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  1. Re:No reg req. on Patented Food Threatens Crop Improvements · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info that I just have to put "channel" in front of my urls. You may be goatse.cx troll, but that added another automated change to websites I view... THANKS!

  2. Re:What about fake diamonds? on Diamonds Are A Space Station's Best Friend · · Score: 1

    Just created a nice Proxomitron script to get rid of the user. (no need for HTTP, right?) Sorry, Proxomitron is only for Windows.
    Just change:

    to

    with a high byte limit.

  3. Re:A Zelda challenge on Rewriting The Past With Zelda · · Score: 1

    (not, this is not a flame)

    You see this as flexibility. I see this as primative. Each enemy, instead of requiring very specific weapons, just had HP, and each weapon just did a certain amount of damage. A few enemies were immune to certain weapons, but just a few.

    I personally interpret this as the games today are trying to be too complicated- if the games before were so fun with extremely primative engines, why do we get such complicated engines now?

  4. Re:Hmm.. on In-Game Advertising Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    Ah, but now it will be in good games.

  5. Re:I wouldn't mind on In-Game Advertising Comes of Age · · Score: 1

    That's the GameBoy BIOS saying Nintendo. And the Sega BIOS saying "Produced by or under licesence of Sega Enterprises Ltd." Would you rather they not beautify the load screen and leave it as a nice black emptyness?

  6. A Great Example of How it Could be done... on In-Game Advertising Comes of Age · · Score: 1
    is Sonic Adventure 2. Of course from my handle you should know I'm a Sonic fan, but wait. The first level, "City Escape" is based off of the city of San Francisco, and has lots of fake ads all over the place. It really adds to the atmosphere.

    I don't quite get why in Crazy Taxi it seemed "like a joke", you'd think there'd be Levi's and Pizza Hut's in a city, right?

  7. Re:His name........ on Gunpei Yokoi: Mr. Nintendo · · Score: 2

    This is a wonderful problem with Gunpei's name. If you translate the name directly into English (romaji) you'd get Gunpei. However, on his buisness card, he had Gumpei. However, his name was pronounced more like Gunpei then Gumpei.

  8. Sorta like the person on Computer Stupidities... on LZIP Advanced File Compression Utility · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the person on Computer Stupidities who was archiving their data using the DOS program "del". To unarchive it they used "undel". This program, in theory, is just as good, right?

  9. Re:Will any of this result in good gameplay. on Promises And Pitfalls In Linux Game Development · · Score: 1

    Fun games sell well- if there is a market for them. Look at the Dreamcast. Tons of fun games, but it flopped because of the PS2. I think that the real problem with Linux games is a chicken and egg... the games won't sell w/o people, and the people won't come without games. So what are you going to do?

  10. The best Flash site I've ever seen on Searching for Exceptional Multimedia Productions? · · Score: 1

    Very few sites use flash like this. It's amazing what they have done. Goto heavy.com and see how they have made an ENTIRE SITE completely flash. And it's actually good!

  11. Re:Not True! Nintendo is Changeing on Mario's Revenge? · · Score: 1

    Please explain to me how a game about potty humor is aimed above the 6-12 age range. And don't mention the ESRB rating.

    Conker is like Joe Camel- he's made to atract younger people but they get behind some stupid excuse.

  12. Re:nintendo doesn't need game developers on Mario's Revenge? · · Score: 1

    A lot of these games weren't actually made by Nintendo, they were producded by Nintendo. It's getting more like that with the Cube where licenses like Metroid (and of course Pokemon) are being worked on by developers outside Nintendo's hub.

  13. Re:Here's a thought. on Don't Trust Code Signed by 'Microsoft Corporation' · · Score: 1

    Well, you choose the one signed by Microsoft, of course.

  14. Re:The question was tongue-in-cheek on DVDs On The International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Probably because the laws sound so similar. ;)

  15. Re:odd on Napster Introduces Subscription Charge · · Score: 1

    Think about it similar to eBay. eBay charges you to put an item for sale... in theory, you could do it in other ways, but you won't get the same ammount of people. Napster, similarly is letting you pay for "the use of the server". Choose OpenNap and you won't get as many people. It's that simple.

  16. Re:somebody sue! on Sega, Motorola To Load Games On New Phones · · Score: 1

    What about Trump? They have "T" trademarked!

  17. Re:U.S. laws make Pillsbury do this on The Pillsbury Doughboy vs. Engineers · · Score: 1

    Why was this marked interesting? I'm almost positive it was sarcastic...

  18. Re:I couldn't disagree more on German Company Will Take Windows Off Your Hands · · Score: 1

    Isn't that exactly what eBay is saying they are not? They are just "a means of contact" or something like that? So you aren't selling it through a third party, you are just finding who to sell it through eBay, right?

  19. Re:Free airwaves were a 20th century aberration on Does HDCP Herald The End Of Time-Shifting? · · Score: 1

    The advantage of making it a tax is that there are now defined bounderies of what it will cover. If you wanted to build a model house out of cigarettes, you could get non-tabacco ciagrettes and not pay a tax. The tabacco tax isn't on "tabacco like products" it's on tabacco.

    So if they make a tax on television they'll have to make it defined exactly what they're taxing. Is a Game Gear w/ TV Tuner a television? What about a Voodoo 5 card, which can accept video input? And since that Voodoo 5 is useless without a monitor, is a monitor a TV? There is absolutely nothing wrong with a tax, but psuedo-taxes are a pain because of how easily they are modified. By making it a LAW it actually will take a while and eventually technology will be beyond it. But that's a seperate issue...

  20. Re:Free airwaves were a 20th century aberration on Does HDCP Herald The End Of Time-Shifting? · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, if I have a TV for playing movies I BOUGHT and video games I BOUGHT and nothing else (no TV) I STILL have to pay a license? Oh, that's fair. They should just enforce a tax and be done with it. Stop making it sound optional.

  21. Re:better run Linux on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    This will be a great time to roll out that new MS Linux that everyone has been talking about!

  22. Not the full version... on Is There A Santa Claus? · · Score: 2

    This doesn't mention the kilosanta or the megasanta, which makes Santa possible. Now this one does.

  23. Re:typing speed on Non-Traditional Keyboard Reviews · · Score: 1

    There is a keyboard like that. It's the Dvorak keyboard.

  24. Obviously He's Funded By Big Buisness on 13 Month Calendar? · · Score: 1

    Five day weeks? Where have our weekeneds gone? We'll have to work NON-STOP! Death to the new calender! DEATH!

  25. Re:I'm not sure I see the point on Anime Hardsuits For Sale · · Score: 1

    The Sailormoon suit is just wrong. But the Hello Kitty suit? Come on, you can't go wrong with Hello Kitty!