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  1. Easy on Dealing with Digital Music and Vendor Lock-In? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just buy a digital audio player that supports mp3 or ogg, and don't buy from the vendors that lock you in.

  2. traditional Wi-Fi network on Cisco To Unveil Wireless Mesh Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "traditional Wi-Fi network"

    It's words like these that show us just how fast technology is being developed.

  3. Re:definition of evolution on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?

    Sigh. Yes, sadly I have, but the Cardinal only moved him to a different church as punishment.

    jk

  4. Re:next step? on Leaked Pictures of Socket F · · Score: 1

    Replaceable GPUs.

    I think the technology is moving too fast for that. It rarely makes sense to even replace a CPU these days.

  5. Re:Quitting broadcast TV on CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    if it were legal I'd do it.. but honestly.. illegally downloading the stuff just supports the old business model that the industry clings to.. the only ONLY way to change it is to boycott

    You're right. But this is kind of like voting isn't it? They will not notice a difference if you download it or just don't watch it.

  6. Re:when? on CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "why?"

  7. Re:Suckers, suckers everywhere on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 2

    I don't know about that. I just got robbed five minutes ago since I was nice enough to offer change for a fifty to some punks that said they needed a cab... or something. Did I really deserve what I got?

    I'd rather be an optimist any day, but people that take advantage of others make being one increasingly hard.

  8. Re:cheap for a reason... on A PC For Tightwads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must have a short memory or something. Five years ago the PC in question would be a spead demon, and I'm pretty sure people did more than write emails back then. Put Windows 2000, or Linux without the new versions of KDE or GNOME and you have a system that will fly.

  9. Easy on Best Way to Manage Geeks? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Keep the fridge stocked with Mountain Dew and Bawls.
    2. Allow them to mod their PC cases with leds and overclocked - spreadsheet busting - cpus.
    3. Mandatory slashdot breaks.
    4. And, of course, hammocks! ...you know, from the hammock district!


  10. Re:I don't see the paralel at all ... on XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The media while not that great is unique to Sega and they did move away from the cartriges that every thing else was using at the time.

    Sega Saturn?
    Sony Playstation?
    Optical Media...

  11. Re:Mine the moon screw up the environment on China to Land on Moon Around 2017 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's just mine the moon of it's natural resources. It won't affect the earth in any way or will it... If we take off any sizable chuck of the moon it will affect the tides.

    That may be the dumbest fucking thing that I have ever heard... but of course, your'e joking!

  12. Re:not possible on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 1

    It's okay to build a copy of the Aztek in your garage.

  13. Sega Pico on Learning Game Consoles for Young Children? · · Score: 1

    Try to find an old sega pico. They should be pretty cheap on ebay. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/se /sega_pico.htm

  14. Re:Cost and earnings on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    If someone decides to sell it a a profit, then you are free to sell your own version for free. Same as linux as far as I know.

  15. Re:Selective Nit-pickery on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    ....t's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say.

    couldn't care less ...I know, I'm an ass.

  16. 1100 comments for this? on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    CmdrTaco posts that he had to change his name on an online game and gets 1100 replies? Talk about a cult of personality. At least it isn't as bad as some guy named Drew I've heard far too much about.

  17. Supping? on MySQL CEO Insists He's Not Supping With The Devil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Supping? As in to take food and especially liquid food into the mouth a little at a time - Websters

    Okay...

  18. Calender on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gmail needs a calender.

  19. Thinkgeek on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm totally surprised that they OSTG didn't pimp their LED bulb from thinkgeek. 35 bucks is a little steep though.
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/7aa8/


    Of course, you could always make your own.
    http://www.etgtech.com/update/products/super_flux. htm

  20. Really? on CliffyB Talks Gears of War And Design · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... it seems to me that everyone who goes for the Force chokes."

    Is that really true? I always pick the good side myself... until I screw up half way through the game by roughing up a chicken or picking up a nice shiny piece of armor, thinking it is my own.

    /yes I said roughing up a chicken
    //and yes, I know this isn't fark

  21. Re:Greed on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 1

    American's are in for a rough ride when China becomes the next superpower and greed is a major reason why.

    Why do people keep saying that? China is a fucking backwards, piss-poor excuse for a country (governmentally speaking).

  22. Slow games in Civilization on Sid Meier Responds · · Score: 1

    I really hope he figured out a way to make Civ4 playable after a hundred or so turns. I've been playing Civ3 on a pentium M lately and it's still way too slow when the game gets into the modern age.

  23. Re:This is really stupid on Ontario to Match U.S. DST Change · · Score: 1

    What? Like forcing people to attend French-speaking schools if their parents took a French course in High School, because that makes them count as a francophone?

    Where did you hear this? I was never forced into a French school.

  24. Cell phone and flash games on Is There a Future for Indie Games? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cell phone and flash games are much cheaper and easier to make. A few of them, like zuma and bejeweled, also make rediculous amounts of money.

  25. Re:All the print- that's news to fit. on ePaper To Be Used For Newspapers and Magazines · · Score: 1

    I see your point. I just hope you realise that they aren't fighting terrorists in Iraq, they are fighting the people of Iraq.