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  1. Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! on AMD's New Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Cards Debut · · Score: 1

    Try a decent dedicated card and you'll be amazed at how much better windows 7 runs...

    I run Windows 7 on both my Intel powered laptop and my ATI powered desktop. The dedicated graphics does nothing for Windows 7 that the Intel one can't do just as well.

  2. Re:Ray's Real Job on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Notepad still has issues with something as basic as line ending characters.

  3. Re:First post! on Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe · · Score: 2, Informative

    At the time we're talking about, though, Blizzard was "Those guys that made Lost Vikings and Warcraft 1."

    Microsoft bought Bungie around 2000 from memory. Blizzard was far more than just Warcraft 1 by that stage.

  4. Re:First post! on Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bungie was a, or perhaps the , well-known Mac-friendly game developer...

    When I think Mac-friendly game developer, the first name that springs to mind is Blizzard.

  5. Re:Yes on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    Would ye two guys still feel the same way if it was YOU who was cutoff, and it turns-out you've an infection you don't know how to get rid of? .

    I've had it happen to me, my flatmate was infected. I contacted my ISP, explained the situation, and they reactivated my account after giving recommendations on how to resolve the issue. It was inconvenient, but we wouldn't have known my flatmate was infected otherwise. I still support it.

  6. Re:Data Caps on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    You may not beware of this, but New Zealand and Australia are actually islands.

    Technically, they both are a collection of islands.

  7. Re:Yeah, not quite. on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression audio was an optional part of the standard, not a requirement.

  8. Re:Why not boycott PS3s on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nerd rage? There is a world of difference between putting out a new product with fewer features than the older one and removing features from a product I've already purchased through the use of mandatory firmware updates.

    Fixed that for you.

  9. Re:I.E. lock? on Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    As long as we're going with anecdotal evidence, every one of our internal websites that don't work with Firefox or Chrome broke with IE7. YMMV.

  10. Re:I.E. lock? on Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    1. Lots of intranet and other internal company websites are I.E. only. It would be good to know now if those sites will continue to function.

    And most of those broke with IE7.

  11. Re:They have 100Mbps broadband here? on 'Throttling' Broadband Provider Sued In Australia · · Score: 1

    Supermarkets regularly have specials where a price is given with a limit to how many you can buy at that price (limit in small print). That fits your analogy precisely.

  12. Re:Something's missing... on Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web · · Score: 1

    ...Your ISP maintains your slashdot password?

  13. Re:Too close to the subject... on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    Users are there to test your code?!? Do you happen to work for Microsoft?

    Linux has a much larger focus of getting users to test the code than any proprietary outfit.

  14. Re:Inventor's Oath? on Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who finds it a little disturbing that luminaries are now admitting to fraud on the patent office?

    Yes. They all do it, it's only a matter of time before they start openly admitting it.

  15. Re:At some point you have to update on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    Care to list all the current hardware that has usable support for OpenGL 3.0 in the open source driver? Feel free to expand that list from current to any hardware if you so desire.

  16. Re:Actual email from Gabe on Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans · · Score: 1

    You mean something like this?
    <quote>Like thus</quote>

  17. Re:Sounds... wrong on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1

    They didn't intentionally crash or explicitly throw the exception during the VM vendor "validation". From what I understand, Eclipse doesn't care too much what runtime it is running on, but needs to set specific arguments for the Sun/Oracle one to avoid memory issues. All it did was skip setting the Sun/Oracle specific command instead using the defaults. Do you really expect them to compare the current VM to a known database and throw up some UI stating the VM isn't in a known list? That defeats the purpose of the supposed write once run everywhere approach of Java.

  18. Re:Sounds... wrong on Oracle's Java Company Change Breaks Eclipse · · Score: 1

    And choosing [Yes] would have led to the exact same crash because the Sun/Oracle VM didn't have the flag set to specify expanded memory limitations.

  19. Re:You're forgetting something on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    And just forget about trying it in New Zealand. The US aren't even allowed to bring nuclear powered vessels into NZ waters.

  20. Re:Not an RPG on Spore-Inspired Action RPG Darkspore Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RPG erroneously seems to be defined as "upgradeable stats" whether it is by leveling up or equipping better items. I'm also curious how modelling this game after the space era of Spore with precreated uneditable creatures is inspired from the creature creator...

  21. Re:the source on Fring Calls Skype 'Cowards'; Skype Responds · · Score: 1

    That, and the fact the source code you get back is almost never representative of the source used to compile the app in the first place. It generally doesn't work (at least with C/C++ anyway).

  22. Re:ha on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    "Free with the contract" ain't free.

    But it's certainly cheaper than "still expensive with the contract".

  23. Re:We've come a long way on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    You buy the phone and the software and the network service from tjr same single company.

    Really? One can typically buy an unlocked phone, get a connection pack with some network provider, and if it is an Android device Google typically does most of the software. Three different points of contact right there.

  24. Re:We've come a long way on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    They used Canada as an example and made no assumptions about other countries as they had no knowledge of their status. What is ignorant is assuming every single location on the planet has laws enforcing this. If one can trust Wikipedia, it states that UK GSM for example requires a SIM card.

  25. Re:Fascinating on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    The Brazilian constitution is some a short document

    I think it was a typo, meant to read something like:

    The Brazilian constitution is not a short document