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  1. Re:Google on Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why? · · Score: 1

    Meh, more of a joke than anything. There's plenty of sites that document it though, but plenty of spammers and such have taken advantage of the search structure.

  2. Re:Klingon Christmas Carol on The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists · · Score: 1

    I've seen the Star Wars Holiday Special and that actually sounds a lot more interesting than it. Prairie Home Quixote.

  3. Klingon Christmas Carol on The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those of us in the Twin Cities who are more interested in something less... atrociously awful, there's the Klingon Christmas Carol being performed right now at Mixed Blood!

    http://www.cbtheatre.org/KCC2009/KCC2009.htm

  4. My own bailout on Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany · · Score: 1

    I'll provide my own bailout to the world and seed ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent a bit longer.

  5. Re:Google on Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why? · · Score: 5, Informative

    “parent directory” mp3 OR wma OR ogg OR wav Band/Singer -html -htm -download -links

  6. Re:The things about vinyl that drove me crazy: on Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales · · Score: 1

    I grew up in a household with about 10,000 records, my dad was a collector. All the music we listened to came from vinyl, and I honestly love all those scratches and pops. Each record had a distinctive sound, the pops became a part of the song, for better or worse. It's just such an ingrained part of my childhood that I bought a record player earlier this year and then rebought a few of my CDs in album form just so I could hear them and create some new audio memories.

  7. Re:Wiktionary.org? on Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com · · Score: 1

    It could have just started as some junior level programmer's 20% time and bubbled up from there.

  8. Re:my son did this... on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 4, Funny

    As he tells it, he was in there a long time -- much longer than the recruits ahead of him had been. When he came out, the room was full of people, including officers, who were all staring at him.
    He asked, "What's everybody looking at?
    Someone replied, "The Buggers, son... you just wiped out the Buggers."

  9. Re:Copy Apple & Google on DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court · · Score: 1

    Not sure what their censorship policy of 20 years ago matters today, but an even greater barrier than the $2,000 fee is that you are required to have an actual office on business property.

  10. Re:Kudos on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know what the repercussions are in Denmark but here in the US when you see FBI warnings before a movie stating you'll be fined $150,000 and 10 years in a PMITA prison... I'd rather just keep my mouth shut and let someone who actually got caught challenge the system.

  11. Re:Obvious... on Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE · · Score: 3, Informative

    The nightlies of Microsoft Bob basically killed all positive hype for the program.

  12. Re:its a pity people/distros cant read on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone paying attention knew that 4.0 WAS NOT ready for general use yet like children on Christmas eve, the developers couldn't wait to label it as a stable integer release.

  13. Re:Sounds like true Star Trek alright on Alternate Star Trek TOS Pilot Found · · Score: 1

    That sounds like The Cage, the other pilot.

  14. Re:Can he even afford it? Do sites even care? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    Note that the list was compiled almost seven years ago, quite a bit has changed.

  15. Re:silly on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    If TFS is honestly the best enterprise solution out there, then we're all doomed. I can't stand it and everyday I hear muttered (or yelled) around the office, "TFS sucks!"

  16. Teamprise is not bad, TFS sucks on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    It's one of those products I have to use every day as TFS is our repository (yeah, I wonder too how much our architects got paid off to choose them). TFS has been a disaster since day one, but we're now entering our third year of using it, so there's no going back at this point in the eyes of many (heck, our previous source control was VSS!).

    Teamprise is not bad, I'm a fan of the Eclipse platform and so it's nice to use something I'm already familiar with, even if the backend blows.

    I've been collecting tons of TFS downtime emails over the last year, keeping them as ammo for some kind of change in the future, or a really hilarious Daily WTF.

  17. Ubuntu on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    I've told the story before, but last October I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my in-law's laptop and haven't had a call back since. Just had to set up their mail in Evolution and everything else worked: internet and printing.

  18. Re:Holy Shitbags Binaries Are Static And *Huge* on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    In Java it was 519 bytes.

    public class Hello
    {
        public static void main(String... args)
        {
            System.out.println("hello, world");
        }
    }

  19. Re:I know I'm in the minority on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    Mass Effect is out and Mass Effect 2 will be out in two months.

  20. Re:Tailgating to the max on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 1

    Note that means certain elements are therefore in the Public Domain and cannot be patented.

    Sounds like a challenge.

  21. Re:Just to start us off with a car analogy... on Lulu Introduces DRM · · Score: 1

    Except if I buy a paperback copy of 1984 from Amazon, they can't physically come to my house and take it from my shelves.

  22. Re:Drupal Sux on Drupal Multimedia · · Score: 1

    It's really not that complicated, I know next to nothing when it comes to PHP and I've been doing fine.

  23. What's with all the Drupal hate? on Drupal Multimedia · · Score: 1

    I've had great luck with it the last 18 months or so and the site has scaled pretty well with my needs. I had some complaints from my host when I was on shared hosting that I was hitting their database pretty hard, but I turned on caching for anonymous users and it's been smooth sailing since.

  24. Re:Why all the marketing? on Find DARPA's Balloons, Win $40K · · Score: 1

    Two years ago, or less, I'm willing to bet 98% of Americans had no idea DARPA even existed.

    The other 2% played Metal Gear Solid and remembered the DARPA chief dying in his cell.

  25. Demand? on Nintendo Announces DSi XL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm wondering where the demand for this was? It's not like they're increasing the resolution and now the DS size history has gone from its original size, shrunk down to the Lite version, then the DSi came out which was comparable to the Lite, and now they're making it larger than the original DS with the XL.

    But Nintendo usually knows what they're doing, as long as they don't color it red and require it be strapped to your face, that is.