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  1. Re:It's been done (sort of) on A New Kind of OS · · Score: 1

    I hate adaptive menues because they hide what I need to see the most.

    Anything I use with any regularity I know the keystroke for, other stuff I need to see.

    And I don't want everythign to move because my habbits change.

  2. Re:Maybe Joe Schmoe shouldn't be using a computer. on AOL 9.0 Called Badware · · Score: 1

    "bad usage: asking the user to confirm that you really want to save the game, or whether you want to quit, etc"

    I am totally fucked if they do that.

    ALT+F X Enter is very reflexive for me, and if they take that away I WILL lose lots and lots of data.

  3. Re:The problem is not the bomb itself on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this a joke?

    I really can't tell. All I do know is that I have no ecpectation that the western world knows anything about the middle east (based on failure to discover 911 and the certain discovery of WMDs in Iraq).

  4. Re:FYI on Computer Designed Car Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    A reporter at Le Mans said the Audi entry to the compatition (Diesel) was very quite compared to the other cars. He went as far as saying your could "drive it through the suburbs and noone would call the police."

  5. Re:Why wouldn't it? on Zelda on the Wii To Include Sword Swinging · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt the AI can compete with a truly endless range of attacks like in real life.

    Also, try swinging a sword that weighs many pounds over and over, now try it with a Wii mote, One is fatiguing, the other boring.

    Sword swinging may be the obvious use for a wii-mote, but it may not be fun. I think the non-obvious uses are where the fun will be anyway.

  6. Re:Which side are you on? on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1

    How many English were involved in those attacks as a percentage?

    Was it >50?

  7. Re:Which side are you on? on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1

    These attacks could likley have been caused BY the war on terror though. As long as we fight the war there will be a war to fight (fortunatly for me, war is peace). Saying that we a foiling attacks at a record rate is a loss, not a victory, because we are facing attacks at a record rate too. Terrorist atacks are WAY up since the war started, and though most of the recent victems are brown (probably why people don't care so much), there are still a lot of people and being maimed every day in terror attacks (or have we stopped calling the attackers in Iraq terrorists since it would be inconvienient to see the terror numbers go up so fast).

    The second worse act of terrorism in this country was caused by 2 anti-government white Christian Americans, they had no network or support, and we are giving them more fuel too.

  8. Re:Dennis Miller is a coward on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    The comment about isolationism would include us entering into a war if we wern't attacked. So I think some of thos wars could count (WWI at least).

  9. Re:I don't get it on Windows Games on Macs Without Windows · · Score: 1

    At least you remembered that preview is forbiden

  10. Re:Can they wait? on Spore Coming to Consoles? · · Score: 1

    Looks like 768 and 1024 to me

  11. Re:What do you expect? on What Actually Happened to TechTV? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn;t that be A-O'lers?

  12. Re:In truth, it seems like a non-issue to me. on It's OK to keep AIMing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you mean "Shakespeare or even Chaucer" ?

    Because Shakespeare is not too hard to read, you have to think it through sometimes, but it is very understandable; Chaucer is like reading another language.

    As a demonstration, the first 4 lines of "The Canterbury Tales":

                  Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
                  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
                  And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
                  Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

    Now the first 4 lines of speaking in Shakespear's "Titus Andronicus"

                  SATURNINUS
                  Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
                  Defend the justice of my cause with arms,
                  And, countrymen, my loving followers,
                  Plead my successive title with your swords:

    I do admit I am taking it on faith that only spelling has been altered in this second entry and there could be more changes being made.

    Here is 4 lines of a sonnet (chosen by ease of locating) that only are eased in reading by the fact that it is typed up

                    VVHen fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,
                    And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field,
                    Thy youthes proud liuery so gaz'd on now,
                    Wil be a totter'd weed of smal worth held:

    I think you will agree Shakespeare is not particularly hard to read.

