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  1. Re:This was expected... on Fragna Cum Laude: A B.A. in Quake · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the whole thing has been going on for soo many years. I remember seeing Doom, or Duke Nuke'em, for the first time. All I could think was cool, how'd they do that?! Of course, once in university I was immediate to take graphics programming, in addition to picking BFG 9000s to shoot my college-mates. ;)

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  2. Who needs censors? on Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars · · Score: 2

    Censorship on a word like fart?

    This in light of the new law being proposed in Alabama requireing kids to refer to teachers as sir and ma'am
    There seems to be a huge "traditional" movement in this country looking to enforce obedience. Wasn't this type stuff reserved for religious governments like the Ayatola in Iran?!

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  3. Re:And What Comes Next... on UC Berkeley Announces First "Bionic Chip" · · Score: 1

    This may sound a bit scary, but the one of the main purposes of such a device was to aid gene therapy. So, if you think about the possible cancer cures out there... this may be a huge blessing. However, gene therapy may have some alternate destructive uses as well. I'm sure the FDA would intervene if anybody tried to go too far.

    Personally, I think human dna mapping projects could be a lot scarier. Gattaca may have been an extrapolation of existing events at the time of it's creation, however, the predicition may not end up being too far off the mark!

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  4. Re:I still don't get it. on Deal Reached in iCraveTV Case · · Score: 1

    Money, money, money...

    Controlled viewing implies that all the advertising is coming from that broadcaster. Furthermore, if no one else can re-broadcast it, then they can promote their own site, or affiliates site, which re-broadcasts all the shows. Once again, a case of focusing eyeballs...

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  5. Re:Persecution of Amazon on Publisher Speaks Out Against Amazon Patents · · Score: 1

    I don't think anybody said that they didn't like Amazon the 'book service'. It's actually a quite good system. It's Amazon the litigious two-faced company everyone is concerned with...

    Hmmm... Did you happen to catch the "Silicon Valley Summit" on MSNBC this weekend?! Jeff Bezos comes out and says that we all should be weary of the abuses of the patent system. Then, "spit" in eveybodies face when he said that he doesn't think that Amazon is abusing that system!

    Well, funny how alot of CEOs are quick to denounce other company's bad practices, and always seem to think their own are "special" cases which aren't really bad.

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  6. Re:Disney... on Movie Reviews: Fantasia 2000 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.. there is actually a growing trend now with StereoScopic IMAX films. (i.e. non-red-blue 3D large format films) I've worked on a couple this past year, and with the IMAX release of parts of Ants (DreamWorks/PDI) it would seem that all Pixar, Disney FA, etc. would all start going Large Format in the not too distant future, too.

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  7. Re:Masterpieces on-line? on Ebay May Bid For Sotheby's · · Score: 1

    There is another problem... may ancient works are illegally smuggled out of other countries and sold at auction at Sothebys all the time. One would speculate that eBay may encounter a whole new set of legal problems trying to sell those works internationally where laws vary by country?!

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  8. Associates? on Yet Another Amazon Patent · · Score: 1

    Amazon doesn't call their affiliates "affiliates", they call them associates?
    Is this a different program, or are they just attacking everyone?


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  9. Re:patents on Yet Another Amazon Patent · · Score: 1

    No... no... no... They're trying to trademark the word book. See that way they get book.com, book.net, and book.org away from the real domain name owners for FREE. Thank you, ICANN. ;*)


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  10. And the winner is... on Yet Another Amazon Patent · · Score: 1

    And the winner of the rotten apple award for most undefendable patents is: AMAZON

    What does this do to Microsoft's ClickTrade Affiliate Program? How about BeFree?

    Amazon may not get away with this one...

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  11. Talk About Stuff Like This... on The Simpsons The Movie? · · Score: 1

    Well, you all should check out a new slash-based site which has all this kinda stuff! X-Men, Spiderman the movie etc..
    uMoo!
    http://www.uMoo.com/


    [Disclaimer: My friend started it a couple of days ago, so I'm kinda biased]