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  1. I didn't care about bandwidth on Bandwidth Use In MMOs · · Score: 1

    I used to have a 15 GB cap and I didn't look at every download with care. Nor did I plan gigabyte patches. Most of the time I just downloaded what seemed fun and stopped downloading at all when I reached 14 GB.
    Of course, now that I have a 100 GB cap, I don't watch out at all. The fact that I'm at a college with a 5 GB cap might have something to do with that.

  2. Re:Power usage effectiveness isn't the whole story on Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    In the old days I would have suggested that Microsoft was limited to x86 processors

    Who says Microsoft is using Windows on their servers?

  3. Sad on Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled · · Score: 1

    That's just sad. And their hosting service doesn't seem to be subject to any reason.
    They should sue them and meanwhile try to regain all content and host it somewhere else.

  4. Pseudo-science on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure dreams don't come from the visual cortex but are conceived in the perception itself.
    What I mean is, things don't have color in my dreams. They are not black-white, they are not dark, there is just no color information.
    They only do when it's important. I will dream of green grass but when I dream of a book, it's just a book, not a black, green, UV, red or transparent book. No color information because it doesn't matter.

    In short: I call bullshit on this.

  5. Re:So... on Stardock Evaluates DRM Complaints, Updates Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    No. No. No. Your analogy is not only completely wrong from the core, but also the correct variation of this would be copying the plans of a Murcielago and building an 'exact' copy that could ride on railroads.
    The company that makes Murcielagos has no losses and I can ride my ride where I want it. But I'm not going to pay them for it.

  6. Re:So... on Stardock Evaluates DRM Complaints, Updates Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    You take things too black and white. Why should I buy a game if there isn't the slightest guarantee it'll work? I also pirate because I'm just a poor student a new game costs about 95$ here ( converted from 60 euro) and I pirate because of DRM.
    Also, don't assume I don't buy games. I buy games. But not for the PC.

  7. Re:So... on Stardock Evaluates DRM Complaints, Updates Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1
    Nice try.
    • Games aren't trucks.
    • Trucks are relatively expensive, games are pretty cheap.
    • Trucks are real-life objects belonging someone, games are bits and bytes that can be copied without any cost to the developer of the games.
    • The difference here is: a lot of people are actually selling cars but way too little people sell Linux games.
  8. Re:So... on Stardock Evaluates DRM Complaints, Updates Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    In an unsupported way, like using Wine. Wine works pretty well for a lot of games, but not always perfect and sometimes requires fiddling.

    Also I have a platform that supports it. Using Linux didn't void my Windows XP license I hope so I could dual-boot and use Windows to play the game. But my argument still stands, if a game makes me switch platforms or settle for a sub-optimal solution, I'm not going to pay for it.

  9. Re:So... on Stardock Evaluates DRM Complaints, Updates Gamer's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    Alright. But don't start complaining if I pirate the game.
    If there is no official support for my platform, why should I pay a company that doesn't think I'm important enough.

    I also think there are a lot more Linux would-be gamers than most companies think. Saying there are about 25 to 100 Windows computers for every Linux computer, doesn't mean there are 25-100 times more Windows gamers. Maybe 5% of the Windows users buy a certain game, but 25% of the Linux crowd, just because there are so little Linux games. I'm still waiting for UT3.

  10. Re:um on Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop · · Score: 1

    If you've ever used an EEE before, you would understand that Linux can be easy-to-use.
    This is because it was set up like that by a company and in contrast to Windows, companies can set up Linux;

  11. Re:Solution - lower the max volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    We shouldn't limit the players to protect their hearing. Everybody has been warned enough and if you're listening to maximum volume 5 days a week, you're such an idiot you deserve to go deaf.

    A better reason would be to limit them so that they can't let me 'enjoy' their music without my consent.

  12. Bullshit on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. Linux has no viruses. Why would we need something like this?
    2. If they're going to make a list of the behaviour of _every_ program, then that list would be HUGE, and take petabytes. A blacklist is a lot easier to make and keep up.
    3. This still wouldn't protect the weakest link: the user. If a virus asks the user :" Add IAmATrojan.exe to the whitelist ", a lot of people wouldn't do it. Heck, if you need even need a normal anti-virus, you're to stupid to work with computers.

  13. Re:Why is this legal? on Transmeta Up For Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then maybe it should be illegal to buy the IP of a corporation, but buying corporations themselves is a fundamental system in the capitalistic economy. I don't think it's really easy to outlaw it.
    And then we're even forgetting that they would just use some dirty tricks, like buying all shares or "inheriting" it.

  14. Nothing special on January 23 · · Score: 1

    This happens to one out of every 133225 people (leap years not taken in account).

  15. Re:The Sony Syndrome on Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some quality issues? OK.

    But WPA encryption is something huge!
    Since WEP doesn't work this means that you can only connect to unsecured network. And I'm not going to remove encryption because Timmy with his iPod Touch wants to check his mails.

  16. Re:I don't want this... on Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering · · Score: 1

    "I need to get off this bus, this is my stop!"
    "I'm afraid I can't do that, Timmy"

  17. What's the problem on iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So it takes a screenshot for some effect? Is there even a way to do this without taking a screenshot? A way that is easy enough to be performed on a smartphone?

    And what did you expect from Apple? That every bit of data that was discarded is overwritten ten times? Jeez, I enjoy bashing big companies as much as the other guy but now they're looking too far. Remember, it also saves your web history, every picture you took, every file you opened everything you did somewhere...

  18. Re:Portal on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 1

    That's great to hear thanks. If that's the case I'll consider buying Kane's Wrath.

  19. Portal on The State of Game Audio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Portal still holds my vote for best videogame audio. It really helped build the game's atmosphere.

    Some games on the the other hand, just slap a stupid rock-techo-pop beat on it, just for having something. (I'm looking at you C&C3)

  20. Re:So far so good. on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    You don't need AdBlock, just edit your hosts file. It disables just about every ad on every site I know.

  21. Where's Belgium? on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 5, Funny

    On page 13, they have completed Hitler's dream. Germany seems to occupy Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland,most of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.

    Weird because the rest of the chart seems pretty correct.
    This must mean all of Google are Nazi's.

  22. Belgium on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    I live in Belgium and I have a cap of 100 GB which is huge in comparison to other providers in this country. My usage of the last months is:

    Period Download Upload Total

    16 july 2008 - 15 august 2008 19,6 GB 8 GB 27,6 GB
    16 june 2008 - 15 july 2008 7,7 GB 4,5 GB 12,2 GB
    16 may 2008 - 15 june 2008 22,9 GB 11 GB 33,8 GB
    16 april 2008 - 15 may 2008 25,4 GB 11,4 GB 36,8 GB
    16 march 2008 - 15 april 2008 13,6 GB 4,9 GB 18,6 GB

  23. Re:yeah yeah on Intel Acquires Mobile Linux Developer OpenedHand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Intel doesn't really need help. I don't recall them having problems.
    It's interesting that Intel is venturing in the mobile world.

  24. Re:Why should this surprise anyone? on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Troll? It's true, by forcing webdev's to make pages intentionally broken, they force other users to get IE to view the pages correctly.
    And currently the only way to get IE is with a copy of Windows.

  25. Re:Engrish? Do You Even Attempt It? on Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine · · Score: 1

    What's the problem? The headline just states that the story is about the flights the Armadillo engine made.