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  1. Re:Why not a Table Top port? on Ask the Warhammer Online Team · · Score: 1

    Have you actually played Dawn of War? It's pretty damn close to tabletop WH40k.

  2. Re:Update: Seismic info now confirms activity on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Uh yeah, closer economic ties with a country where the vast majority of the population lives well below the poverty line in South Korea.

    South Korea wants to get back together with DPRK for other reasons, unrelated to economic factors. Obviously the biggest is that it would remove the threat of war.

  3. Re:Verification? on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Uh... why? The Christmas tsunami was in the Indian Ocean, which is several thousand kilometres away from North Korea. Try looking at a globe to get some idea of the relative positions.

  4. Re:He's using memory technique on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 2, Informative

    He didn't do it this way; too ambiguous.
    He developed his own method, whereby each digit was assigned to a row of hiragana (e.g. 1 = anything from the ka line, 2 = anything from the sa-line, etc.) and built up a memorizable string of words using those sounds.

    Still means he had to memorize a 100,000 syllable story, though.

  5. Re:Details on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, he's in his 50s, he's married, and his wife was there when he was reciting it.

  6. Re:Not a Good Business Model for Enterprise on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    At least compare it to XP Professional, then.

  7. What sort... on To Grid Or Not To Grid? · · Score: 1

    ...of processing on the trades are you actually doing?
    30 minutes for 10,000 trades seems an awfully long time - I work in the same industry (specifically developing position management systems) and the only thing we do as a batch job is our daily rollover/mark-to-market, which finishes in less time than yours with a hell of a lot more trades than that.

  8. Re:Sysrq. on Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was a joke, dork. Try it and you will indeed see that it does exactly what I said it does... just not in the way you expect it to.

  9. Re:Probably none. on Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format · · Score: 1, Funny

    That already exists on Linux - the key combo is Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. You will be presented with an prompt for your username and password which cannot be replicated in the standard user interface.

  10. Re:Did they retool their production line for this? on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    The 802.11bg and SD/CF/memory stick ports are an optional addon for the cheaper version of the PS3.
    The HDMI output could not be added later, but I'd say that the grandparent is correct - they had intended to just put in a blind port, which they'd now decided to give up on.

  11. Re:"Price Cut", that sounds nice doesn't it... on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    It does include tax. Pre-tax price is 47600 yen.

  12. Re: Commodores.... on David Brin Laments Absence of Programming For Kids · · Score: 1

    I was doing sprites just fine in plain old C64 BASIC at that age.
    Maybe the extensions made it easier, but it was certainly possible.

  13. Re:Does the word "treaty" mean anything to you? on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    Show me the treaty that says they have to import your crappy GM rice or STFU.

  14. Re:Makes it Worse! on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    So, we just shut up, let the corporations as they like and do nothing about it?
    Good idea, genius.

  15. Re:That would likely be a trade violation on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of "self-governance"?
    That means that your rules don't apply in other countries.
    If the Japanese don't want to eat the patented product that you are calling rice, then FUCK OFF and leave them alone.

  16. Re:Makes it Worse! on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    So... where's the down side?

  17. Re:Similarly on The Physics of Superheroes · · Score: 1

    Just when you've run out of mod points...

  18. Re:Go right ahead... on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 2

    You misunderstand me. You may think cars are a necessity now, but there is absolutely no way the US is going to be able to sustain its current level of car usage without radical advancements in fuel technology.

  19. Re:Uhhh, yeah on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 1

    unless you expect three quarters of people to give up their cars

    Well yes, I do. If not voluntarily now, then involuntarily later...

  20. Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    Turbans???

    What the hell have the Sikhs done to you lately?

  21. Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    No, but neither were they called terrorists. The term wasn't much in use before 9/11.

    I realise that you're about ten years old and thus probably don't remember much before 2001, but yes, us old fogeys have been using the term "terrorist" for quite a long time.

    If you want something to really fuck up your worldview, search for "Japanese Red Army" - a group composed entirely of Japanese who shot up an Israeli airport and killed a bunch of people, hijacked aircraft all over the place, and had training in Palestinian and Libyan camps, but would have never been caught by your ridiculous profiling.

  22. Fuck you Zonk. on Does WoW Influence Warhammer Online? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Warcraft is quite obviously a ripoff of Warhammer. Similarity of interface in one particular game is nothing in comparison to what Blizzard have done to Games Workshop.

  23. Re:Localization!? on The Many Colours of Okami · · Score: 2, Informative

    You missed the important part of that:

    Although usually known and depicted as female

    In modern Japanese culture, Amaterasu is shown as female, just as Susano is always male.
    The Japanese people playing the game in Japan aren't that much more likely to be familiar with the precise historical interpretation of background material like this, so it makes little sense to go on about fiddly little points of dispute between specialists in the field.

  24. Re:nightmare scenario on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    PS I don't like children

    Pity your parents didn't think the same way...

  25. No blood flow... on U.S. Military Developing Ultrasonic Tourniquet · · Score: 1

    ...to an extremity for however long it takes to get back to a real hospital?
    Sounds like a good recipe for gangrene.