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  1. Re:i've been screwing with these people.... on FTC Bombs Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    who is obviously an agent of the police... even 1 degree removed, you're pushing it. i know of many judges that would convict. you'll have to argue that 911 dispatchers don't deserve respect in appellate court.

  2. Re:i like the drum kit from band hero on Rock Band 3 To Include MIDI Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I wonder, do you wager it's possible that it can give some people...well, not "piano playing" skills, but at least some rudimentary, though still decent, "sound - piano key muscle memory"? ;)

    i think that muscle memory is learned slowly... if the device does not adjust tempo to wait for the learning player to finish a muscle response before it moves on to asking for a different muscle response that had already assumed you completed the previous response... well, i just think it will give most beginning players nothing but frustration. i haven't seen the game, maybe they figured out a way to hedge that... maybe they went against the trend of music games and now adjust the tempo to the player... i doubt it.

  3. Re:i've been screwing with these people.... on FTC Bombs Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    impersonating an officer of the law is still a crime where i live.

  4. i like the drum kit from band hero on Rock Band 3 To Include MIDI Keyboard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    i have the 5 pad drum kit with cymbals for the wii... i noticed that it supports standard MIDI as well, and even though i have a korg triton pro, and a roland 909, it's still more fun to slam sticks on the pads than push the buttons or key in a program on the host devices.

    so the drum kit serves for people that don't have a digital drum kit, but i don't know anyone that would use a MIDI keyboard that doesn't already own one that is better than the one demoed for this game.

    most play-along keyboards adjust the tempo to wait for the player... i'm assuming the game works like other guitar hero games and the song will just keep on going for the rest of the players... it will be much harder for the keyboard player to get their hands back in the right position after slipping up. i guess that's why it's "pro mode"... don't slip up.

  5. Re:i've been screwing with these people.... on FTC Bombs Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    If they are going to take up my time by autocalling me, I'm going to take up their time as much as I can.

    keep fighting the good fight, homie.

  6. i've been screwing with these people.... on FTC Bombs Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 4, Funny
    i just got my first home phone in a long time through a package deal with time warner (cheaper to get it than not get it...), anyways, i hadn't been exposed to telemarketing in a while, so it's a fun new thing for me.

    every call they made showed on the caller id as "SBN Peripherals", so at least they weren't trying to spoof that. i usually got the credit card rate reduction, or claims that i won a cruise. the funny part is i have no credit card debt.... i have no debt of any kind.... so i just talk in the crank yankers voice and demand "i want the lowest rate, lady".... over and over. they'll read their script for 4 responses and then hang up. i'm pretty sure that's where things get illegal... you can't just call me and hang up. I WANT THE LOWEST RATE!#^!&#)!

    screw you, SBN. you call me = i waste your time.

  7. Re:And thus there was Android on Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban · · Score: 2, Interesting

    web browsing is an industry consumers want and benefit from. advertising is something i would pay to rid myself of.

  8. anyone willing to defend consumers want ads? on Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i'm pretty sure the anti-monopoly laws were for industries consumers wanted to protect

  9. Re:Gotta point out the good on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    ... that is how wrong you are.

  10. wrong hayabusa on NASA Astronomers To Observe Hayabusa's Fiery Homecoming · · Score: 1

    i'd rather watch gary rothwell's hayabusa

  11. Re:Gotta point out the good on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1
    what form are you talking about? the one that required you to bring in other forms of ID? did you throw those out too?

    YOU NEED EMAIL TO USE FACEBOOK.

  12. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1
    well, actually the only people who would have to worry about being liable for legal advice would be lawyers... so the only person who would say "i am not a lawyer" would be a lawyer who was lying to you. so, someone who realized how stupid that statement was, and also realized that the abbreviation was I ANAL..... a self deprecating poop joke about a lawyer telling a lie about being a lawyer... seems appropriate. but then the tides turned on our would-be hero and no one got the humor... they thought they were saving time and insuring themselves from liability... they couldn't help it... IANAL, IANAL, IANAL.

    I DON'T ANAL.

  13. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    well, i do not speak japanese.

  14. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1
    and perhaps also pointing out that people that use "However, IANAL" had to also start out at the same point before constantly confusing and forcing people to look it up.

    i'll further waste people's time in defense of not wasting their time.

  15. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    oh yeah... sarcasm means you can't be wrong. i forgot all about that new rule.

  16. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    and this is how your circles reach out to "others" that don't use facebook? enjoy your inability to get THOSE circles together. hypocrite.

  17. Re:another PHP framework... on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1
    maybe if Toyota's were offered with mr. fusion options to turn garbage into fuel...

    PHP with the zend optimizer or any other compile/cache bytecode tools, has performance not worse than 10% of "pure" compiled servers doing the same tasks.

  18. Re:Gotta point out the good on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    talk to the cop about not having your papers the first time you get pulled over.

  19. Re:another PHP framework... on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1

    i've heard of several sites that use Drupal, but don't frequent any of them.... i know many many sites run on custom frameworks in PHP and Python or similar. nowadays, there is generally a rpc service layer with minimized custom clients/servers, but i've seen many of those running PHP on lighttpd and getting similar throughput results to purely custom rpc servers written in python or C.

  20. Re:another PHP framework... on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1

    the layers and layers are unnecessary steps in the procedural logic pathways that result in increased latency and overall memory footprint... generally the very first things addressed when optimizing a system.

  21. Re:Gotta point out the good on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    in order to get a facebook account, you must have an email account... given that, facebook can not be more relevant than email.

  22. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1
    obviously you don't understand how the facebook connect API works...

    but even if you didn't... if you WANT one website to interact with a different website on your behalf, granting access to the first website is the only way to do it.

    so are you really saying that you think it's "crazy" for anyone to want to do that? who are you quoting when you say "store"?

  23. Re:another PHP framework... on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1

    got to love it when hypocrites retort, right?

  24. another PHP framework... on CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development · · Score: 1

    open source PHP web application framework that can dramatically reduce the amount of coding required in developing a full-featured website

    and dramatically increase the amount of unnecessarily executing code.

    if your project doesn't function, how could you not have seen that without mocking it up? and if it does work, now you have to recode it completely to make it scalable. i never understand the lure of these development platforms on top of development platforms.

  25. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    same as using an oven doesn't work for a homeless person.