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  1. Re:If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. on Microsoft Buys Rare · · Score: 1

    My Atari Jaguar was better than both the Sega Genesis and the SNES, that's why Atari trounced both Sega and Nintendo in the early nineties console wars and is now a huge multinational corporation standing unchallenged liek a colossus over the console world.

    *cough* ...but it was better, I tell you; BETTER

    Clue Disclaimer: Flashy hardware means sweet FA if it ain't supported

  2. Re:Will it have DRM built-in? on Apple and IBM Working Together on 64-bit CPUs · · Score: 1
    Gaming industry != PeeCee Games

    Gaming Industry = Console + Arcade + PeeCee.

    Care to guess which one of those is the smallest and least profitable by far?

  3. Re:iMac Flat Panel DVD-RW Users Beware on High-Speed Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives · · Score: 1
    You know, I'll bet this is what the strange delay in getting 10.2.1 out the door is.

    N.B. Links lead to two different threads on Macworld forums for those interested.

  4. Re:No thanks on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 1

    Me too :-( But in theory they *are* out there ;-)

  5. Re:No thanks on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 1

    How about anyone who ever bought a desktop Mac?

  6. Re:Thoughts on a more modern GUI on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I can ssh into my Mac at home from my mac in work.

  7. Re:Did anyone notice ... ? on Politicizing Science · · Score: 1

    Nice :-) a +1 Funny if ever I saw one!

  8. Re:blind leadin the blind on Politicizing Science · · Score: 1

    Although he does tend to use the Homer Simpson pronunciation of "nuclear" as "nucular".

    Makes me cringe every time, even though what he says is not as bad as the press spin it to be.

  9. Re:Yeah, I need a 2.something ghz CPU for Word!!! on Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs · · Score: 1

    Me too. Running XP Pro on a AMD K6 266 with 162MB in a four year old laptop, works fine and is responsive and snappy (classic windows theme, natch). When I want linux I pop in the Knoppix CD and reboot and mount the empty partition of the internal drive to save stuff to.

  10. Re:CART and 5 Gs on New Jersey Officially Limits G-Forces on Coasters · · Score: 1
    You're forgetting the aerodynamics of an F1 or a CART car.

    In an F1 car the aerodynamics generate so much downforce at high speeds that the car could run upside-down (i.e. it exerts more downforce than the weight of the car... far more). Therefore cornering forces well in excess of 3G are normal in F1, especially through Eau Rouge at Spa in Belgium.

  11. Re:Real term papers are done using LaTeX on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1
    All research papers worldwide are done using LaTeX.

    That is just plain wrong. The ones we write (international standard research group) are written in what we have around on the lab computers; a mix of Word; WordPerfect and Appleworks.

    The journals I peer review for usually send out electronic copies of the papers to me a couple of days prior to the hard copy arriving, and I get a mix of WordPerfect and Word files, along with the occasional plain text effort, but by and large Word documents make up the vast majority,

    Note this isn't a pro-MS post, just a rebuttal of your statement, and a somewhat sad reflection on the proliferation of the Word "standard" in my area of the physical sciences.

    -----

  12. Re:WTF? Pepsi? on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout · · Score: 1
    It was called Breo; and it wasn't a lager.. it was a wheat beer like Hoegaarden (stunning stuff!). I guess it didn't take off though, shame, Breo was great.

  13. Re:iMicrosoft? on Review: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar · · Score: 1
    In the OSX.2 Install; there's an option called "Included Applications" that you can uncheck along with "Localized Fonts" and "Extra Printer Drivers" if you don;t want the iApps, it's that easy.

  14. Re:ugh? on Timeline of Online Gaming · · Score: 1
    Yes; they have a commentary, but being in Korean, I couldn't understand it.. They play Starcraft pretty much constantly; although they also had little segments where they would get what I presume were Korean pop celebrities to play Warcraft 3 against each other.


    They also had a 24 hour Go channel.

  15. Re:No. on Apple Reveals Mac OS X 10.2, 17" iMac, Windows iPod · · Score: 1

    You could try going in to the energy saver settings in system preferences and setting your HD to never shut off; it helps on the spinning "beach ball" (optical disc).

  16. Re:Oh ho... on The Economist Looks At The Console Industry · · Score: 1
    So as it is said in a famous anomatopeia, boo yah.

    The word is onomatopeia, and are you trying to immitate a ghost?

    Believe it or not, I played a ported version of FFX, Dynasty Warriors 2&3 for PC. It was even compatible with a gamepad.

    I'll single that out from the rest of your deluded ramblings although I could have picked any sentence, and offer the comment : Grow up and stop talking bollocks.

  17. Re:"Baffling" Logo on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1
    It's a Balooga Whale; they live in cool climates; the arctic and so forth; hence Cool

    And the pickaxe? well; you can use one to break rocks into stone chips right? hence Chips

    Hey Presto = Cool Chips

  18. Re:No games for the Xbox. on EA Cites MS Bullying, Says No Xbox Online Games · · Score: 1
    Project Gotham is just the Dreamcast's MSR with slightly slicker visuals and a new city; not enough to warrant a purchase, I'll just stick with MSR.

  19. Re:Serious question on EA Cites MS Bullying, Says No Xbox Online Games · · Score: 1
    No; I t's allegedly a port of Metal Gear Solid from the PSOne - the shadow moses incident; with the tanker level from MGS 2 tacked on the end.

  20. Re:Oh no! on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    Not only did I rip both discs of "drukqs"; I then converted the mp3's into an mp3 CD so I could put both discs on 1 mp3 CD; I then imported them into My open MG jukebox and transferred them to my Net MD minidisc. I would therfore surmise that key2audio is talking bollocks.

  21. Re:Use lots of packing peanuts on When Shipping the Big Iron...? · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Nice subliminal Star Wars Ep2 AOTC comment

    Interestingly, the clones referred to in the title are actually stormtroopers.

    Good Work :-)

  22. Reason on Apple Drops Mac OS 9 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Reason 2.0 has entered final Beta testing now; check it out here.

    It's fully OSX native and has two more instruments over and above Reason 1; a new graintable synth and an advanced sampler. The OSX drivers for my Roland UM1 midi interface are also in beta now and can be downloaded here.

  23. It's not the biggest news..... on Apple Drops Mac OS 9 · · Score: 1
    The biggest news is this :

    Jaguar Server: Net Install and Net Boot support. Every single server can install off of that. Built in Open Directory (LDAP). Server-optimized Java Virtual Machine.

    Jobs: "A week from tomorrow there'll be some news on the server front." May 14th: Apple introducing a dedicated server, rack mount model.

    Apple Big Iron

  24. Re:Osborne Effect on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 1
    WRC is great; but beware the loading times; I have no idea how GTA3 loads an entire section of a city in seconds; and WRC takes about a minute and ten seconds to load the next stage in a rally; which you complete in roughly 4 or 5 minutes anyway!

    If you can stand the loading times it's a good game though!

  25. Re:What next, 5,000 yen? on Xbox Price Drops For Australia And Europe · · Score: 1

    Thanks! It sounds great; I'm off to Lik Sang do do some snooping :-)