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  1. Re:Screw free trade on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Agreed, lassiz faire capitalism in the United States would utterly devastate the middle class.
    Regulation is needed. Pure forms of either capitalism or socialism are foolishly idealistic and sure to fail.

  2. Re:I, for one, welcome our... on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 4, Funny
    A massive tax cut for the rich (while killing off all sorts of social programs at the same time).
    Bush said, "By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to those at the bottom end of the spectrum," so you're obviously wrong.
  3. Re:That was quick on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 4, Funny

    50 Cent is not an artist.

  4. Re:Logically... on Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing · · Score: 1

    If that's the case, if the children that are not good at the games quit playing, then maybe it is possible that video games don't enhance eye-hand coordination. It could be that those with good eye-hand coordination are simply drawn to video games, and a sample would seem to reveal that children that play video games have better eye-hand coordination, the same could be true for the hearing issue.

  5. Re:unbelievable on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 1

    I think the difference is in what the user thinks while clicking and pressing buttons. In popular role-playing titles like Morrowind, for example, the player that really gets the most out of the experience isn't focused upon the underlying rules that define play. Rather, in his mind's eye he imagines that he is taking part in a virtual world.

    Anyone that would fancy herself a queen while playing solitaire is absolutely batty.

    While I admit to having dreampt of Tetris, I never was a block.

  6. Programming Competition on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    I placed third in a microsoft - sponsored programming competition here last semester, I walked away with free copies of Windows XP, Age of Mythology, and Visual Studio .Net. Now, I still like Linux, but I can't ignore generocity like that, and they are, but for the game, all great tools.

  7. Re:unbelievable on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the women polled in this study considered solitaire and minesweeper to be video games.

    *ducks*

  8. Re:Good News / Bad News on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1

    I hope it is not based on WinCE, we don't want the Exo-suits going rogue on us. They're boomers too, you know.

  9. Re:Let the market decide on Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory · · Score: 1

    Launching a game costs money; the great oracle of consumer opinion that market forces represent can not be contacted for free.

    Market forces don't design new and original products, but often reward their makers.

    Whither gaming?

  10. Re:New Games Not Hard! on Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After years of reading Slashdot, I am always surprised that such a high-tech community seems to have such low end graphics accelerators.

  11. NetHack on New Linux-based PDA due September · · Score: 1

    So can I get NetHack on it? I like my Visor Edge, I can play Robotfindskitten on it, but memory addressing limitations keep NetHack off PalmOS.

  12. Re:The "acid test" of insanity on Psychotic Lab Mice · · Score: 0
    And don't soldiers who are exposed to heavy enemy fire on a daily basis usually succumb to self-manipulation 10+ times a day?
    You wouldn't happen to have a cite ready, would you?
    Also, pr0n does not constitute a suitible citation.
  13. Not Unix on TRON: The Unknown Open-Source? · · Score: 1

    Hey look! It's an open source operating system that isn't based upon Unix and is successful. Wow!

  14. Jumpsuit on Random Humor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really like that orange jumpsuit. He even has orange chucks to match. Maybe I could join up and get one of those jumpsuits, ans a helmet and advertise in arcades, classrooms, and cafetirias.

  15. Re:After reading the articles... on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's unusually clear. Must a user agree to a EULA before using the X-box for the first time? Also, whether or not this really falls under interoperability is questionable. Did this save DeCSS? DVDs are software and people wanted it to interoperate with Linux.

  16. Re:Or not... on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's really all a matter or price elasticity. Pricing isn't quite as dependant upon production costs as most people believe.

  17. Re:daily recommended intake on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Evil chemists are polluting our air with their careless use of nitrogen!

  18. Re:Cheat? on More on Futuremark and nVidia · · Score: 1

    What NVidia is saying in the release is that software still under development is availible to them. Developers want their games to perform well, so it is in the interest of both parties to share this sort of information. As in the case of a benchmark, the interest Futuremark has vested in that sort of cooperation is uncertain.

  19. Re:Here's why the MPAA is not a monopoly. on Low Cost Cinema Through Dynamic Pricing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More like a cartel, then.

  20. Re:Umm....GPU?!? on Future of 3d Graphics · · Score: 4, Funny
    GPU: Gossudarstwenoje Polititscheskoje Upravlenije (Russian: National Political Administration; Soviet Secret Service until 1937)


    In GPU's Soviet Russia, pixel pushes you!

    In GPU's Soviet Russia, graphics card displays you!

    In GPU's Soviet Russia, jaggies smooth you!

    In GPU's Soviet Russia, adventure game pixel hunts you!
  21. Re:Apple leadership? on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    Also, don't forget the option to save in many different formats, a trait common to most popular office applications. I use OpenOffice.org Writer on my PC, but when I save my document to the network share, I do so in MS Word format because that is what they have in the university computer labs. While different incarnations of the .doc format are not compatible, there is an option to select to save in an older format, making compatability amoung different versions a non-issue.

  22. Re:Fantastic! on Half Life 2 To Appear At E3 · · Score: 1

    If you like games, you should probably use a computer based upon the x86 architecture. There are a lot of fun games availible for Windows. Also, if you wish, you can also run Linux or a BSD on the same machine. It is really cool.

  23. Re:As I've said before... on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 1

    I think part of the reason Laptops are so hot is because they get smaller every year. I wouldn't mind if my laptop was an inch or so thicker if it wouldn't toast my thighs.

  24. In Other News on Mexico to Abolish the Public Domain? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Disney Corporation[DIS] has moved its official corporate headquarters along with the contents of the infamous Disney Vault to Mexico City, Mexico. In a press release the company stated that in addition to retaining existing intellectual property under Mexican law, Disney would be introducing a brand new character, "El Ratón Mickey." The new character's copyright is not expected to expire until 2525. The copyright's official and legal creator, Servando Marques, is a Mexican citizen and cartoonist, bioimagineered for unnaturally long life.

  25. Re:A world without public domain... on Mexico to Abolish the Public Domain? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fire is really more of a natural phenomenon, I'd say. Just about on par with water boiling. The Bostonites were upset enough about tea as it was.