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  1. Re:Manhattan Project on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes and my sister died in Jamaca, New York under very strange circumstances the year before the WTC. "Natural Causes" my foot, so excuse me from being a bit leery of claims of New York's proficiency. Couldn't even keep two commercial planes from slamming into a tall building and they expect me to think they're proficient? Please!

  2. Except when thay think you are talking of gambling on Time To Stop Calling Them Games? · · Score: 1

    I insist that all http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22gaming+com mission have their names changed immediately to gambling commissions.

  3. Assistive AI on The Ultimate Dual-Hand Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    Assistive AI has certainly taken a leap beckwards in the Windows era. Computers should be autocompleting like mad. It boggles the mind how much productivity we've lost due to lack of automation that should be obvious implementations.

    What do you mean I actually have to drag the mouse to the next control element!

  4. Germane on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Newspaper articles are very freqently not very germane to anything else. Anything you see in the "News Media" isn't driven by what the viewers/readers want to hear, but by what someone wants them to know/feel/experience. If someone wants people to feel jazzed about terrorists then that's what they will see in the news.

  5. Manhattan Project on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Because that's where the project's headquarters was. This is orthogonal to where the scientists involved came from or where they spent their time.

  6. Re:Dated, what is dated? on FFVII Advent Children Dated · · Score: 1

    I figured on the archaic meaning, red the article and thought maybe this was some non-U.S usage, and began pondering the question of why a non-U.S. English speaker would be writing the headline for an article on a U.S. release date.

  7. Re:Why even bother? on Halo 2 Only on Vista · · Score: 1

    Stop making builds of it on a given platform, stop all testing for that platform, delete all previously available binaries from the main distribution point, possibly deleting all relevent bug report information, getting rid of all macro conditionals for alternate compilation for that platform, start using libraries that aren't supported on that platform, etc.

  8. I've gone through a few computers with XP on Halo 2 Only on Vista · · Score: 1

    Don't care to explain why that is, but on to the main point of my post. When a computer comes into my possession, SP2 goes on, the themes service goes off, if the indexing service is on it is off. I install Agent Ransack, because the disk search utility that comes with Windows is worse than useless. I add the Japanese IME in the localization control panel. I turn on multiple window panes in explorer, because single window navigation is useless except through the folders panel which automatically reverts the navigation to single pane. The web view pane should be as open and closable as the folders view but isn't. As soon as around 20 explorer windows are open, the grouping in the taskbar gets wonky, and on top of that, when around 40 windows from all programs are open, some sort of resource limit is reached, and no error message is displayed, windows and context menus cease to be created, and every so often a window with partial elements is rendered. All too often I get a window with the windows throbber neatly centered in the view, the menu missing.

  9. Re:Drug induced? on A Look At The Legend of Zelda Animated Series · · Score: 1

    Oh, but when I think of drugs I think more of LSD, or the kind to be had with a psychiatrists prescription. More to the case in point, when I think "drug-induced" I think the easiest way to come up with this stuff is by the altered consciousness that is to be had by so-called "mind-altering" drugs. Viewed in this light, the Zelda cartoons are rather tame.

  10. Mother Brain on A Look At The Legend of Zelda Animated Series · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always thought myself that the resemblance of Mother Brain to Tammy Faye Baker was striking.

  11. Drug induced? on A Look At The Legend of Zelda Animated Series · · Score: 1

    You clearly haven't seen Jungle wa itsumo hare nochi Guu then, or even BoBoBo. Just peruse the whole category of Absurdist Fiction and you'll have a whole 'nother idea what drug induced really means!

  12. Cool on Borland Divests IDEs to Focus on ALM · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So anybody want to start a collection to open source them?

  13. Re:HA! on France Moving Forward on Legalized P2P · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a growing class of people that the only thing stopping them from throwing pre-existing samples together and coming out with a pretty decent mix is the current music industry legislative mess. The scare they put into people prevents some from even trying.

