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  1. Re:Unity's had a free version forever on SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! · · Score: 2

    > Valve's Unreal engine

    Valve made the Source engine. Epic made the Unreal engine.

  2. Who remembers Kozmo? or Webvan? on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This all seems strangely familiar to me. Would be interesting if Amazon could pull it off, though.

  3. Re:nylon fumes on Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe With a Printer · · Score: 1

    FWIW, we have an SLS machine at work and it doesn't produce fumes.

    It does, however, spew that damn powder all over the place.

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia... on How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works · · Score: 1

    Laundering my phone usually means buying a new phone.

  5. Giving it a try on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    Paid $50, that was all I could muster.

    World of Goo was the only game I had heard of before, and this is the first time I've played it. Definitely worth more than the ~$7.14 the devs got from me!

    Haven't tried the others yet.

  6. Solar flares, eh? on What We Can Do About Massive Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    The crystal planet must be getting close.

    (please tell me I wasn't the only one who thought of this as soon as they read the headline)

  7. Re:Muppets on First Space Lawyer Graduates · · Score: 1

    Two words:

    Denny Crane

  8. High quality? on Taiwan Group Responsible For 90% of MSFT Piracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't think there was such a thing as high-quality Microsoft software, pirated or otherwise...

  9. Re:Where is the evidence of astroturfing? on Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site · · Score: 1

    When you post something like this anonymously, it does raise questions about your own affiliations and interests...

  10. Re:i can't wait.. on Google Earth Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Or ABC, CBS... hell, even PBS will stoop to that level if they need cash...

  11. This sounds familiar... on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something about 640k of RAM...

  12. Not too long... on Archiving Digital Data an Unsolved Problem · · Score: 5, Funny
    "for as long as the United States remains a republic."

    So, they're shooting for about 10 years then?

  13. Shortcuts are nothing new on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This sounds like the "shortcut" feature that's been around since Win95. Have they actually implemented something new here, or just given some old junk a new name?

  14. Prefix? on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Certainly you mean suffix...

  15. Re:Just shipping eh? on ASUS Guarantees Draft-N Upgradability · · Score: 1

    Like most of the big Chinese/Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, they have satellite offices in the US, the UK, Japan, and a couple European countries. You'd ship it to one of those.

  16. Re:Anyone knows.. on Cracking the GPS Galileo Satellite · · Score: 1

    Considering the early stage of the system's deployment, probably.

  17. Consider yourself corrected on Abandoned Games · · Score: 5, Informative

    Freespace 2 was a commercial game, produced by the same people as Freespace 1. Several years later the source code to the engine was released.

  18. With free webmail being all the rage these days... on 30Gigs Web Mail Launches Into Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I'm waiting for is someone that offers a PAID service, say around $5-10 a month.

    Not only would this eliminate any and all advertising in the interface and your outgoing mail, but it would invariably come with guaranteed availability. Y! and Gmail make no promises whatsoever that the mail stored on their servers won't get wiped due to a failure, upgrade or whatever.

    Such a service would also probably include features that you'll never see from the free ones, like telnet/SSH access (perhaps with a pine-like interface), access via POP, IMAP and maybe even certain groupware suites (GMail has POP, but the terms suggest they might do away with it in the future), ability to use your own domain, and high-security storage (encrypted disks and such).

  19. Re:A better way to avoid this problem on Source Code Escrow · · Score: 1
    Ok, who's gonna be the first one to make some caffeinated beer?

    You've never watched the Drew Carey show, have you?

  20. Another nice "spamhole" project on Spamholes Fighting Spammers · · Score: 2, Informative
    spamhole.com!

    It lets you set up a temporary forwarding address, which can be very useful for those "free registration" things that just scream "SPAM!".

  21. How long until it's cracked? on New Disney / Samsung HDD Video Set-Top Box · · Score: 5, Funny

    I give it 3 days.

  22. Actually... on Crippled CD Deemed Defective In France · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to this article, FAT32 can be up to 8 TB. However, due to limitations in Windows 2000 and XP's FAT driver, it can only create a FAT32 filesystem as large as 32 GB.

  23. Re:Well. on VIA K8T800 Chipset Preview - Dual Opteron in Action · · Score: 1

    Nope. I haven't had problems with any hardware... yet.

  24. Re:Well. on VIA K8T800 Chipset Preview - Dual Opteron in Action · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because in 64-bit mode, the size of long is 8 bytes. Some programes have a major problem with that, as I've so painfully discovered...

  25. Re:finally, I can mount Buffy! on Mozilla 1.4 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now where is that Spike pr0n search plugin? Spike Lee sued the author.