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  1. Re:Simple on Google Algorithm Discriminates Against Bad Reviews · · Score: 1

    Personally I'd love to read any review that combined two or more of those points. ...still sobbing for her pet rabbit... ...burst into flames... ...and that's how little Tiffany learned about death and accidental dismemberment... ... would not buy again...

  2. Re:Unity Namespace Collision! on Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface · · Score: 1

    Thirded.

    I was wondering why Ubuntu wanted a 3d interface

  3. Re:Outdated imagery on Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes.

  4. Re:Coincidence on Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Dies at 87 · · Score: 1

    Or more likely: People have gotten word of both deaths and Netflix (automatically) noticed that people who got the first movie also got the second and thereby suggested it to you.

    Just a case of a simple program doing what it's programmed to do and accidentally appearing creepy.

  5. Re:Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... on PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss · · Score: 1

    Yes, how often do you do artwork on it that requires pixel perfect precision?

    That's why I keep a separate monitor for my work/gaming computer that I can be close to.

  6. Re:Bullshit on PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Technological innovation doesn't count now? I thought this was news for nerds.

  7. Re:Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... on PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss · · Score: 1

    True, but how often have you gotten friends around the pc monitor for playing a fighting game together vs on the whatever inch tv?

    Now granted you could also argue that console != display, but I have a desk set up for a single person for work and gaming and a tv with a sofa set up for multiple people.

  8. Re:Bullshit on PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss · · Score: 1

    You seem to misunderstand the point of Crysis as a statement of technology. In some cases "HD/3D" rendering has a lot to do. Just like how some action movies don't have much in terms of story, but can be enjoyable as brainless eye-candy.

    It's got decent/average gameplay, but the tech involved in making it pretty is advanced.

  9. Getting pre-emptive deja vu here... on PC Gaming 'a Generation Ahead' of Consoles, Says Crytek Boss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And it has happened again as it has happened every single generation of consoles and as it will in every future generation.

    One platform is constantly shifting and upgrading, the other doesn't.

    What do you think happens in the gap between console releases?

    Unfortunately they're currently too busy trying to milk motion controls and using that as an excuse to not release new hardware. Hopefully Nintendo will just out of nowhere drop a magic console developed using their profits from their current gen console.

    Either way some games are better on consoles (fighting, local multiplayer, driving games etc) , while other games I prefer my mouse and keyboard support (simulation, rts, fps, etc)

  10. Re:Funny on Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except, ironically, now your comment will be tagged interesting/informative.

    You just foiled your own prediction.

  11. I know it's pedantic, buuut... on Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The term bateria means “drum kit” in Portuguese and Spanish." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateria

    Does that mean we have to samba every time we access data?

    Actually, that sounds kinda fun.

  12. It will always be vague. on Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts · · Score: 1

    It's not like a less vague system makes anything less vague since the public doesn't have the information the government does. And it all seems to come down to a matter of chance in the end.

    Take the UK system for example:

    Critical - an attack is expected imminently

    Severe - an attack is highly likely

    Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility

    Moderate - an attack is possible, but not likely

    Low - an attack is unlikely

  13. Re:18 months light "by comparison?" on Botnet Spammer Gets Just 18 Months For Being Odd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA: "Anderson will be up for parole after half his sentence has been served and faces punishment other than a £5,000 ($8,000) fine. By comparison, the US youth who hacked the email account of Sarah Palin in 2008 recently received a year in an open prison for much less serious hacking of a small amount of private data from one person." They're not simply comparing the time, but the punishment based on severity of said crime. One figures out Sarah Palins email using simple methods and gets a full year. The other orchestrates a malicious botnet attack and only gets a little longer at a year and a half. In that sense, he is being punished quite lightly.

  14. Missing option: None of the above. on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 1

    Remakes? Seriously? I couldn't care less about replaying the old games with new graphics. What we should be asking for are SEQUELS. Hopefully this won't catch on or they'll be pumping out cheap "remakes" left and right by simply copying what they believe was the successful part of the older counterparts.