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  1. At last! on Genetic Database Hits One Billion Entries · · Score: 1

    Finally, my search for the chosen one might yield something tangible! The Rambaldi device will be MINE! MU-HAHAHAHA!

  2. Cats! on Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Somebody set us up the bomb! Take off every zig!

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    For great justice, click here -->

  3. Re:GTA made this possible. on Holiday Gaming Potpourri · · Score: 1

    WTF? How old are you, sonny? Civ was a franchise before GTA was even a glimmer in somebody's eye. But yeah, thanks RG, because this superior-quality game whose name is synonymous with quality turn-based strategy obviously never would have made it past the first iterarion without you. Even if those wacky Civ guys DID manage to make a sequel, and it sold (yeah, right!), NOBODY would EVER buy a THIRD installment (or something called "Alpha Centauri"). Sid who?

  4. Re:Cool Yes, Difficult Yes, Impossible No. on Hard Drive Window · · Score: 1

    This certainly will work. PDA geeks have been doing this to apply screen protectors for years.

  5. Re:Video - WTF? on Hard Drive Window · · Score: 1

    Eh - hate to rain on your parade, but a 10g (I assume you mean gigs) MFM drive, uh, doesn't exist, I'm pretty sure. It's been a LONG time, but I think MFM went by the wayside at around 100-200 MEGABYTES.

  6. Re:Pricing woes on Profitmon Catches The Dollars · · Score: 1

    And thanks to ADV's insane pricing, I'll probably never be a customer again. Of course, Geneon et alia have the same mindset when it comes to price points.

    That would probably be (and I'm just going wayyy out on a limb here, speaking right off the top of my head) beacuse Anime fans are already used to paying outrageous prices for porn. I mean anime. I mean anime-porn. Wait; what's the difference again?

  7. Re:Is mainstream good? on Profitmon Catches The Dollars · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like anime because it often has much different story lines

    Yes. Multi-headed laser-slash-semen shooting penis-slash-tenticles raping young girls so they can bear the prophesied are indeed "much different".

  8. Re:Why lower prices? on Requiem for Usenet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Usenet requires tons of bandwidth and storage, and serving it needs decent server hardware. I'm not sure anyone I know still uses it.

    Then you obviously don't know anyone worth knowing.

    Being an ISP today means giving the user the most bandwidth, the least downtime and the cheapest cost. Value added services such as e-mail accounts, web home, Usenet and even security utilities is better served by third parties.

    News flash: your ISP probably ALREADY (as I'm sure did Rogers) outsources your usenet access. Go ahead: ping news.myisp.com and see where it ACTUALLY goes. They buy a corporate subscription that is nowhere NEAR the cost of maintianing their own usenet servers.

  9. Re:Apple's Fault! Apple's Fault! on iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit · · Score: 2, Funny

    7. Do not taunt "Happy Fun Ball".

  10. Re:The good old fashioned way? on Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's a ratings system for books now?

  11. Re:Yaaawwwwnnnn. Could there be anything more bori on Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best? · · Score: 1

    Try at least spelling the correct words...

    I think you meant, "Try at least spelling the WORDS CORRECTLY." I'm quite certain I used the "correct words".

    Pot. Kettle?

    Also, there's a difference between me making two obvious typos and him prefacing FOUR COMMAS with SPACES. One, an obvious and honest MISTAKE. The other, idiocy.

    Get a clue.

  12. Re:Why? on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    C'mon! A 5?!?!? Like this is like asking an author why they write.

    Hint: it's BECAUSE THEY LIKE GAMES.

  13. Re:Yaaawwwwnnnn. Could there be anything more bori on Thirty Four PSUs Tested - Is Biggest Best? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Your ignorance is showing. The PSU is the single most importatn piece of equipment you can by. You've got a spate of delicate electonics equipment that needs a steady and quality flow of well-regulated power to function properly.

    The lack of Antec and PPC PSUs tested notwithstanding, I always welcome a critical and tech-sound look at these underappreciated workhorses.

    It is, after all, "news for nerds". Perhaps you would be happier here (they have boobies sometimes):

    http://www.fark.com

    PS - commas are not prefaced with a space.

  14. Re:Abend Condition: Private Jet Has Been Shut Down on Novell Under Pressure From Investors · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering why my account there has been down.

  15. Re:"its 'overstaffed' R&D department?" on Novell Under Pressure From Investors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does ANYBODY in the US think long term anymore...

    To be perfectly fiar, it's not 'poeple in the US'; it's investment banking firms in the US.

    "Best Idiot Making I"

  16. PHB alert. on Best Software Writing I · · Score: 1

    A review of a software book my a "process manager"? Puh-lease. Go sharpen your head.

  17. Re:er.. RTFA? on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

    Irrelevant. Something like this will happen someday. Just a matter of times. Closed systems + DRM = access yanked out from under you at any time.

  18. ObSimpsons... on TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection · · Score: 1

    HA-HA!

    Suckers. Seriously, who couldn't see this - and worse - coming, eventually?

    Methinks my MythTV box will be unaffected.

    Yeah, yeah, TiVos are cheap, and Myth requires some effort, but you get what you pay for. Okay, maybe not if you buy a TiVo...

  19. Re:DPI ? on Searching for a Decent Scanner? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, you know wrong.

    No, YOU know wrong. DPI doesn't matter for spit; any new scanner sold these days will use a greater resolution than most people will ever need. Just like all xMP digital cameras are not equal - the quality of the optics goes a long way toward determining final quality; I'd take a 3MP cam with Nikkor or Leica optics over some roody-poot 1000MP camera.

    Chances are, the 600 DPI Epson will produce better quality scans than that 3600 DPI (interpolated) from Brand J (for junk).

    Get a clue before you start correcting folks.

  20. Re:SPYWARE on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    I never have done online gambling. I have had to fix HUNDREDS of pc's where the morons on the pc's did and had lots of spyware.

    Well, we all know correlation is causation, so you must be right. But wait, I bet all of those people also used IE; IE must cause spayware! Or online banking sites! How many people used those? No, wait! Windows! I bet all them systems were running Microsoft OSes. MS must cause spyware. Wait....

  21. Re:Not That Easy on How Much Money do Programmers Really Make? · · Score: 1

    The worst of your problems isn't the degree from DeVry; it's your horrid writing skills. Each sentence does not start on a new line. Also, sentence fragments are not your friend.

    I'll stop there.

  22. Re:Prior Art? on Apple Is Accused of Violating Software Patent · · Score: 1

    Oh wait! Thats not an apocryphal story at all

    Gosh! If it's on wikipedia, it must be true!

  23. Re:Viral Marketing on Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing? · · Score: 0

    Hey! I got a virus from that link!

  24. Re:First song on Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Dies · · Score: 1

    Right. I stand corrected. This does, of course, mean you probably shouldn't add the track to your playlist. Friends don't let friends listen to Mickey Dolenz.

  25. First song on Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Dies · · Score: 1

    I believe that Simon and Garfunkel's "Save the Life of my Child" was the first song to utilize a Moog; stick that in your playlist and smoke it.

    As an aside completely unrelated to that last bit, it's a wild song; very psychedelic, and not what one would expect from S&G.