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  1. semiotics on The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe the proper term for this field is semiotics, the study of the assignation of meaning to symbols and signs.

  2. Re:This is always the case on Intel Mac Performance Behind Hype · · Score: 1

    I believe you meant to say it's snappier.

  3. Re:Livejournal hacks? on Details of the LiveJournal Account Hacks · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've seen your pictures and can definitively say that the hackers were doing the world a service.

  4. Re:Errr... on Intel Mac Performance Behind Hype · · Score: 1

    Well duh! We didn't cover things like multi-core processor performance in 1st grade engineering...

  5. Re:Why 2x faster? Just says it's faster! on Intel Mac Performance Behind Hype · · Score: 1

    People want a number. It's easier for the average joe to wrap his head around a simple metric than something nebulous such as "considerably faster."

  6. Re:ball it up on NASA Warns of Cluttered Space · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Roll it all up into a big ball and put it into the sky as a new star. Sounds like a good (and fun) plan to me.

  7. Re:Some Guy says computer crime creates jobs on FBI Says Computer Crime Costs Billions Every Year · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile you recommend that companies move their email infrastructure over to gmail, which means that an employee's account can't be suspended or revoked upon termination. That doesn't sound like a particularly secure idea to me.

  8. Re:Questions? on FBI Says Computer Crime Costs Billions Every Year · · Score: 2, Funny

    Under their model, as I understood it - if you had to buy anti-virus software, that was a business loss due to cybercrime!

    In that case you'd better include the costs of Windows and Office in there, too. : p

  9. Re:Standards? Who needs standards! on Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting · · Score: 1

    How can you screw up a date format?

    YMYDDYMY

  10. Re:Pre-n compatiblity on IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cool, thanks for the info. Then again, I'm still stuck in the b era myself...

  11. Re:Pre-n compatiblity on IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh. I haven't read that. If that's the case, then yes, the hardware manufacturers are just shooting themselves in the foot. They'd better allow for a free tradein/swap if their pre-n routers aren't compatible with the final spec.

  12. Re:Pre-n compatiblity on IEEE Developments in Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    This is the exact same thing that happened with 802.11g. The companies get their pre-spec routers out there while the spec is being finalized, and then when the spec is finalized they release a firmware update for the equipment to bring it in line with the spec.

  13. Re:RIAA has won on Digital Music Sales Skyrocket in 2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the difference between a discrminating music buyer and someone who buys the top 40 hit of the week. One buys music because they like the music. The other buys the music because it's cool and that's what they're supposed to do.

  14. not a commercial? on A Review of Nintendo Power #1 · · Score: 1

    To their credit, Nintendo covered a lot of the older games kids were still into playing, mixing the stuff people wanted to see with the stuff they wanted you to see. It wasn't just one big commercial in print.

    Pushing their older games in addition to their newer games makes it even more of a commercial, imho.

  15. Re:RIAA has won on Digital Music Sales Skyrocket in 2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a lot like the war on terra. They won't have successfully "won" until there isn't a single person out there making a copy of a song for someone else without paying. In short, it will never end...

  16. Re:Triple? on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    But then again, if I want to see a story early, I go to Digg.com.

    If I want to see a story early I go look at Network Mirror.

  17. Re:Ok guys on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    No one is that incompetent.

    You need to pay more attention to slashdot...

  18. Re:Ah my god on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    Now that does not seem that effective because this is only the 3rd or 4th trupe that I have seen here on slashdot...

    They had a tripe posted only a week or two ago. I forget the subject, but it was definitely a threepete.

  19. hmmm on Making Franchise Cross-Overs · · Score: 1

    "The durability of a monopoly is great. Look how many crappy releases it took to finally kill Windows."

  20. Re:new username time on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 1

    Well of course the link doesn't work right now. They're being good today...

  21. new username time on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 1

    Damn Google! Looks like I might need to get myself a new username...

  22. bad joke time on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone know if this was on digg.com already? : p

  23. Re:Nothing is for certain... on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 4, Informative

    And if you'd read TFA, you'd see that the contracter did call. They were given the go-ahead to dig.

  24. Re:Screw Mr. Wizard on MythBusters - The Lost Experiments · · Score: 1

    I always like it when Mr Wizard would ask one of the kids a question and then they'd answer "I don't know."

  25. Re:Except they're not.. on Slashback: GPLv3, Firefly, iTunes · · Score: 1

    When our website earns enough money, we will buy 20 minutes of advertising on your network for each episode you are able to produce.

    And if those 20 minutes were used during the episode(s) in question, it's guaranteed that 20 minutes of informercials about the show's fans would drive any new viewers away real quickly. I love the show and thought the movie was pretty good, too, but this idea just doesn't sit too well with me.