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  1. Re:Dell sucks until they offer an AMD on Dell Founder Dropped $100M Onto Red Hat · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe that a significant fraction of people give a rat's ass whether their CPU is made by Dell, AMD, or Bob's Muffler Hut

  2. Re:Falling standards on Mars Express Successfully Deploys First Boom · · Score: 1

    The way they fuxored Gallileo by repeatedly trucking it across the country still pisses me off. grrr.

  3. public policy issues on Microsoft Reverses Stand on Discrimination Bill · · Score: 1

    Deciding who can and can't get into educational programs -- now, that's a different story!

  4. Re:The third world need wireless mesh. on Thin Client With OSS for Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    I think the New World could use all of those things too. Instead we have a dictator warlord who attained power via coup. He fights for aresenic in our drinking water. He encourages herding, discourages decent housing, and has gutted public schools.

  5. Re:Not a very large update... on Apple Updates Power Mac Line · · Score: 1

    Any video card on the market is way overkill for anything that's going to be run on a Mac. It's been that way for years. Even in x86 land it's true for the vast majority of users.

  6. Re:READ IT!!! on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of Leia. Leah is the chick in that Donnie Iris song.

  7. Re:Not a very large update... on Apple Updates Power Mac Line · · Score: 1

    And long before that such a person was called a shill.

  8. Re:Holding Out? on Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian · · Score: 1

    The idea of a "prudent reserve" is entirely reasonable.

  9. Re:Thank god on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 1

    This is one reason why we should abandon the idea that coal is derived from swamp plants that died and decayed anerobically.

  10. Re:Final Movies on Lucas Confirms Star Wars spin-off TV series · · Score: 1

    He will, in time. Whether he says it or not, he will eventually.

  11. Re:Adobe DNG on Image Preservation Through Open Documentation · · Score: 1

    First, let's get them to stop uppercasing the word "raw" as if it were an acronym.

  12. Re:Definition of Irony: on World's Largest Nanotube Model · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing it, but why aren't there any photos?

  13. Re:Oh come on... on Mac OS X Tiger Accidentally Shipped Early · · Score: 1

    That plastic clamshell?

  14. Re:New product in the works? on Microsoft's 911 Patent · · Score: 1

    Is a tax levi anything like a tax eli or a tax malachi? Football is *not* education, and the jocks should fully have to pay for it instead of ripping off money from poorly-funded academics.

  15. Re:Question on Behind the Closed Doors of AMD's Chip Production · · Score: 1

    When I worked for AMD (1993-94), masks were made by DuPont, not in-house. I never fully understood the process, but there was a $100K-per-license application called CATS that did "fracturing" on final chip designs to represent them in a way that the mask-making machines could grok.

  16. Re:Memory cards delicate? I don't think so. on NYT on Photo Storage Devices · · Score: 1

    Actually, flash-based cards are *bigger*. You can get an 8 gig CF card, albeit at a high price/GB. I paid a bit more for my 4 gig CF card than I would have for a 4 gig microdrive, but I got a super-fast card to last me into the future, and have lower battery burn.

  17. Re:Overpriced on Router Built for Gamers · · Score: 1

    Does your $20 Netgear do the 108Mbps thing? Does it, unlike my Netgear, actually *work* with WPA?

  18. Re:A joke, surely ... on NASA Proposes Ending Voyager · · Score: 1

    Then they always say, well I guess well have to cut the travel budget for sports, or well have to eliminate all band programs. You say that like it's a bad thing.

  19. Re:What amazes me most on Return of the Mac · · Score: 1

    That means that "things just work" - hardware works, and there is enough software, all built for the specific platform, that it all plays together nicely. Clearly you don't have an HP or any other AIO hooked to an OSX box.

  20. Re:Weasels on SCO Website Using Groklaw's Content · · Score: 1

    N+1: Does your CEO print up posters of himself portrayed as Indiana Jones? N+2: Is his trophy wife on them too?

  21. literacy r us on Review of the 8 Hour Tablet: Electrovaya Scribbler · · Score: 1

    "a Edition", eh?

  22. Re:Speak for yourself on RFID Music Player · · Score: 1

    I don't subscribe to slashdot groupthink. You mean not everyone is obsessed with kids' video games or mistakes Linuxes for real OS's?

  23. Re:Infidel! on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out what dain bramage caused Apple to downgrade the default shell from tcsh to bash. OSX still has some real flaws compared to an X-based Unix machine. Inability to lower windows, no built-in virtual desktop functionality or even a really good third-party hack, still no real case-sensitivity for filenames, bizarre things like Finder not showing /tmp.

  24. Re:So what ? on MSN Sponsors Mensa · · Score: 1

    I joined in high school because I thought it'd be something good to put on college applications. I quit when I found how obnoxious all of their communications were. I've not wanted anything to do with them since.

  25. Re:Similar Stuff on 1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    I think the adjective you were after there is "stiff". Did your laptop come with a cable? My ~1999 Dell came with a crappy 3com pcmcia ethernet card and a very thin & flexible RJ45 cable that folds up into a small bundle. It's probably not "rated" for 100mbit, but works fine with it, and I've not seen any operational difference between it and a Cat[5-6] cable.