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  1. Re:Good luck! on Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM · · Score: 1
    let's see if the department store would remove the mag-tag if doing so allowed you to make exact duplicates of that garment

    Anyone can make an duplicate of any garment or anything they want. Granted you have to pay for the material - but compare that to the fact you have paid for the piece of hardware you use to play the copied music on. Yeah you can argue that the hardware allows for an unlimited supply of music to be copied and re-distributed, but so does the material you buy to make your garment - you can unstitch it and make something completely different, or you buy truckloads of material in the first place anticipating that you will copy many garments.

    the only real difference here is that copying music is easier to do (and cheaper in the long run - maybe).

  2. Re:Yeah but... on Why Microsoft Hates Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    yes and thats exactly why the playstation was a huge failure??
    seems people didn't care so much that the loading times were slow as the gaming performance was decent when it finished loading.

    i can tell you are a nintendo fanboi - have you taken a step back and realised that they have fallen behind badly in the console market?

  3. Re:Is it an eeevil slogan? on Bill Gates Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    i always thought it was "I'm Feeling Lucky", seems to be one of the first things you see when you visit google.

  4. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    note - he said "if i was a criminal".. anyone with anything incriminating on their computer would not hand over their pasword because of a piddly piece of paper signed by a judge.

  5. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    or Go -> History (at the bottom of the menu)

  6. Re:Too much on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHA - thanks for that, I'm just glad I hadn't taken a sip of water before I read it! :-)

  7. How old is this? on Laptops Outsell Desktops · · Score: 1
    First time my arse..


    How many businesses ONLY purchase laptops and servers now?


    Everybody I know buying computers has been going for laptops for the last couple of years.

  8. Re:Flame on... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1
    Never have truer words been spoken!

    So why is it that the salesmen always get the nice shiny new laptops / phones whereas the tech staff end up with the same old crap for years. :-P

  9. Re:Quiet Macs on Mac mini Sans Wires - Batteries Inside the Case · · Score: 1
    I vouch for this.
    my 1.5GHz 15inch powerbook never has the fan power up. (granted i've only had it for a week, but it has been on for 99% of that time and I have yet to hear any noise from it apart from the built-in speakers).

    /Linux geek turned mac-head

  10. Re:Also: p2p Sites... on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    ermm, Suprnova still works but you have to access it a different way...

    For there is always a way
    Remember to trust
    Always watch out for the MPAA
    Never give up
    Christmas is near
    Exactly what is the problem with SuprNova..
    -
    Apple is good
    Apple is food
    Trees grow aforementioned fruit
    Ripe is always best
    Apples are tasty
    Do not eat rotten ones
    Else you will be sick
    Really really sick
    Stop this now.
    .
    Crazy
    Old
    Man

    of course all links to suprnova from there don't work - including some images.

  11. Re:Suddenly on Kazaa Sues Record Labels · · Score: 2, Funny

    They shouldn't tolerate Adults either.. let the children run free!

    right back to work now.

  12. Re:I like freedoms and stuff very much but... on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music · · Score: 1

    well you will be screwed if they all get stolen and you haven't got a value for your insurance claim on them now wont you.

  13. Re:How do you improve? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    its in a windows update.

  14. Re:How do you improve? on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 1

    Don't forget bluetooth!

    of course most slashdotters have probably never used it due to the fact America has been slow on that uptake.

    stupid thing is I can't get this damn MS bluetooth tranceiver working on windows server '03 - yet on the box it says.. and i quote:

    "Hardware - Software - Compatibility.
    The Microsoft Advantage"

  15. Hahaha on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 1

    now that is funny!

  16. thank you for that on Women Need Larger Screens for Desktop Navigation? · · Score: 1

    its the first decent bit of humor i've seen on /. today.

    gave me a good chuckle.

  17. SUN's Plan on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    1. Release false memo.
    2. Wait for it to be discussed on /. - to find out developers thoughts on the JRE.
    3. ???
    4. PROFIT!!

  18. Re:Standards and lies on Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera · · Score: 1

    Well IE build # 6.0.2800.1106 on windows 2000 renders it incorrectly. Its not too noticeable, but the shell is displayed incorrectly behind the body - (it almost displays the entire shell again and doesnt scroll with the rest of the page).

  19. Re:wait..... on Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I crash linux 20-30 times an hour doing simple stuff - why do people continue to feel linux is stable?


    You are so full of shit - you would have to be using a machine which takes less than 1 minute to boot.
    What the hell are you doing to cause this?
    I use my desktop/personal web/mail server for any number of things such as browsing the web with a number of different browsers, playing games both with wine and native linux ones (using supposedly "unstable" nvidia drivers - they have always worked great for me) and I havent had a crash for months. In fact the only time its been rebooted was when my fiancee's brother came to stay and couldnt sleep with the computer fan going.

    I dont know why you people spout such crap.

  20. Re:Um, this is a surprise? on AGP Texture Download Problem Revealed · · Score: 1

    ok so thats the port - now what does the data travel to the CPU / RAM through?

    technically its still the pci bus - however its acceptable to call it an AGB bus.

  21. I always liked sarien and freesci on What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games? · · Score: 1

    Im assuming these work on a mac.

    The combination of these two programs let you play pretty much any old sierra adventure game.

    Oh and if you like lucas arts games like Day of the Tenticle & SamnMax look for scummvm.

  22. Re:bsod, etc. on New Way To Grade Decay of Computer Installations · · Score: 1

    Can't remember where i got this from:

    main () {
    for (;;) {
    printf ("Hung up\t\b\b\b\b\b\b") ;
    }
    }

  23. Re:Believe it or not, releases don't happen instan on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Its not quite as simple as just packaging the programs.

    They have to be packaged for and run perfectly on the 11 different hardware architectures that debian supports.

    And the debian packages do more than just package these programs - they generally have to adjust the code in these programs (if you used debian and another distro you would notice how much more stable these packages are in debian than in other distros).

    Plus all these developers are doing this voluntarily - so I think they are doing a great job speedwise with releases.

  24. Which is why we need this... on House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers · · Score: 1
    As soon as I read this story I thought of this.

  25. Re:Land speed record on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Well dylan,

    considering a mile is ~1.6 KM

    i dont see how you get a value of MPH that is higher than KMH.