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  1. I will likely never redeem them. on Apple and Pepsi Do it Again · · Score: 1
    I'll just get the Dew, look at the cap, and chuck it (the cap, not the Dew. The Dew I will slam). iTMS is nice enough for an online music service, but still not worth using: when I seriously investigated it (after it was fully up to speed with # of songs), only 1 in 20 songs I wanted were on it. Then there was kludgey hassle of having to burn to a CD and re-rip just to be able to listen on my MP3 player.

    Looking forward to seeing if Snocap takes care of the problem of "hardly any music in the legit download services" problem. But I'm not going to hold my breath on the "burn and waste unneeded CD in order to hear file you bought" problem.

  2. I sure know what you are talking about. on What Do You Do When Outsourcing Goes Bad? · · Score: 1
    "It's about the same with delivery chinese food. I listened to a friend tell the order taker his street name"

    Reminds me of the time I tried to order a pizza:

    Me: I want a pepperoni pizza with thick crust.
    Guy on phone: Xrefg? Xrefg zuzug xxf?
    Me: Never mind. Just make it the daily special.
    Guy on phone: Mubbud xuf.
    Me: The address is 123 Mayfield Street
    Guy on phone: Zuzug quug? Dsbypp? Foo!
    ....

  3. Asian does not work either on Jade Empire Further Delayed · · Score: 1
    "The word is rather archaic and Eurocentric, however, and as a result Asian is now the preferred term."

    How can it be preferred? Most Asians do not use "Asian" to mean just those on the eastern edge.

  4. Re:"Asian" is not a good term, either. on Jade Empire Further Delayed · · Score: 1
    "Why call them anything besides "people"?"

    Because it makes the review we are discussing look even worse: GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that much anticipated people infuenced action title Jade Empire will be delayed another month.

    ...and what/who is Durga?

  5. It's lousy on Jade Empire Further Delayed · · Score: 1
    "Asian is pretty good, but, if you'd like, refer to a country"

    It's lousy when you want to refer to some sore of culture/motif/milieu. Unless you think that bedouins in Yemen, Orthodox Jews in Tel Aviv, Punjabis, Khmers, and Japanese are "all alike".

  6. Re:In BINARY on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1
    "In the name of accessibility, it should be in Braille"

    With accompanying audiotape as well: "One Zero One One Zero Zero One Zero Zero Zero One...."

  7. "Asian" is not a good term, either. on Jade Empire Further Delayed · · Score: 1

    "Asian" is not the best word either, for talking of what is merely East Asia. Asia, after all, includes Turkey, Iraq, Israel, India, Irkutzk, etc. At least the term "Oriental" tends toward East Asia in common use.

  8. In BINARY on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1
    "I'd pipe the code into a *.doc file and make the font about 48ish tahoma script."

    Make sure to print the code in binary representation. Hey, the printing will denude all the forests of the western hemisphere, but it is worth it to stick it to ol' SCO.

  9. Whatever... on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Whatever.... all I know is that this is really getting out of hand. Dick Cheney was spotted jiggling Xutopia's network cable, causing data dropout.

  10. Mr. Norton on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1
    "Then I got to work today, there was a virus on my PC! You know the bush family has close ties to Mr. Norton HIMSELF????"

    Bush personally saw to it that Mr. Norton's family, along with their two pet chimpanzees, a parrot, and a 1933 Duesenberg were all flown out of the country the day before 9-11 happened. Did you know this? Probably not. Damn Fox News for keeping the truth from us!!!

  11. Have you checked under your bed? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Have you checked under your bed? I'm pretty sure Antonin Scalia is there right now.

  12. Not in right place on 7160 either. on N-Gage Future in Doubt? · · Score: 1

    I've never used the 7160, but I found images on Google. The keys are not in the standard layout (like the Nokia I use), but the control area of the phone would have allowed a standard layout anyway. An example of style clobbering function.

  13. Yes, I have on N-Gage Future in Doubt? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I use one on a Nokia cell phone. The middle numbers in the row are way below the left and right ones in the row. Pretty obnoxious: you have to look and think when you dial (which you do not have to do with standard layouts). The keys in the N-Gage image I linked to are in the wrong place as well. You will see that I did mention wrong places, not wrong shapes of the keys.

  14. Terrible design on N-Gage Future in Doubt? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ol' Ma Bell perfected the 4 x 3 phone button array decades ago. Why does Nokia feel it has to curve them just for a swoopy look, while ignoring that it makes it so the buttons are in non-standard locations so you have to look and hunt for them? (example: 3 key above 1 key, while pound key below star key...pretty bizarre). Looking at this, there is no reason a standard non-curved array of button would have fit here. They have yet another hard-to-use non-standard version of the 4 x 3 array on many of their phones. Aside from that, you look like a dope if you try to use this as a phone and hold it to your ear.

  15. Re:Things To Look Forward on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1
    "And the iPod pico. 1mm square, with a direct nueral feed to the brain, and you STILL can't swap out the battery."

    The repeated RIAA-demanded brain wipes if you can't prove proper licensing for the music files gets to be old pretty fast.

    The repeated RIAA-demanded brain wipes if you can't prove proper licensing for the music files gets to be old pretty fast.

    The repeated RIAA-demanded brain wipes if you can't prove proper licensing for the music files gets to be old pretty fast.

  16. Here's why. on Take Two in Talks with Major League Baseball · · Score: 1

    I think that EA-MLB passed a rule against him using thumb-steroids to enhance videogame play.

  17. Just like NHL hockey ! on Take Two in Talks with Major League Baseball · · Score: 2, Funny
    "soon EA will own the sports gaming industry...everyone else will be left with make-believe teams"

    Just like with NHL hockey!

  18. Who appointed you Netcraft? on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Xanadu is dead. In fact, Xanadu was never alive"

    So who went and appointed you Netcraft?

  19. Tourist trap on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 1

    There was also a chain of tourist-trap bubblehouses called "Xanadu".

  20. The utter irony on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Yeah. Let's invent hypertext linking! We'll be forgotten until some future year when we are rediscovered, and someone unwittingly destroys all record of our efforts.... by hyperlinking to us."

    Anyone know if Samuel Colt was shot to death or not?

  21. Xanadu associations on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 2, Informative
    Xanadu associations:

    Mention it pre-1970s, and everyone thinks of Coleridge and the pleasure dome of Kublai Khan.

    Mention it post-1970s, and everyone thinks of Olivia Newton-John in her roller disco boots.

  22. Yeah on State of PC Gaming in 2004 Probed · · Score: 1

    Licensing? Very important. I see that you are not the only one who does not think it is dumb of Microsoft to carefully move to a position of dominance in the videogame world. They aren't there yet, but they are working toward it.

  23. Microsoft dumb like a fox on State of PC Gaming in 2004 Probed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "It was the dumbest thing Microsoft ever did"

    How is this dumb? Let's see:

    Without Xbox, they sell someone one single OS for a computer that plays games and does Office/etc

    With Xbox, they still sell the OS installation for Office. However, they are now selling another OS...hell, they are even selling the other BOX too just for the games.

  24. Re:Things To Look Forward on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1
    And more:

    "Vote Cheney/Nyarlathotep 2016"

    NBC maxing out at 76 different "Law and Order" series in prime time each week. Yes, I, for one want to see "Law and Order: "CHJ" (court-house janitor).

    We will see if Kurt Vonnegut was really right in that "wear sunscreen" thing.

    The year of "Linux on the Desktop".

    A new season of NHL Hockey.

  25. I guess it was funny on French Police Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1
    "oh my god you are really funny!"

    My friend Mr +1 Funny Modpoint seems to concur with you.