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  1. Re:InsertCredit is insufferable... on On Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    And maybe Mr. Sheffield could have better emphasized his thesis, which is, "Gaming journalism sucks even though games don't." You seem to think it was, "Gaming journalists should be more like me." I just don't read that.

  2. Re:InsertCredit is insufferable... on On Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    Um. I think Insert Credit's main focus are the non-feature articles. All the updates on random Japanese games that I've never heard of, etcetera.

    Sure, those aren't the things that hit /., but they occupy most of IC's front page. So, I'd say most of their stuff is very un-navel-gazy.

    And maybe Mr. Sheffield could have better emphasized his thesis, which is, "Gaming journalism sucks even though games don't. You seem to think it was, "Gaming journalists should be more like me." I just don't read that.

    I've got to agree about the two sentence paragraphs. I bet Sheffie would too.

  3. Re:InsertCredit is insufferable... on On Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    Great example. Most of Heinlein's stuff is crap. The only readable version of "Stranger in a Strange Land" (the version you probably read) has had 2/3 of it removed by someone. Go check out the "directors cut" and tell us what you think.

  4. Re:This isn't spyware on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    It's not spyware, it's a fucking anti-theft system.

    Everyone gets all hung up on details.

  5. Re:How accurate is it? on Skulls Gain Virtual Faces · · Score: 1

    Haha. Got you :)

  6. Re:How accurate is it? on Skulls Gain Virtual Faces · · Score: 1

    Dear, sweet Jesus. I hope that whomever modded me up (+1, Insightful) was kidding.

  7. Re:How accurate is it? on Skulls Gain Virtual Faces · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fat leaves grease marks on the rings in your bones. Like in trees. When they cut your bones open, they can see how fat you were in each year by looking at thickness and greasiness of each ring.

    Dunno about eye shapes, though. Good question.

  8. Re:Screen Real Estate on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    Bigger buttons are easier to mash with your fingers. Or your crayon.

  9. Re:Mac OS X Users? on SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come · · Score: 1

    100s of emails per day. It matters.

  10. Mac OS X Users? on SoBig: Worst is Yet to Come · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how to make Mail.app disregard emails based on attachment filenames?

  11. Re:According to Corn Experts on Speculations on a Moon Colony · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent post was not offtopic. Mod away.

  12. According to Corn Experts on Speculations on a Moon Colony · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Corn may solve all the world's problems by the year 2020!

  13. Re:Wow! on Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, Agent Smith looks absolutely crazy in this trailer. I still think he looks better with long hair.

    No, he looks better with high heels and a bra.

  14. Re:All together now: on Telecommuting from Japan to California - Is it possible? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh, I don't mean your company's lawyers. I mean a lawyer *you* pay. Your company's lawyers' only interest is in reducing liability.

    I'm surprised it's so hard too. That's why I think a good lawyer with expertise in this area would definitely have an answer. Especially if you paid him to say more than "Sorry, not possible, bye bye."

    Sorry for the brush off. It is a legal question, after all.

  15. All together now: on Telecommuting from Japan to California - Is it possible? · · Score: 4, Funny

    TALK TO A LAWYER.

    Talk to a lawyer? Talk to a lawyer!

    Perhaps, if you haven't considered consulting with a lawyer, you may wish to talk to a lawyer. Alternatively, if you have some kind of problem with lawyers, you should talk to a lawyer.

    Talk to a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer.

    Someone needs to make a song about this.

  16. Re:windows media player? on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 1

    Back when I had a PC, I was primarily a windows user but switched to linux for porn viewing.

    So I'm trying to say I'm in perfect agreement.

  17. Re:My whole fucking point: on SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users · · Score: 1

    Actually, the tag worked perfectly on my system.

    You'll be hearing from my lawyer shortly.

  18. Re:SCO's view: GPL == Public Domain on Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Public Domain is a very US concept - there's no equivilent here in the UK.

    Who do you have to pay when you perform one of Shakespeare's plays?

  19. Re:less vs fewer on Masters of Doom · · Score: 1

    I was joking. So was grandparent poster.

  20. Re:less vs fewer on Masters of Doom · · Score: 1

    What the hell is wrong with you?

    That's "For all intensive purposes."

    Jesus. Read a book.

  21. Re:Cow! on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then again, what they are saying is basically "usually we managed to fool enough people to watch our crap, this doesn't work any more".

    That's exactly what they're saying. Why is everyone getting all beligerent over this? There is nothing controversial about this statement.

  22. Re:Hrrmmm on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about? Who says they think they have a "right" in this case? Who says they're lobbying to change anything about this story?

    They're just explaining why their profits are down. It makes sense.

  23. Re:Flywheels? on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    If that problem occurs, then only half the people need to use flywheels. And there is no peak. There are a million ways to design the system to reduce peak load.

  24. Re:second one does look too close if it is there on "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked · · Score: 1

    "IBM has too much to lose they'll just crush SCO if they have to"

    Even IBM has to abide by court rulings.

    Anyhow - can you imagine the uproar here if someone said "Microsoft has too much to lose they'll just crush Linux if they have to"?


    Right. But Microsoft can't just buy Linux. IBM has way way more cash than SCO has market capitalization. Grandparent poster wasn't saying anything inflamatory.

  25. Re:ACLU Wacked out on Joining the ACLU? · · Score: 1

    I'm kindof confused as to why you consider NAMBLA a far-left interest.

    I thought *everyone* liked pedophiles.