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  1. Re:Simple answer on A New Paradigm For Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    Remember how Flash was going to be the future of the web? Yeah.

    youtube.com?

  2. Re:Hunger relief is a scam... on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 1

    Additionally if you actually do deliver real aid, you will destroy the local agricultural economy, keeping the people dependent on aid.

  3. Re:Sigh on Real-time Raytracing For PC Games Almost A Reality · · Score: 1

    that should be disingenuous, oy.

  4. Re:Sigh on Real-time Raytracing For PC Games Almost A Reality · · Score: 1

    I think it's fairer to compare the Xbox 360 to the Wii, and according to the article you posted, the Xbox 360 beats both the Wii and the PS3. It's a bit ingenious to say that the biggest difference between the Wii and the PS3 is gameplay/graphics, when to me it is clearly the fact that I could buy almost 3 Wiis to 1 PS3. I mean no doubt, the Wii is a good system in general, but the Wii is a great system for $250, while the PS3 has nothing going for it. The Xbox wins in terms of graphics/price, and the Wii wins in terms of gameplay/price. And what happens (according to your article) when you compare graphics/price to gameplay/price? Graphics wins, whee!

  5. Re:Movie vs CD on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 1

    One of the ways I find bands is by listening to internet radio like somafm, or to college radio stations, the local one here is wiux (they do net streaming). Pandora is great too, just put in who you like and they will recommend and play new music.

    Also it is good to support your local scene, find out where indie bands play then listen to the ones coming on myspace, and go see them. It's nice because it is generally way cheaper to see an indie band than going to a mainstream artist's show.

    Also good: emusic, for something like $15 a month you get 50 songs or so. Pretty damn cheap. They have newsletters and stuff, plus as you download CDs, they can match you up with other people who have similar tastes and you can see what they like. Plus there are popularity charts, etc.

  6. Re:polar opposite on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    I dunno dude, I bet it'd be pretty easy to hotbox a shuttle. Throw in a Phish cd and some trippy vis, and they'd be set.

  7. Re:Questionable basis on The Engine of US Jobs · · Score: 1

    You can look at The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Foreign Labor Statistics to get an idea of unemployment in European countries based on the American concept of unemployment. It appears that the article is using these figures.

    http://www.bls.gov/fls/

  8. Re:A Danies skewed viewpoint on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Not to nit-pick but it was the leader of Hezbollah, not Hamas that said the fatwah against Rushdie would have prevented this.

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006 %5C02%5C03%5Cstory_3-2-2006_pg7_46

  9. Re:47%? on Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the first I've heard of it. It's a pretty serious allegation, do you have a source to back it up?

  10. Re:ID should be covered on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    We don't point out Neo-Nazism in science class, so why should we talk about Intelligent Design in a science class? Intelligent Design belongs in a philosophy or current events class, not a science class.

  11. Re:This is SO AWESOME!!! on Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service · · Score: 1

    Dude, I'm going to totally use my McDonald's Arch card to buy MTV's music on Microsoft's software.

  12. Re:Pricing on Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service · · Score: 1

    You should check out emusic.com if you haven't already. They have $0.25 a song with no DRM at all, just straight up mp3s. The only downside is that it's mostly independant record labels, but there is still a metric fuck-ton of quality music.

  13. Re:Not on GAIM, yet on AIM Bots: Useful or Spam? · · Score: 1

    AOL maintains the buddy list server-side, so I'm sure the mechanism is all server-side. I seriously doubt the bots themselves, or any client for that matter, could add themselves to people's lists.

  14. Re:Downhill on School Power Over Student Web Speech? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I agree. The freedom to raise a chicken in a bottle is a basic human right, certainly not cruel to the chicken. As soon as I get my head out of my ass, I too will be joining our bottled chicken raising brothers to the North.

  15. Re:This is silly on Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit · · Score: 1

    The difference between Sony DRM and a regular rootkit is no one wants to run a spam bot, but a lot of people actually want to listen to Sony music.

  16. Re:Flight Evolved Twice? on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 1

    They're saying that flight evolved in two seperate lines of dinosaurs. In other words, dinosaurs evolved powered flight twice.

  17. Re:Habitual offender? on Real And Microsoft Close to Settlement · · Score: 1

    I bet if you paid the right people $750 million, you could get out of a speeding ticket...

  18. Re:The world is not enough... on Google Hires Vint Cerf · · Score: 1

    And think about what this will do for the search for extra terrestrials

  19. Re:Terriable name on Nerdcore Rap In The Press · · Score: 1

    Weezer is called geek rock, yet they are taken pretty seriously, or at least they make a lot of money.

  20. Re:For the love of God, people... on Impact of Daylight Savings Time Changes? · · Score: 1

    According to the article, it's daylight-saving time so the AP style guide at least considers it to be an alternative. This debate is sort of retarded because no matter how you spell it, it will get the intended point accross. Additionally, while this is purely ancedotal evidence, most of the people I know say daylight savings time. I probably live in a colony of morons though.

  21. Re:What I really need... on TV On Cellphones Ever Closer · · Score: 1

    Actually I think Gilette is making a phone like this called the Mach 3G

  22. Re:Is this your job? on U.S. Congress Poised To Vote On Internet Tax Ban · · Score: 1

    Besides the interstate commerce clause, Congress makes good use of the 16th amendment, which is the amendment creating the federal income tax. Congress can exchange money for state laws, which is how they mandated the drinking age, for example.

  23. Re:Buying music online = ripping off support staff on Recording Deals In The Digital Age · · Score: 1

    I think the article he links to is actually talking about the producer. I don't see any references to dancers in it, and from the description of an art director, that sounds like a producer. It also says that the artists don't get paid royalties from internet sales. While it may not be illegal, it is certainly evil.

  24. Re:Voluntary ratings system on PG-13 Rating Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    before Columbine, most theaters where I lived didn't care about the rating all that much. I remember the South Park movie was the first one that they really cracked down.

  25. Re:Invasion of privacy? on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 1

    Intimidate people from doing what? I didn't know the police were a bastion of left wing activism. If you are going to cause a riot from watching F911 then you should be video taped. If you are video taping F911 then you should be video taped. If you don't want to be in public around other people, just download it. I know it's available, it's not like people are making you watch movies at the movie theatre.