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  1. Wal-Mart not the cheapest place, but driver... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    The argument isn't that Wal-Mart is the cheapest place, but that it is the driver for cheap goods.

  2. Re:Monthly report on March Game Sales Trend Downward · · Score: 1

    That was the preview, this is the wrapup.

  3. It all depends on what you mean by "picky" on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    You're being picky in a way that includes Wal-Mart and disincludes distributors that don't have the widespread outlets. What you are really saying is that you can't afford to be picky using different criteria.

    Just now the commercial with the guy in the game rental store saying they have nada came on.

  4. Not "Welcome to Capitalism" on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    While this system has its capitalistic elements, it is not a pure capitalist system, nor do all capitalist systems resemble this one.
    Saying "Welcome to capitalism" is like looking at Christianity in America or Buddhism in China and saying "Welcome to Religion"

  5. Average Joe on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    The average Joe works at Wal-Mart, getting paid the slave wages that mean he can only afford to buy at Wal-Mart. The average Joes that don't work at Wal-Mart work for compainies that provide services to Wal-Mart, or need the customers that get paid Wal-Mart slave wages, so those companies in turn pay their average Joes slave wages, and in turn those average Joes can only afford to buy at Wal-Mart. Furthermore the quality of the goods from companies that need to sell to the slave wage earnrs suffers as they have to cut quality to provide a price that the slave wage earners can afford.

  6. Different people different idea of IDE on Novell Still Runs Windows · · Score: 1

    My experience with an IDE was with QuickBASIC. You could/can get help on any feature of the language just by placing the cursor on a word in your program and pressing F1. If you put the cursor on a variable and pressed F! it told you what type it was. If you pressed F1 on a user defined type, you would see all of the elements of that type.

  7. A standard practice these days. on Microsoft To Appeal EU Decision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not just Microsoft. Change the subject and pretend it was the subject all along. I've had a lot of conversations where I've had this done to me. Then there's the whole "Wondering why you're so upset for" bit, done here as "We shouldn't be penalized for being successful".

  8. Re:Two funny comments on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick · · Score: 1

    No, no, since the world has failed to standardize on Windows, Bill Gates is going to crash the moon into the world to start over creating his standardized world free of poverty.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Revenge+of+the+I mperial+Electronic+Brain

  9. Re:Said on IBM Hardwires Encryption Into Chips · · Score: 1

    It's not so much that we don't care who gets in as much as we would prefer that all of those with the resources to do so didn't. But there isn't a mechanism to stop that, so we're in trouble.

    It's like the scenario in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    Their planet is ruled by lizards.
    So the people are lizards?
    No the people are people. The rulers are lizards.
    So why do the people vote for them?
    They want to make sure the wrong lizard doesn't get in.

    Except the thing is that it shouldn't be a lizard in power but a person so no matter who they vote for they lose.

    While I can't speak for the entire %44 percent, in America right now, that's the way it is for a great many people- no matter who you would vote for, you'd lose big with an inperceptible difference no matter who you pick, so why tie up resources to vote?

  10. A better lighted shot on Why Is Data Mining Still A Frontier? · · Score: 1

    The article said that the researchers were prepared to store their database on index cards. With people still prepared to keep vast amounts of data off computers, it seems that there are still a number of hurdles to jump through before much data is in a state suitable for correlation.

  11. A detail that the patent would reveal on Paul Graham on Patents · · Score: 1

    Patents these days are written either to hide details or to smudge the details enough so that the patent can appear to cover more than it should. I think that throwing out all such patents would clear up a lot of the problem.

  12. Other games (Duel Monsters) on Warcraft III on a Table-Top · · Score: 1

    So when will we see duel monsters on one of these things?

  13. Foster's Landing on Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm · · Score: 1
  14. Re:His future is so bright, he's got to wear shade on Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm · · Score: 1

    So what does this have to do with Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.

    For that matter, I live in an apartment complex named Foster's Landing and the road is named Foster's Way.

  15. Is that why they're there? on ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus · · Score: 1

    I thought they were looking for somebody new to surrender to!

  16. Re:Linux is NOT Fat on Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But seriously, it's not fat, it's nerves and muscle, except that the appendages and sensory organs aren't always there to be supported by them.

  17. Re:Spelling Nazi, sorry on Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    At one time I lived in an alternate universe in which there were two words seperate and separate. One was a verb, and the other was an adjective.

  18. Contradictory on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1

    China is nearly not the land of freedom.

    So does this mean that China is the land of freedom but is getting close to no longer being so? What does this mean for:

    Not even freedom of choiche, let alone freedom of speak.

    Then you're back with how great China is with:
    So stop that nonsense about corporations' pressure, the only type of pression in China is the one by the Government upon chinese people.

    Yeah, I'd like it if the only pressure in the United States was government pressure. (though seriously it'd be stronger if it was the only pressure) Right now in the United States, you have to deal with corporate pressure, organized crime pressure, medical establishment pressure, scientific establishment pressure, organized religion pressure, and the average joe on the street pressure, just to name a few.

  19. Why, yes... on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1

    Yes I do. That is pretty much exactly what I want. The sooner we get through these wars to end all wars the better off we'll be. They are pretty much inevitable and the more we put them off the worse they'll be. We already have evidence of this every time a market correction is delayed.

  20. Thank you Captain Oblivious on Top Video Sharing Sites Reviewed · · Score: 1

    My statement was played for humor and was by no means intended to indicate the actual capacity of the MPAA.

  21. Role of an encyclopedia on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 1

    Yes, but with Wikipedia sometimes it fails and this is one case where it seems to have failed spectactularly. By "some formulation of the hard disk law" I meant some rule of thumb stating the increase of hard drive space over time, not that there are ones concerning the improvement of a technology.

  22. Re:Kryder's Law on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some formulation of the hard disk law has been around long before the SciAm article. It seems to me that some Wikipedia author remembered such a variation, went looking for "verifiability" found the SciAm article, slapped Kryder's name onto the "Law" and voila! Kryder's Law was born!

  23. Taste food? on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 1

    Why yes! I do taste food...

  24. IBDOF on Comparison of Internet Book Databases? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We have 1133 registered users and We have 3334 registered users

    Come again?

  25. Re:Missing on Top Video Sharing Sites Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Oh great, now you've just tolled the MPAA the real hiding plaice of oal the Pi-rats!