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  1. There's no movie _in_ the story on A Sound of Thunder · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you _really_ stretched the story you could make it last 10 minutes. So expecting a 2 hour film to do more than take the story as a starting point (which it does seem to do) is asking a bit much.

  2. Re:Hard copy? on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam: Part 2 · · Score: 1

    It'd probably be a start. But as the files can be updated anyway, unless you backed it up regularly you'd probably just be better off redownloading it.

  3. Re:Hard copy? on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam: Part 2 · · Score: 1

    Why would you need one?

  4. Re:I have one, I'm impressed. on First Portable Media Centers Hit Store Shelves · · Score: 1
    It says on the Microsoft site:

    You can transfer files that are already on your computer to your device by using Windows Media Player 10. When you use Windows Media Player 10, files are automatically converted to a format and size that the device recognizes
  5. Re:I have one, I'm impressed. on First Portable Media Centers Hit Store Shelves · · Score: 1

    I _believe_ that when movies get copied across they're automatically resized for the smaller screen, which means you can actually fit a lot more into 20GB...

  6. And by the time they get here... on Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc · · Score: 1

    I've been reading about Holographic storage for years. I'm sure that eventually we'll have it and it'll be pretty neat. But by the time it gets here it'll just be a step up from some other incremental technology.

  7. Re:oldschool on Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's time for the general public to suck it up.

    Nobody ever made money with that kind of attitude...

  8. Re:IM's on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    I use GAIM for Yahoo, ICQ and AOL.

    But I use MSN for it's own chat client, because it's the easiest one to use.

  9. Actually on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1

    According to the IMDB it's:

    ANH: 8.8
    ESB: 8.7
    ROTJ: 8.1
    AOTK: 7.1
    TPM: 6.5

  10. Amygdala size won't be simply genetic on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Remember - using parts of your brain affects its development.

    Just because liberals tend to have a larger amygdala doesn't mean they were necessarily genetically predispositioned to be that way (and the same is true of republicans of course).

    Oh, and this is just a statistical sample - just because a majority are one way doesn't say anything about an individual.

  11. Re:What I want to know is... on Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the cost of spam. With my 1MBit connection it doesn't compare to my other downloads.

    I just don't want to read it - and now I don't have to.

  12. Re:Do We Really Need Mandatory Insurance? on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    They're forced only to have third-party insurance. This prevents very poor people from injuring people and then being unable to pay for the damage.

  13. Ebay uses passport on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    I use it to sign into Ebay when I've forgotten which user-id/password combo I used when I signed up.

  14. If you want to live on a ladder on Vive La Loafing! · · Score: 1

    Life's a game. Sure, play hard enough to keep yourself fed and a roof over your head - but if you're going beyond that, make damn sure it's because you're doing something you really want to.

  15. Obviously, game companies get it... on Strange Attractor - On High Concepts For Games · · Score: 1

    They sell what you want to buy. New ideas do appear from time to time. Usually they get ignored in favour of Deer Hunter or Doom 3.

    Very occasionally a new game appears that captures people's imaginations, but by and large - what people want is sports sims and FPS.

    You'er very vague, by the way - what _kind_ of game based on Kafka? What game mechanics are we talking about? What viewpoint?

  16. The Point of The Singularity on The Singularity Blinds Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Is that when you reach the point where either mankind is no longer dominant (because we create something more capable than ourselves) or mankind can edit itself you have a situation which is entirely unknowable to our current selves.

    It's like the difference between a computer program that can produce output and a computer program that can edit it's own code - one is qualitatively different to the other and it's actions are not predictable, because it isn't the same program it was before it gained that capacity.

  17. Re:Current database server: PostgreSQL on PostgreSQL Wins LJ Editor's Choice Award · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice one. Wish I'd got there first.

  18. It's a RolePlaying Game on Labyrinthine 'EVE Online' Scam Recounted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If a character in-game can't lie to another character-game, what's the point?

    Shooting one another is fine, but lying isn't?

  19. Re:Free Internet on The Rise Of Reg-Only Media · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no 'idea' for the internet.

    There's a bunch of computers all linked together. If people want to give away information they can. If they want to charge for it, they can try to do that too.

  20. Re:Won't work, again on Attention Bonds Gain Momentum · · Score: 1

    Once you get a rep for keeping the cash regardless nobody will email you.

    And if you factor in the bond when deciding whether an email is spam then you're more likely to read it.

    I'm not convinced, largely because I want to see what the email situation is like once SPF comes into force. But I don't think it's easily dismissable.

  21. Re:Making sure I see my role in this... on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    Nothing, except that it's just become 50 orders of magnitude harder to spam.

  22. Re:Distributed Computing on TeraGrid v. Distributed Computing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now the public can chose what problems that it wants solved

    Jesus, there's a horrible thought. I've met the public (and seen it's choice in TV). I'd rather have monkeys choose.

  23. Re:No. on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dammit, beaten to it.

  24. Re:The elephant in the room on Ars Technica Tours Mono · · Score: 1

    Which is where the built-in security model comes in. You can lock down .NET so that it _can't_ call native code, or so that code running on your local machine can, but code running off the network can't, etc, etc.

  25. Re:Why should "cross platform" always mean Java/.N on Ars Technica Tours Mono · · Score: 1

    It means that when I'm working in C# and I want a component to do Y, I can download one written in any .NET language, not just one written in C#.