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  1. Except the response is just as easy on MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    If you run Linux you need to spend $50 a year or more to get any support.

    At all.

  2. This remind me of the time.... on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 1

    ...I ran a sweedish bittorrent tracker with James Woods and the 1989 Denver Broncos.

  3. Re:Good on Nintendo of America Has a New President · · Score: 1

    I think it's more that it's on the front page as literally just a headline, and the headline isn't interested.

    If the headline had mentioned Reggie, you'd get a lot more posts.

  4. Re:"only applies to the titles of industry events" on O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0' · · Score: 1

    Microsoft onced sued a UK supermarket chain over a brand of underwear called "Micro softs"

  5. Re:Thread it. on Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow · · Score: 1

    It is, but it reduces responsiveness, as any complex operation does. Threads are not a magic solution.

  6. 1st/2nd party on Nintendo Learns from Mistakes with GameCube · · Score: 1

    Fwiw, a first party game is one developed internally at the console manufacturer, a 2nd party game is developed by an independant but published by the manufacturer.

    For instance, Halo is first party. Bungie is MS owned.

    Lumines on Live is published by MS, but is 2nd party.

  7. Re:Oh noes! on Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow · · Score: 1

    If you only saved every 20 hours you'd have a point.

    Actually if you have any brain at all you save every 15mins min. And at that point those 10 seconds start to become noticeable.

  8. Re:Why is this here? on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1

    It's been done. Not only the Phantom edit, which was already mentioned, but also a couple of films, most notably momento were given Chronological order edits by pirates.

  9. Re:Emusic is cool but there are many great others on Making Money Selling Music Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Would this be the same government that tells me backing up my own DVD is also illegal?

  10. Re:Would need to outlaw porn on .com to work on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 1

    I'm more than happy for it to be forced onto .xxx. Easier to block is only a problem if you have that kind of sysadmin. If they want to block it from you at work/school then live with it. Don't be a twat.

    And for the rest of us it means that if you want porn it's that much easier to locate.

    Everyone wins, no-one except people trying to get around academic/company networks loses.

  11. Re:Pikmin 2? on Nintendo's Iwata Skeptical of In-Game Ads, Episodes · · Score: 1

    I don't remember a single brand name in pikmin 2.

    I remember familiar coloured waste.

  12. Re:Not Unique on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 1

    And it's made worse by the fact you have to buy from Apple hardwarewise and the RAM they bundle is pathetic. They're still selling 512MB machines in the main.

  13. Re:Upgrade Advisor itself requires... on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 1

    It's even better. It won't run on XP x64 either.

    But apparently it WILL run on Vista, although I suspect then it just opens a Message box reading "Yeah, you're good"

  14. Re:Bah! on Microsoft Releases Vista Hardware Requirements · · Score: 1

    So your post is

    "I use an older OS on a slower machine therefore a new OS should run on a toaster"

  15. No, what they care about is... on Microsoft Responds To 360 Hackers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Protecting the integrity of the online security. On Xbox live you can be certain the person whacking you constantly isn't doing it with the aid of a patch to increase speed or damage, you just suck.

    If that goes, Xbox live's one REALLY good reason to exist does too.

  16. Re:That's $24.000.000.000 on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet still not QUITE enough to buy a PS3.

  17. Re:Have a look at the booth sizes on The E3 of 1995 · · Score: 1

    Like most of the western world, they're now part of Atari.

  18. Re:My Xbox can already play those games. on The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is if you don't own the original cart.

    And if the person I originally replied to owns every rom on his Xbox then I'm Richard Stallman.

  19. Re:My Xbox can already play those games. on The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On · · Score: 1

    Some people think "legally" matters.

  20. Re:Amstrad Action on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines · · Score: 1

    AA ended with issue 117 in June 1995. At the time they didn't know it would be the last issue which is why it's a little embarassing that their last banner headling read "Publish and be damned!"

  21. Re:CVG information simply crap on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines · · Score: 1

    It's not something I've ever heard elsewhere, but it would pretty accurately describe it after about 1999.

  22. Re:Contra on The Second Generation of 360 Titles · · Score: 1

    Assuming you're being vaguely serious, yes it has those buttons.

  23. CVG information simply crap on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines · · Score: 2, Informative

    CVG nearly exists. The paper magazine died finally in October 2004 after turning into a kiddie biased pile of toilet paper. The online version still exists at http://www.computerandvideogames.com./ I'm involved in a project to archive the entire run so we'll get back to you on that.

    The article does it a dissevice. While it was close on its purchase by Future that was because Dennis (who themselves bought it from EMAP) wanted shot of it. It's circulation was half of Gamesmasters' and to call Gamesmaster kiddie compared to the CVG of the last couple of years is like calling Windows svelte compared to DOS 1.

    As for "Coasted all the way to 2004", that ignores the Jaz Rignall and Paul Davies eras of the early 1990s and 1996ish which produced some of the last great games journalism before magazines were beaten to a bloody press-release filled pulp by the internet. They also had Retro coverage before any other mainstream magazine, which got countless of us into it and no doubt accounts for the success of the superb Retro Gamer magazine published by Imagine these days.

  24. Re:NMS on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines · · Score: 2, Informative

    After 2 or 3 name changes and 2 or 3 publishers, the UK one of those still exists as "Nintendo Official Magazine"

  25. Re:So... on Alienware Chooses Airgo chipsets for new laptops · · Score: 1

    And even if they are, one little chipset = full laptop does it.

    You might as well day that Macs are just Dells with white cases since they both have Intel CPUs and that would actually be more relevent.