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  1. Re:Ignorance is just so wonderful to see in action on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 1

    Yes, and OMG! The slider let me choose between the glorious resolutions:

    • 640 x 480
    • 800 x 600
    • 1024 x 768

    This is because the monitor is not known, so Ubuntu only shows a handful of "safe" values. Come back when you actually know what we are discussing here.

  2. Re:Ignorance is just so wonderful to see in action on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but here are some information:

    The desktop is a different story: Just 3% of India's PCs use Linux. Still, that's about triple the level in the U.S. [source]

    English is spoken as a second language by approximately 20-25 million Indians. [source]
  3. Re:Ignorance is just so wonderful to see in action on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 1

    Except it has no clue about my completely standard Dell FP2000 monitor on an nvidia card, so each time I install it I have to edit the file to get anything more than 1024x768.

  4. Re:Two megs? on LinuxBIOS Gets GUI · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed, it's well known and accepted that Mebioctets is the only correct word for this.

    See for example http://zapatopi.net/labs/kibioctets.html

  5. Re:Slander anyone? on Law Student Web Forum: Free Speech Gone too Far? · · Score: 1

    Nice and easy, put down the chair... Please... I don't want anybody to get hurt.

  6. Dangerous compared to what on China Puts Hold on Net Cafe Construction This Year · · Score: 1

    So how much more likely is it that someone dies from using a computer, compared to the alternatives, which would probably be "just hangin'" or something that the youths of today does! (I'm 27, it was better when I was a kid, uphill both ways etc)

  7. Re:Limited installations on Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail · · Score: 1

    +1 Sad :/

  8. Re:Unfair on Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's a bot.

  9. Re:data-retention policies for network traffic ??? on Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All · · Score: 1

    If everyone using everything has encryption, then making it illegal will cause a public outrage.

    There are a lot more people copying MP3s than there are people encrypting all their email conversation. Where is the public outrage?

  10. Re:Atari was a better system on Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because no one ever bothered to turn it on.

  11. Re:Screw 'em on Microsoft Charging Businesses $4K for DST Fix · · Score: 1

    Of course not!! Stop giving all credit to microsoft!!

    Everyone knows Al Gore invented NTP, you insensitive clod!

  12. Re:And here I thought Malthus was dead on Digital Big Bang — 161 Exabytes In 2006 · · Score: 1

    The acceleration of gravity would increase as more humans were added to the mass of the Earth.

    Only if the humans are added from another source, say, some sort of space-humans. Humans grown on earth would retain the current mass.

  13. Re:No change at all but one. on How Open Source Is Changing Education · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah! Dang those evil communist programmers that program for FREE. I say we ban everyone from doing anything without charging someone for it.

  14. Re:Define Open on ODF Threat to Microsoft in US Governments Grows · · Score: 4, Interesting
    • War is Peace
    • Freedom is Slavery
    • Ignorance is Strength
    • Open is Closed
  15. Re:text != ascii on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. The file is encoded in ASCII. Just because your browser tells you something doesn't mean it's true.

  16. Re:Repeat? on Disk Drive Failures 15 Times What Vendors Say · · Score: 1

    IANAB, but wouldn't breathing 100% oxygen be kinda bad?

  17. Google, check this! on Visualizing Searches Over Time · · Score: 1

    Would be nice if Google (or even better, a co-op between google, yahoo and msn) would start putting out a lot more of these. Or are they already doing this, just that I don't know where they are?

  18. Re:DRM to be considered harmful on BitTorrent Video Download Store Falls Flat · · Score: 1

    Or just stop bothering and install VLC.

  19. More competition is good? on An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it is good to see more competition in this space

    Somehow I don't agree here. *gee* it would really rock if all ads were completely *free* so that there can be an infinite amount of ads on the internet!

  20. Re:you're both wrong on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: 1

    Well, first: *wooosh*

    And on a more serious note: Yes, "portable" means that it should be possible to move it across platforms. In theory. In practice, this is rarely the case, and when this comes up, it shows that a lot of source that's written to be portable is not really portable.

    The same goes for "reusable".

  21. Re:IBM or Microsoft on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny thing, the first thing I did when first powering it on was to tear off the fugly windows sticker.

  22. IBM or Microsoft on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: 4, Funny

    Help! I just bought a ThinkPad (yes, IBM, not Lenovo). I run Windows on it. Which side should I take?!

  23. Re:Sale has already been completed on Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error · · Score: 1

    Imagine you were writing a cheque for a big item in a hurry, and put down too many zeroes (or maybe you have trouble with writing). Would it be reasonable for the retailer to keep the extra money from the mistake?

    Yes, if the sum was equals what was agreed upon. In your example, that's not the case.

  24. Re:Google on YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox · · Score: 1

    So timeshifting is fine in one direction but not the other?

  25. Re:The obvious on Yahoo Music Chief Comes Out Against DRM · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer the four times larger FLAC. No loss of quality, no closed-source, patent-ridden codec.