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  1. Re:Apple's Store, my iPhone on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 1

    No, I'm sure that you signed away any rights which you might expect to have as a user of the device in order to get your hands on the device. Either that or you broke a seal which implied consent with a contract removing all of said rights from you. It's not your iPhone, you paid for the privilege of advertising for Apple, endorsing their products, and also looking reasonably cool with a slick piece of handheld hardware.

    You will submit to Apple now, stop dissenting.</sarcasm>

  2. Re:Web UI on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 1

    Is HTTP in and of itself perfectly legal?

    Sure.

    But what percentage of HTTP traffic do you think is non-infringing?

    And what percentage of HTTP users have never used it for any infringing purpose?

  3. Re:Apple's store on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 1

    I don't think anybody's arguing this point. Everybody seems to acknowledge that it's within Apple's rights to run their store the way they want. We may not agree that it's the best business decision, but that fact is irrelevant because it's their decision to make.

  4. Re:A pretty good one, actually on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    In other news...Windows XP has higher system requirements to run comparably to Windows 2000.

  5. Re:Legos on What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos · · Score: 1

    But you build a brick wall with bricks. One could also say that he built the wall with brick, but the distinction there is the concept of the material used to build (brick, wood, stone, Lego), or the individual pieces which come together to form the wall (bricks, planks, stones, Legos.)

  6. Re:Travesty? on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 1

    Were they even an analogue for the Soviet Union before Star Trek VI?

  7. Re:Dual Monitors - No Sweat on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    An Ubuntu install by default will see Windows partitions. You still have to navigate the directory structure manually to create a shortcut, but as long as you've installed Wine (I honestly don't recall if it was installed by default or not), it's either a double-click away or you may have to right-click it to tell it to launch with Wine. Regardless, it's pretty simple for someone who has a moderate knowledge of computers and GUI usage. It is most certainly not the exclusive domain of leet hackers. Heck, it even does a passable job of Direct3D wrapping, but you'll note a performance boost (and UI glitches will go away) if you modify the config.wtf file in the WTF folder of your WoW install to instruct WoW to use OpenGL rendering. Downside: you lose the hardware cursor. There is a (moderately complicated) workaround with a custom-patched Wine install to make it so your system cursor shows up on top of Windows apps.

  8. Re:Why does it matter? on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As I once saw, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a car full of CD-Rs." Or DVDs or BluRay discs or these holographic discs.

  9. Re:I'm surprised on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    2008 was the year of the Linux desktop. Consider this your memo.

  10. Re:Dual Monitors - No Sweat on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Informative

    All it needs now is a "Launch World of Warcraft from my Windows partition" menu entry, and it'll take the world by storm.

    You do realize that you can do this with Wine, right? It's how I play. I never ran the installer in Linux, I just told Wine to launch Wow.exe on the NTFS partition and it worked.

  11. Re:Very Impressed with the update on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I also did an update via update manager. I just told it to start last night when I went to bed, and when I woke up this morning and rebooted, everything came up and seemed to work fine. I only got about 20 minutes to fiddle with it before I had to go to work, but no problems. Oh, I'm running Kubuntu FWIW.

  12. Re:Where there's a will... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    Wait... since when does WoW focus on "casual" gamers? I'm sorry, but a game that I have to play often just too feel that I have made my 15$/month worthwhile isn't what I call "casual".

    The fact that YOU feel like you have to spend that time to make the $15/month worthwhile doesn't affect the fact that many people consider 10 hours per month to be plenty. Some people log in, work on some quests or whatever, spending maybe 2 hours at a time twice a week.

  13. Re:Where there's a will... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    More than 50% of the players in the game require more than a month to hit endgame.

  14. Re:Running Man anyone? on Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' · · Score: 1

    That was a great film.

  15. Re:Obligitory on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Torrents is illegal [sic]! Didn't the [MP|RI]AA teach you anything?

  16. Re:Takedown? on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 1

    If they yank it and you try to re-upload it, make sure you re-encode it with different settings first. They store a hash of the original video, so if it's bit-for-bit exact, it'll never show up the second (or subsequent) times. All that being said - I don't expect you'll have a problem with it. Haven't seen it yet (at work), but I've got it saved to check out when I get home!

  17. Re:Sure on Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity · · Score: 2, Informative

    What? You labour in an open-topped fabric-covered doorless half-height cube? Good god, that's barbaric!

    No, I share one with 3 other people.

  18. Re:who cares? on Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod · · Score: 1

    Your "news attention span" for a week is over one hundred hours? That is impressive.

  19. Re:Bloody hell! on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 1

    Doubtful. I'd have modded you up but instead I'm just posting on everything today. Stupid First of April.

  20. Disabled... on Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks · · Score: 1

    This is why I've disabled my smilies and only post mine backwards so they don't get parsed. I don't want to be considered a hacker... (-:

  21. Re:May be april fools, but... on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1

    Actually, to take it a step further, it might be less stupid than mouse gestures. Sure, the implementation's not trivial, but once it works *snicker* it would be easier than fiddling with your mouse to get stuff done.

  22. Re:No split model on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    All things considered, I prefer "S" in that position, not Ctrl. Well, actually it's logically an "o" - but I acknowledge that the Dvorak layout is still pretty uncommon.

  23. Re:That makes no sense on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    *pointedly ignores "noone."*

  24. Re:QuestHelper on Blizzard Asserts Rights Over Independent Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    Doublefine, for example.

    You just became *MY* favorite mod author of all time.

  25. Re:Steam = DRM = Bad on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    That statement's been debunked several times...

    [Citation Needed]