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  1. Re:Just imagine... on Hungarian Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    But (according to the CIA World Factbook) only about 26% of the population of Wales speaks Welsh.

  2. Re:Lucky on Gravity-Bent Starlight Reveals a New Planet · · Score: 1
    "Because the effect works only in rare instances, when two stars are perfectly aligned, millions of stars must be monitored."

    Well, since the guys who found this say that: "In the 2004 Galactic bulge season about 120 million stars are regularly monitored and analyzed by the EWS system.", I don't think that should be a problem.

  3. Re:Fastest FOR WHAT? on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1

    RDF must stand for Reading Disability Field, and you must be under one. He said "Apple is about the only one who realized that you can't make money by selling songs only."

  4. Re:Good... on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 1
    If I had a dollar for every iPod killer that didn't outsell the iPod, I could afford an iPod Mini.

    And while many PMPs can play WMA, very few can infact play DRMed WMA (aka WMD). For all I know, the iPods outsell all of them combined. Don't let the low marketshare of MAcs confuse you even more.

    Last but not least, the iTMS sells to both Mac and Windows users (and before you ask, there was a large increase in sales after the Win version came out - Yeah, those were all by Mac users out to confuse you even more). And those WMD online music stores all are Win only - more sales to Mac users out to fuck with your mind.

    You must have ten iPods, given how irrational your post is.

  5. Re:Christ vs. Doom on On Religious Violence And Videogame Violence · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but his followers did not not form an army because they were so peacefull, but because they were chicken.

  6. Re:correction on On Religious Violence And Videogame Violence · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm much more scared of pimply high school students (and other people) with sniper rifles and other weapons, in combination with an unrealistic view of reality they got from a video game hunting down people they think are terrorists than of some bomb carrying suicidal maniacs.

  7. Re:Points Raised on On Religious Violence And Videogame Violence · · Score: 4, Funny
    There are people out there opposed to games, and they'll be opposed to them even when the only games available are "Pink Pony Princesses in Powder Puff World."

    And why wouldn't they? The title is:

    • A slur against homosexuals
    • A gender stereotype
    • Abuses animals for recreation
    • Propagates Monarchy
    • Promotes drug use
  8. Re:Search Warrent on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    A damaged car at the scene of an accident where somebody is killed is evidence, period. If you want to commit crimes, drive careful, damnit.

  9. Re:This is a non-story on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    100$ that they would have jailed him even without the black box. Even though CSI isn't all that realistic, forensic analysts would have found out more or less what the black box told them - just at a much higher cost.

  10. Re:Colon Powell releases Hubble photos in UN forum on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the reason why the US wanted the war is because Iraq didn't do enough business with US companies. See, the huge Haliburton deals weren't enough.

  11. Re:Colon Powell releases Hubble photos in UN forum on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, no. The US went to war against Saddam and won. These guys were opposed to Saddam and the US liberated them. This is a completly new war.

  12. Re:Colon Powell releases Hubble photos in UN forum on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, he now knows where Saddam hid his WMDs.

  13. "There is no ... on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... Deathstar here. And it's a moon anyways - that is not here."

  14. Re:The first ever "bargain" Mac on Apple Revises eMac · · Score: 1
    Countless security bugs in Windows.
    Countless virus and worms that exploit them.
    Exploding DELL notebooks.
    Display hinges breaking because DELL is too cheap to use a second screw (even though the hole is there)
    Eternaly stuck ghosts of Windows stuck on DELL displays.
    Generally crapy hardware all over PC land.

    If you think that only Apple has a problem or that is in fact anywhere as large as on the PC front, you have a problem.

  15. Re:Good aim... on Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life · · Score: 1

    No, this stuff.

  16. Re:Good aim... on Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life · · Score: 1

    The "funny" thing is that the military still likes to call their much more harmfull new WMDs non-lethal.

  17. Re:AMD and Intel have a cross-licencing agreement. on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Intel, AMD sign new licensing deal
    The two companies signed a 10-year patent-licensing deal, the fourth pact between the companies since 1976. The deal is retroactive to Jan. 1, when the previous agreement expired.
    Neither company needs a specific license to use one of the other's technologies (if it falls inside the limits of this deal of course), e.g. AMD doesn't need one to use (I)SSE (II(I)).
  18. Re:Seems feasible to me. on MagLev Trains Annoyingly Loud · · Score: 1

    But on a Maglev the only moving part is the train. Apart from air conditioning etc.

  19. Re:I knew this was going to happen... on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1

    Not that changing the dos extension does anything useful in 99% of cases - unles you count things like finaly being able to read READ.ME as READ.TXT in notepad ;-)

  20. Re:Nothing to see here. Move along. on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1
    Well, why bother using one of the hundreds of security holes for Windows, when the user will do all the work for you anyways?

    OTOH, some email worms (not virus) do exploit those security holes (e.g. Netsky.p or Bagle.q), and many people don't have the fixes installed (should they exist).

  21. Re:Apple protects fair-use on Monday Releases Cause Crashes · · Score: 1

    So what exactly does de-DRMing the AAC file give you that the original version doesn't? Unless your non-iPod player plays non-DRMed AAC, all you get is the ability to share AAC files with thousands of friends you don't know. The change to any other format is still as lossy as before.

  22. Re:Replace the Writers on Simpsons Actors on Strike · · Score: 1

    The Simpson jumped the shark when they jumped the shark in the Couch Gag for the second time.

  23. Re:Pictures and Details on Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage · · Score: 1
    And linked from there, the original. With all sorts of info, Flash presentations, CAD files...

    Wohr is one of the leading manufacturers of car parking systems in Germany. For the last 40 years now, since the number of cars on the roads began to increase, Wohr has been designing and installing parking systems. Okay, who stole the Umlauts?

  24. Re:a few of treks! on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1

    No, Danny Bonaduce, he and Gary look like twins. Or something ;-)

  25. Re:Big Endian on A History of PowerPC · · Score: 1

    This may come as a surprize to you, but for quite some time almost all processors access memory in at least 32 bit chunks, and alligned at that.