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  1. 100,000-km on Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would take a while to get up. Then again, with enough jerking I'm sure anything is possibly.

  2. "would wipe out half to 2/3 of the continental US" on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many Library of Congresses is that?

  3. Well damn... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wasn't going to party tonight but this gives me a valid excuse to stop by the liquor store on the way home.

  4. List of changes between it and Vista plz. on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What are the improvements? Have they added in WinFS yet?

  5. RAM Question on Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown · · Score: 1

    If going with the i7-920 is it better to go with 1066MHz ram or 1300Mhz? I plan to overclock the chip since lots of people have had great success with air cooling.

  6. Re:That's awesome but... on 10 Years of Half-Life · · Score: 1

    At least they released new media today. They also claim to be working on a trailer that will be out "soon".

  7. Re:That's awesome but... on 10 Years of Half-Life · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I bought the original long ago and have it still. I was looking forward to playing through it again, except on the source engine and then I saw that Valve wanted $10 for it, with no new models or textures. :( Since I have plenty of other games to keep me busy I'm patiently waiting for Black Mesa.

  8. Re:That's awesome but... on 10 Years of Half-Life · · Score: 1

    Tell them to skip buying the original and wait for Black Mesa Source to be released.

  9. Re:I'll take a Number 6 please. on Battlestar Galactica Props Are For Sale · · Score: 1

    Only one? I want the entire line.

  10. I recorded.. on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 5, Funny

    all of the campaign ads so I can slowly wean myself off instead of going cold turkey.

  11. HD Version on Left 4 Dead Demo Dated, Cinematic Released · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Needs less content per page.. on An Inside-Out Look At the Antec Skeleton Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could split up each picture to double the amount of pages I need to view.

  13. What. on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with Raid 5 is that the more drives you have the higher probability you have that more than one drive dies. That's why you have multiple raid 5 arrays of 4 disks maximum instead of one array of 7 disks.

  14. Re:DRM: the precious on Game Distribution and the 'Idiocy' of DRM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To quote someone...

    "Modern DRM isn't about stopping piracy. It's about stopping the game from being resold at used games stores so EA doesn't have to compete against their own games with the average customer."

  15. Could someone please.. on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 1

    Show me an example of a website with so much javascript that it is too slow to use? I really don't know of any sites that bring Mozilla to a crawl, most of those are flash or java applets.

  16. Re:So, when does Halo come out for Linux? on "More Than Three Teams" Working On Halo Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you won't be missing much. At least from my experience with Halo PC. The library level was a nice repetitive borefest.

  17. Good on EA Abandons Efforts To Take Over Take-Two · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We need more publishers, not less. Well, we need less EA but that's too much to hope for.

  18. Re:Slow news day? on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 1

    Yes, the ads have been pretty terrible the past few years. Instead of people commenting on a specific ad they will just tell me there weren't any good ones. I think the problem is that the ads are more hyped up that the game itself. I haven't seen an ad that matches the awesome of the Terry Tate Reebook clip.

  19. Re:Slow news day? on Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Disaster? I had people who know next to nothing about computers or Microsoft talk to me about the ad. That seems like a pretty good ad to me. I can't remember the last time someone asked me if I had seen an ad.

  20. Well... on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    "and Apple doesn't annoy its customers (or allow third parties to)"

    They just annoy the rest of us who change the channel whenever one of their terrible commercials come on. At least they are even with Microsoft on this point. :D

  21. I'm probably one of the few... on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Who wish I could disable text messages on my phone. I wish I could activate a feature so when someone sends me a text message I don't see it and they get a response telling them to just call me.

  22. Re:Great idea, and all.. on Brad Wardell's Plan To Save PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    Haven't you been listening to console zealots for the past 10 years? With every new generation they proclaim that PC gaming will soon be dead.

  23. Re:Please use this thread to do the following: on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 3, Funny

    No.

  24. Re:Please use this thread to do the following: on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 5, Funny

    4. For extra credit tie into your rant how terrible you believe PHP is and how xyz is so much better.

  25. Demo... on New Gears of War 2 Details, No PC Version · · Score: 1

    I was going to check out the first one on the PC but with no demo I'm just not that interested.