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  1. Re:Four times the memory in three days on 512GB Solid State Disks on the Way · · Score: 1

    I think what (s)he means is you can't make an array (more than one) if only one exists...

  2. Re:A jock is not an athlete on YouTube For High-School Jocks · · Score: 1

    I think it's safe to say that an Athlete is not always a jock.

  3. Re:Release Too Soon... on What's Really Broken with Windows Update - Trust · · Score: 1
    You want to install a program? Good, then if your distro doesn't have the package (god forbid the latest version), you need to, in 75% of the cases, go search the web, find the program, TRY to COMPILE it on your Linux version, then debug your other missing packages once you manage to figure out why it won't compile on your computer.

    Not entirely true. PCLinuxOS' and Ubuntu's Synaptic works quite well. Look for the software you want to install, select it, install it, run it. Usually. (but then, not all Windows software runs without configuring it first)

  4. Re:Actually on Microsoft Marketing to OS Pirates, Just Agree to Audits! · · Score: 1

    As it is I have two Vista licenses I will never use...

    Can I have one? LOL

  5. Yea! on Microsoft Should Abandon Vista? · · Score: 1

    WindowsXP and Linux all the way! (Too bad this shows my ignorance about other OS's...)

  6. Re:flywheel on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    Flywheels aren't limited to motor vehicles...

  7. Re:More seriously, though on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 1

    I think the video trumps your statement about the burnout. Even though you're not planning to crash doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for one.

  8. Re:Crazy units on Mars Rovers Return to Exploration · · Score: 1

    ...or a 29-watt bulb all of the time

  9. Re:Exactly (time investment) on Solar Powered Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Is that warranty guaranteed?

  10. Re:tsk tsk tsk... on Another Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    "Whaddaya mean I can't jump over it. I gotta go around??"

  11. Re:Customers? on Acer to Acquire Gateway for $710 million · · Score: 2, Funny

    I sure hope they didn't consume their computers - would be bad for digestion ;)

  12. Re:+/- 5 or whatever is not a secret limit. on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 1

    My Goldwing has a +7% calibration - meaning at an indicated 70MPH, I am really going 65.1. I heard that this is due to the fact that Honda initially designed the bike with a 180-70-16 tire, but shipped with a 180-60-16. It turns out from some riders that after mounting the 180-70-16 tire, their calibration zeroed out (65MPH = 65MPH) due to the larger tire. I have no idea why Honda did this. And no, I haven't changed my tire size...

  13. Laptop Backup on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    External drive or network share?

  14. Re:More incredible on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 1

    Must be a Microsoft mouse...

  15. Re:This is what normally happends. on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    It's all billable :)

  16. Re:Why download? on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    ...like the old comic about the guy who walks into his local computer store, hands them a blank floppy disk, and asks to buy a copy of the internet...

  17. Re:why does everything have to be illegal? on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 1
    Yea, that'll happen - right after I win a huge amount of tax-free cash.

    *huge: enough to live on without working ever again, and maintain my current standard of living

  18. Re:specifics? on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I can argue that. Remember the old kid's joke "How do you eat an elephant"? One bite at a time. Who says you can't cut said coconut-sized rock into juicy, bite-sized pieces?

    Now, if you were referring to just swalllowing it whole...

  19. Re:specifics? on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 1

    Umm, that's assinine *damn*

  20. Re:specifics? on Broadcasters Want Cash For Media Shared At Home · · Score: 1
    While that may be true, people also buy clips of songs for double or triple the full song cost just so they can hear it when someone calls on their cellphones.

    Somehow, this assine fee-thing may catch on, even if we don't want it to.

  21. Re:XP was much the same on A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista · · Score: 1

    I only lie about commute times when my teleporter is on the fritz...

  22. Re:Or maybe... on A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista · · Score: 1

    copied a certain fruit company

    Leave my strawberry/banana computers OUT of this!

  23. Re:we've solved this problem on Office Printers May Pose Health Risks · · Score: 1

    That's what flat panels are for :)

  24. Re:Big Changes, huh? on Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes · · Score: 1
    From what I see daily, I would think so...

    Motorcycles rule! :)

  25. Re:So? on Emoticons in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    A lightweight one?