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  1. Re:Just Quake on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    This interface could be performed inside the game too. A brower is a crude way to do it.

  2. Re:You've got Discs on Time Warner To Spin Off AOL · · Score: 1

    A link would be priceless!

  3. Re:The problem w/ CSS is complexity of use... on Styling Web Pages With CSS · · Score: 1

    The padding mentality is indeed different from the one we had on tables. Whether increasing padding makes the box enlarge or simply shrinks the available content inside it, is (for me), a matter of arbitrary choice. However, I was, too, very comfused and felt very wrong about it when I first encountered it.

    If the inside and outside box are floated, then the outside box will stretch. You can then remove the "floatness" in the next div (with float:none). But you already knew that, didn't you? :)

  4. Re:Not good enough. on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    You can drop the optical disk to the gound and keep working. And it will hopefully last longer than a hard drive. It's for archiving things, like tapes.

  5. Re:Less Creative? on Cosmetic Neurology · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are on the wrong job.

  6. Re:Royalties on Blackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK · · Score: 1

    OCR? Tiring but works.

  7. Re:Those comments are horrifying on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    Can you please provie a link for these?

  8. Re:RIP on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 1

    I still have an old web page that is essentially prodigy. 15 MB limit, one level, browser based updating and file creation, but it's ad free and still there.

    Will you share the link with us? :)

  9. Re:I'm down to single digits per day on Opting Out Increases Spam? · · Score: 1

    Reduce your internet footprint? How do you mean that? Reduce what exactly? The things that you do online?

  10. facepalm... on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    was my reaction when I read the title. Oracle is a closed-source company, Sun has a lot of open-source projects. They will probably go EOL.

    By the way, the article link doesn't open. It sais "Content Server Error". They are probably melting right now.

  11. Re:Flawed premise on Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing · · Score: 1

    How did you talked to these downloaders? All the torrent clients (azureus, rtorrent, utorrent, deluge) I tried don't have a chat option.

  12. Re:Actually, there is an iTunes for movies on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 1

    Yeah but you need special software to transfer the files. Isn't that right?

  13. Re:Actually, there is an iTunes for movies on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 1

    DRM.

    BitTorrent has no DRM, better product.

  14. Re:Oo, oo, oo! I know! on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what was that slowly dying industry?

  15. Re:Anyone? on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    They are nice memories of romantic times, and sometimes I miss them too. And yes, the ISP has expenses too. But the US is way behind in broadband in comparison to Europe and Japan, don't you think? It's about competition if you ask me. There is not enough competition.

  16. Re:Yeah this reader's _____ on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    How old are you? :)

  17. Re:I used to intake around 500 mg/day on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    I disagree. It's the easiest way, not the only way :)

  18. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    It's only a matter of paying the OpenGroup money and you know it. Yes, OSX is Unix, but so is Linux and FreeBSD.

  19. Re:Yay on FileFront Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Rapidshare doesn't have a captcha for a long time. It has a time delay for free users.

  20. Re:Pay per Paper on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    cat rss | grep -vi kdawson

    it's simple :P

    j/k. I want to know about this too.

  21. Re:Firefox will continue to be superior on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    My definition of bloated:

    takes a lot of seconds to start (around 7 seconds on a Core 2 Duo machine)
    takes a lot of seconds to *close* (around 5 seconds on a Core 2 Duo machine)
    slugish interface, non responsive
    typing www.slashdot.org on the bar causes my CPU a load of 20% for server seconds!

    So in general, *heavy*!

    A few months ago, I switched to Opera. I just hope Chromium/Chrome comes along and brings competition so that Firefox can become less sluggish. Or I'll just switch to Chrome entirely and be done with it.

  22. Re:You kids and your fancy gopher on How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web · · Score: 1

    Thank you :)

  23. Re:Oh they'll crash all right on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    You had me up until this point:

    If you are a gung-ho employee with a nose-to-the-grindstone ethic, of those 1800 you will already be spending about 20% unproductively - getting coffee/soda, going to the bathroom, chatting with co-workers about non-work stuff, surfing slashdot and doing adminstrative tasks like filling out your timecard or getting new pencil lead. We'll throw in a couple of days of training and round your productive hours to 1400.

    First, they are humans, not robots. Second they should get paid by the amount of work they do not the sum of hours they work.

  24. Re:You kids and your fancy gopher on How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web · · Score: 1

    Nevermind, I should be more careful, it's Wildcat. Bummer, I though it would be an open-source project.

  25. Re:You kids and your fancy gopher on How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web · · Score: 1

    Hey, your BBS looks and feels great! What software are you using? I have been wanting to try create one for a looooing time :)