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  1. Re:Vehicles on Unreal Tournament 2004 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    I like to take the first tank and head past my base to the opposite tank node. It's not usually well defended, and losing that node while they're fighting over the middle node really screws up their momentum.

  2. Re:Vehicles on Unreal Tournament 2004 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with the strategy of bad players is that they end up trying to defend the base itself once all the nodes are lost. You do that, and it's just a matter of time until you're dead.

  3. Re:History lesson on Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Well, OK. This version may not succeed, but the NEXT version, available next year, will weigh half as much and cost half the price! It's going to be amazing!

    Now knowing that, please buy the current model so we can afford to develop version 2.

  4. Re:I should have been a lawyer... on Infinium Labs Threatens HardOCP Again · · Score: 1

    Huh? What a dumbass. Re-read the sentence, which is concise and accurate. You see, even though some of the words are the same, the two sentences mean different things! Isn't English fun?

  5. Re:Sarcasm follows on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 1
    Listen here whippersnapper, destructable environments are nothing new. Why, I remember, way back in... musta been ninteen hunderd and nintety four

    Space Invaders had a "destructible environment" (the shields) in 1978.

  6. Re:What it doesn't do on Stolen Laptop Alarms · · Score: 1

    And by the way, didn't you leave the stove on when you left for work this morning?

  7. Re:BitTorrent for video files on Robosapien: Latest Toy Robot From Mark Tilden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod this up! Hell, this should be an update to the story.

  8. Re:*YAWN* on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    The real problem as far as the jewellery industry is concerned is that unscrupulous people try and sell these as real

    They *are* real.

    The denial you show in the face of your industry collapsing is laughable.

  9. Re:If diamonds weren't a monopoly on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Informative
    the owner of one of the synthetic diamond startups say that it cost him dollars per carat to create one. [...] I'll be damned that now, at least according to the initial listing on /., that the price per carat is now $4k?!?!?

    They are all greedy pigs.

    Right, because researching and developing the technology was free, so they shouldn't have to add anything to the cost because of it.

    By the same logic, all microprocessors should cost pennies, because silicon is cheap and plentiful.

  10. Re:cool on GEOS Available for Download After 18 Years · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the GEOS authors decided they might as well release their code, since the leaked Windows source was all based on it anyway.

  11. Re:"Hollywood" Re-Write of H2G2 Scares Me... on H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April · · Score: 1
    Hollywood did well by LOTR

    The flaw in your reasoning is the attempt to stuff Wingnut (Peter Jackson's production company) and Disney into the same category, as if they share anything at all in common.

    Disney will fuck up Hitchhiker's. It's not even a question.

  12. Re:Strange castng decisions? on H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April · · Score: 1

    In a strange convergence of sci-fi lookalikes, they chose an actor that is a dead ringer for The Cat from Red Dwarf. Not the same guy though.

  13. Re:Please don't compare the two. on Shawn Fanning's New Venture · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Sorry. From a software development standpoint, Napster was BAD. The architecture of the network may have had some inspiration, but the implementation was uniformly awful. The VB client was an abomination.

    On the other hand, Frankel's work is consistently excellent. He writes creative applications that are small, elegant, and fast. The two people really are in different leagues.

  14. Re:Hmmm... *Any* User? on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    Try Privoxy. It's based on the junkbuster code, and is relatively simple, if you don't mind editing a simple config file.

  15. Re:Aw, MAN! on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    Given that those simulators are typically for large cargo ships, which have to concern themselves with obstacles at distances measured in miles, it's probably not a big issue.

  16. Re:demise of film... not... yet on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    And then *EVERYBODY* had a Kodak Disc camera.

  17. Re:Link Broken on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    Privoxy's solution of forging the referer header to the "Home page" of the current site is slightly better than suppressing it entirely. This method satisfies most sites that try to disable remote linking based on the referer. (i.e. Something Awful)

  18. Re:Chess Joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    Damn shame I have no mod points right now!

  19. Classic chicken joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1
    Why did the chicken cross the moebius strip?

    To get to the same side.

  20. Re:A string walks into a bar... on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1
    Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender "I'll have a beer please.".

    The second string says "I'll have a martini.1kK@Op&%Mks dlaj49#%^&@@#^LK@#A 897LK987(*&KJh2kj*(Lij129j..."

    The first string apologizes to the bartender. "You'll have to excuse my friend, he isn't null-terminated."

  21. Hunting Statisticians on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1
    Three statisticians are out hunting. Suddenly, a duck bursts from the reeds. The first man fires, but misses to the right of the bird. The second man fires, and misses to the left of the bird.

    The third statistician shouts "WE GOT HIM!"

  22. Re:The only reason "Cards" won... on Finding the Perfect Family Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or "Pen and paper" for that matter. That includes everything from Tic-Tac-Toe to AD&D.

  23. Re:The car blunder in FOTR on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of Sam Raimi.

  24. Re:The car blunder in FOTR on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Regardless, I think Jackson can be forgiven for the mistake. After all, Tolkien left a train in the original book. :)

    "Out flew a red-golden dragon -- not life-size, but terribly life-like: fire came from his jaws, his eyes glared down; there was a roar, and he whizzed three times over the heads of the crowd. They all ducked, and many fell flat on their faces. The dragon passed like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a deafening explosion."

  25. Re:Ah... those were the days :-) on Video Card History · · Score: 2, Funny
    lowly CGA (which looked terrible, by the way)

    What are you talking about? On CGA, you had complete choice! You could use either the rasta red/green/yellow palette, or the nuclear pink/cyan/white palette! What more do you want?