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  1. Re:This is just awful. on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    Hey Microsoft, will you please stick with the business that you are good at?

    Too late, they just shut that one down: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21981 Microsoft Flight Simulator is dead

  2. Re:Fahrenheit? on How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water · · Score: 1

    As the old story goes...a professor was lecturing that the Sun was 10,000,000 degrees. A student asked "Is that Celsius or Kelvin?" and he replied "What does it matter?"

    Celsius vs Kelvin doesn't matter when talking about 10,000,000 degrees, as they only differ in the zero point by a few hundred degrees, which is not significant on that range. 10,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the other hand is only about 5.5 million degrees Celsius which *is* a significant difference (almost 50%).

  3. And the inscriptions reveal... on Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered · · Score: 1

    ...that the original creator of the Antikythera mechanism was Milo Rambaldi.

  4. Re:EULAs are unenforceable on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    2) Along those lines contracts must involve an exchange. There's no such thing as a one sided contract. No exchange, it's not a contract and not legal.

    What constitutes a contract can vary from place to place. For example, here under Scottish law a contract can be one-sided -- but down south under English law it cannot.
  5. Re:Despite Still Being Overhyped, To This Day... on Star Wars is 30 Years Old · · Score: 2, Funny

    When 30 years old you reach, look as good you will not!