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  1. What about a remix? on Anathem · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping someone will grab a version from Bookz and edit it down to 300 pages for me. And replace the made-up words. Sort of like The Phantom Edit--the remix of Star Wars without Jar Jar. Lazyweb--make it so!

  2. I wish they had discontinued it. on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple then would have come out with something compatible, better, and free. Look at keynote, for example.

  3. Re:An Alternative on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    "What somebody needs to do is to devise a DVD player that can read a file delineating where the objectionable parts are on the particular DVD. Once the bad parts are known to the player the player simply skips them." No-- What somebody needs to do is modify VLC so that it will do this.

  4. Re:Ok.. businesses are one thing, what about paren on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Not for long. When cleanflicks has gone out of business, Hollywood will have awakened the most powerful and well-connected human peer-to-peer network in human history--mormons with internet connections and a strong desire to share filtered content with family and friends. Heh.

  5. Re:A few random thoughts on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    If we paid these people wages that are 'acceptable' by North American standards, without thinking about what the local income is, then the entire economical balance in the area would be destroyed. Suddenly, you would have people making tens or hundreds of times more than anyone else in their area, bringing in huge amounts of income. With the market prices in the areas, the people would have no normal outlet for their expenditures, so they would either end up buying up all the land, farms, and businesses in the area, or just stockpiling money. Great for the banks, bad for inflation. When market prices begin to rise because the income of these nouveau riche is destroying the balance, everyone who doesn't have one of these jobs is going to be SOL, because they won't be able to afford the cost of living in this new economy. Wait--are you talking about China or Amerika?

  6. The PalmPod on Apple to Buy out Palm? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a rumor, but wouldn't it be great to have a palmpod? http://www.pdafrance.com/img/pdanews2004/ipod1.jpg

  7. fantagraphics man loves his thesaurus: on Comics Escape a Paper Box and Evolve to the Web · · Score: 1

    given the loveliness of these drawings and the concomitant interest the reader could have in these drawings qua drawings, they are entirely superrogatory. He has mastered a curiously unique rhetorical strategy - or visual sleight-of-hand - that combines a phlebitic and platitudinous sound bite with easy-to-swallow symbols and a good-natured, visual persona who prances and zips around the page like a professorial Candide, wide-eyed, curious, that simultaneously oozes sincerity and gullibility. Angry fantagraphics guy needs to read "understanding prose."

  8. These will be standard issue soon. on Big Screen Viewing Effect For Mobile Phone Videos · · Score: 1

    Basically, cell phones are morphing into wearable computers. When the resolution on the head-display increases, and the speed of the cpu increases, we'll see everything through a mediated heads-up display.

  9. Flash Buffer on Flash Drives in Future Apple Laptops? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It certainly wouldn't hurt to have a 1 gb flash buffer to lessen wear and tear on the HD.

  10. Macworld: The rumors are true: Intel will be insid on Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant · · Score: 1

    according to MacWorld's live update, this is the real mccoy.