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  1. Re:a couple of questions before buying on Optimus Keyboard With OLED Display Keys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These guys are obviously big mac fans. Itunes, quicktime, plus if you look at the mouse that's designed for a mac. But I'd love this for photoshop and music programs. The big problems being having the program manufacturers map out programs for such a rare keyboard (assuming it ever made it to the public).

  2. Re:Legality of remixes on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    While I'm not a fan of Jay-Z, you completely miss what makes him good. For one, he's much more masterful with his words than you give him credit for and to do that without writting or rehearsal is more impressive than the majority of rappers good, bad, better or worse, can claim. Two it's not only what he says, but how he says it. He rides the beat and weaves himself within the melody, not just on top of it, plus he does it to many styles and tempos. A lot of rappers can't just do any beat, it takes talent to go from a 90bpm song and massage the beat, to 120 and to not let the beat overpower you. Jay-Z is also very famous for doing his songs in one or two takes, very rare. OH! yeah, your rap, please don't even compare yourself with my 6 year old niece, and you're nowhere in the same galaxy as a Jay-Z.

  3. Re:Dibs! on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Answer: The cheaper one!

  4. Re:What ever happened to... on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    How effin big is your backyard?

  5. Re:Dibs! on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    I don't know about decking the place out entirely like Jabba's palace, but the pit in the floor is a good idea. I'll use it for solicitor's, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the like.

    ps: I wouldn't mind the Carrie Fisher option either....if I could get the younger version from the movie.

  6. Re:Looking forward to the next auction. on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 5, Funny

    With or without the grits? They're extra.

  7. Dibs! on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 5, Funny

    I gotta get my hands on Han Solo in the Carbonite. Simply the best prop in all the films.

  8. Re:Well then on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Subscribe, it makes it exponentially easier.

  9. Re:Columbine? Jon Katz is calling! on Columbine Student on VG Violence · · Score: 1

    Honest Question: Doesn't homeschooling make the child more of an outcast amongst his/her peers? I remember some children during my school years that were home schooled and they were ridiculed (no, not by me). Also doesn't a home schooled child have lesser social skills than someone who is forced to interact with a hundred kids a day in school. I guess my question is, would home schooling actually help with the outcast stigma, that it seems you'd be trying to avoid?

  10. Re:Bwahahahaha! on The Grinch Who Patented Christmas · · Score: 1

    Just switch to using "the three shells", I hear they're gonna become the norm in the future.

  11. Re:The ITU != the rest of UN on U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS · · Score: 1

    Assuming your solution held any water whatsoever, the problem is that both parties mistake nationality or culture for religion. (ex: I'm american, therefore I *must* be christian, whether I am or not). I assume being that you made the statement you are of neither religion, but what happens if one of the parties can't tell. How dumb would you feel being that you have to die over a stupid blanket statement. But then again, that'd just make you less of a population problem. Right?

  12. Re:Miscalculation? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    Read it again jackass, it says almost doubles.

    You're late jackass, they've corrected the error. My quote is a direct copy and paste from the article when it was first posted this morning. But at least you got to vent. Feel better now?

  13. Re:Cautious optimism... on Tempel 1 Impact Day After Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Are any observatories or astrological groups recording and webcasting this? Is that even possible? I'd like to watch.

  14. Re:Miscalculation? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    No harm done, I guess. But I'm sure the rest of the folks here still reserve the right to jump down your throat. Interesting story nonetheless.

  15. Re:Obligatory Simpsons... on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess I'll repost my corny pi joke from high school.

    In ninth grade algebra, I walk into class and the teacher had put an infinity symbol on the whiteboard.
    I, being the smart ass I am says,
    "Mr. Dewey, who killed eight?"
    Mr. Dewey says without missing a beat,
    "Pi...It's an irrational number."

  16. Miscalculation? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Haraguchi-san recited an amazing 83,431 digits of Pi during a 13-hour overnight stretch. This more than doubles the previous record of 42,195 digits by fellow Japanese Hiroyuki Goto.

    Um, I'm not a math major, but since when is 83,431 > 84,390, which is double the amount of 42,195? You don't even need a calculator to figure that one out. But as far as the accomplishment goes: That's a simply amazing feat, I applaud Haraguchi greatly, How do you memorize a number that deep, I can barely remember what I had for breakfast.

  17. Re:Maybe... on How Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    First we gotta fix some of that spelling you've got there. Janeane Garofalo, Hillary Clinton, and Rosie O'Donnell

  18. Re:Netcraft confirms it on 2005 Looks Like Record Year for Net Growth · · Score: 1

    or maybe just that joke. If not, kill it anyway.

  19. Re:Let the... on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    Not minority rule, just some consideration for the minority. We *are* still almost half of the country, we shouldn't be completely ignored. It's thinking like that, that is splitting us further apart and creating animosity between us, like is being shown on this very thread.

  20. Re:Which way? on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    My sentiment exactly, I knew the odds were likely that we would've gotten a new justice under GWB, but I wished ever so deeply that we could avoid it. I guess the inevitable happened. New prayer: Only one supreme court justice leaves the bench. (fingers crossed, pennies in fountain, more rabbits feet than I can count, and does anybody know if satan is still buying souls?)

  21. Re:Bram is screwed on Bittorrent Creator A Digital Pirate? · · Score: 1

    Then you have my formal and honest apology. Forgive me for something I said 30 minutes ago, when I mistook your post as /. sarcasm. True sentiment worded like that is hard to find here. Once again, I hope you accept my apology.

  22. Re:Bram is screwed on Bittorrent Creator A Digital Pirate? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know you're being sarcastic and all, but it does suck, that this guy who coded a very intelligent piece of software that does/could benefit a lot of people, including the media companies that attack him, relieving a lot of stress off of servers and even individual users, is probably gonna be pulled into court and incur ridiculous legal fees. All because he made a little program, which, if you believe him (and I do) he made for the good of the people for legitimate use and not to pirate warez, music, or movies. The big corps are probably gonna ream his ass for something he doesn't deserve and are gonna use an old quote which doesn't hold water as a large basis for their arguement, and it does suck. I just hope someone like the EFF comes to his aid and that the courts see that what he did is right and the inevitable lawsuits from the **AA will get shut down quick.

  23. Re:Fatal Attraction on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 1

    Dude, that would be Cybertron!

    Ps: It could also be Unicron, and if that's the case, pray it doesn't head our way.

  24. Re:A Jedi once bit his sister... on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's a double-bladed lightsaber, are both ends "the business end"?

  25. Re:No Games on First Picture of new Motorola iTunes Phone? · · Score: 1

    You have to look closely, there's a button grid and menu buttons surrounding and above the click wheel, there's just no printing on it. Very camouflaged.