog output ? on Windows 'Longhorn' Kicks Off (On Paper) · · Score: 2

    Send the digital signal to a real system. It'll sound great. (I have a Sony ES amp and NHT speakers.. cd's sound awesome ;))

    -Jon

  10. Re:Linux? on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 2

    Sure doesn't look like there's any onboard video in the one I'm looking at.

  11. Re:no analog output ? on Windows 'Longhorn' Kicks Off (On Paper) · · Score: 2

    Um. CD's store information digitally. The analog audio output port on a CD player actually sounds like ass. CD-ROMs have cheapass D/A converters in them to create that analog stream.

    If you extract the audio digitally through the IDE interface or play it through the CD-ROM's SPDIF jack, you're getting the high quality info directly on the CD, not the shit coming out of the CD-ROM's piece of crap D/A converter.

  12. Re:Congratulations. on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 2

    Way to split an infinitive.

  13. Re:$A357 million on Perimeter Railway for ISS; HETE-1 Comes Down · · Score: 2

    That was great, thanks for the laugh ;)

  14. Re:Flares, Depth-Of-Field on When Looks Can Kill · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe this is helmet tracking, not eye tracking (similar to the Apache system).

    Point your head at the target, get it in the helmet visor-mounted HUD, lock, and fire.

  15. Re:some problems on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    *sigh* I hate when people think the government bought hammers for $200.

    The reason that existed is because of lazy accounting techniques. The government contractor would make a large order for parts from a distributor of some sort. Instead of getting itemized lists charging for every screw, bolt, hammer, etc, they totaled the entire cost and gave each item the same cost. So, large sheets of metal, diamond studded power saws, cranes, and - yes - hammers would all get the same price of $250 or whatever just to make it easier on the accountants.

  16. Clear a few things up. on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you READ THE SITE,the guy actually changed rolls every 36 miles, but he didn't necessarily stop.
    Shooting through an open window meant no air-conditioning, so he kept the Kodak 5028 VPH film in a cooler. "I would count the miles," he says. "As soon as the thirty-sixth came, I would change rolls, put the exposed roll in a canister, enter its number on a log sheet, take the next one out of the cooler, and insert it. I got to where I could do all that in less than a minute, while steering with my kneecap."
    Also, it was actually attached to his odometer, not speedometer, and he could delay each picture for a moment with a switch if he liked.
    Every time a mile ended, a device attached to the odometer made an electric contact that triggered the shutter release. If a cement wall or other nearby object blocked the view, he had a switch that would delay a picture for a moment.
    And, he did it all twice. First time in a porsche along the interstate, which didn't go so well. Second time in an Explorer along old highways.

    Way nifty :D
  17. Re:Celine Dion, eh? on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm a 20 year old male studying engineering.

    I have ~ 15 gigs of mp3's (perhaps 3 gigs are ripped from cd's that I own).

    I'm mostly into prog metal/heavy metal, but i love listening to Celine Dion. If that makes you think less of me, fine, but don't generalize too much ;)

  18. Re:Don't forget about... on Exploring Apache's SOAP Serialization APIs · · Score: 2

    Dude, that makes no sense.

    Windows itself is a monopoly, then they used that monopoly to force acceptance of IE.

    KDE isn't a monopoly, so they can't force anyone to use Konq.

    What's your argument?

  19. Re:No service arm? Wha? on What Should Microsoft's Open Source Strategy Be? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And if there were no Nike employing 25,000 people in that "peasant" camp, there would be 25,000 less jobs and 25,000 * meager wage less money being brought into that country and to those people.

    Just *my* thoughts.

  20. Re:I feel bad for important news issues today... on Rootkit Packaged for Debian · · Score: 2

    No shit.. i was being sarcastic. Did you even read the parent post?

    Geez, people :P

  21. Re:I feel bad for important news issues today... on Rootkit Packaged for Debian · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, I damn near forgot that cancer doesn't exist in societies that don't vaccinate.

  22. Re:In response to the slashdot title. on Fair Use is Not a Constitutional Right · · Score: 2

    I hope you're kidding. The AUTHOR holds the copyright. The AUTHOR has the RIGHT to COPY, not you, who doesn't own the copyright. :P

  23. Output: on Qt For The Console · · Score: 2

    # make install
    Making install in qtconsole
    Making install in docs
    Making install in en
    /bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
    / bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -p qtconsole /usr/local/bin/qtcon
    sole
    /usr/bin/install -c -p qtconsole /usr/local/bin/qtconsole
    # qtconsole
    Hello, World! It is April Fools :)
    #

  24. IT'S AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE on Qt For The Console · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Download the source and look at main.cpp in the qtconsole directory.

    The other poster who pasted the main.cpp wasn't kidding.

    IT'S A JOKE.

    THIS DOESN'T EXIST.

  25. Re:main.cpp on Qt For The Console · · Score: 2

    Download, unzip, and untar it yourself and have a gander at main.cpp in qtconsole.

    Feel kinda dumb now, don't you? ;)