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  1. Linear, but well done on Storytelling In Games and the Use of Narration · · Score: 1

    I really enjoyed portal. And HL2. System Shock2 was very similar. For just telling a tale, try Cave Story.

  2. Re:Ultima II, Karateka and Questron! on Storytelling In Games and the Use of Narration · · Score: 1

    I miss my Amiga ;_;

  3. Re:Wait, let me get this straight... on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    Yes. And you thought he needed another diskshelf for the SAN because the prod database was large. Wait till you see how many versions of the Naruto scans he has.

  4. Re:Just what I was waiting for on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    "And I'd like to thank my parents, for being there for me." -- What no character from EVA would ever say at an awards night

  5. Re:could've been better on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    Why not Major Kusanagi?

    Because Rumiko Takahashi is an author/artist, and Major Kusanagi is a character.

  6. Re:life imitating art? on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    Where's _my_ diamond age. And flying car. And jetpack. And singularity

  7. Re:Anyone ever read that Stephen King story? on Lithium In Water "Curbs Suicide" · · Score: 1

    It's more likely to increase Kidney disease and absent mindedness

  8. Re:Pick Your Battles Wisely on Warner Music Forces Lessig Presentation Offline · · Score: 1

    up to 10% or 1,000 words, whichever is less, of a copyrighted text work. For example, an entire poem of less than 250 words may be used, but no more than three poems by one poet, or five poems by different poets from any anthology.

    up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work.

    What if that song is Freebird?

  9. Re:Terrorists, Star Chambers, and immunity on Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    He can't make a rock he can't lift?

  10. Re:Explanation needed ... on Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    ia ia! Cthulu f'tagn! The sleeper wakes!

  11. This is great on Copyright Decision In Australia Vindicates 3d-Party EPG Provider · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IceTV provide a decent product, and the big companies were trying to stifle it while they faffed around. Good to see them win.

  12. But I was promised bomb-pumped x-ray warheads! on World's First X-Ray Laser Goes Live · · Score: 1

    How else would Honour Harrington defeat the peeps?

  13. Re:So much for ethics on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 1

    But it actually back-fired: gamers skipped many new DRMed games and reinstalled some 10yo classical games of the same genre.

    I've done a bit of this lately. These games _scream_ along now. Amazing framerates, a million units on screen, etc etc. Give it a go.

  14. Re:So much for pirate ethics on How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod · · Score: 1

    Yes. Come and see a lovely pair of potatoes. They're natural food of our indigenous kangaroos and wombats.

  15. Running Wild + Empire of the Sun on J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78 · · Score: 1

    I had to study these two at school. Such study normally sucked the life out of almost every text, these two I still remember as good stories, despite having to analyse every subtext to death. Running Wild was especially interesting.

  16. Re:Damn... on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 1

    Due to our english ancestry, we call them TuppingTubes

  17. Re:If they win... on CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP · · Score: 1

    Because eventually, if they ignore the law enough times, they get a government bai... I mean the company gets rolled up and the sale profits go to the claimant

  18. Re:Packet Radio on CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pony up the prior art and get the patent invalidated. I'm sure you'll get a big kiss from "Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, 3-Com, Buffalo, Microsoft and Nintendo"

  19. Units of Work on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Sorry if this is straightforward to the hardcore programmers. I'm just a business programming sort of guy. Lots of lists and mailmerges.

    One of most common tasks in web programming is

    • Connect to Database
    • Execute SQL
    • Get recordset
    • loop through recordset to build dropdown list

    Couldn't a whole bunch of these be farmed off onto different processors?

  20. Problem with google? on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it more a problem with websites that allow a spider to read what should be a secure directory?

  21. Re:*This is fake* on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't believe Conroy. Do you?

  22. Re:So that's why Barrys page gets edited all the t on Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors · · Score: 1

    In Australia a starting ASIO Intelligence Analyst role was going quite cheaply - before 9/11 anyway.

  23. Re:Links are there and locked, now on Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors · · Score: 3, Funny

    They enable?

  24. Re:You're Trolling... on Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors · · Score: 4, Funny

    That reminds me, who's up for veal?

  25. Re:About the right price.... on Game Publishers Pressuring Sony For PS3 Price Cut · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. It seems expensive, because it is.