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  1. The irony of it all on Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players · · Score: 1

    You crit English Language for 30000 damage
    English Language dies.

    Dear Zonk,
    It is ironical that the word receive is spelled wrongly in the submission. Please refer to the cliche above for the irony to sink in. Have a nice day at Azeroth.



    100g YOU BUY OK? (couldn't resist this).

  2. Balderdash on Google Video Not Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Either Google recently updated this or people need to learn to fucking read: Man In The Attic iWatchNow.com 1 hr 22 min 15 sec - Dec 20, 2005 www.iwatchnow.com Back to video details Resume purchase Sorry, purchasing this video requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP. That's the description beside the video window.

  3. Re:Government backdoor? on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    Plausible Deniability

  4. Re:Ken Rockwell... And I'M the LameJokeGuy? on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    Your statement about beginners using 35mm tells me all i need to know about your "knowledge". You also know more than Ken Rockwell - oh you are one smart guy.

  5. sigh - slashdot at its finest on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh god - typical slashdot drama!!

    It is a sad thing that Nikon UK has chosen to do what they have decided to do but that doesn't mean Nikon has started that world-wide. If the British need newer lenses, they can buy from the US online sites. Taken another step to the grave my ass: a bad analogy but the FDD isn't totally dead yet and people have been predicting it's death for the last decade. Film photography is an enjoyable experience that requires a decent amount of discipline and knowledge. The photographs from a film shot have much higher resolution than a digicam shot. Sure a digicam is more convenient but photography isn't meant to be a convenience thing at all times. Sure a point and shoot is awesome at your baby's birthday party but not everything is a birthday party. Photography for me is light falling on film :).

  6. Re:So what? on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    Hey dumbass - i am going to bet you weren't even born when Nikon came out with it's first production digicam. So please take your half-assed knowledge somewhere else. It's the photographer, not the medium, which defines quality. And as for your ridiculously stupid statement that 35mm has less resolution, the 35mm beats digital camera resolution by a huge factor. Don't trust me? Read KenRockwell. Your statement that beginners and 35mm (and you mean film here) shows how much you know about photography.

  7. Re:so what else is new? on Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw · · Score: 1

    Actually it's security and they are trying. Go ahead and mod me down as flamebait but nothing is more ironic than "experts", who cannot spell security, ridicule another organisation for failing to be more secure.

  8. Talking about Serenity/Firefly and Windows... on Slashback: Little Red Hoax, Firefly, Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    In "Trash", while Kaylee and Jayne are working on the dumpster's control panel right before Jayne gets electrocuted, you can plainly see that the screen on the control panel is a screen shot of a Windows 2000 Desktop, complete with Start bar. The window that is up appears to be the Add New Hardware window.

    I am serious - the scene appears at around 21:39 :)

  9. bah on Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness · · Score: 1

    Someone has to say it - so i'll take the axe. In Soviet Russia, Sarah Connor find robot!. God that sucked so horribly. Ok, now you may punish me.

  10. More like Mac & linux = understatement of the on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    First they bring out Monad Shell (MSH). Now the graphics subsystem is moving to user-space. What's next? A Journaling file-system and opening the windows source code? I am not sure what's happening: Windows is becoming more Linux like to be reliable and people are trying to make Linux UI more Windows like so the average joe can switch? A little puzzling...just a little.

  11. Re:Finally, can I turn the GUI off on my server? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is bring out Monad Shell (MSH). I've tried the beta (thanks to MSDN) and i have to admit it's something (especially after years of command.com and cmd.exe). You can read more about it here. MSH is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Windows that support .NET Framework v2.0.

