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  1. Re:Sweet on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    Irony would dictate that you consider the options and elect to buy an Xbox 360.

  2. Re:Sweet on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 1

    I thought you were making a joke about all the great linux games that could be run on Windows using this software.

    (there is OS virtualization going on though http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/virtualdesktop?autolang=en )

  3. Re:Sheeit Negro, that's all you had to say! on Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Potential on Self-Healing System Applied to Aviation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The big benefits are in resistance to fatigue, not in tensile strength.

  5. Re:Do no evil doesnt stop 'aiding evil do bad thin on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if I am doing any such business, I probably shouldn't scream bloody murder about other people doing it.

  6. Re:Do no evil doesnt stop 'aiding evil do bad thin on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    Their only other choice is to essentially stop doing business in India.

    Are you India free? I sure as hell am not, of the last 5 times I have called in to companies that I do business with, at least 3 of the operators were in India.

  7. Re:Power To the Corporates! on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 1

    I think the whole thing is a conspiracy to get someone to make an anti-corporate comment in the context of American Gladiators.

    It was well executed and hilarious.

  8. Re:It is an addiction on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    If you really want to stop playing freecell, convince yourself that no matter what you do, a relatively trivial computer program could play it faster and more accurately than you do.

    There is some argument about this sort of argument and a game like Chess, but the algorithms that play chess are more data set than algorithm, and you don't need a data set to algorithmically solve Freecell.

  9. Re:Tetris Worlds on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    I think control lag was probably a contributor. My brain is also sort of stuck on the Game B music and gameplay.

    Is there an easy and cheap (think $20) way to get your game onto a cartridge?

  10. Re:Pack-in Tetris on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    ~120 million game boys sold (all versions)

    ~1 billion copies of windows currently in use.

    It's at least a toss-up, and 20 minutes a day on 5% of the installed base of Windows computers is going to add up to an awful lot of time playing a game that hasn't been popularly sold for 15 years (I loved the original Tetris, Tetris Worlds for the GB advance is no competitor).

  11. Re:Poorly written on A Few Notes on Movies of the Near Future · · Score: 1

    Write good man, write good.

  12. Re:System Restore Disks on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    No threat was intended. Your behavior is disappointing, and I was telling you as much.

  13. Re:Can we subtract from the list? on A Few Notes on Movies of the Near Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless Wikipedia is completely off base, the movie wasn't even based off the book initially:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)#Comparison_with_the_original_novel

    Basically, the made a space-war-bug movie and appropriated the name.

  14. Re:System Restore Disks on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure you would talk like that to my face.

  15. Re:System Restore Disks on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Not really. You are the one making the extraordinary claim.

  16. Re:Hey Hollywood on A Few Notes on Movies of the Near Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Cryptonomicon would never fit into a movie. It wouldn't make a very good miniseries either. It might work in a sort of 24 style format, but they aren't going to produce something like that as a one off, they want to be able to write more words and reuse the story next season.

    I liked the book, but it wouldn't translate well, especially if you demand that the visual form stick to the source material.

  17. Re:System Restore Disks on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Name one that exists.

    This isn't the NSA (not that they are all that likely to be installing boot sector viruses) here, this is some guy with trust issues.

  18. Re:Because haptics is important. on Why Did Touch Take 4 Decades to Catch On? · · Score: 1

    That, at least for the 670 mentioned above, it is programmable by hooking it up to a computer is a rather key thing to leave out of such a nice review. Guess and check programming is really tiresome.

  19. Re:that's the least of her problems on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps she is trying to gather valuable information for the divorce.

  20. Re:Courage... on Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    What makes you think they will hear your objections?

  21. Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size.. on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 1

    Speaking from experience?

  22. Re:Windows' ease of use vastly overstated on Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop" · · Score: 1

    Computer users.

  23. Re:My Virtual World on Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail · · Score: 1

    I'm American. I was thinking more about Labatt. Much better than Miller. If you get away from pilsner, from what I remember when I drank it, Moosehead was pretty good also.

  24. Re:First world, not the fatties. on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 1

    Expressed as a percent, relative per capita consumption in first world countries is 3200%, not 320%.

  25. Re:Ah the new religion on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 1

    I'm not the one you asked the question, but the reason I would support repealing the 17th amendment is that it would give the state governments a voice in the federal government, so we would get less of the 55 MPH because you won't get your highway dollars nonsense, and also, the senators would not spend all that much time campaigning, they would be working a bit more. They might also do things that are 'good' rather than 'politically expedient'.