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Comment Re:Surprised? (Score 1) 1352

Are you claiming that news shows giving both sides of a story is a _bad_ thing?

Yes, if one of the sides is clearly false. Ignorance is not a point of view.

(smarmy) Unless you work for (false stories) or read the New York Times for ClimateGate emails (nope
they did not publish).

Ironically, I've been spending a few days clearing up years of bookmarks and visited one from alternet
I'd saved and upon re-reading, deleted it while thinking "God, it reads like the onion.com, only stupider
and without the humor".

And, yes, I must say online at least once:
NJ Governor Chris Christie for president in '12 or '16.

Comment I'm shocked...no really (Score 1) 368

How long did it take Joe Wilson's 'YOU LIE' to go from decorum breaking to "well, duh".

Nice transparency, and wasn't this covered like...oh, about 6 months ago?

Hope we can change back to a republic before it's too late.

I keep hearing the line from Heavy Metal: "It's not like he'd do anything immoral/illegal".

Yeah, right.

Comment Next scam ideas (Score 1) 312

How about saying that the Brit's Health Care system is extended to PC's and then download the
remote app, make them wait a few months before connecting to the machine (so it seems normal)
then take it over.

It could work.

(/tongue firmly in cheek, BTW)

Comment No wonder it's most clicked (Score 1) 267

You have to because some freaking idiot made it a unified/menu-like like IE.

So instead of a single click and you're done, it's now, click, menu, choose/click the fwd/back,
go wrong direction (possibly) or too far, click the unified button again (repeat).

A FWD (with menu and clear direction/levels) and BKWD with the same menu and CLEAR direction.

I HATE the way IE does it (can't seem to fix) and it's the first thing I fixed in FF3.

Comment So, silly question (Score 1) 443

Which one works the best for those of us that bought it and hate the DRM?

Had Peerguardian running and forgot about it when I tried launching AC2...oops.

Even Allowing ubi.* did not work entirely, logged in and barfed with "no net, exit
to windows?"...grrr.

Just want to launch and go. C'mon ubi get a clue.

If AC3's DRM is worse (knew AC2 was a matter of time) may have to wait out AC3 and
consider if I should buy or not.

Comment From the days of "winmodems" (Score 2, Interesting) 499

I've said time and time again, "Never replace hardware with software" because
something dedicated to the task will always work better, or be less failure
prone (more often than not).

Would Toyota be having these problems with an accelerator cable vs electronic?

99% sure the answer is "no"...heck the solution is add some grease, make sure
it isn't pinched/looped too tightly and/or add tension to the pedal side.

Or, replace the damn cable with a new one...a 20 to 30 minute task.
(less than 10min on a motorcycle)

Oh, well, what do I know? I'm just a CS major with real world experience, pay
no attention to the man behind the keyboard!!!

Comment Don't forget the "Gotchas" (Score 1) 344

1) SCSI cards: 29160U is not supported. I was pleasantly surprised, as that was my
32bit Xp install, but seriously no support for this card? Humm.

2) Ok, some esoteric cards I can understand, but a RocketRaid 464 has had Win2k/Xp
drivers built into the OS (not sure about Vista). An IDE card that does RAID 0/1
onboard and 5 w/CPU, but in addition to not seeing the card, it would CORRUPT the
filesystem. During setup w/o driver, corrupt. left unconnected and as soon as
I'd check under xp = OK, 7 = corrupt. Of the two times it could read the disks
any copy to the drive (formatted under xp and 7) it would BSOD the memory mgmt
module.

Joy. Luckily recovery was easy, but JFC 6 hours+ to get it all back each time.

7 was/is fast, easy to get used to and GPU folding was pretty peppy, but can't
live w/o that RAID card when all is said and done.

I will give 7 some credit, I've got a dual boot of XP and 2k3 both 64bit and
guess what? both the SCSI and RAID work flawlessly. Not folding as fast as 7,
but smoother than xp32 by a smidgen.

Strangely I've got an itch to get redhat AS4 installed, but not when I've got
school to deal with. Next break, perhaps.

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