    Also, as bad as our schools are I am sure there will be enough forced reading to keep people undstanding language that is only 100-200 years old. I am also willing to bet the average person has been a shitty writer for a lot longer than the last 2 decades.

  13. Re:"Natively on AMD64"? on Debian to Run on AMD64 · · Score: 1

    I believe AMD wants AMD64 to be their name for it and the instructions generally be called x86-64.

    This was to encourage Intel to implement it.

  14. Re:Any information on charges? on Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE · · Score: 2, Informative

    In some states (CO) private eyes are given extra priviledges to lie or pretend to be someone else in the course of investigating, normal people are not.

  15. Re:Mob Rule on Game Consoles Are Multi-Million Dollar Energy Wasters? · · Score: 1

    You need to learn a little more about food production and its history.

    Floors on food prices are real, as are subsidies to farmers.

    Food is more free than electricity though.

  16. Re:Surprised? on President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe · · Score: 1

    They thought they were up against someone small time, like Nixon.

    Only now are they equiped to propperly assess their foe.

  17. Re:No worries? on Former Host and Writer of MST3K Launches RiffTrax · · Score: 1

    They couldn't.

    They may be able to distribute proprietary patches that the purchaser could then apply to the kernel and compile. The purchaser would not be able to distribute this compiled kernel though. And obviously the diffs would have to be distributed visible source.

    It doesn't sound like much of a business model even if it were to be possible.

    I would doubt that it meets the test that excludes libraries in the full GPL though.

  18. Re:on opera's site on DS Web Browsing Looks Refreshingly Good · · Score: 1

    Wow,

    Post 1 Karma 4
    Post 2 Karma 5

    You have failed to avoid Karma whoring.

  19. Re:And so it begins on Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 · · Score: 1

    I remember an add in a PC magazine that was to the effect of "Now your using alpha power" or something, it was a jab at an Intel add campaign.

    It was for 500MHz when Intel was selling 300.

  20. Re:Athletes are representatives... on Slashback: Facebook Un-Ban, Exploding Laptop, FFXI II · · Score: 1

    Most athletes get some scholorship (in my observations).

    My sister was the only one on her basketball team without a full scholorship, and it was a very non-sportsy school.

    College sports are very difficult to participate in, and only the most dedicated or masochistic would do the practice schedule to warm the bench (if you didn't get any scholorship, you are not starting).

    I am sure there are schools that are exceptions, but in general college athletes get some type of scholorship.

  21. Re:Odd feeling on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got 2 out of 25. Far worse than guessing would predict.

  22. Re:More proof as to who is "helped" by copyright on ' Naughty Bits' Decision Not So Nice · · Score: 1

    How is retirement funding at the national level not working?

    It may not be as much as some people want, and too much for others, but overall I would say it works quite well. It is certainly one of the worse examples for broken national level polocies I can think of.

  23. Re:Your Answer, Stephen on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    The more secular a country is, the less likely it is to go to war.

    Is that actually reality? Maybe my history is very weak, but I would think if anything that is the oppisite of the truth, but in reality I believe it to be a wash.

    Certainly in the last Century WWI, WWII, Cold War Non-Comabatting, were started by secular countries. I would personally describe nationalism, and not religion, as the drivingforce in warmongering, but even that isn't entirly true.

  24. Re:not sure.. on Casual Gaming the Real Next Gen? · · Score: 1

    If you spent 14 hours a week weight training would you be casual?

    What about jogging?

    How about cooking?

    Painting?

    These are just a few hobbies I can think of off the top of my head, I would not call somebody who did any of them for 14 hours a week casual. A lot of people argue it is the type of game, which can be argued, and in the terms the industry talks about it is the case; I still think it is more accurate to look at time and think of it as a hobby.

    Of I wouldn't call you hardcore, but certainly pretty serious.

  25. Re:A day at work on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    They fit perfectly.

    I have done it myself when working in the dark and not paying attention/drinking too much.