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  1. Re:Just extends the captive marketshare... on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 0

    Your right I don't know much about Linux. To be honest I really don't care to know anything about it. My network works perfectly without it so there is no need to move to it. We don't need to make useless changes to an OS that is hardly supported.

  2. Re:Just extends the captive marketshare... on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 0

    The problem is Linux wouldn't serve my needs. I need an Operating system that works and doesn't require someone to reprogram it every time something doesn't work. Also I am not training users on how to use an operating system they have never even heard of. Linux is not made for everyone. It is a home user operating system for someone that likes to program and has no place being in a corporate environment. We need something that works and something that others support.

  3. Re:Just extends the captive marketshare... on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 0

    Microsoft does what my business needs. And as long as it does what we need I will do my best to make sure Linux or any Open sores software never makes it inside the doors.

  4. Hey video games do much more on Video Games with Shooting May Improve Eyesight · · Score: 1, Interesting

    About 4 years ago I was driving in my Jeep down one of thoes 1 lane roads. (Where traffic goes one way and another) It was around midnight and a drunk driver was coming the other way. Just as I was passing him he swirved into my lane. Instantly I turned right as hard as I could to miss him. My Jeep spun around and he hit the back side of my Jeep. It ripped off the back half and I spun out into the ditch. My Jeep was demolished except for the driver side. I was a bit banged up but if not for my quick reaction I would have been dead.

    In short I believe video games also can help increase reaction time. In racing games or First Person Shooters. It seems people who play faster pace games are quicker to think. Video games saved my life :-D

  5. Re:Horizon on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 0
  6. Re:Horizon on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't say it would wipe out America. It would cause extreem damage to the western states and the ash would cause a year long winter. It would be a major disaster but one that man could survive.

    The BBC did do something called the End of Days or something like that. Basically it showed the world experiencing 5 different disasters. Nice effects and worth checking out. Yellowstone was one of them.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6596386933 819999876

  7. Eternity on Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing · · Score: 0

    Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end

    He obviously doesnt know that eternity is....eternity...

  8. But that would mean on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 0

    That us IT guys are stuuuupid?

    Hell I sit on my arse all evening.

  9. And Windows is bad? on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 0

    The most obvious [problem] is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros

    And people get mad when Vista has multiple versions?

  10. Not only for that but... on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 0

    This could be great in the event the pilot for whatever reason dies...and co-pilot....What it happens in the movies?

    You would think that in the event the Pilot cannot fly the plane that someone down on the ground can. Not just for t3rr0rizm.

  11. A Greedy WorlD on NASA Can't Pay for Killer Asteroid Hunt · · Score: 0

    You would think that in an event like this currency would be ignored and people would manufacture to save there lives as well as the lives of there loved ones. In this day and age everyone has to get paid for something...>_>

  12. Re:Get some certifications. on Getting Out of Tech Support? · · Score: 0

    I wouldnt even worry about the A+ or Net+. Start off with Microsoft Certs or Cisco or whatever. A CCNA CCNP will get you alot further than an A+. Same for Microsoft an MCSA/MCSE will look great on a resume. If you feel real gutsy you can shoot for the CCIE.

  13. Re:The penguin is struck down again! on Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is there to hate about Dell? You most likely hate them because of there home user support. If you worked with enterprise level networks with Dell servers you would see how great there support is. I have a 4 hours contract to where if something breaks they ship me the part and it is in my hands within 4 hours. Now tell me what there is to hate about Dell?

  14. Warmer closer to the earth's core? on New Sub Dives To Crushing Depths · · Score: 1

    I may sound very stupid by saying this but the warmer temp. at the ocean floor...Couldn't that be caused by being closer to the earth's core?

  15. TES II Daggerfall on The History of Computer RPGs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Daggerfall was a great RPG in my opinion. So open ended with a large world. So what if it was randomly generated. I think that was one of the games that made a huge success in my world followed by Morrowind and Oblivion. Never played much of Areans though. (TES I)

  16. Read that again on Vista Security — Too Little Too Late · · Score: 0

    and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things go wrong.

    too many owners running their boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their hands on."

    That is exactly it. It is the users fault half the time. You want to install sup3r m3g@ scr33nsaver 2000!!!11oneuno then you deserve all the spyware you get. Sure go ahead CLICK THE FART BUTTON on the side of that web page. Win that free laptop! It is stupid people like this that get there computer infected. You cant expect an OS to be idiot proof without locking them down, which is what Vista seems like it is trying to do. I just wish they had an idiot version installed with every Dell, and a non-idiot version for guys like us.

  17. Why? on Why Do Games Sell? · · Score: 0

    comparison of GTA 3 and Psychonauts tries to apply common-sense reasoning to why one sold well and the other did not."

    I'll tell you why I like the GTA Series. It is open ended and I love the physics. It is so fun sometimes to just drive around in a motorcycle.

  18. Release Date on Vista Followup Already in the Works · · Score: 0

    and we may see it as early as 2009

    Which really means 2012

  19. D&D Was great back in the day...not so much no on How D&D Shaped the Modern Videogame · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's a shame DDO fumbled...

    I remember playing the old D&D game back in the day with paper....Now a days we have computer so we don't have to ruin our paper by erasing so damn much. It was so much fun we would make up our guys, have our DM create the world as we knew it and we just had a blast not knowing what was ahead of us.

    Now I have to say....I don't like these new....fangldydangldy rules. Before it was a simple game now theres like 75 books you have to buy if you want to understand the rules. It has become so involved that it just really isn't as fun as it used to be. However we still can use our imagination and go with it.

  20. Wow kinda scary on EVE Devs Admit To Misconduct · · Score: 0

    Me and my alliance (SMASH) Alliance were in a war just before Kali came out. Kali would expand some of the world. We were holding the enterance to this area and while we were fighting this war we found out BoB (Band of Borhters) were funding our enimies...Man that just pisses me off knowing they have been getting help.

  21. Another Option? on New Universes Will be Born from Ours · · Score: 0

    Some physicists have argued that it is doomed to be ripped apart by runaway dark energy, while others think it is bouncing through an endless series of big bangs and big crunches. Now, scientists have combined these two ideas to create another option

    Big energy and runaway bangs with Dark Crunches? Sounds like a cereal to me.

  22. Houston... on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 0

    We have a boner...

  23. Re:I remember back when... on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 0

    I would guess its only tough when closed. The keys looked as if someone was typing and there finger got below one of the keys and it popped off.

  24. I remember back when... on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I used to work at a store called Altex. It was a computer store. We had lots of cables OEM computer parts and so on. Well that was my first job as a computer technician before I hit the networking job. I remember this guy bringing in a tough book. I had never seen or heard of one before.

    He walks in and had a question about repairing the keys on the computer. A few had broke off and he wanted to get a replacement keyboard. As I walked out and noticed the computer I said to the guy "Thats an odd looking laptop" he responded with "Oh its a tough book" I paused for a second and said "Tough book?" He goes "Yeah watch this" He picks it up and drops it off the table...Stunned, I looked over and noticed not a scratch on it. Was very cool getting to see one of those.

  25. I feel that this artical.... on Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls · · Score: -1

    Is just a big flamebait.