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        <title><![CDATA[And the fact that they where more than a bit Pedantic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Didn't help them all that much either. Attempting to sound like Windows was their biggest problem. Col]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[HAL 9000]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:45:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: A Linux for everyone (and everything)!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What about LindowsOS or now called Linspire?  They had the same vision and taking that idea all the way home. They did it but.....had a hard time becuase of Microsoft getting the way as usual.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[clarkj76]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:19:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You're a K-Mart shopper?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were unarmed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I didn't realize that I had inadvertently entered a pity party.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Life sucks.Then you die.Have a nice day and thank you for shopping at K-Mart.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rfolden@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:09:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You have the right to remain silent]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you refuse to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used to illustrate your stupidity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:57:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Having friends and having it happen to you is very different]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You don't know what it feels like to have all your money and hardwork, produce nothing, what its like to work 23 hours a day, and still not make any money.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:47:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have the right to say anything I want...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... because I have friends (and family members for that matter) that are:1. Gay2. Black3. Mexican4. Have failing businesses.5. A combination of the above.So there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rfolden@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:27:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You have no right to say something like that]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unless you have, or currently own your own failing business.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:14:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My Product Won't Sell!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's the buyers fault!Could it be your product sucks?Let's blame it on the dumbazz buyers.You guys are killing me.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:06:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I just fetched the two Windows versions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just fetched the two Windows versions and confirmed how I do it. To clarify/correct my post above.Use Firefox to download the IE flash player plugin using the &quot;Different operating system or browser&quot; link. Firefox prompts with a &quot;run with or save as&quot; since it's the IE plugin.Use IE to download the Other Browser plugin using the &quot;Different operating system or browser&quot; link. IE will have a banner prompt warning that your trying to download a file but when you select &quot;download file&quot; it'll prompt with a Save As.The *nix version of Flash Player Plugin I get through my distribution's repositories. Shame Adobe doesn't provide a proper 64bit plugin.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:33:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Downloads]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[FileHippo is usually fairly fast to advertise new downloads (in this case 08/11) through their &quot;Update News&quot;, Cnet being a little bit slower. The former will always carry the IE and non-IE versions as .exe files, so the browser doesn't matter.Tks for the info about the Adobe downloader. I just checked and downloaded the .tar.gz flavour (there are four other versions available). Of course, as I did this under Vista, Adobe didn't try to install anything...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[francisvandenplas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:45:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Spell-checker &amp; Grammar Control]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[@ &quot;Another Canadian&quot;. You indeed are quite welcome to express yourself, despite the &quot;quality&quot; of your English. But it helps when you express yourself a bit more clearly. For example, when you write &quot;because my English will be more then perfect&quot;, I can only guess that you mean &quot;because my English is less than perfect&quot;. Somewhat the contrary isn't it?As said before, I'm also &quot;only&quot; a little European, Belgian in fact (yes, the country still exists!), with Flemish (not even Dutch) as native language. But I will always try to express myself as precisely and correctly as possible (be it Dutch, English, French or German). In doubt I'll transfer my writings to a word processor with Spell-checker (the one in my browser is already very helpful) and, more important, grammar control. Believe me, it helps.And BTW, good luck with your Router Project.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:07:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[linux for all]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why do you want to run Microsoft applications when linux does it so much better, games aside (they are often designed for a particular o/s), compatibility can be done via a number of ways besides wine. If people recourse to what one is most used to do you not remember changing from one version of whatever to another?Roy.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:31:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am French born in Quebec viva la &quot;flavor&quot; and difference]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Should I stop sharing my tough because my English will be more then perfect? As long as my interlocutor could understand the meaning of my message the rest is all good.No Sir, Internet is the place to exchange.BTW my next project is to turn a Small ATX or Mini ATX with probably and AMD Processor etc in a Router that will run with Linux.I see many place were Linux should have a place and eventualy on my desktop when it will play all my games and not just my work related.Michel, is for &quot;Michael&quot; for the inept one that know only one form of expression.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Another Canadian]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:05:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Freevo.. awsome]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been using the word &quot;Tivonix&quot; for the media centre item on my hobby todo list. Freevo is a fantastic title also.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:12:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[TV]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As I don't care about games I have never tried running them on Linux or Windoze, I just couldn't care less about them.But there are some really good media options for Linux. Freevo is in my point of view much better than windoze media-center. It is fast, allows you to watch TV, it lists the channels and the program-guide, schedules recordings etc. It supports even less common TV cards with any remote control you could come up with, and the PC doesn't need to be state of the art for all this to work reasonably. With Windoze 7 media center you need a good GPU, plenty of RAM, and a newer TV card to even consider to try it out. If the Video card doesn't support aero, forget it. With freevo I'm happy using a P-III 1GHz with an old Matrox G450 Card, a cheap PCI Hauppauge TV-Card about 15 years old, and 512 MB RAM. The OS on which this is running is Linux Mint.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rindi1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:43:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ME2.. not over simplified.. but simplified]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think it was more the simplification though not over simplification to the point of harming the game. I can agree with reducing the running around though; that sucked rocks in the first Knights of the Old Republic. Run here and fetch this thingy.. now go clear across the level map for the other thingy.. now go almost all the way back for the third thingy.With NWN2, the 30 level limitation was a real turnoff for me. At 40 levels, one can max out two classes or do max one class and two subclasses or juggle around a bit. The simply reduction of those 10 available levels crippled. It always seamed to cut off your character development prematurely. I'd actually been fearing I'd hit the level limit in Dragon Age so I'm happy to hear that it's not crippled in the same way. They could really add a lot more content into DA1 though. I hope the rush for DA2 isn't just a way to push another profit spike with &quot;new and shiny&quot; instead of additions that truly add to the game. Maybe the game engine does justify a new version release, I've not read enough to know yet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:37:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AC2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, that's why I never bought it.  Too many online requirements to play the game.  If they want to be that anal, use steam or something.  I personally never though ME2 to over simplified.  I appreciated the removal of the inventory,  The whole game was more focused on the combat instead.  The first had way to much running around the citadel.  Like, did the consort quests really have any purpose?  The unlimited ammo in ME1 was nice, but ME2 has frequent enough drops to make it good.  Weapons are varied enough as well, though as before, shotguns are kind of useless unless you want to stand face to face with a heavy mech and keep blasting him.I think Dragon Age 2 should be put off, just keep making nice expansions to the first one, the ability to keep developing your character is nice, and the engine, graphics and general play style is very nice.I'm really excited for ME3.  Hopefully they don't change to many game mechanics from ME2, I thought they had the mechanics almost perfect.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Slayer_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:16:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Because Adobe wants to sell you stuff]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The only thing I can figure is that they want whatever data they can collect through the download applet; like anything else with such businesses, it helps them make more money somehow. Just be thankful it doesn't yet require Adobe AIR to run it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:42:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dragon Age 2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just read that Dragon Age 2 is not supposed to be simplified the way Mass Effect 2 was versus Mass Effect 1. Aperently the gamers where getting turned off by rumours about DA2.. Provided it doesn't include DRM as invasive as Assassin's Creed 2, I'll be adding it to the game library.(The Assassins Creed 2 DRM issue really broke my heart.. the first was such a great game so I as seriously looking forward to the second with the later setting. Boooo!)Now if I can just find some time to get back to gaming. I've got LTD2 waiting to be installed at the moment too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:41:05 -0700</pubDate>
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