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  1. Re:Personally... on Sprint Nextel Vs. 41 Schools and Non-Profits · · Score: 1

    (Education majors have lowest SAT scores amongst their college cohorts)
    What other groups were they compared with?
  2. Re:If mods are allowed on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1

    That's what the Port Authority stuff is there for -- it's sets of game data files to replace the Nova ones, so you can run original or Override in the Nova engine. There's also a lot of cosmetic tweaking to make it look like it's still the older game.

  3. No competition between open and closed? on No Competition Between Open and Closed Source? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you ever chosen between using Apache and IIS?
    Have you ever chosen between using MySQL and DB2?
    Have you ever chosen between using OpenOffice and MS Office?
    Have you ever chosen between using PHP and Active Server Pages?

  4. Re:So what is the problem? on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    Right, and since I'm human, I am almost certain to have certain proteins on the surfaces of my cells... so it makes no sense for insurance to pay for vaccinations against viral diseases.

  5. Re:The difference on Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that we have to choose between insuring the high-risk people and insuring the low-risk people?

  6. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    If the band is so bad that they can't make an album without a bunch of crap on it, maybe it's not worth buying any of their crap.
    Out of an entire CD I like, I typically end up with a few tracks as my favorites, and I generally listen to them much more than the others.

    Stop listening to the Britney and Justin garbage and get some decent taste in music.
    Perhaps you'd best not make assumptions about the kind of music I listen to.
  7. Re:A good start, but still some holes to fill. on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 1

    I kinda suspected that it wasn't as full-featured as Finale and Sibelius, but as far as I can tell, that's the niche it tries to fill.

  8. If mods are allowed on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Escape Velocity: Nova, plus a few favorite plugins and the Port Authority mods. Also, throw in ResEdit and the relevant templates in case the regular content gets old.

  9. Re:Defeats the point on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    Thing is, if the price is raised above 99 cents, then you get into the $1+ range, at which point you might as well go out and buy the CD
    Sure, the CD is cheaper than buying each track on the CD individually, but most people seem to just want a few tracks out of the ten to fifteen they have to pay for.
    The combo meal may be a better deal than ordering each item separately, but all I want is the burger.
  10. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some of this crap isn't even worth $0.99. I get the higher quality encoding and dumping the DRM, but why pay a higher price?
    Because, unlike when you buy a CD, you can just pick the good tracks and not pay for the crap.
  11. Re:Finale-class Notation program? on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 1

    An earlier comment mentions RoseGarden, which looks like it's worth checking out. I'm not currently running a supported distro, but an Ubuntu LiveCD should be enough to at least try it out.

  12. A good start, but still some holes to fill. on Linux as A Musician's OS? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    RoseGarden fills one big gap (score editing, like Finale and Sibelius), but what I'd really like to see is an alternative to SmartMusic (practice music with the computer playing the accompaniment). Bonus points if it will playback scores prepared in RoseGarden.

  13. Re:Yeah, yeah... on EFF and Dvorak Blame the Digg Revolt On Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Reasonable DRM is a serial key or a passcode (printed on the label or cover) that you have to enter in order to use the product. Sure, it's easy to write down the code when you're making a copy for a friend, but the code is very traceable (nowadays with internet purchases).
    Will I have to show ID when I go buy a CD at the store?
  14. Re:He most certainly IS under US jurisdiction on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Point made?
    If your point is, "It's ok because other people did worse things," then yes, you got your point across.
  15. Re:Thanks Cringely on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 1

    What he's saying may be covered by an NDA with IBM. If so, putting an identifier on it is a Bad Idea.

  16. Re:Much ado about nothing on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 1

    1. I don't see a contradiction between favoring "innocent until proven guilty" and wanting less power for the police. This principle drives American limitations on police power.
    2. The internet is not the real world. Two characters -- not people, characters -- (supposedly) engaged in sexual activity. If you write a piece of fiction, and I write a fanfic that puts your character into sexual situations, I have not raped you. The most this extends into the real world is the use of obscene sexual comments/gestures/images. I don't know what Belgium's definition of rape is, but in the U.S., that would be sexual harassment, not rape.

  17. Re:Or not on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    He doesn't even have the balls to put forth his political opinion, and yet he wants to be President?
    Just because you haven't been listening doesn't mean he hasn't been talking. He started publicly declaring his views in his 2004 senate race.
    Outside the Midwest, he's a no-name junior senator. In the Midwest, he's pretty familiar despite being new -- he may be Illinois' junior senator, but he has better name recognition than Durbin or Fitzgerald.
  18. Re:i'm conservative, but ... on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they're conservatives who believe religion is a personal matter. Unfortunately you never hear much about them because they don't have much to say to you.

  19. Re:i'm conservative, but ... on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    You fallen for the trap that conservative == religious nut job. There are lots (I hope the non-vocal majority) of conservatives that don't want to blow up abortion clinics and force religion on people.
    Unfortunately, McCain seems to be courting that kind of conservative lately. In the past, I would have supported McCain, but since that commencement speech, he's been going places I'd rather not follow.
  20. Re:A Candidate Not of the People on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Once he realizes he screws it up, he has his campaign spreads rumors that the guy was trying to cash in on the opportunity
    You mean the guy didn't actually ask for money? You'd better head over to the MySpace article and correct everyone who thinks the guy asked for about $50,000.
  21. Re:Ask Slashdot: How do I act on principle? on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if it's not against your principles, you're choosing between hoping it will blow over, and covering your ass. In most cases, I prefer the CYA approach -- cover yours, not your bosses'.

  22. Here's some prior-art for you on Breakpoints have now been patented · · Score: 1

    When you run it, it adds a comment at the beginning to tell you what it does.
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    $a='#!/usr/bin/perl
    #this program prints itself, with a prepended comment to explain what it does
    $a=%c%s%c;printf($a,39,$a,39) ;'printf($a,39,$a,39);

  23. Re:If you think that is evil on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of jobs where you can earn a salary that is well above the level of "starving" that don't require that sort of NDA.
    You'd be surprised. I had to sign an NDA to get a job washing dishes.
  24. Re:If you think that is evil on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I can't even tell my family that I had an interview with Google, what won't I be able to tell them if I take a job there?

  25. Re:Teachers Can Be Such on Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website · · Score: 1

    I like this version better:
    Those who can't do, can't teach.