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  1. Re:Apple's Customer service is great. on Why Everyone Loves Apple · · Score: 1
    Yeah, because I just love spending hours editing all those tags making sure they all match and make sense rather than the seconds it takes to just drag what songs I want into a folder and just hitting play.

    There isn't anything wrong with organizing the music with tags just how about also letting me use a directory and file structure that is human parsable so that if I decide to peruse or work with my collection with a regular old file browser versus a proprietary tool like itunes I can.

    Of course, I understand that the vast majority of users don't know a directory tree from a real tree and for them tags are great but why not have the best of both worlds? And I further understand that if you buy your tunes from iTMS the tags are already there for you but everybody doesn't get their music this way and manual tag editing is necessary. Even with the many freely available tools to facilitate the editing of said tags it is still extremely tiresome.

  2. Re:My first TES game experiance on The Oblivion of Western RPGs · · Score: 1

    I realize Morrowind has been around for a while but if you are going to post a spoiler, at least be kind enough to WARN PEOPLE. Thank you.

  3. Re:TESIV:O on Elder Scrolls Panorama Shots · · Score: 1

    I have a 3000+ AMD 64 with a gig of RAM and a 6600GT. It runs fairly well though, I would recommend a 6800 video card at a minimum if you really want to turn most or all of the eye candy on.

  4. Re:Less challenges on the moon? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    And with the complete lack of atmo, what about the cosmic ray issue. Are not cosmic rays still cancerous and devilishly difficult to filter out. It seems like that more than anything else would put the brakes on long term space vacationing. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7753

  5. Re:The real question on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 1
    If a hardware manufacturer makes some device and it just so happens the software he wants to run on it is licensed under the GPL, the manufacturer, if he chooses to use it, has no choice but to re-release any changes he makes to it to his customers also under the GPL.

    Legally, he doesn't have any choice in the matter. So, its not really an issue of worrying about it when it comes time to redistribute the code but when you are deciding upon what code to use in the first place.

  6. Re:Stop Blaming Environmentalists (was: Convenienc on Standby TVs Waste Electricity, How About ACPI? · · Score: 1
    my area is heavily restricted on building anything over 30" tall

    Damn, you folks must be pretty short then is all I have to say.

  7. Re:Well perhaps we were lucky on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A fuse blows due to more current flowing through it than it can handle. Not necessarily a short.

    As an example, if you have a load that draws something like 500 Watts continuous and you have it hooked to a 12 volt system with say a 30 Amp fuse, the fuse will eventually blow. Even though, in this scenario, there was no short.

  8. Re:Gravitons?! on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    That's almost really funny. Seems something is missing though.

  9. Re:Not as evil as the summery leads you to believe on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    What market? Oh, you mean the one that sells all the cheap plastic and electronic crap that we Westerners seem to adore so much? That market doesn't mean shit if we can't sell anything back to it. And raw materials to make said crap don't count for much.

  10. Re:Not as evil as the summery leads you to believe on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1
    CNN and NBC are "censored" in the way that American Idol is censored. In other words, its entertainment. Spoonfed sensationalism manufacured to keep the masses entertained and coming back for more.

    If you think the BBC is any different, you are deluded.

    The BBC being a "public corporation" may take no corporate money or sponsorship but, they are still a business and the money is followed. Incidentally, the UK is currently reviewing the BBC's charter and, well...the sharks are circling.

  11. Re:Not as evil as the summery leads you to believe on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    And how would this be different anywhere else?

  12. Re:Don't^H^H^H^H^H on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    Test it out with a command prompt.

  13. Re:Makes sence on iTunes Credited with Boosting Primetime Ratings · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is working or going to school or whatever during the timeslot it plays in.

  14. Re:Embargo China! on Beijing's New Enforcer - Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Since when did Americans not want to be factory workers?

  15. Re:did you see on 2005 Foot In Mouth Awards · · Score: 1

    K in this instance appears to be an abbreviation for Kilobyte.

  16. Re:For even more post apocalyptic surrealism... on Dark Tower Comic Series Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Eyes of the Dragon, you must mean.

  17. Re:Good strategy on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1

    Note the grandparent wrote "WinXP++". Meaning games written for operating systems post-XP. What he was trying to say is games that won't run on XP but some future operating system won't be written for a while. So if Mickeyswish decides to stop translating their OS's into Korean, it won't be a problem for gamers for the forseeable future.

  18. Re:How do i use this .iso file? on Looking-Glass Based Distro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Sorry, meant to say VMWare not Virtual PC

  19. Re:How do i use this .iso file? on Looking-Glass Based Distro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I play around with all of the Live CDs I download with Virtual PC. It lets you boot a live CD iso in a virtual machine.

  20. Re:freedom? on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1
    Just because communism has failed miserabily, it doesn't mean it's a completely idiotic idea.

    Dammit, man! Pass me some of that shit you're smoking.

  21. Re:Why? on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered the possibility that one word can have multiple meanings given different contexts? And quite often are spelled the same. This phenomenom is called a homonym. I SAW the SAW. He ACTS irresponsibly with the AX. The ALE he drank made him AIL. She is an AMERICAN from the North AMERICAN continent.

  22. Re:BLANK on China Telecom Blocking Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    vertical - Situated at the vertex or highest point; directly overhead. (dictionary.com) So if I say, for example, MSFT went down 40 points today on the Nasdaq, obviously, it is negative 40 integers from the preceding baseline. Applying that logic, and incidentally, common sense, to the modding system of Slashdot, a post can be modded down. Or up for that matter. Semantics games are for losers and little kids. Please grow up. Although, I'll certainly concede that modding a post vertically could just as easily mean up or down.

  23. Re:BLANK on China Telecom Blocking Skype Calls · · Score: 1

    How hard could it possibly be to figure out that he/she is saying to mod the parent up?

  24. Re:Altogether now on Therapists use Virtual Reality for Veterans · · Score: 1

    All our knowledge of ending sentences with the appropriate punctuation are belong to neither of us.

  25. Altogether now on Therapists use Virtual Reality for Veterans · · Score: 1
    One can only assume that soon someone be reforming carjackers by letting them play the GTA

    All your grammatical errors are belong to us