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  1. Re:Death Knell on New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs · · Score: 1

    you'll run across hundreds of teachers who simply don't want to re-learn how to use a word-processor It's ironic: teachers don't want to learn.
    I'm not sure it's true though.
  2. Re:Expect problems and bugs with OS software? on New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs · · Score: 1

    Windows is perfect at work.. 5-10 minutes of bonus-breaks during the day is really nice :) This is one of the best "it's a feature not a bug" comments I've heard.
  3. Re:Punishment doesn't fit on University of Ohio Abandons Students Attacked by RIAA · · Score: 1

    Yes but sharing music = ?

    I'm not disputing your point but your analogy.

  4. Re:Always on Internet Connection? on Intel Prototypes World's Thinnest Laptop · · Score: 1

    So if I were extending a baseball bat from a car window and didn't intend to hit a mailbox (or person), it shouldn't be a crime?
    What about getting on a plane and the laptop uses a cell phone signal.

    (I'm trying to be funny so please don't take this too seriously)

  5. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    You spend years before this happened to gain their respect.

  6. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: -1

    I don't have time to teach you how to be a parent. It can be negative consequences not just 'positive choices', just not physically threatening or depriving of nourishment, you are in control. Look up a parenting book, or ask someone you know. Sheesh.

  7. Re:Still ONLY an energy STORAGE medium. on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    The question was rhetorical. Coal is probably the biggest in the US. My point was that it's most likely a fossil fuel of some sort (excepting Iceland with their geothermal resources).

  8. Re:Still ONLY an energy STORAGE medium. on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Making aluminum is energy intensive. Where does that energy come from?

  9. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    There are consequences, just not physical threatening.

  10. Re:Two words: on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Children are what you make them.
    If you're a good parent, you shouldn't have to resort to abusing them with the examples you provided.

  11. Re:XM not canceling account on XM Satellite Radio Backlash · · Score: 0

    Reporting the card stolen takes care of the problem immediately. If you are close to your limit a company charging you without your permission could add to overlimit fees. If someone took a snapshot of your credit card, it's stolen regardless whether you have the physical card or not. In effect they have stolen your card and it's not being dishonest. And this way if the company messes up again you won't have to waste your time fixing it (unless your time is worthless, mine isn't).

  12. Re:XM not canceling account on XM Satellite Radio Backlash · · Score: 1

    So can one just change the expiration date?

  13. Re:XM not canceling account on XM Satellite Radio Backlash · · Score: 0

    Another option is to report your card stolen (which isn't far from the truth) and get a new account number.

  14. Re:welp.... on Has Cosmology Been Solved? · · Score: 1

    Only if you want a science less predictable than chaos theory and quantum mechanics combined. You mean like seismology?
  15. Re:Customer says on Disney Says, You WILL Watch the Ads · · Score: 3, Insightful
    about your cell phone comment (I just want to show an opposing viewpoint):

    how fast things change, 15 years ago nobody had one and behold, we did live and not worse than we do now My car broke down and I was without a cell phone 10 years ago. I'd say that was "worse than what we do now". Now I carry a cell phone with me especially in a car (and before anyone goes there, I don't talk and drive).
  16. Re:Necessary? on Real Open Source Applications for Education? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was being sarcastic. I thought it was obvious but I should have clarified.

  17. Re:Necessary? on Real Open Source Applications for Education? · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's why teachers get paid so much.

  18. Re:Flash Guides on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    The link you provide points to a website that want to run a script to see if I have MS Office 2007 installed before it would show me anything.

    No thanks.

  19. Re:Ink? What ink? on Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? · · Score: 1

    It looks great, too bad I can't buy Samsung anymore since their Linux deal with Microsoft (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/04/20/1440218.shtm l).

  20. Re:Non-critical? on RIM Releases Reason for Blackberry Outage · · Score: 1

    Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  21. Re:fair trade on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 1

    You're right. I'm relatively new to this and I'll take your advice.

  22. Re:Required? Why? on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is that usually it's the bull that's cloned because he has fathered goos dairy cows and only for the purpose of breeding.
    So the dairy cow isn't technically cloned.
    Now would the milk be labeled coned?

  23. other labels on Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All the following is IMHO.

    I think labels are a good thing; consumers can educate themselves if they want to and they have all the relevant info available.

    I think having food labeled whether it's genetically modified is also helpful.

    I'm always looking for food that has been obtained using fair trade practices.
    I also look for food that has been obtained using sustainable and eco-friendly practices.

    My only choices now are to go to the local organic/natural food store and internet stores, not only for food but for environmentally friendly household products (and others).

  24. Re:Caps lock key on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 1

    Thanks,

    I don't use Windows though. I know about workarounds and I know about the "happy hacking" keyboard that comes with the control button in the right spot, I use that keyboard for the Linux box. And I got used the command button on the MacBook.

    It's still an annoyance. Grrr!

  25. Caps lock key on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the caps lock key is one.
    It takes valuable space on the keyboard and rarely gets used.
    I like the old control key there instead.