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  1. Re:Annoying. on Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Because of the camera style, the intensity, and the extremely high level of continuity in the series it really reminds me more of 24 than any other show, including scifi.

  2. Re:Great. on Todd Howard on Fallout 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know, from the quote, it sounds like he got the point dead on for the difference between Fallout and the Elder Scrolls and he was sensitive to the more immersive characters in Fallout.

  3. Re:Gah! on PSP to Miss EU Launch Date · · Score: 1

    If you mean the video game market (and not consumer electronic goods in general, because I have no idea), the US market is almost twice as large as the Japanese market.

  4. Re:Oh good! on Family Guy Video Game in the Works · · Score: 1

    Some of the recent LotR movies were pretty highly rated, such as the RTS game that came out a few months ago. Believe it or not, there have been good games based on movies. Chronicles of Riddick was absolutely amazing, while the movie blew.

  5. Re:FCC? on Family Guy Video Game in the Works · · Score: 1

    How delightfully irrelevant!

  6. Re:Shock horror (not) on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    or else the series has already been shown in it's entirety on TV over there.

    Bingo.

  7. Re:How would it give sat TV competition? on XM and Sirius Merger? · · Score: 1

    I know most people don't RTFA, but you can at least RTFS.

  8. Re:I dont believe analyst on Cultural Blinders Lead to Nintendo Fallacy · · Score: 1

    Under what definition would you say that the Japanese market is the largest in the world? Because it isn't the leader in software and hardware sales, that would be the US.

  9. Re:Blog, anyone? on Sun Chief Calls Out IBM, Demands Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Now: Vice presidents of countries in the "Axis of Ebil" writing poetry and jokes about using Blackberries in his blog.

    And yes, I know he's since resigned as VP in protest, but he did start the blog while VP.

  10. Re:More Information from Pittsburgh Sources... on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Conservatives were for small government when they could use the term states' rights as a euphemism for segregation in southern states. However, whether they were truly ever for states' rights and small federal government is debateable, their support for it evaporated as fast as you can say legalized medical marijuana, doctor assisted suicide, gay marriage or counting votes.

  11. Re:It's not a US technology on Chinese DVD Makers Sue Over Royalties · · Score: 1

    And Pioneer is a US company. The parent's point wasn't that this isn't an issue of Chinese manufacturers versus American patent holders, because the patents come from all over the world.

  12. Re:No you don't on Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    You need to install X11SDK if you want to compile stuff to run on X11 though. That's on the Xcode CD for Panther, though you can also download it seperately. However X11SDK isn't even installed automatically with the Xcode tools, so you have to install them off the CD specially, not that it's a big deal, it's just a small package.

  13. Re:Anyone read the article? on Starcraft Ghost Update · · Score: 1

    Could've just as easily said the same thing about WoW. Another MMORPG? YAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNN. And now they've got a license to print money. Don't get me wrong, I'm skeptical of Ghost, and I didn't like WoW at all, but just because a genre seems saturated doesn't mean there isn't room for improvements there.

  14. Re:Broadly speaking, I'd agree on 2004 Good Year for Xbox · · Score: 1

    I'd love to live in your world where only the company that was in first place was a success. Afterall we know there's never any room in any industries for more than one company *rolls eyes*.

  15. Re:I think on 2004 Good Year for Xbox · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's very biased. I for one was expecting Microsoft to provide a lot more coverage for Nintendo and Sony's achievements in a Xbox achievement list.

  16. Phew on MySQL CEO Interview · · Score: 3, Funny

    And here I was expecting him to say "Hey, sell your shares, this company and this open source stuff is fucked." Well this is a relief.

  17. Re:What's the downside to using X11? on Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. X11 is a 16 meg download from Apple's site, or you can just install it off one of the Panther install discs I believe. How difficult is it to install? Well it's a .pkg file. Mount it, run it, put in your password and it's installed. I don't know why people say it's hard to install, maybe they're thinking of another X11 implementation (there's quite a few). It integrates with OSX pretty well actually. You can tab between X11 and other apps, and they also can be used with Expose and minimized to the taskbar. The titlebars and stuff are all OSX looking and you can use the same cut and copy shortcuts between them.

    Anyway if you want some info on it
    This one goes to 11

  18. Re:impressed by Japan on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    Japan also had a smaller population and a planned economy that was protected by the US. China has a planned economy (not sure about India), but they're going up the US and with the complexity of a humongous populations. I'd say if they did even half of what Japan accomplished it would be remarkable.

  19. Re:motion to rename the CIA on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    Former democrat senator from New York, Dan Moynihan saw it, as far back as 1980. Hell it was obvious to most people who studied the region back in the mid 80s when the Soviets began leaving Eastern Europe. When an empire falls it does so usually with extraordinary violence and opposition. Which makes the fall of the Soviet Union fascinating, since they pretty much relinquished their empire when they could see it wasn't working. It will be interesting to see how the US empire collapses.

  20. Re:Which religion? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I can't prove there's an Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy, that doesn't mean they exist.

  21. Re:Discretion / judgement / intelligence on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    They were there to get arrested. No sane person goes into a public place and causes a scene over jokes that are so old and lame not even Leno would touch them with a ten foot pole.

  22. Re:welcome to teh 20th century on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know. However, saying learn Cajun, is a bit like saying, learn American.

  23. Re:welcome to teh 20th century on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Is it in any dictionary? Having lived in Louisiana almost my entire life, if I had ever seen the word I might be more inclined to believe the original poster who can barely string a sentence together and doesn't even live in LA would know a single word so esoteric that not even Google has ever heard of it.

  24. Re:Don't forget the Amish on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    The Amish population isn't bigger than a couple hundred thousand though. If there are 19 million Americans without phone service available, they would be an almost insignificant factor.

  25. Re:welcome to teh 20th century on Louisiana Towns Going High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. And cajun isn't a language.