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  1. Day of the Tentacle on Drink Decaf and Die · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has played through "Day of the Tentacle" no doubt already knows about the nasty evil powers of decaf coffee.

  2. Re:How many of you have PS3's on preorder now? on Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software · · Score: 1

    Even Sony's consumer electronics division has been sued by their music division. Sony is one big schizophrenic corporation.

  3. Re:Quicktime on windows on MP3 Player Shoppers Guide · · Score: 1

    With the appropriate directshow filters, Quicktime content can be played by any player program. Including Windows Media Player, Realplayer, and even Winamp.

  4. Re:Doki Doki Panic on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    Not really, they're all 16x32 sprites.
    Doki Doki Panic also lacked bility to run, and small characters.

  5. Re:Here's what to do on Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked · · Score: 1

    7. Set your computer's date to the future first.

  6. This is mostly useless on Protothreads and Other Wicked C Tricks · · Score: 0

    Normally if you want multithreading and have no OS to do it for you, you'd use an interrupt handler to swap all registers, as well as the stack location. Even a 400 byte stack is adequate if you have no recursion or local arrays. So really, this is only for situations where you don't even have 400 bytes to spare per thread. The complete inability to use local variables makes this useless except in very specific situations.
    I could see this being used if you need a very large number of threads with no local variables. I'd still be very wary about using something that does not preserve the content of registers when switching 'threads'.

  7. Re:My complaint about Wikipedia... on Nitpicking Wikipedia's Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    I just use Ctrl+F to bring up the search toolbar.

  8. Re:More media inaccuracies on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    FAT32 is not VFAT. VFAT is for storing long filenames, while FAT32 is for more clusters.

  9. Re:Washout is right on Why Students Are Leaving Engineering · · Score: 1

    But according to Calvin's dad, it builds character!

  10. Re:Quality of programming on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    I know that Civ 1 has problems with the system timer under windwows NT's dos emulation, causing it to run at half-speed.

  11. Re:Already happened on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    There's LOTS of people who will convert that stuff. Shop around for a better price.

  12. Plague Mice on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 2, Funny

    So are these Plague Mice 1/1 creatures which gain +1/+1 for each other Plague Mouse in play?

  13. Re:Argh on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed · · Score: 1

    Wario Ware Twisted managed to pull off subtle tactile feedback by vibrating the cartridge slightly. It works very effectively. It really feels like resistance, even if it's not.

  14. Re:Gimme Style - the Comic Book reader's view on Realism vs. Style: the Zelda Debate · · Score: 1

    I can not think of a game where a 64 pixel sprite looks good. You can't do anything with an 8x8 pixel sprite, you need at least 16x16.

  15. Re:meanwhile in japan on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a Cue Cat on steroids, and just as pointless.

  16. Re:TI vs HP on TI Calculators Play Movies · · Score: 1

    Anyone think it's odd for an "ignoramus" to have written the 30th most downloaded file on ticalc.org?

  17. Re:TI vs HP on TI Calculators Play Movies · · Score: 1

    Cheap my ass! The calculators are highly overpriced for the hardware they contain. A fraction of the power of a cell phone at 3x the cost.

  18. What about Quack 3 Arena? on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    When will the source code to Quack 3 Arena be released? I hear it has better graphics quality on ATI cards.

  19. Re:OT: Site-by-site Javascript? on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 1

    Use adblock to block scripts. Click down in the lower right corner, and you can see a list of images and scripts to block.

  20. Re:Other Systems on x86 Emulator on PSP Runs Windows & Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, it is much more CPU intensive to emulate the Atari 2600 than the SNES. And most modern NES emulators run much slower than ZSnes. Even the speedy NES emulators, like Nesticle and Loopynes will far too slow to even consider. This is Bochs we're talking about here, and on a High-Speed pentium 4, you can't get a decent framerate even in the fastest emulators.

  21. Re:Time attack and Speedruns on The Lives And Times of Speed Runners · · Score: 1

    I've successfully hit Left+Right simultaneously on a NES controller. You have to press both sides really hard. It makes you run very fast in Zelda 2.

  22. Re:Time attack and Speedruns on The Lives And Times of Speed Runners · · Score: 1

    The Mega Man X + X2 time attack, which beats each game quickly with identical joypad input, is extremely impressive. Even if it was recorded frame by frame with a re-record count of 14432.

    http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/750S.html

  23. Re:This won't pass muster. on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The MD5 of course needs salt, otherwise anyone could self-sign their own stuff.

  24. Re:Yeah, okay. on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Three times worse? on Philips Working on LCD TV Ghosting · · Score: 1

    I exclusively use 60Hz since console emulators look silky smooth when running at their native refresh rate.