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  1. Re:What a load of... on Defining Video Game Addiction · · Score: 1

    What if you never want to quit?

  2. Re:Strategy? on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Big-endian or little-endian?

  3. Re:Huh? on Timing Technology Behind Olympic Record Results · · Score: 1

    Luckily, you stepped in to cover grammar and lack of proper capitalization. Between you two and my asshole behavior here, I think we've got almost everything.

  4. Re:That reminds me... on Ragnar Tornquist On Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 1

    That's a cutscene. I want a game where plot-important characters can die, and it A) doesn't invoke game over and B) matters. Suppose if Alyx Vance were to get killed in the parking garage with all the zombies in Ep. 1. As it is, you get game over, and you reload. I want games where Alyx Vance can die in the parking garage, and that changes the story. Of course, in Episode 1, she doesn't actually do much for the story. Maybe a better version is if she got killed in the Antlion Tunnels in Ep. 2. Now, when you make it to Whiteforest Base, you don't get a joyous reunion between her and Dog, or between her and Eli. You get something else entirely.

  5. Re:Why I oughta!!! on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 1

    You would most certainly be sued for trademark. You wouldn't be sued specifically for copyright.

  6. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Why I oughta!!! on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You wouldn't get sued over copyright. Just like Fox isn't suing over trademark. See how this works?

  8. Re:Re-education on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    And that explains why jokes about rape in prison are not only common, but get modded up to +5 funny.

  9. Re:I didn't captain obvious was on the force on Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers · · Score: 1

    At least at my school, a fair number of them became engineers.

  10. Re:Why? on Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have nothing get done than have the wrong things get done.

  11. Re:Well then... on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure they meant the skill of the creator. There are good games and bad games, regardless of genre. Just because someone makes a fitness game doesn't mean it's going to be good. Miyamoto, on the other hand, has a long history of making very popular games.

  12. Re:Looking back.... on The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Step 4: ...
    Step 5: Profit!

  13. Re:It's misnamed on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd expect cameras for use at night to include IR illumination, and no filters. Same way security cameras do.

  14. Re:It's misnamed on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use a bunch of IR LEDs. Cameras see IR, eyes don't.

  15. Re:wireless on Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada · · Score: 1

    You forgot horrifically insecure. I'd as soon send my bank information by ham radio.

  16. Re:I still think $10 would be possible. on India's "$10 Laptop" To Cost $100 After All · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some people are already doing that. Like Royal Bank

  17. Re:Great Movie! on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Dent felt that Gordon was ultimately responsible. He refused to let Dent go after the corrupt cops that kidnapped him and Rachel.

  18. Re:partner learning on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sounds like an excellent way to keep anyone from getting into the flow.

  19. Re:So... on Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When the price is zero the demand is infinite.

    Maybe, but the price is never zero. Even if there's no monetary cost, there will be some cost or effort involved. For example, I have free fertilizer for the taking. The cost is that you don't want to drive out here for the sole purpose of picking dog crap off my lawn. There is not infinite demand for my "free fertilizer".

    Want a better example? There's a bunch of music out there on the interwebs that I could go download for free, but I don't, because you'd have to pay me to listen to that tripe. There's also a bunch of software I don't pirate because I neither need nor want it (and also because I'm ethically against that sort of thing, but lets not cloud the issue).

    Want an example that'll really hit home for the /. crowd? If demand is infinite when price is zero, why doesn't everyone run Linux?

  20. Re:and the winners are... on World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here · · Score: 1

    The Pokemon games are 2d sprites, and they're huge. Tribes 2. Diablo 2. The Baldur's Gate games for the PC, though I might be a little early with those. N.

  21. Re:you have no idea on World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about games with good gameplay and bad graphics? Those exist too, and they are better than games with good graphics and bad gameplay.

  22. Re:Wow... on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that it specified unauthorized copy. It can be assumed that any chunks of code that the program causes to enter RAM are authorized, by dint of the programmer doing it.

  23. Re:Easy... on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    GalCiv isn't dead yet.

  24. Re:All for the next Zelda? on Nintendo Unveils Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 1

    As soon as they upgrade the rumble enough to simulate a bash parry, I'll be all over that.

  25. Re:Tom Selleck Is on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    Magnum, PC.