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  1. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    Free Software, 50% of the term FOSS, was preceded by software as a business.

    You confirmed it, that is what I said...deal with it.

  2. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    That wasn't me...My point was that Free Software, the dream of RMS, was preceeded by software as a business.

    Apparently that isn't popular, but it's true. Flame on!

  3. Re:Everybody's got a right to be wrong. on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    Air has always been free...we only recently started building businesses around distributing vanity air...

    software was a business first...then came the Free Software movement.

  4. Re:Actually he's half right on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 5, Funny

    You use Steve Jobs as the extreme for closed source software?

    Are you sure you can't think of someone more...qualified?

  5. Re:No thanks on Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping · · Score: 2, Informative

    the m5 will last longer than probably two beat up old tauruses.

    That and they are more fun to drive...
    is this keyboard more fun to use? Or is it just bling to look at?

  6. Re:Review summary on Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping · · Score: 1

    A touch typist isn't a hunt and peck typist...

    if you can type long strings of words without ever looking at the keyboard and know how to align your fingers to the home keys then you are a touch typist...

    if you look at every key you type and tend to use 1-2 fingers to type...then you're a hunt and peck...er

  7. Re:I'm skeptical on 100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year · · Score: 1

    I was all about the tesla roadster until i saw the lighted bling electrical outlet on the car. That and they still can't get me across NY state without stopping for 3 hours to recharge...

    Until that happens, I'm stuck with my 98 all fuel based compact that still gets 35-40mpg highway.

  8. Re:Competition on Google And Microsoft Cross Swords Over Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    So it's not a monopoly...as I said.

    You can't buy a computer and get an iPod come with it automatically...unless you buy an apple and are a student and happen to stumble upon one of their deals.

    You buy 95% of the computers on the market and you'll get windows. There's a monopoly on the desktop, there's not a monopoly on portable music players. I see plenty of zunes, samsungs, sandisks in use...

    I walk into bestbuy and they have 5 ipods, and loads of competitors. I walk over to the software isle...i see mostly windows software.

    Do you comprehend the difference?

  9. Re:The end of America on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    That's a little dramatic don't you think?

  10. Re:My bet... on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    Microsoft and Yahoo are the 2nd and 3rd place players in this game...MS buying Yahoo doesn't weaken google's already 60%+ position.

    An anti-trust case has no legs to stand on in this case.

  11. Re:Competition on Google And Microsoft Cross Swords Over Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with anything? You can put linux on any Apple computer and some ipods.

    It's still not a monopoly unless you count having your OS on all of YOUR hardware a monopoly...which I don't. They have competitors in the Personal Computer market, quite strong ones at that. Apple doesn't even have 5% of the market, how can you call them a monopoly?

    Unless you're talking about the iPod. They have a major share of that market, at what point does your majority of the market share consider you a monopoly? They still have competitors, someone is always willing to step up with the next great iPod killer...so no, they really aren't a monopoly there either.

  12. Re:Just rename it. on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    Why is this lie continually spoken across the internet?

    http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ-Migration#bc

  13. Re:Calling all OiNK ex-admins! on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 2, Informative

    Burning an mp3 to a cd does no further conversion.

    Whether i read an mp3 from my ipod, my cd player or from a hard drive it's the same mp3, the only difference will be the decoder used.

  14. Re:Industry move on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain KOffice and OpenOffice distribution sites don't offer sftp...

    They do offer FTP, though and he said it was affected.

  15. Re:That's not what lock-in is. on iPhone Application Key Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No you can't export it, but you can copy all your photos, all of your music to another machine and just get on with life.

    I'm not sure what the problem is here.

  16. Re:"blue ray player" totals on HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt · · Score: 1

    My friend bought a PS3 but doesn't have a BDDVD for it because he plays on a standard def television. What's the point of paying more for hidef movies?

  17. Re:User Interface of the Day on UI Designers Hired by Mozilla · · Score: 1

    That's an awesome site!

    500 - Internal Server Error

  18. Re:Well if the blogger's aren't willing to act... on Long Term Effects of Gizmodo CES Prank · · Score: 1

    A hero? No one was forcing people to be there and those companies affected paid to be able to present. Those presentations were interrupted due to your 'hero'. How heroic! Watch as I inconvenience people who aren't forcing me, bewildering me or otherwise making my life any different...

    To compare this with the Boston Tea Party is to show pure ignorance.

  19. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    Some people can't consume dairy products...

  20. Re:Secret Back door code is pretty easy!! on New Vista Random Numbers to Include NSA Backdoor? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Contra on NES.

    But i think other konami games used it as well.

  21. Advertising...? on Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control · · Score: 1

    Why does that article feel like it's an advertisement? Linux.com has a particular audience and I don't believe you need to sell them on the merits of open source software...

    It just felt empty.

  22. Re:Straightforward, sure.. but... | also, the bug on Follow-up on EVE's Boot.ini Issue · · Score: 1

    I wish you weren't anonymous for this...You were the first comment I really wanted to mod well and it I don't mod anonymous :(

  23. Re:And there is still the unsolved issue of... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    Why are people paying for BMW, Hummer and other expensive automobiles when KIA,Hyundai and other cheaper products exist?

  24. Re:I call bullshit on this one... on Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit? · · Score: 1

    Michael bay describing his idea to save imagination land...including lasers, explosions, big ships and robots!

    Secretary Of Defense: Those aren't ideas, those are special effects.
    Michael Bay: I don't understand the difference.
    Secretary Of Defense: I know you don't. (to guards) Get him out of here!

  25. Re:Evil explained on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 1

    Why is aac.evil > mp3.evil?