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  1. Re:Why not? on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 1
    To the benefit of whom? I feel no incentive to assist in this process.
    It is for the benefit of the company and its customers. By being able to learn what its customers want they will be able to create products which better fulfill their needs. Making said company more money and said customer more happy.
    What they going to do? Give me targetted ads? Adverts that more closely match my interests? Only an adman thinks of that as a benefit.
    Yes, god forbid I get an ad telling me about something that might interest me.
  2. Re:Why not? on Net Marketers Worried as Cookies Lose Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    And what happens when they do correlate everything? What exactly are you trying to prevent from happening?

  3. Re:This is pure STUPID on GTA Sex Game Debate Intensifies · · Score: 1

    Most of the australians I have met have been racist, blowhards and drunks. Guess that means all of Australia is like that?

  4. Re:Wow on Total Annihilation Sequel Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    The nukes in Total Annihilation were the same. There was also a defensive weapon available to knock nukes out of the sky. Protecting that was vital, if you were to lose it, the nukes would come raining down completely wiping out your base.

  5. Re:Bullshit on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you are behind the times. A 1bd apartment in silicon valley is $1000-$1500. You can easily get a not as nice place for $800 (though still in a good area). Hell you can get decent 2bd for $1500. Los Angeles area is pricier.

    Don't even bother looking to buy, the real estate market is ridiculous and probably overinflated. Last stat I saw was 70% of bay area mortgages are interest only!

  6. Re:Class Balance, PvP and WoW. on The Lost Art of Class Balancing · · Score: 1

    1. Paladins are a pure defensive class. Not many people play them that way though so they think they suck. They don't, they are very useful in group PvP. They are pretty crummy 1v1, but a lot of classes are. They could probably use some work still.

    2. Warlocks need work, I agree. However you can get shards doing PvP now so no need to PvE farm, also they received a number of buffs last patch.

    3. The dead zone is where they cannot use their melee or range attacks. It is the same for ALL classes, except spell casters who can cast spells at any range. all classes have a number of abilities to avoid this problem.

    4. All of the racial traits except 2 are kind of crappy or just OK. The 2 that are awesome are Will of the Forsaken and Escape artist.

    5. That is just wrong, they have instituted a ton of warlock improvements in the last patch. Warrior improvements went in in the previous patch. etc.

  7. Re:Fan? on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, but it would take a lot longer to occur. For example he could just point his fan at the bucket of cold water, however you have a limited surface area for the air to pass over. Running the water through the coiled tube increases the surface area, lowering the temperature much quicker.

    Probably some other factors as well, I had a bit of a dumb thermodynamics teacher (not to mention it was over 10 years ago and haven't used it since!).

  8. Re:To be pedantic... on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1

    Swamp Coolers work by passing air through a moist pad. The water in the pad is evaporated cooling the air. This works by passing air through a cooled coiled tube, no evaporation occurs during the cooling process.

  9. Re:Will Anime last? on Can Hayao Miyazaki Save Disney's Soul? · · Score: 1
    Can you see Disney _ever_ being willing to explore a mature theme in a "cartoon" they make?
    Uh, yes. Lilo & Stitch. Atlantis had some mature themes as well. Both were rated PG, not G. Treasure Planet was PG as well, though I haven't seen it.
  10. Re:Bogus Valley and How to Do It on Will Sex In Games Ever Be Sexy? · · Score: 1

    I really do not think that the Uncanny Valley is completely bogus. There is a definate sense of creepiness to the characters in a lot of lifelike CG films/shorts, such as Final Fantasy and Polar Express, as opposed to the more styalized characters in say the Incredibles. I do not think that this has been fully researched to my knowledge.

  11. Re:You forget on Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi Nuke' · · Score: 1

    Poison gas and bacteriological agents are not worthless militarily. They can kill a large number of troops in a very short time frame. Dirty bombs do not kill anyone quickly except those hit by conventional explosion.

  12. Re:Uh oh... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1
    Because 4 of his 6 complaints will stil be true:
    WinTel machines use different versions of BIOS. They are not all equal, nor do they all have the same level of compatibility.
    Hardware. There are hundreds of "WinTel-compatible" motherboards, each claiming to be better than the next. Whatever.
    Memory. Not all RAM is equal. Some works well. Cheap stuff doesn't.
    Hard disks. Same problem: cheap or reliable. Your call.
    None of these complaints are specific to windows. In fact the Memory and Hard disk complaints apply equally well to Macs.
  13. Re:Could be interesting. on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1

    Uh, yes he did write the screenplay, along with Fran Walsh and Phillippa Boyens.

  14. Re:I can't imagine this happening for real on The Video iPod is on its Way · · Score: 1

    OK, so then you downres it to 640x480/720x480, DVD res. Unless you can somehow jury rig a DVI or component port to an ipod you won't be able to see HD res anyway.

  15. Re:"C-Level Executive"? on Green buildings, Green Server Farms? · · Score: 4, Informative

    CEO, CTO, CFO, etc.

  16. Re:I can't imagine this happening for real on The Video iPod is on its Way · · Score: 1

    Why would you be trying to playback 1080i video on a 2" screen? Downres it to about 320x240 then put it on the device. You wouldn't be able to tell a difference.

  17. Re:No Way on The Video iPod is on its Way · · Score: 1

    Archos claims 3.5 hours video playback battery life. There is no reason that the ipod couldn't do the same.

  18. Re:This "news article" was sponsored by... on Alienware's Star Wars PCs · · Score: 1

    Where the hell are you getting $7000 off for a 350z? Edmunds doesn't list anything. Seriously, I am going to have to fly their to buy one at that price.

  19. Re:Compete on Service? on The DVD Rental Race Analyzed · · Score: 1

    You can up to two DVDs in the Netflix return envelopes also. Not sure why the Netflix CSR told you otherwise (it is right on their website), probably due to the question you asked.

  20. Re:Wow, you mean they want to own what they pay fo on Britons Frustrated by DRM · · Score: 1

    You can "own" an unrestricted file easily, it is built into itunes in fact. Burn and rerip. There you go.

    Also, when could you tape any commercially released VHS tape? They all have macrovision. Just like DVD. There is nothing new about that. It has been like that for 20 some years.

  21. Re:Finally, but will it do anything? on Britons Frustrated by DRM · · Score: 1

    RIAA stand for Recording Industry Association of America. They represent US labels. I wouldn't be surprised that most UK bands are signed to labels outside the RIAA, after all they are in the UK, they probably sign to UK labels. Oh, BTW, most of those labels ARE members of BPI.

  22. Re:The problem with AV on Trend Micro Bug Hits Several Important Computers · · Score: 1

    Uh, did you fix their problem or was that it? You do realize that you disabled their AV scanning by renaming that file right? TmXPflt.sys is not a mail filter, it is the file that determines whether a file should be scanned or not.

  23. Re:DVB-T - Re:A suggestion maybe on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    US stations only get the second channel to broadcast on UNTIL the digital switchover. At that point they will only have their original channel.

  24. Re:We just got BSOD on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 · · Score: 1

    Yes you can, you have 30 days to register.

  25. Re: Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 · · Score: 1

    What are you kidding me? I have configured an AIX box and an HP-UX box without knowing what the hell I was doing, their GUI admin tool makes it very easy to do this. Solaris is a bit tougher as their gui tools kind of suck, but their install is pretty easy to do without knowing what you are doing.