  14. Nah, not illegal. on Libraries Say DRM May Harm Their Services · · Score: 1

    However it shouldn't be illigal to break it. Arms races are generally a good thing. Besids the technology itself is interesting to play with.

  15. The answer is clear and simple. on 'Used' A Dirty Word in Gaming · · Score: 1

    Close all development shops and sell new copies of currently existing content until there is no longer a market for it. Besides, I am currently considering the notion that companies that don't sell replacement copies of games when you get them robbed from you are practically accessories to theft.

  16. Pure restriction... on Crisis in Science Prompts Sharing of Data · · Score: 1

    Pure restriction of the sharing of information and data is not good for profits. Restriction to auditable conduits on the other hand is. The profitability of a given conduit varies.

  17. It depends on Computer Science Students Outsource Homework · · Score: 1

    Once they have the code they can read it to make sure it actually does what it is supposed to, rewrite it to their liking, etc.

    Also, it may be a situation where they know how to do the assignment, but want to spend their time on other assignments.

  18. I stopped too soon in my explanation on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 1

    It isn't the context menu itself that does it, I can open it and close it just fine. It's when I select open that it crashes.
    I did as you said and looked at the crash report.
    Here is what it says:
    appname: explorer.exe
    appver: 6.0.2900.2180
    ModName: ntdll.dll
    ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180
    Offset: 00043345

  19. Non-security Bugs on Ask Microsoft's Security VP · · Score: 1

    Currently in XP with all the patches, I can get Explorer to crash by clicking on Start, clicking on All Programs, and then right clicking on a group.

    Also, I keep running into resource pool limitations. It is normal for me to have around 50 windows open about 20 of which are Explorer folders. I have always thought that resource pools were a bad design. There's no point in grouping "resources" together. When I run into the limitation, grouped taskbar items won't display, the Alt-Tab list won't display, new windows won't show anything, and context menus won't open.

    Then there is the wrong icons, sometimes with a bold number showing up next to programs in the taskbar bug and the properly redrawing taskbar groups after closing a window and then clicking on the taskbar group. These are obvious bugs to fix, yet they go unfixed. Why?

    Also, why is the much needed network stack update being withheld until Vista. I am tired of sessions timing out because the stack isn't distributing transfers across all sessions properly.

  20. Re:Irked hardcore gamers? on The Business of Videogame Reprints · · Score: 1

    I am a 29 year old male. Rhapsody is a great game and anyone who thinks that it is a game about singing fairies made for 12 year old girls needs some serious therapy. Unfortunately the entire "theraputic community" is in need of some serious therapy.

    Some parents even want to protect their little darlings from games that have in their lyrics: http://animelyrics.com/game/rhapsody/evilqueen.htm
    I am mightier than the god
    The devil is my slave
    More beautiful than the goddess
    I put her face to shame

    There are a great many people out there unfortunately that can't stand even the mere existence of lyrics that dare to put the singer above gods, and would have anything to do with the devil and if you were to tell them that the devil is your slave would tell you that it's actually the other way around.

  21. Irked hardcore gamers? on The Business of Videogame Reprints · · Score: 1

    If you're measuring the value of your collection in dollars and cents then you're not a hardcore gamer. One way I measure the value of my collection is by whether or not I would want others to have the same experience. Measured that way, reprints of games in your collection is always a good thing.

  22. Matter of perspective on Beijing's New Enforcer - Microsoft · · Score: 1

    From another perspective, China's protecting it's citizen's privacy from Western influences, which in the past has meant such fun things as opium.

  23. Not just those who didn't get them the first time. on The Business of Videogame Reprints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was robbed. There are other ways of getting your collection wiped out, or even just a bit of your collection getting damaged. I'm glad they're reprinting Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, as it means it'll be easier for me to buy it again to replace the copy that got stolen.

  24. And another thing I learned about Freecycle was... on Building the "Social Internet" From the Outside In · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...that I wasn't going to find out what it was from the Slashdot article. I mean really, is putting:

    It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns

    Somewhere near the top of the article too much to ask for?

  25. Here? on UK Judge: Who needs software patents? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where is "here" in your case?