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  1. Re:Prior Art? on Worlds.com Sues NCSoft Over MMO-Patent · · Score: 1

    Forgive me for being daft, but it clearly says it was filed in 1996...

    Where did 1994 come from other than worlds.com's press release?

  2. Boom... on Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynotes, 1998-2008 · · Score: 1

    Here's another good collection of keynotes from the same period:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y

  3. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    1) Send me screenshots inside a word document

    Actually... you wouldn't believe the amount of sys admins who sent me screenshots of the app I supported inside a word.doc (a big one too).

  4. Re:And the point of these laws is? on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    However, the arrests are not necessarily a BAD thing.

    Its not a bad thing that this girl will have to spend the rest of her life classified as a sex offender? Some states that means roaming the streets or living under a bridge homeless.

    I suspect she is rather innocent, and has just made some bad life decisions - no need to brand her for the rest of her life.

    I'm sorry but these decisions just illustrate whats wrong with all these "protect the children" laws - they have no leeway what-so-ever.

  5. Re:And the point of these laws is? on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Licking valley high school - isn't that asking for trouble?

    Damn me and my dirty mind...

  6. Re:this sounds like user error to me on Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    Then why would the update run on outdated firmware? There should be code in there that checks and tells you need to update the firmware before deploying the patch.

    Apples are supposed to be ez-mode after all no?

  7. Re:Sorry Motorola on RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it sounds like you have two people in your family working. I live in Seattle where if you can get rent for less than 1k per month you're doing pretty well.

    For as much as you make a year I couldn't afford to live in town - or in fact out of town because the prices don't get much better unless you're willing to commute 2-3 hours to work.

    Its not a question of me living a simpler life - I pay about the same amount in utilities you do, but its just me.

    I'm kinda glad I didn't buy a house recently (you can't find houses in Washington for less than 300k it seems) because when I got laid off the only bills I have to pay is rent and utilities (everything else including my car is paid off) - still doesn't make it easier.

    The guys who are taking my job live in Noida and make around 35k a year - which is only a little less than I made.

  8. Re:Sorry Motorola on RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers · · Score: 1

    Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  9. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah because corporations are super smart and do the right thing all the time...

  10. Re:Hello... I'm a PC on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Read up on printing bugs in 10.5.x - then ask - why would we?

    Printers disappearing from the dropdown, landscape portrait not being preserved etc etc. Most all the print shops I know have stayed with 10.4.x.

  11. Re:I don't get it on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    But you'd have problems using unbuntu with all its features out of the box with 512 megs too...

    It may boot faster, but its definitely sluggish.

  12. Re:I don't get it on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    Vista kernel, with all the drivers loaded on my machine is using 297 megabytes...

    The system is occupying all 4 gigs, but as I think its been explained before a lot of that is cache - which is something Linux does too.

  13. Re:I don't know why on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 1

    When I left high school we still had labs with Commodore 64's in them (I'm really not making this up...). I graduated in 1995.

  14. Re:Oblig. on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since when has soda pop in the US had sugar in it?

  15. Re:Works For Me on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 1

    Special education students are, for the most part, segregated from the rest of the population due to special learning needs.

    Thats not the issue - any idea how much public schools have to spend on special ed students? I don't know either, but when I was in high school it appeared that each of them had their own teacher...

  16. Re:Athene on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1

    Yeah do every time I ask a gm a question I should have them escalate it?

    No?

    I didn't think so...

    If a Blizzard official says its ok - its up to his supervisor to uphold that decision. That's what we did (for better or for worse) at the various call centers I've worked at.

  17. Re:An Impossible Expectation on Are MMOs Time-Release Vaporware? · · Score: 1

    While "private" servers are nifty etc they really aren't remotely like the real thing.

    I played with one and found so many bugs in encounters I knew quite well that I found it to be kind of a joke.

  18. Re:Uh-huh on Further Details On the Star Wars MMO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thats actually not true - there's at least 4 types of mmo players out there:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test

    I've seen all 4 types in my guild - I think the progression guilds for instance cater to "Achievers".

    Personally I like learning about the story through quests and npc's. If a game is just hack and slash it gets boring too quickly.

  19. Re:I'd like one, but... on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 1

    Do think I could buy one from t-mobile and have them unlock it for me?

  20. I'd like one, but... on Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? · · Score: 1

    I don't want one that has a locked carrier. Same reason I don't have an iphone.

  21. Re:Offline patches? on Bandwidth Use In MMOs · · Score: 1

    You can do that with WoW too...

  22. Re:Drat you Steve! on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 2

    Its flamebait because he's slamming machines and platforms that aren't formats.

  23. Re:Drat you Steve! on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    discontinued proprietary formats like Atari, Commodore, Amiga

    Since when are any of these formats?

    My Amiga has firewire, usb, scsi and ide... Oh and it has ethernet as well.

    My Commodore PET had an IEEE-488 interface - which was more industry standard than anything Apple ever included with machine's of similar vintage.

    No clue about Atari - but I believe the Falcon had VGA, SCSI, appletalk and midi out of the box.

    Yeah you should be modded flamebait for slamming machines that have nothing to do with the topic in question.

  24. Re:WoW on Linux =! Linux + Wine on Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon · · Score: 1

    Thats not even the issue - Take 30 different distros. Each one may have different api's for package management, different locations for config files, different shells etc (I could go on as well, as there's several different desktop standards, print engines etc etc). I'm not even talking about video cards.

    On Windows there's only one configuration file location (the registry), only one package management system (MSI), and really only one shell. We still test against every Windows version, but there's only 12 or 14 of them. Same with Mac.

  25. Re:Amazing... on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    How so? I think this guy is delusional. I multi-box and to be honest targeting can be a real chore when someone pops up from behind or in the middle of your group - and I only do it with 3.