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  1. Re:PC Gamer on The Duel Between Gaming Magazines and Websites · · Score: 1

    I never got to read the real early issues, but in 2001-03 I had a subscription... I liked most of the articles, except for the one near the back, IIRC "The Hard Stuff". It had some good information, but the articles were full of so much *expletive deleted* that I could barely read them. I checked who the editor of the current magazine was, and you guessed it, the same "Vede" Vederman that wrote "The Hard Stuff" way back then...

    In short, I blame the "Vede."

  2. Re:Capella on Linux-Powered Lego-Like Devices Target Developers · · Score: 1
  3. Re:More important than homebrew potential on Wii Uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Saves · · Score: 1

    What? Having a Japanese and American Wii, 4 controllers, 3 nunchucks, 3 classic controllers and 15 games isn't normal?

  4. Re:TextPad on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    My one complaint with TextPad is the complete lack of unicode support. Even modern versions of NotePad can save in unicode...

    Whatever... I still registered for the few times I use Windows...

  5. Re:Perl on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, PHP was originally written in Perl as a framework...

  6. Re:Not necessarily on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 1

    If they happen to have a third one, they'll use something like Mailinator ...

  7. Re:Not the luck of the Irish... on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or they're just using the version number and not giving it a name.

    Windows 2000 = 5.0
    Windows XP   = 5.1
    Vista        = 6.0
    Seven        = 7.0

  8. Re:Said before on Virtualization May Break Vista DRM · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that the company didn't know what the 'D' in DRM stands for if they tried to go that route...

  9. Re:Other ways of handling it... on BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format · · Score: 1

    OK, I stand corrected, de jure does exist... although that definition doesn't seem to make sense in the original post to me...

  10. Re:Glad to see this. on BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format · · Score: 1

    Matroska, the container format, which is not and has never been a codec, is licenced under the LGPL... It is also an Open Standards project, meaning that a company could create their own source using the specification rather than the LGPL source code and do whatever they want with it... There are also BSD-licensed tools available...

  11. Re:Other ways of handling it... on BBC Threatened Over iPlayer Format · · Score: 1

    de jure I don't think that non-existant word means what you think it means...

    Try looking up du jour.

    Unless you're just making words up; in which case, you can habblefra for all I care...
  12. Re:Bad news, sir... on Crackers Cause Pentagon to Put Computers Offline · · Score: 1

    Let's just call Secretary Gates, Bob Gates...

  13. Re:"Cookie"? on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just remember, cookies are delicious delicacies...

  14. Re:Yes, I am a grammar Nazi on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    "Kekeke" Kekeke is not internet spawned, it's an Asian (or at least Japanese) laugh...
  15. Re:Folksonomy??? on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    ...is lingua franka a typo or supposed to refer to being frank?

    As for your sig, I normally look ahead and just shift+home,ctrl+c,tab,ctrl+v ...

  16. Re:District Strength on Redistricting Videogame Shows Problems in the System · · Score: 1

    Your vote helps decide (what/who) your district votes for. It's your district's vote that counts in the end, not yours...

  17. Re:Lockout chip business model on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    Not quite the same thing.

    If the PC manufacturer were to sue because you used someone else's software on your computer however...

  18. Re:IDE for Linux, yup on Linux Programmer's Toolbox · · Score: 1

    Look out! It's going straight for your head! Ooh! It just grazed your hair... ...That was a joke based on the misspelling of break.

  19. Re:Form factor on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Except that standard SD can support at least up to 4GB... See the TRSDC4G/150

    Thing is they want to push SDHC... They don't seem to be producing these any more...

  20. Re:Not holding my breath... on Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer · · Score: 1

    Clay is a bad analogy; it still has particles moving precisely because it is at room temperature. (even at a temperature of 1K there is some movement, not much, but still)

    The only way you could teleport someone would be to have the reconstruction be instantaneous. If you didn't then the part that was just reconstructed wouldn't match up to the next piece quite right. If you didn't you'd either end up frozen and dead, or mushy and dead. (with lots of blood all over...

  21. Re:When the day come... on Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer · · Score: 1

    defiantly? ...So he'll be refusing to go go through the pearly gates/cross the river Styx by proclaiming himself alive? ...Or will he still be here just claiming that he isn't?

  22. Re:One step closer to an ansible, maybe. on Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer · · Score: 1

    If you record a wonkavision broadcast, do you get chocolate every time you play it back?

  23. Re:Gentoo-Linux-Zealot Translator-o-matic! on New Gentoo 2007.0 Release Gets Mixed Review · · Score: 1

    One thing that happened to me recently was that an uninstalled dependency had to be compiled with a particular use-flag enabled in order for another dependency to compile successfully... I had to enable the USE flag and recompile that app itself...

    In summary, portage/paludis cannot currently check whether a dependency has the correct USE flags set.

  24. Re:How long until.... on Hackers Dodge Xbox Live Shutout · · Score: 1

    Are all the data files used by the signed executable signed as well? Can those be modified?

  25. Re:I like the dual-mode SD cards on A New Global Memory Card Standard · · Score: 1

    Except that it goes to at least 4GB without SDHC, they just aren't very common because of the push for SDHC..., try looking for the TS4GSD150...