User: sib888

Re:Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio

On: Another School Exposes Private Information

So you guys blew an 80 year head start?

very un-slashdot like

On: Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop

since when does overclocking have to be explained to the slashdot crowd? This reeks of marketing

Re:Prank Calls

On: Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers

Somerville, Massachusetts. I used to have the 666 prefix before I dropped my land line. It was always amusing to give out that phone number. I got the stranges looks.

Yes, this is the same town that just ticketed and towed for a snow emergengy, where almost no snow fell.

closer and closer

On: Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S.

This is just one more step closer to all of us getting boned.

Re:Doesn't look promising

On: 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today

Star Wars was imagined/designed as one movie encompassing the entire original trilogy. While Writing the screenplay Lucas realized he could never fit Star Wars, ESB and Jedi in one movie. It based on the success of the Star Wars that facilitated the making of ESB and Jedi.

Biggest pet peeve

On: Windows ATMs by 2005

Automated Teller Machine Machine?

I Hate That!!!!

Re:it doesn't say anything about prefered

On: Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred

The graphic has been changed. The original image had the same x-axis displaying the minute in tenths, but the bar representing the PC score stopped at .54 minutes, and the Mac bar stopped at 1.25 minutes.

Re:it doesn't say anything about prefered

On: Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred

Seriously, how does a tool that presents this graph:
a) get to production?
b) get purchased and used by anyone who expects any amount of respect?

The chart actually adds 40 seconds to the minute and the Mac score. The graph portrays the PC's as 131% faster than the mac, when in reality it's 37%. Along with using an older version CPU make me wonder how else the study was manipulated. I'm not putting much stock in this study.

I still think that Apple is in deep yogurt because of their processor speeds. They need to do something fairly quickly, even if it is a move to Intel/AMD chips.

Scary applications

On: Projecting Sound 'Inside Your Head'

This has the potential to be the worst invention ever. How would you feel about being forced to listen to advertisements while riding the subway? You can't turn it off. 20 minutes of commercials, or event (shudder) popular music.

Makes sense... for Gore

On: Al Gore Joins Apple's Board Of Directors

I hope Gore's personality doesn't rub off. We'll be back to beige boxes before you know it...

vote different.

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paging Yakov Smirnoff

On: Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble

He's just about due for a comeback, or dead.

Re:I don't know, Count Fecal. I don't know.

On: Thus Spake Tick Creator Ben Edlund

I can smell it now....

Tick vs. CmdrTaco!!!