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  1. Re:Who said you can't upgrade a Mac? on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 1

    I would rather hammer hot iron rods through my penis than spend $1.5k-2k (sans display) for a base computer...

    Prove it.

  2. Re:Yes, it's an evolved version of OpenStep on Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0 · · Score: 1

    But... but... Wikipedia couldn't be wrong!

  3. Re:Shades on Face of Mankind Open Beta · · Score: 1

    #CCCCCC is more standard...

  4. Re:My advice? Wait... on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 1

    It is policy.
    Excerpt:
    Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.

  5. Re:My advice? Wait... on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 1

    Always check the rumour sites, or you'll do as a friend of mine did, and buy a 30GB iPod a week before the 40GB appeared for the same price.

    2 things:

    1) Was there even a 30GB iPod? I thought it was just 15/20/40.

    2) If he bought it a week before the 40GB came out at the same price point, which is almost exactly what happened to me when they got rid of the 15GB and lowered the 20GB's price, he should have sent Apple an email or called them, because they'd have given him some of his money back (I recieved $100, the amount the 20GB decreased).

  6. Re:WTF? on MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, yes, it was just that much cheaper.

  7. Re:Er. on MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement · · Score: 1

    No, you don't want those replacements. In the Princess Bride, for example, if you get the replacement, you'll be able to see boom mikes in some scenes. These films were filmed in the fullscreen ratio and then cropped as the director intended into the widescreen ratio.

  8. Re:Early adopter on PC Mag Review of Apple iWork '05 · · Score: 1

    Still, I don't think it is in their best interest to buy up an app and re-package it.

    It's worked pretty well with iTunes so far.

  9. Re:Google Toolbar for Firefox on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1

    How on earth did I get modded troll???

  10. Re:Wine is not an Emulator. on Running Windows Viruses Under Linux · · Score: 1

    You're correct, of course, and I was thinking of vir when I forgot that virus is a Latin word (meaning slime, I think). Nevertheless, your statement agrees with my essential point, which was that even if one followed the usual Latin declension for plurals, virus would still become "viri" not "virii."

  11. Re:American on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Americans can't small, but we can sexy!

  12. Re:Wine is not an Emulator. on Running Windows Viruses Under Linux · · Score: 1

    My favorite thing about the idiotic usage of "virii" instead of "viruses" is that it doesn't even follow the rule people are trying to conform to. The plural of "octopus" isn't "octopii," it's "octopi." Similarly, if virus was a straight up Latin word (which might be a reason for it to follow this rule), it would still be just "viri," not "virii."

  13. Re:check out the Flash demo on Jef Raskin Gets $2 Million To Develop RCHI · · Score: 1

    That's pretty interesting, if ugly. I'd like to see where it goes. I hope they have some designers in there to pretty it up though...

  14. Re:Naming on Coyotos, A New Security-focused OS & Language · · Score: 1

    But they're not Coyote OS, Coyotos looks like a regular word.

  15. Re:Need for a webmaster? on Coyotos, A New Security-focused OS & Language · · Score: 1

    Mozilla.org

  16. Re:Linux community already donates on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    Were the schools pirating MS software?

  17. Re:Erm... on Talking with Timothy Miller · · Score: 1

    No, "Has writified."

    At least, that's what my Don King Dictionary says...

  18. Re:Corruption of FireFox Development? on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1

    You mean K-Meleon? That has Google as its default search engine too.

  19. Re:What's the catch? on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    I imagine if you download the program (which is no risk since it's free) you'll get to view the EULA, but the site says it "features full formatting functionality," though "a link to yeslogic.com is added to the corner of output pages."

    It is available for Windows and a few flavors of Linux.

  20. Re:Google Toolbar for Firefox on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 1, Troll

    What functionality from the Google toolbar do you not get with the search box in Firefox? Whatever it is, there's probably an extension to handle it.

  21. Re:Germ of an idea on P2P Meets PSTN, With Bellster · · Score: 1

    What's funny about that?

  22. Re:How could anyone be confused? on Survey Says Internet Users Confuse Search Results, Ads · · Score: 1

    You have to be an idiot to easily confuse those links for regular results. It appears that 82% of adult internet users are idiots, but that's not Google's fault.

  23. Re:It's a Slashvertisement for an expensive produc on Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? You can't afford the free personal license?? And you really don't think a small business can afford a 300 dollar program?

  24. Re:What downtime? on World of Warcraft Suffers More Downtime · · Score: 1

    A hurricane did hit their data center, before release.

  25. Re:Patience is a virtue on World of Warcraft Suffers More Downtime · · Score: 1

    People with MMORPG experience know that your chances of finding yourself in the company of grown-ups improve dramatically if you stick to the servers where roleplay is emphasized, so most guilds of people who like RPG (including mine) crammed themselves onto servers like Silverhand.

    Actually, most people with MMO experience know that non-RPers often flock to RP servers in the hopes that a) there will be more opportunity to grief and/or b) that there will be fewer power-gamers to compete with.