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  1. Re:Shadowbane on What Games Have Actually Affected You? · · Score: 1

    Ok, now that's going too far. It's tome for you to quit! I mean common already. Don't you know that Star Wars Galaxies is in beta! :)

  2. Re:Congratulations! on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about those that let their ink sit in their printer for years and don't care about quality? Or those that put in a cartridge that been in storage for years and the print quality is just fine?

  3. Re:Define "art" on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 1

    I have a BFA in graphic design, I hear people all the time talk about 'is it art?'.

    Anything created for the sense of a message is art. What people don't realize when they look at art and say 'that's not art, that's just stupid'. Well that's art. It's an expression of the creator. Art is anything from music to painting, from a design of a car to drawing by a 3 year old.

    Architecture is most certainly art. Take a look sometime at the architecture of Tadao Ando, a Japanese architect. His use of curves and natural light in his buildinds are amazing.

    Anyhow, art does have a definition but where you come into the foggy area is what that art means. Unlike one of my professors in college, I feel that anyone can have their own correct opinion on what that piece of art means (which I failed a written essay because of). Now wether they are correct about what the artist was trying to get across is a whole new ballgame.

    Dirk

  4. Re:when they.. on State "Communication Services" Laws Analyzed · · Score: 1

    you mean sue it out...

  5. Re:Spaceballs The Movie on ILM Now Capable of Realtime CGI · · Score: 1

    When will then be now?

  6. Discovery.com on Interesting and Educational Web Pages for Children? · · Score: 1

    The Discovery Channels website is perhaps the best site on the entire web (IMHO) for children. They have tons of content - although some of the great stuff takes alittle while to drill down to.

  7. You better try wireless instead on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 1

    Hope you have average $2,000 per house for the installs (digging up the streets and everyone backyards is expensive) and equipment and I'd bet thats a low estimate.

    So if you have about 20 Million in the bank I'd say go for it.

    Or you could spend ~500K-1 Mil and deploy 802.11g wireless, or spend 2-3Mil and deploy 100MB wireless optical.

  8. Re:AOL should sue themselves on AOL Sues Five Spam Companies · · Score: 1

    No, but you can sell them on eBay. Some of the classics go for upwards of $50 or more. Don't belive me? Go see for yourself.

  9. Re:The Real Way to Stop Spam on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    Yay! What a GREAT idea! Then that 10% from everywhere else will soon grow back to 90%. Then we can block even more countries and start all over!

  10. Re:Laid them off on Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 · · Score: 1

    "Keep your damn employees so they don't flood the market with useless people and maybe I can get a freakin job!"

    Now that just speakes volumes of your skill level.

  11. Re:I predict on Microsoft Also Wants Universal Music? · · Score: 2, Funny

    But that would require thought and research...

  12. Re:404 on Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified · · Score: 3, Funny

    Article came up fine for me. Maybe you need to overclock your monitor.

  13. Re:Apple knows the key on Apple Plans to Purchase Universal Music · · Score: 1

    "Apple realizes what no-one in the record industry does - that if you open wide the full possibilities for selling music, the take will be enormous."

    They must realize something I sure don't then. How will this compete vs free?

  14. Re:Rediculous on How Broad is Broadband? · · Score: 1

    aka, a warez kiddie, someone that downloads every new demo, or someone that downloads music/videos"

    So no (or barely any) downloading of demos, music, videos...

    so that leaves normal web surfing.

    Whee.

  15. No, it's just you. on Are Printers What They Used To Be? · · Score: 1

    I have a Canon S830D. Edge to edge printing and you can not tell difference between it and film when printed on Canon Photo Paper Pro. I've shown prints and film for friends to compare and they can hardly believe it. Amazing printer.

    Dirk

  16. Re:I receive 100+ spams a day on Spammers, Privacy, Anti-Spam, and Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    yahoo email. I get 1-3 spams a week - maybe. And believe me, my email address has been on the lists a long long time...

    Dirk

  17. Re:A Better Way on Spammers, Privacy, Anti-Spam, and Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Why call and threaten him?

    Call and ask to talk to him about spamming and kindly try to convince him that we don't like and he should stop. That's not harassment at all, its helping. 50,000 helpers and he may turn himself around.

  18. Re:April Fools ends at noon, right? on BSDs to be Merged · · Score: 1

    Thank god.

  19. Re:If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, do i on Software Tariffs and US IT Outsourcing? · · Score: 1

    "In this case, setting up tariffs on software would simply result in a higher cost for software in america."

    Not likely, since software made in the US would cost less. Get it?

    "So once you have finished getting all bloodied and beaten up in Iraq, why don't you go and perform a labotomy on yourselves."

    Ahh... now we see why you are posting. Troll. Get lost.

    Dirk

  20. Uhhh we already see through sand and oil smoke on Synthetic Vision · · Score: 1

    "This would enable troops to see through sand storms and oil smoke of the kind currently hampering operations in the Gulf."

    We can see through it already with current technology. Where exactly have you been?

  21. Re:chip on Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And does Dell sell that on their webpage also?

  22. Perhaps we should let the dam break on Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale · · Score: 2

    "The challenge we face is the same challenge little Hans Brinker faced when he stuck his finger into that dam," Ramasubramanian said. "We know that as soon as we let our collective fingers slip out of the thousands of tiny holes we are plugging we will drown in a massive sea of spam."

    Maybe that's exactly what we need to get the attention of the Governments of the world to get serious about spam. Let the dam break for a couple days all over the world. Don't block anything. When people get thousands of spam in their inbox a day and servers around the world slow to a creeping halt perhaps the powers at be will finally get serious to stop spammers.

    Dirk

  23. Re:Come On--Nobody on Projecting Sound 'Inside Your Head' · · Score: 1

    ...and stop playing with yourself!

  24. Re:Its the Engineers Own Fault on Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers · · Score: 1

    A few thoughts on your reasoning:

    #1. You can't outsource fixing a car to another country.

    #2. You can't outsource delivering UPS packages to another country.

    #3. You can outsource tens of thousands of engineers to another country.

    #4. Profit!

  25. Re:Be careful of ripple effects... on Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "But one thing that must happen is that company need to focus more on their long-term survival instead of always pushing to improve short-term profits."

    90% of the time, this will never happen.

    Execs are looking for the golden egg. Make it, get it, get out, live on the beach earning 20%.

    Dirk