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  1. Re:Google didn't use Oracle Java. on Oracle Ordered To Lower Damages Claim On Google · · Score: 1

    Actually, you'd have MCA ...

  2. Re:Libre Formats? on Audio and Video Patents Haunt Apple and Android · · Score: 1

    Rock Band and possibly Guitar Hero use multitrack Vorbis audio files for the various audio stems that make up a song.

    Harmonix and Activision surely are juicy targets, no?

    Granted, they may have already paid trolls off...

  3. Re:Looks on VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement · · Score: 1

    VLC can play just about everything, but over here in Windows land, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is the player of choice unless you've got some really broken file.

  4. Samsung is also a member of the ... on Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance · · Score: 1

    Common Platform Alliance - IBM, Global Foundries (you know, the former fabs of AMD), Samsung. Chartered, now part of Global Foundries, was a member too.

    So, Samsung must be giving some kind of assurances to Intel they're not going to let ideas and techniques spill over into the Common Platform Alliance...

  5. Re:So what is "distinctive" about those "societies on Study of MMOG Proves Human Interaction Theory · · Score: 1

    If it's red, it's dead.

  6. Re:It uses Tardis technology . . . on Boeing Releases Details On New Crew Capsule · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space), turn in your geek card.

  7. Competing with SpaceX on their own launcher? on Boeing Releases Details On New Crew Capsule · · Score: 1

    I suppose I should be embracing this as "competition is always good" (cost, etc) but it does seem kind of odd.

  8. Re:How has antimatter responded to this bias? on Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions · · Score: 0

    As there were no next of kin, reparations defaulted back to the matter governing body.

  9. Those two guys on Is OS/2 Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    I think I know one of them

  10. Re:It can be confusing... on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    That was ages ago. Now you have nvidia melting your card down with buggy drivers. It can go both ways.

    AMD/ATI releases regularly scheduled driver updates and for anything inbetween issues a hotfix as necessary.

  11. Re:window.openDatabase() on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Ooh! ooh! I know ! I can play this game too!

    FILESYSTEMS!!

  12. Re:Free to read != Free to use on 3D HDMI Specification Is Set Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not only that, but what they need to do is drive consumer interest. Consumers don't care about openness, they want shiny stuff cheap. Might appeal to some of the more tech savvy of us, but its not like you can go and implement your own HDMI gear to tinker with it.

  13. Re:Saab on GM Is Selling Saab To Spyker Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This along with some other design features originated with the fact it was designed by people who were in cold places.

    It's far easier (in theory, I don't own a SAAB) to get the key into that location and start the car wearing large gloves, than behind the steering wheel..

  14. Re:Best argument for using spaces on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anything else will always get screwed up by someone or some tool.

    Why are you repeating yourself?

  15. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, we're all in agreement then?

  16. Android not limited to just Java on Game Development On Android · · Score: 1

    But if you want it to be cross (CPU architecture) platform easily, you'll want to stick to it.

    You can actually build native code with the Native Development Kit using C/C++/whatever, and so far all the current phones are pretty well compatible as far as native code goes, but if someone rolls out an Android device with a different CPU architecture than the current ARM incarnation, you'd have to rewrite or at least recompile your native code for it, and either distribute multiple versions of the app or include the native code for all versions and dynamically pick the correct one at run time.

  17. Re:Different Audiences? on Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC? · · Score: 1

    I myself use EASDF for movement, and surrounding keys

    E / D for Forward / Backward
    A / F for Strafe Left / Right
    S for Sprint / Run
    X for Crouch
    Spacebar for Jump

    The above lets me move in any direction combination and run faster or crouch without contorting. Obviously running and crouching doesn't work too well, but I'm not aware of any games where that would actually do anything.

    Z for zoom or zoom in, C for zoom out or reset zoom (assuming these are applicable)
    R for reload, Q for flashlight toggle, W for quick weapon switching to last weapon
    G for grenades, V for secondary grenades
    B for bandage/heal

    I don't assign T to any chat due to accidental activation of chat sometimes
    I move chat to Y and teamchat to U to get them out of accidental activation range

    Then, I've got my Razer mouse with more buttons than I can generally put to use in a game :D
    Mouse handles firing, alt firing, open/use, etc. PTT for voice chat is assigned here as well.

  18. Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over on CRIA, MPAA Demand Expanded DMCA For Canada · · Score: 1

    Wow, just like here in the US! You'd think we were neighbors or something!

  19. Re:Sound Methods? on Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury · · Score: 1

    Menchi?

  20. Re:AGAIN? on Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the original Napster? That's just due to cluelessness or laziness on the part of whomever ripped the tracks, that they didn't bother to properly tag the files. Things weren't as slickly smoothly automated back then.

  21. Re:freakin' farms on A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Obviously, you harvest data.

  22. Re:This is why on Repulsive Force Discovered In Light · · Score: 1

    Like he said.

  23. Re:At 400 km the fuel runs out in only 12 minutes on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Just get a Renault Espace F1

  24. Original handled 8+ in co-op multi on Serious Sam Remake Coming In Fall · · Score: 1

    Only 4 players? What a disappointment.

  25. Re:Remember 'Chaos Theory' Guys! on Pleo Robot Dinosaur Back From Extinction · · Score: 1

    Dinobots, only in league with Skynet!