  12. Is this going to slow down graphics performance? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    I have a beast of a machine that i use only for playing games (and porn but that's a different story). All these years, my excuse for using windows was gaming and how the graphics subsystem is faster (though less reliable: weird driver behavior and BAM!! blue screen) since it's wired into the kernel. Another line of reasoning was that since the graphics subsystem was in kernel space, it got higher priority :|. If only more game publishers were brave enough to release for the Macintosh platform (and now with the move to Intel, that porting might not be such a pain), it might be time to consider a Macintosh (i feel totally ridiculous for saying this since i am in the "Macs are overpriced, you can get a PC for much less, Mac fanboys should be shot" camp). Oh, how times change.

  13. Re:Pump and Dump? on Google to Buy Opera? · · Score: 1

    Heh - i needed months to come up with a nice name ;). Posting as AC was always easier on those dumb terminals where all we had was Netscape 4.7 :D and just about enough time to quickly read and post. Oh we had pine as well.

  14. Re:Pump and Dump? on Google to Buy Opera? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's actually not a very logical line of thinking. If google.com is not viewable by IE, MS will blame google and ask users to use MSN search (Yes, MS is not sitting on their arses doing nothing about search). Also, please knock off the goddamn $ from the abbreviated Microsoft name - it's like the average 1990 slashdot geek is calling back for his witty abbreviation.

  15. Re:How about . . . on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    Funniest post of the month. I swear to god. :)

  16. so it's like Netscape? on Unpatched Firefox 1.5 Exploit Made Public · · Score: 1

    "Users have to kill out of the browser and start over again. This stalled browser creates a DOS (denial of service) condition," Ullrich said.

    This reminds of all those horrible years of Netscape 4.x on Solaris desktop environments when the CPU usage would spike to 95% thanks to Netscape and Netscape would need to be killed :(. And 1.0.7 is working just great for now.

  17. Re:How does this look? on How Long is Too Long to Update? · · Score: 1

    In fact here it is: http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/2118/windowsupt ime9tu.jpg The username and organisation details have been blacked out for obvious reasons and yes i do use the system fairly well (coding, doubling up as a stress client, email, browsing and other general usage).

  18. How does this look? on How Long is Too Long to Update? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
    OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
    OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
    OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
    Original Install Date: 9/27/2004, 12:49:15 PM
    System Up Time: 184 Days, 4 Hours, 3 Minutes, 16 Seconds


    The only time i had to bring it down was to replace hardware (i am behind a corporate firewall, the XP firewall is active) and i don't care about patches. No, i am not trolling - windows machines enjoy decent uptimes too. Let me know if anyone wants too look at a screenshot.

  19. Re:But on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 1

    Funny, the mammal must be thinking the same thing ;)

  20. Re:I guess it had to happen... on Wikipedia to Restrict Creation of Articles · · Score: 1

    Ok you didn't read the article (which says anonymous edits are still going to be allowed). Atleast you could've read the summary (which states that anonymous edits are still going to be allowed).

  21. Re:Hmmm... on Microsoft's Answer to Google Base · · Score: 1

    I found it: "With Fremont, Microsoft expects to make money by selling contextual advertising that would accompany search results, Wiseman said.". I am guessing Microsoft Contextual Ads = Google Ad sense (or the intention anyway)!.

  22. Fremont the center of the universe on Microsoft's Answer to Google Base · · Score: 1

    For the curious, Fremont is also the name of an area in Seattle. Here you go.

  23. Hmmm... on Microsoft's Answer to Google Base · · Score: 1

    The article says something about putting ads on MSN messenger / MSN spaces. Does this mean this is totally different from Ad Supported Free Windows. Also does anyone know if the ads will be as non-intrusive and follow the google ad sense model?

  24. why not pay the shareholders? on Court Rules Ellison Must Donate $100M to Charity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obviously i am no business genius but why does the payment be in a form that will add to the stock value? Can't the judge order Ellison to write out checks to the ones who suffered?
    Also, the timestamp on the news.com.com site shows that this news is about 2 weeks old. Isn't that like a lifetime in the Internet age or is this a dupe post :(

  25. Re:Cool crash screens though. on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All lies!