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  1. Re:Misleading Benchmark WHAT? on C`t Throws Athlons And P4s In The Gladiator Pit · · Score: 1

    There's no more important set of benchmarks than the holy 3D Game Benchmarks!

  2. Presto Studios? Notorious? on Demos, Screenshots Of Cyan's Next Projects · · Score: 1

    For what?

  3. Re:A question. on NDK2K: Colorado's Anime Convention · · Score: 1

    Robotech was quite good, despite your anime purist opinions.

    It's listed as the #5 best cartoon of all time by Animation Magazine. Several mainstream pubs such as Time and the LA Herald wrote glowing articles about it.

    Why do kids nowadays think that anime has to be in its original form to be good? Robotech was a very well done epic in its own right.

  4. My friend's medical school... on Massachusetts Universities To Require Laptops · · Score: 1

    Mandatory laptops is a bad policy all around, and is used as a fund-raiser and a way to offload work from professors.

    At my friend's med school, they instituted a mandatory laptop policy. Lucky for my friend, it only applies to students who are enrolling after my friend's year.

    Students get to pay $1000 a year for a 600mhz laptop, for 4 years. After the 4 years is up, they have the option to pay another $200 and keep the laptop. The upside is that during the 4 years, if the school decides to upgrade the laptops, the students get upgraded to a newer, faster, laptop for free. Also, they get tech support with the $1000/year.

    $4200 is too damn much for a laptop.

    The medical school is trying to raise money for expansion. Instead of taking it out of tuition money, they decide on this laptop policy to raise funds.

    They're also trying to move the lessons online, so that profs don't have to tire themselves out with the students as much.

    WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING? Do you want a doctor who learned his stuff in an online course?

  5. Why, in my day... on Pentium IV Problems? · · Score: 1

    Overclocking had to do with winding up something!

  6. Actually, on Diablo Meets The Sims · · Score: 1

    Now that I think about what happened to John Henson once he moved to ABC, I think you may be right.

  7. Don't bother, it's not funny on Diablo Meets The Sims · · Score: 2

    Was it written by Bob Saget? Damn, that was incredibly lame.

  8. Nope, on Student Gets PC Confiscated For Distributing MP3s · · Score: 1

    Being a martyr involves getting killed.

  9. They were tricked! on Sega Giving Stock To Stop ISO Pirates? · · Score: 1

    See, Sega didn't give them stock options, they gave them stop options

  10. In a nutshell on Copyrights on Web Interfaces · · Score: 1

    As long as he's using original artwork, he's okay. If he downloaded artwork from Linux.com and used it on his site, then he'd possibly be in trouble. As far as layout goes, there's nothing you can really do about it

  11. New Microsoft Game for Linux on Microsoft Porting Applications To Linux (Really!) · · Score: 1

    It'll be called Office 2003 for Linux. In the game, you get to "kill" the office assistant.

  12. Weather report on Microsoft Porting Applications To Linux (Really!) · · Score: 4

    Break out the snowblower, Satan! There's a blizzard a'comin!

  13. Re:Cyberpunk on The Code War-- Software By Other Means · · Score: 2

    All we need now are flying cars. Where are my flying cars?

  14. News Flash! on G4 Powerbooks Predicted For January 2001 · · Score: 1

    C'mon guys. This is like predicting that people will be older in 6 months

  15. Then again, Meader could be BSing everyone on Rumors Removed At Apple's Request · · Score: 1

    Meader's well known in the mac community for pulling BS out of his butt about almost anything. Not just posting unfounded rumors, but making them up himself. I am very suspicious about whether Apple really did tell Meader to pull the story or if he just made that up to stir up some controversy.

  16. Even more info on Sealand on Data Haven To Open For Business - Today · · Score: 4

    The native inhabitants of Sealand are the Seamen.

    They have very peculiar demographics and an even stranger culture. Their population reproduces very quickly, but this is to balance out the devastating effects of their cultural tradition. You see, once every few weeks the many of the Seamen go swimming across the Fallopian Channel in a massive exodus, lured by native myths about making it to a "promised land." Only one of the Seamen ever makes it across the Fallopian Channel alive, and the rest all drown.

    The Seamen reproduce quickly, and this cycle of death continues again.

  17. Re:Disturbing - so why do you post here on EBay Pulls MS Auctions, Neutralizes Complaints · · Score: 1

    A Microsoft supporter acknowledges some faults of Microsoft and he gets chewed out for that. He is even called a dumbass for that. I think this says a lot more about the anonymous coward than it does about Zagato.

    Let's keep Slashdot a little more open minded than that.

  18. Re:Hmmmm... Something curious about the images. on Microsoft Releases First X-Box Screens · · Score: 1

    Maybe that has to do with the "IGN" logo in the bottom right.

  19. Note to the humor-impaired on Alpha Release Of Red Hat's Itanium Distro · · Score: 1

    It was a joke.

  20. Re:Benchmarks? on Alpha Release Of Red Hat's Itanium Distro · · Score: 1

    Then why did you tell me everything you learned about Itaniums? =D

    Oh whoops, was I supposed to keep that a secret too?

  21. Re:that's a typical geek?! on Hump Day Quickies · · Score: 1

    Haha, are you still running your monitor at 60hz? :)

  22. Perfectly Legal on Employers Logging Keystrokes-What Can You Do? · · Score: 2

    As long as they've notified you upfront that they're logging your keystrokes, they're within the bounds of the law.

  23. Yes, it's old on Autopsy Of A Furby · · Score: 1

    Yes, we've seen this about a year and a half ago, I think it was. Back when Furby was actually in the news.

  24. Re:I read that review on 3dfx Voodoo5 vs NVIDIA GeForce Preview · · Score: 1

    That's a little off. Of course all 3D games have T&L, but I'm asking about hardware T&L support, which most games don't have. Somebody who knows for sure if Quake3 supports hardware T&L on the GeForce, please chime in.

  25. I read that review on 3dfx Voodoo5 vs NVIDIA GeForce Preview · · Score: 1

    I'm curious... does Quake3 support hardware T&L? I thought only a short list of games did, and that Q3A wasn't one of them. Thresh's review mentioned that GeForce's hardware T&L was boosting framerates in Q3A...