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  1. Re:Futurama! on Farscape Returns Sunday · · Score: 1

    I'll second that... Gutted they killed it.

  2. Re:Any chance this bombshell... on Halo 2 Available on the Net · · Score: 1

    I disagree, I thought Halo's controls were pretty good, and I say that as a seasoned QWTF player ;)

    Obviously someone playing on sticks would lose to someone playing on mouse and keys in most games, but Halo was perfectly playable. I found I could flick the view round reliably with the sticks.

  3. Re:looks just like 2 to me on Fedora Core 3: What's in store? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dag supprts RHEL.

  4. Re:Virgin Trains vs Virgin Player on Virgin's New iPod Rival · · Score: 2, Informative

    To be fair they're not really any worse than any of the other privatised rail companies are they?

    I don't use rail all that much so do correct me if I'm wrong.

    (I'm sure someone will anyway ;)

  5. Re:Source? on HL2 Packages Available on Steam · · Score: 1

    No need! They already made the source to the whole game public!

  6. Re:Duh! on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    I wasn't complaining, I was pointing out what I consider to be a problem with it.

    A huge number of people are moving to Gmail and probably don't realise this, so I thought I'd point it out :)

  7. Re:Duh! on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    Google provides 'internet services' yes. I'm pretty sure that email and web search fall under that umbrella.

  8. Re:Duh! on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't.

    Did you not think of that?

  9. Re:Duh! on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not the targetted advertising that gets to me so much as my searches and my emails being logged against the same unique cookie id in a country where the government wants to be able to get at all my records without even the ISP (google) legally being able to appeal to a judge...

  10. Re:64 bit on 64-Bit Gaming Oversold to Consumers · · Score: 1

    No, those benchmarks are running 32 and 64 bit versions of the same game on the same chip actually :)

  11. Re:64 bit on 64-Bit Gaming Oversold to Consumers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although things like that do take up substantial computing power, todays 64bit proccessors aren't going to have an easier time doing it then the 32bit counterparts.

    You were saying?

  12. Re:bad Idea on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah but tell me Silent Bob wouldn't make a kick arse sith lord..

  13. Re:DS on Sony PSP Hardware Completed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering the supposed sweetspot for home consoles is around $200, I can't see this getting much takeup except for early adopters until mass production brings the price down..

  14. Re:Proxy server fun on Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, cool! I speak Esperanto like a native!

    So not at all then? :)

  15. Re:It's about GAMES on Iran: Even If Windows Is Free, Linux Is Preferred · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh no, that's 3.

    Doom3 Linux client is expected shortly too. Quake 3 linux client came out shortly after the windows version.

    Yes there are certainly less mainstream games on Linux, but some of the biggest name ones to come out.

  16. Re:Release Date on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there TF2 code found in the leaked HL2 codebase? I seem to remember hearing that it was integrated with HL2 / Source, implying that it's still a live project.

  17. Re:Open source on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 1

    Not if the licence is legally incompatible with the GPL. In that case none of the code you be used in Linux, and vice-versa.

  18. Re:Link to get it on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Rubbish, my vanilla install of FF PR1 on Windows is fine.

  19. Re:Open source on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect that whatever open source license Sun release Solaris under, they'll be careful to make sure it's incompatible with the GPL.

  20. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I disagree. Whenever I introduce someone (mostly people who only use their computer when they have to) to Firefox, I always tae a minut or two to explain tabbed browsing, and turn off auto-scroll so they can middle click to open links in a new tab.

    So far they've all raved about tabbed browsing once they've used FF for a bit.

  21. Re:Could be Real on Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah it's too small

  22. Re:How long will this last? on Gnomoradio: Creative Commons Music Sharing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It threatens their ditribution monopo^H model.

  23. Re:Ask Slashdot: How to re-start? on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam: Part 2 · · Score: 1

    same here, but i set my preferences to show all sections in the front page.

  24. Re:Never heard of social responsibility, huh? on Movie Playback From 1TB Holographic Disc · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually the only responsibility a company has, other than obeying the law, is to generate profit for its shareholders.

    If it does something out of the goodness of its heart that costs its ahreholders money, then its been negligent.

    Now ethical trading can be a way to make money as a unique selling point, but not purely because it's nice.

    I'm not saying this is a *good* thing, but it is, unfortunately, the truth.

  25. Re:Why is Java UnCool? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    What's so hard about copying a .war file to a directory? You don't even need to restart the server for most servers any more.

    Perhaps you should ask your developers to try the 'export as .war' button in their IDE... or if they're to eleet for an IDE then to use the command line war packager.