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  1. Re:I don't see the problem on 360 Limiting GTA IV In Some Ways · · Score: 1

    Dating various girls gets you perks. Higher relationship levels gets you access to vehicles and uniforms.

    From gamefaqs:

    For dating Helena you will gain access to a tool shed on her farm that
    contains a chainsaw, a flamethrower, Molotov cocktails, and a pistol. You will
    also be able to use her Bandito car. You don't need the keys as it has no
    doors to lock.

    For dating Michelle you can use her garage, located at her home. It works
    just like a Pay 'n' Spray, but it's free.

    For dating Katie you will get you out of the hospital for free, and even better
    is that you also get to keep all of your weapons after dying.

    For dating Barbara you get out of jail free after being arrested, and you get to
    keep all of your weapons.

  2. Re:Champoined Needed - Sounds Good To Me on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    So that's his sleep number.

  3. Re:Yawn @ the blatant PS3 fanboy. on Xbox 360 To Profit Next Year, Says Bach · · Score: 1

    It looks like you are being sarcastic.

    "The size of a DVD should last us forever. It's not like GTA:San Andreas was an absolutely full DVD."

    On the PS2 at least, it only fills a single layer. Beyond that there are dummy files that can be removed (when moving the game to HDD). I forget the exact size of the game after shrink. The dummy files are there to push data out where you get more data per revolution.

    I doubt the next one will fill a DVD-9 unles they stuff it full of pre-rendered FMV stuff.

  4. Re:It's not about the money - except when it is on Microsoft Games Losses Down, Still Substantial · · Score: 1

    "Last time I checked, Microsoft had around $50 billion in cash."

    You may want to look again.
    I seem to remember that was accurate back before the xbox was originally released and before they paid out a massive amount of dividends.

    Now I think it is around 24. Nothing to sneeze at but at some point they do have to answer to investors, since they would have roughly 30 now without the console adventure.

  5. Re:Xbox is the ammo, not the war on Microsoft Games Losses Down, Still Substantial · · Score: 1

    ? few hundred million? I thought the original xbox (I have one) lost them 4 billion byt he time they got the 360 out.

  6. Re:UFO Defense on DARPA Developing Defensive Plasma Shield · · Score: 1

    If Sony is dealing with the aliens, that means we are in X-COM: Apocalypse territory. We need to abandon all ground based transport. Too many brave soldiers have been lost, not because the armored transport they were in took a hit, but because the aliens missed and took out the road beneath them.

  7. Re:Pff it has nothing to do with service. on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    "Many areas in the country now have really good infrastructure (fibre to the house etc) that could easily provide the equivalent of a T1 to every house."

    Define many, because if it isnt available where someone is, it might as well not exist.

  8. Re:What? on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    "On the other hand, large chunks of the US are getting FTTH lit up right now."

    I keep hearing this, but certainly not my chunk of the US. As far as I can tell only a few eas/west coast areas and some part of Texas is getting any of this.

    I figure where I am (Columbus, Ohio) it will be 10 years before any of them even think about moving off 80 year old grandmothers in the switchboard.

  9. Re:It's possible. on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Camera phones are a major pain in the ass for anyone working in an industry that involves private/confidential data or governmental laws about data protection. I need a "just a phone" so I don't have to surrender it at the desk every place I go for work or doctors offices.

  10. Re:Why Upgrade at all? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Depends on chipset. Nforce3 (what I have), I think the last version was Nov. 2005

  11. Re:Why Upgrade at all? on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    As someone wo runs 2k for games and has USB2 port on the mainboard I can confirm that they do seem to work.

  12. Re:SunnyD isn't orange juice.... ORLY? YARLY!! on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Some people dont like pulp/grit especially in drinks.
    I dont mind it.

    Seriously though, there are some chains that do stock juice not from concentrate.

  13. Re:XP has Backwards compatibility on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    In win2k you can add the compatability tab with a command you run once. This only adds it for links, but not a big issue.
    There is a more involved method to get the compatability tab to show for all executables.

  14. Re:SunnyD isn't orange juice.... ORLY? YARLY!! on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Well now that you qualify it beyong 100% juice (I was just pointing out there are things saying they are that and have been for a while).

