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  1. Re:Existing games. on Via-based Handheld Game Console Runs PC Games · · Score: 1

    But games are supposed to be fun. Playing starcraft without a keyboard would be a bit slow but not impossible. Playing starcraft without a mouse and with a tiny screen would be horrible.

  2. Re:Great interview! on Egyptian Linux Advocates' Replies · · Score: 1

    So all those armored bulldozers have been contributed by the neighboring Arab countries? The truth is, the current problems in Palestine/Israel have been caused by both sides.

  3. Re:Trojan was reverse-engineered ! on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't make a difference because there aren't any variables/escape sequences/anything that won't be taken literally.

  4. Re:beta on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    Other than bittorrent, downloading using P2P tends to be much slower than official sources.

  5. Re:hmm. on Apple Wins iTunes Interface Patent · · Score: 1

    mpd looks interesting, I'm waiting for shoutcast support to start using it.

    Xmms isn't changing, but that doesn't mean it's dead. It's got the most features of any player and is easy to use from the command line with programs like xmmsctrl. I've even integrated it a bit with my window manager with xmmsctrl and xmms-shell. There are even Perl and Ruby modules for controlling it.

    Hopefully music players will move towards separating the interface into a separate program like mpd does.

  6. Re:WHY! Why does a portable system have so many po on E3 - Sony Drops PS2 To $149, Shows PSP, Hints At PS3 · · Score: 1

    If people weren't morons, they wouldn't keep buying the games they already paid for and the financial reasons wouldn't exist.

    This applies both to the ports of (S)NES and Pokemon. I've played 3 or 4 different versions of Pokemon to see what was different and they were all exactly the same.

  7. Re:Metric System on de Icaza: Rest of World Will Force US Into Linux · · Score: 1

    For your needs, working with barrels, stick with imperial. Those who have to take more complicated measurements in their line of work will use SI, because they scale well and are inherently easy using base 10 (there are exceptions, like the radian).

  8. Re:Mirror with PDF on Practical File System Design with the Be File System · · Score: 1

    Set up a torrent, Post the thing on newsgroups.

  9. Re:Metric System on de Icaza: Rest of World Will Force US Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Dividing/Multiplying by 10 is easier than for any other number except 1.

    184.21345 decimeters = 18.421345 meters

    Something like 145 5/16 inches to feet is much harder, at least for most humans.

  10. Re:Battle Royale on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    The second one is much worse than the first if you take it seriously. Otherwise it's one of the funniest movies ever.

  11. Re:Tried to read it on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    I think this is more of a cultural issue. The american population is very xenophobic, which isn't necessarily worse than here in Toronto. Even if people claim it's multicultural, it's really a city composed of many groups of people each having their own culture.

  12. Re:If only ... on Plextor First With A 12x DVD+R Drive · · Score: 1

    I don't have a DVD drive mainly because I'd have no use for it other than movies and I'd rather watch movies on my TV.

    I might get a DL burner for backups but that would be the only use I would have for it.

  13. Re:Link to previous discussion on same/similar sub on Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    Just because it isn't stable doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Tell all the people running e17 apps like entrance that they really don't have hardware renderning.

  14. Re:This may be a good thing for Linux. on MS Sales Growth Limited by Delays in Windows · · Score: 1

    At least here in Canada a Mac is almost 3.5 times more expensive than a no name PC with similar specs.

  15. Re:How much? on MS Sales Growth Limited by Delays in Windows · · Score: 1

    And of those who do know how to spoof their OS, how many actually do it?

  16. Re:General question... on Anti-Missile Laser Weapon Successfully Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Germany and Japan post WWII. The States spent a lot of money helping them rebuild.

    Also, a counter example, after losing WWI Germany had extreme penalties placed on it causing an economic depression. Hilarity ensued.

  17. Re:hmmm on FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? · · Score: 1

    So, that means a Sunfire is better than a 911 Turbo because the Sunfire has more market share?

  18. Re:Wheels that ain't ours on FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Control Center, Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, a start menu or a taskbar.... I don't have a printer but my print dialogs let me print to a .ps file which certainly wasn't stolen from Windows because you have to add a laser printer and do other strange things to get a .ps file under Windows.

    If your Linux desktop looks like a Windows clone it's only because you want it to be that way. Some of us use shaded windows, virtual desktops, dockapps, dynamically generated menus (using your favorite scripting language) and a very powerful command line. None of these features are available under windows unless you install programs that emulate this functionality.

  19. Re:WinFS? on FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to know about the filesystem to do that. The OS tells it where the files are. Otherwise, making it a cross platform web browser would be kind of hard, having to support dozens of different filesystems.

  20. Re:Thank "The Doors.".. on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    I guess if they do it for the money they deserve respect and tolerance. Just like spammers and people who start pyramid schemes.

  21. Re:Whoa on Essay: Perspectives of African FOSS developers · · Score: 1

    They're also not allowed to fund the Taliban. Your point?

  22. Re:hrm on Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M · · Score: 1

    So that's why all those light fetishists take the time to fill their fans with LEDs.

  23. Re:End of an era? on Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M · · Score: 1

    A few days ago they announced they'll be dropping Mhz for marketing and going with speed ratings instead.

  24. Re:What's the problem here? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy, many of its citizens are unhappy with the current government. The same government that is allied with the States. That doesn't justify the attacks on the States but these people aren't very rational to begin with.

  25. Re:That's rich! on Rambus Files Antitrust Suit Against Memory Makers · · Score: 1

    But they have a legal monopoly now, RAMBUS doesn't.