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  1. Re:IP and copyright laws are the future of the US on Critical Shortage of IT Workers in Coming Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Music: The british and german make way better music... Movies: Depends on the kind. SciFi and Action yes, other type no... Microcode: Well since most of the hardware that I use is from Japan or Taiwan I would say no. High-speed Pizza delivery: I can get one in 20 minute in Montreal.

  2. Re:Sorry, No Quebec Change... on Ubisoft Would Consider Hollywood Buyout · · Score: 0

    Spout your hydro quebec crap elsewhere since it's power that they got for a song and a dance via good intentions of sharing from Newfoundland and Labrador and then stab them in the back by reselling it to the US power grids That was only one project and it was scrapped (Churchill). Ironnically Ontario-Hydro approached Quebec and Newfoundland latelly to restart it. All our dam and station are within our border. As for giving back the money to the people we are already doing it. The profit from Hydro-Quebec are split with the bigger chunk going back to the government budget. The rest is reinvest into the system to pay for the upkeep and new project. And by the way we are in a federation of provinces, it's ok to consider yourself a Quebecer or an ontarian. Canada is only a paper construct.

  3. Re:Ok, so, no storage... on Indian Company Shows Off Sub-$200 Laptop · · Score: 0

    Well they could watch some fansub anime at 160-230MB per file.

  4. Re:I TOLD THEM! on Mars Express' 2nd Boom Deployment Postponed · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they did check that second segment... Oh wait... That was 10 decimal and not 10 binary...

  5. Re:checking my online bank account... on SpaceX Awarded $100 Million Launch Contract · · Score: 0

    There are cheaper ways to get the f*** off this planet. A bottle of rye, a gun and one bullet can do the trick for a lot less money...

  6. Re:Even Canada is higher.. on China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers · · Score: 0

    Get a satelite service

  7. Re:Japanese Video Games w/o Speaking Japanese on Gaming Hacks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyway, tentacle rape is nothing if the girl doesn't wear cat ears...

  8. Re:Cashing in on ... on Gates Calls for Increase in Tech Labor Supply · · Score: 0

    It's about right... That's about the entry level salary in Montreal at least. 30 to 35k.

  9. Re:Ice... on NASA Ponders Postponing Launch until July · · Score: 1, Funny

    Easy solution... Mount the shuttle nose down :-)

  10. Re:Voice recognition on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 0

    Er... no... Mac OS X includes a bunch of server services unlike XP Home wich is crippled. The correct comparaison is with XP Pro. You can't even use Remote Desktop on a XP Home pc.

  11. Re:True geek! on Moore's Law Original Issue Found · · Score: 0

    At the zoo... I don't want to see the bride :-)

  12. Re:Note to self... on Canadian ISP to Name Music Swappers · · Score: 0

    If you take the Extreme service you are unlimited.

  13. Re:Seems like it's closer to SecondLife's approach on Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property · · Score: 0

    If the mall is policed by the Hells Angels They might do just that... :-)

  14. Re:Falun Gong on Study Shows China Tightens Internet Filtering · · Score: 0

    Man, This sound like a chinese version of the Raelian we have here...

  15. Re:Interested maybe, not, kinda? on Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Video recording... On what?... Memory cards? There isn't supposed to be a HD in it...

  16. Re:The three most important features of a PVR on Home Theatre PC Guide · · Score: 0

    Buy a home theater amplifier that goes to 11 :-) That will cover the noise

  17. My setup on Home Theatre PC Guide · · Score: 1, Informative

    My setup is as follow:

    1- P4-2.4ghz on Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo
    2- 4x 250gb Hard disk (2 on ata-100 and 2 on ata- 133. 3 of those drive are in a stripe set.
    3- 2x Osprey-210 capture card
    4- 1x Audigy-2 soundcard

    I use VirtualDVR to schedule my show and use Virtualdub for capture. With this setup I can capture 2 show at the same time (each capture card use only about 16% of CPU each at 720x480 29.97 fps with 187kb/48khz sound compressed with Huffyuv).

    With this setup I can capture in barely compress editable avi (I use Huffyuv for compression). I then cut out the publicity spot (cleanly since it's frame by frame editable)and then either convert them to divx or to dvd. With the disk space I have I can capture about +/- 20 hours of huffyuv compressed video.

    I tried MythTV and BeyondTV but I wasn't satisfied with either. I wasn't impressed by the mpeg2 capture card out there and I tried quite a few before finding the Osprey-210. I even bought the Hauppauge PVR-350 and didn't like the quality of it's encoding.

  18. Re:Dumbfuck Americans on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 0

    I meant Alba and not Alaba... Too fast on the keyboard, and a few REAL beer... :-)

  19. Re:Dumbfuck Americans on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 0

    Your beer would be the last reason we yould try to invade you.... Jessica Alaba surely, but american beer naaaahhhhhh!

  20. Re:Running older hardware?! on Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage · · Score: 0

    Except that Cheeta is not a strickly speaking a cat... It as a bit too many "Dog features" like it's paw and dentition.

  21. What I would really want to see included in Tiger on Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage · · Score: 0

    Hi! What I really miss on OS X is a simple graphic apps like Paint on windows. Once upon a time there was Mac Paint but it fell of the back of the truck when they whent to OS X from Mac OS. Having to start photoshop or Gimp just to do draw a filled square or some other simple form is a bit overkill for me.

  22. Re:A little bit sore perhaps on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 0

    Especially when we consider the fact that at the start of WW2 Tchecoslovaqia had an army about 5 or 6 time the size of the USA and was better equiped and they didn't resist either to the german. I would even guess that if germany had have the naval capacity that the japanese instead of the pathetic fleet they had WW2 would have been a very different ballgame for the british and american.

  23. Re:Not exactly... on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 0

    Have you tried Ubuntu?

    I have a brand new Athlon64 pc here using a NForce3 mobo and everything worked, sata, lan, audio... all of it. And in the 64bit version of linux also.

    The only driver I had to install myself was the one for my gforce fx5200 from nvidia. And that was easy enough with the online instruction.

  24. Try Ubuntu on Building a Linux Computer Lab for Schools? · · Score: 0

    Ubuntu must be the most user friendly distro to install on the market. Easy to configure and to maintain. And there is quite a lot of stuff to install on it also. It's Debian based and is geared toward user not sysadmin.

  25. Re:War of the Worlds movie: terrible on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screening Reviews · · Score: 0

    Those "vacuum cleaner" as you call them are also tripods... But the "legs" are nearly invisible being a kind of force field instead of material legs. Watch it again and listen to the description that the professor tells when he is in the bunker at the beginning when they first attack.