    All the supermarket chains here (Ohio, USA) have some kind of 100% fresh squeezed juice that contains pulp. You are not looking for pulpy palmagranite juice are you?

  15. Re:This is the point. on IBM Reveals New Virtual Linux Environment · · Score: 1

    Micro Partitioning is even better then that.
    You need a minimum of .1 cpu to start an lpar, but you can add to it in .01 increments (and take away in that same amount down to the original .1).

  16. Re:This is the point. on IBM Reveals New Virtual Linux Environment · · Score: 1

    For what he describes, you do not need VIOS.

    As long as a partition has 1 disk and 1 net port of some type you dont need virtualized I/O. The limit on partitions is the number of PCI adapters you can put storage on (each lpar gets a pci slot for disk I/O of some type). You can also have physical nics only on the external facing partition and still give them virtual network adapters. Keep the backend stuff with only virtual nics (by not using VIO to bridge the virtual and physic nets you do lose the ability to do dynamic LPAR operations) and you dont have to be at a 1:1 for Nic vs SCSI/FC per partition.

    APV (Advanced Power Virtualization) is what gives you Micro Partitioning license, and also gives you Partition Load Manager and Virtual I/O Server software, but you do not need to use either of them to use Micro Partitioning.

  17. Re:SunnyD isn't orange juice.... ORLY? YARLY!! on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Jucy Juice(TM) has been around since I was a kid (I'm in my mid 30's now).

  18. Re:Not resolved at all on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 1

    From beyond the grave even.

  19. Re:DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 1

    I think that has vanished from recent (last few years at least) versions of the label. At least for the tea tree oil version I get.

    I like the soap but I only use it to bathe with, never bothered to try any of the other stuff.

  20. Re:Jesus is to blame! on Gamers Grapple With VA Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    Someone shared this with me back in the first Virginia Tech mega discussion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Caroline-Migros -p1000507.jpg

    Looks to me like it isnt that hard to do grocery shopping at least.

  21. Re:Townsend pleaded guilty on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you were accused of.

    If he did not download/upload any child porn, but was accused of those actions I think that could be legitimately called a false accusation (joining the site has little relevance to the specified crime).

    I am not saying that's what happened but I see how the law appears to work and how you can be guilty of one thing but falsly accused of another.

  22. Re:this is what they want on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    I do not think that geocities page is a good thing to link to. It would appear the wikipedia article on the events is much less involved in pushing an agenda.

    Unless I have misread it, the writer starts out talking about how bad the false accusations were, but then moves on to go into how there really was a secret tunnel and how there really was a satanic abuse cult. He sounds to me to be one of those crazy people that enjoy ruining lives of the weak by convincing them they have recovered memories of satanic ritual child abuse.

    Again maybe I am reading it wrong.

    The part that I find particularly unbelievable is the whole end bit where many years later, the parents still convinced there was a tunnel; convince the new land owner to let them dig to find it. Lo they find a "filled in tunnel". They missed it the first time (because it was so perfectly done), but then found it by asking one of the kids (who for years was constantly told they were victims of satanic ritual abuse) to direct them exactly to it.

    Given enough "I want to believe" you can make lise into truth with BS to yourself. "See that bit of dirt looks dfferent then the surrounding dirt. This must be a filled in secret tunnel, because I refuse to even think there could be any other explination then a satanic ritual abuse cult."

    After further reading of the geocities site. I can believe this is a nutbar with major sexual issues. Much stuff there is focused on sex in some way and he supports the wild crazy satanic cult ritual abuse conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of children all over the use every year are subjected to it. One of the main features of the abuse is the sacrificing of babies. Yet there is never any missing babies reported in relation to it or for that matter any bodies ever found. No conspiracy is so large and so perfectly hidden.

    I would run, not walk, from associating yourself with that website.

  23. Re:Who told you that? on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    A good word to use IMO is pedarest.

  24. Re:Not news for most consumers on FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition · · Score: 1

    Back about 7 years ago a Sales guy for a local cable company told me I couldnt get service from them because they had an "agreement" with the other cable company to devide up the county by zip codes.

  25. Re:Really? on SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    "At my other job I get paid for what I do well."

    Is whay you do not pretty?