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  1. Re:Not worth the money? on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 1

    there is a simple solution.

    Photograph or Scan all your receipts.

    name them by item and digitally store them in a folder.

    upload a backup to an online host. done

  2. Re:Moderators: Please note on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    yeah it does it for me as well ~_~ feaking microsoft

  3. Re:Moderators: Please note on Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links · · Score: 1

    It's happening to me as well :\ had to spell out an address last night

  4. Re:And Google video? on Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing · · Score: 1

    if you signup for a director account on youtube, the timelimit is removed.

  5. Re:THis is Good, but file sharing is Good too? on Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation · · Score: 1

    3a. Megacorp owns copyright to "Absolute Music 2343"
    3b Consumer doesn't think that Absolute Music 2343 is worth the $15, and doesn't buy it

    A non sale can not be counted as loss. Not every download counts as a loss of profit. Your logic is more holy then a bullet ridden sacred cow.

  6. Re:Very promising. on Robot-Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries · · Score: 1

    i like doing that stuff at times, it gives me a break from dealing with demanding customers.

  7. better view on MMO Bans Men Playing As Women · · Score: 0

    I always play as female characters with any game, you think i want to stare at some guys butt in third person, for 10 hours?

  8. he's resting! on Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies · · Score: 0

    No no, e's not dead, uh,...he's resting. Look there, he moved!

  9. C&C on Companies Offer AAA Games For 'Free' · · Score: 0

    http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.asp x?id=61#NewsMain

    Download link there, also torrent:
    http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=1473

    Same version as the one in decades. Looks like you need the old patch as well, something i remember having problems with last time i tried installing C&C95.

    I hope they've fixed those issues, and it would be nice if they updated network play.

  10. Where do i sign up? on PS3's Lair Playable Via Remote On PSP · · Score: 0

    Wow, so you're telling me that I can buy this awesome console with state of the art graphics, processing power which outputs video in true high definition resolution with amazing texture mapping, and then play the games on a PSP with a 480 x 272 on a 6" screen, with a system that is almost as powerful as the PS2? Thats amazing!

  11. Re:This is the sort of thing OS needs to focus on on New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu · · Score: 0
    Hahah, i knew i would get flack about proclaiming a level of knowledge with computers. I admit myself i'm far from expert, but I do know enough to fix or at least troubleshoot every problem that windows and my computer can throw at me, and i think that counts for something. Regedit, msconfig, dos commands are all tools of the trade.

     

    More often than not it involved me feeling like an idiot... unable to do simple things. The fact that I could make Windows jump through hoops only hindered my ability (and / or willingness) to learn MacOS.


    That's precisely how linux feels, and I hate that feeling and some of those emotions transfer over to the product experience. It's incredibly frustrating not to be able to do basic things, that in windows would take me a second. I've spent years of learning the ins and outs of windows shit, and where they hide the useful options, and to be so baffled is difficult.

     

    All joking aside, I might suggest that you toss in another hard drive into your Windows PC, install Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.04 on the new drive and dual boot-very easy and straight forward during the install to do.

    I was duelbooting from separate hard drives. It was a pain in the arse to have to keep on selecting windows EVERY start up, within about 5seconds, or be loaded into a 320x user environment.
  12. Re:Hmmm... no George W. Bush on Google Geek's Photos of the Famous · · Score: 0, Troll

    George wouldn't vist google. He probably thinks they're a bunch of dirty communist democrat hippies.

  13. Re:This is the sort of thing OS needs to focus on on New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I've been a power computer user for some years now, I built my own machine and know windows backwards, however linux confuses the heck out of me.

    I tried Ubuntu once, and i had a problem where every time i restarted, my maximum resolution decreased. I uninstalled linux when it reached 320x, because I couldn't figure out how to fix the problem.

  14. Re:How horribly wrong! on Couple Bonding Through PC Building · · Score: 1

    mod parent up for extremely apt adaption of Red Vs Blue quote

  15. Re:Let me give orders in pause! on Protoss For a Day · · Score: 1

    Ever played Risk 2 on the computer? its a TBSG, but there is a Same Time game mode as well, which everyone issues orders simultaneously and are carried out together.

  16. Re:What did I think of them? on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    mod parent up, reminds me of many a essay i've had to right, including one examining the corolation between the 3 little pigs, and feminism.

  17. did the leak hurt the sales of the book? on Harry Potter Leaked Via Handheld Camera · · Score: 1

    I've read 3 of the 5 pagges of the discussion about this, and for some reason i haven't seen any mention of the perfecftly readable txt pdf, or ereader versions of the books.

    I downloaded the ereader version at 11pm 20th July NZ time, and read it using the palm application on my palm emulator for Windows Mobile 2003 on my PDA2k.

    I read up to chapter 25 by 4am, before i had to go to sleep, as I have work on saturdays from 9am to 5:30pm. As you can see from me having read more then half the book (there are around 35 chapters in total), i didnt have a problem with the quality of the copy, and while there were a few OCR errors, they didnt detract significantly, and i was easily able to read along with the story. At 12pm on my lunch break, I went out and purchased my copy of the book. Regardless of whether i had a perfect digital copy or not, or even if i had managed to finish the ebook before the hard copy went on sale, I still would have purchased the book regardless.

  18. Re:I love these unsupported theories.... on UK Proposal To Restrict Internet Pornography Sparks Row · · Score: 2, Funny

    godwin's law achieved

  19. Re:Hard Disk? on 100x Faster Hard Drive In Lab · · Score: 1

    i actually think i'd prefer a smaller screen to something the size of a book, 2-3 inches is enough, can be carried in your pocket and is easy to read (for me). Whats wrong with backlighting?

  20. Re:Hard Disk? on 100x Faster Hard Drive In Lab · · Score: 1

    and thats why you buy a cheap PDA (i got one for about $30USD, and use it to read books.

    I started off with a palm m500, and now have a $300 htc harrier / pda2k.

    I have read so many ebooks on my pdas that i've lost count.

  21. Re:Umm.. on An iPod For Every Kid In Michigan · · Score: 1

    In US schools the question is 'How do we get students to learn?' which is not a question in Japanese schools. (There, sadly, it's 'How do we keep students from cracking under the pressure and killing themselves?', which is a large problem that people who assert our schools should be more like Japanese ones might want to consider.)

    Um, i think your talking out of your hat there. The problem of kids not learning is equally relevant in Japan. I read several blogs by teachers, and have a close friend who teaches over there. Their biggest problem is that they have very little authority over the children. It's largely the case that the only requirement for passing high school, is being still alive at the end of it. Many kids skip entire years of school, showing up only to get their graduaction certificate. They don't expell kids nor to they have dentention.

    Note, im not talking about Japanese Universities, which are renoun for being difficult to gain admission to, and if one wants to attend, they need to bucke down and seriously study - unlike the american system which seems that you only need enough money to go.
  22. Re:Morals on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    You're a troll.

    It takes something like 10 times the land to feed a herd of cows, for beef, then it would to use land to grow vegetables and feed the same number of people.

  23. Re:So that's where all the classic controllers wen on The Wii Hits the UK · · Score: 1

    Our Wiimotes, Classic Controllers, and Wiiplay's are in boxes that you can easily open.

    - works at a store that sells them, in New Zealand

  24. Re:Backup on Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    yeah, but it says you can transfer the blocks to the SD card *after* its downloaded.

    Though this probably won't last for all time, like he seems to be after, but that seems an impossible wish.

  25. Re:Backup on Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    the answer is in your face, use SD cards to archive your games...