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  1. Re:Susan Calvin - Robopsychologist, not robot. on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    You want me to jerk?

    Why?

  2. Re:Naked Sun on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    "That's what the description reminds me of. Off of..."

    "Off of"?

    How about "from"?

    Fucking Americans butchering the language again...

  3. Re:Susan Calvin - Robopsychologist, not robot. on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    "I need more coffe"

    You coffee needs more LETTERS.

  4. Re:They are taking an antiquated story and... on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    George Clooney is a rather characterful actor, I find. He has pretty good comic timing too. Yous hould try and get over your jealousy at him being better looking than you are, console yourself with the thought that you're probably a better role-play-gamer than he'll ever be...

  5. Re:What? No trailer link? on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    AVI format? Why, there's a QuickTime available already!

  6. Re:Apple ads? on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, because there are no black people in the future."

    That's right! in the future, EVERYONE will be coffee coloured - Brazil is halfway there already.

  7. Re:Battery debacle on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    Omni Consumer Products being the corporation in this case, presumably.

  8. Re:You got it all wrong on "H-Bomb Secret" Now Online · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

    You're right, I shall be more careful in future.

  9. Re:Why 2BCE? on USB Menorah · · Score: 1

    I am 2003 this year, my son.

  10. Re:Judging from the pictures.... on USB Menorah · · Score: 1

    "We do these things because G-d told us to."

    And if G-d told you to jump off a cliff, would you do that too?

    If your spiritual beliefs are founded on a basis as weak as that cited, what the fuck is the point of EVER fighting with ANYONE about it?

  11. Re:You got it all wrong on "H-Bomb Secret" Now Online · · Score: 1

    "You're either with us or against us"

    That sound like free speech to you? The US is rapidly devolving into some kind of hideous dictatorship.

  12. Re:10.2.8 kernel panic? on ... And the Hits Just Keep On Coming · · Score: 1

    I'm on a Gig E dual 450 too, the 10.2.8 caused exactly ZERO problems, though that's now ancient history as I'm running a fully updated 10.3.2.

    Panther REALLY helps UI speed on the dual 450 - cheapest speed upgrade ever - go for it!

  13. Re:Why is this About US Opposing French Site ? on Giant International Fusion Reactor Draws Nearer · · Score: 1

    "the American colonists"

    Surely you mean the American terrorists?

  14. What's a Geek to Do? on Replaced by Outsourcing -- What's a Geek to Do? · · Score: 1

    Suicide seems like a good bet.

  15. Re:Ug.. on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is up with your grammar skillz?

  16. Re:Ug.. on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    Fuck LOTR, the best movie I saw this year was almost certainly Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can". Mind you, it may have been a 2002 picture in the 'states. In that case, Pixar's "Finding Nemo" was really excellent - far better than LOTR again. I liked "Intolerable Cruelty", too.

  17. Re:Dye Sub? on Downloadable Origami Motorcycles · · Score: 1

    There's a parallel situation with those old Kodak film scanners that were designed for the high speed production of Photo CDs - by modern standards they're really crappy, but you still see 'em on eBay for 6 times the cost of a Nikon Coolscan V.

    Caveat emptor, as ever.

  18. Dye Sub? on Downloadable Origami Motorcycles · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Man, that technology is so old it's got whiskers. Even before the advent of six colour inkjets it was looking shaky.

  19. Re:Calling Bill Joy on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    American ones will INEVITABLY be ED-209 style and bristling with guns, Italian ones exceptionally stylish but rather impractical, French ones intriguingly novel but ultimately unreliable, British ones able to hover and accomplish many extraordinary feats but commercially unsuccessful.

    Chinese robots will be crappy, cheap and will dominate the market.

  20. Re:Calling Bill Joy on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "women in some countries still do not have the right to vote or have basic human rights."

    Oh, you mean like black voters in certain southern American states?

  21. Re:Calling Bill Joy on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    Don't bother yourself - pearls before swine.

  22. Re:Preach it brother-What's in it for me?-PAL-II on Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes · · Score: 1

    During the '80s Philips instituted a standard for identifying what mix of signals a specific SCART socket was wired for - if I remember correctly blue was RGB, yellow was s-video, orange was CVBS and black was full implementation - S-video.

  23. Re:Preach it brother-What's in it for me?-PAL-II on Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes · · Score: 1

    ...as is ANY point about SECAM. If you knew ANYTHING about European video you'd know that 99% of people use SCART to plug their DVD player into their TV - and that there's no PAL / SECAM distinction over RGB.

    SECAM has absolutely NO impact on the DVD industry.

  24. Re:QuickTime lost to Windows Media a long time ago on Apple Updates G5 Firmware, ARD Client; Not MPEG-2 Decoder · · Score: 1

    ...and at exactly the time MS are really pushing ahead with Win Media.

    What annoys me the most about QT is that Apple have done such a magnificent job with DV and it's variants, and yet have totally dropped the ball with 'GOP formats' - Pixlet is hardly compensation when it won't even play properly on a dual 500Mhz G4 - Win Media WILL play HD on a dual 1Ghz PIII!

  25. Re:Preach it brother-What's in it for me?-PAL-II on Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes · · Score: 1

    I don't care if they disagree with me.

    I'll state it again THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAL AND SECAM DISCS. No difference between PAL and SECAM S-VHS, Betacam SP, Digi Beta, DV, DV-CAM, Mini DV, DVC, DVC Pro, Beta SX, IMX, D1 or D5 either.

    I make DVDs every day, BTW, some of these are even designed for France...