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  1. Re:That's really not likely on IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case · · Score: 1

    If they have any sense of career preservation, they'll continue to do a good job. Otherwise, they will get a very visible bad reputation.

  2. Re:I wish they asked me, I can do it cheaply on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    And then you simply agree to cease+desist, leaving things exactly as they are. With the patents locked away.

    After all, if you must cease using the lock, you can't then use it to unlock it, can you?

  3. Re:Difficult to use? on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    "Windows XP with SP1 does support larger drives however. Slipstreaming SP1 into a Windows install is easy as cake given the information how to. "

    Your task for today is to slipstream SP1 or SP2 into an XP CD without using an existing windows install.

    No? Bear these things in mind when suggesting all the solutions.

  4. Re:All the Apple items! on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 1

    The iRiver H300 series players have had video capability for ages. They use avi files at a specific format. There's a freeware drag-and-drop conversion utility, or any regular video editing package should be able to do it.

    Of course, those players are aimed at the high-end market only.

  5. Re:Well that a look at empornium on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    If I've ever seen a post worth of a +5, the parent post is it. Very well thought out and reasoned.

  6. Re:This is insulting. on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it was one of these new-fangled "joke" things. Never really understood them myself...

  7. Re:eBay and PayPal on eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Can you not cancel the credit card transaction from your end?

  8. Re:rip quality? on CD Ripping Services Compared · · Score: 1

    Just turn on CDParanoia in CDex, and you get all that automagic as well.

  9. Re:It's their own fault on Kazaa Owners Risk Jail · · Score: 1

    "The Record Company execs will of course have to be ejected into space."

    Oh no, what a terrible shame...

  10. Re:Interesting. Are you sure? on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Their purpose depends on your view. Is your bomb intended to be used? Then it's clearly a weapon, for killing. Is it just s deterrent? To be a believable deterrent, you also have to be willing to use it, but it's primarily a deterrent rather than a weapon in that case.

  11. Re:duh on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    You can't say for certain that it saved more lives than it took, too.

    If it hadn't been dropped then, it would have been done at some later point. The more horrific the first use, the less likely it'd ever be done again. Maybe.

  12. Re:My ID on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    You two would be a right pair in the sack.

  13. Re:Not a problem here either on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    "^H" is a single-character backspace. I think you ruined that one. "^W^W" would have worked.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Microsoft Patches Fix IE, Sony Flaws · · Score: 1

    Another major difference that you forget is that, whilst Linux also generally requires root access to install most packaged software, it makes it easy to get single-command or temporary access. Windows does not. This makes it very inconvenient to install anything if you're not running as admin.

    The habit of many programs of not correctly installing for all users makes this worse. And that's without adding in the programs that REQUIRE admin access.

  15. Re:I think I know how on Microsoft Patches Fix IE, Sony Flaws · · Score: 1

    double click, next, agree, next, yes-please-install-lots-of-adware-and-spyware, next, next, OK

  16. Re:Absolutely Correct on Apple Holding Back the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    Not quite right.

    They want as much money as they can possibly get out of your every time the song is played. Even if you're only listening to the radio.

  17. Re:well i think on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately (in a way), cats also rule. Hence their murderous aspect gets ignored. Including by me.

  18. Re:The solution to heavy-going philosophy. on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    I did specifically say "for those not willing to read the original". I still recommend reading full versions of books where possible - although most of those works are translations anyway, and hence will never be perfect.

  19. The solution to heavy-going philosophy. on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    Those books are a little heavy to digest.

    Some of that line can be found online in compressed/abridged form, if you don't feel up to reading the whole text.

    http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/ind ex.htm

  20. Re:Why Sony? on Sony Announced Hybrid Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    I find it sad that people are no longer customers or people, they're consumers.. they consume, they buy what they're told to buy and like the lemmings they are they jump off the cliffs.

    This is what makes my marketing lectures both entertaining and thoroughly depressing at the same time - they hilight the behaviour of the sheeple.

  21. Re:Before anyone gets upset on Gamers Better at Driving w/ Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    The fact that the scientist said that smells of either an over eager or political scientist trying to get their name in the papers.

    The worst thing is that, as demonstrated here, it worked.

  22. Re:WTF on Gamers Better at Driving w/ Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    You just pointed out the whole in your own argument by agreeing that driving does need two hands, not necessarily both on the wheel:

    "As for driving with one hand, anyone who drives a stick shift car has to do this for at least part of their driving..."

    See?

    If you've got one hand on your phone, one hand on the wheel, and one hand on the gearstick... you ain't human.

  23. Re:But according to the RIAA... on Sony Repents Over CD Debacle · · Score: 1

    And the RIAA saying this surprises you?

    You really have been under a rock for years. Possibly since before the RIAA formed.

  24. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    I'll concede that.

  25. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    No, the "how to please your man" and similar articales ARE the reason. For reading out loud and luaghing at.