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  1. Re:The so-called reason on Netflix To Eliminate Profiles Feature · · Score: 1

    My queue isn't really set up in the order I want to watch things. How can it be? I don't know what I'll want to watch few months from now. It's mostly in the order of when I added things to the queue.

    When I return a movie, I give it a look over and bump what I want to see next to the top. The queue is useful as a place to record all the things I've thought of that I want to see, to save me from the problem I have any time I go to the video store, having to think "What was that movie I wanted to rent...?". I've got all the movies I've been thinking about right in this list

  2. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    I did that all the time. Saw it as my reward for being fast. I'd usually take the time to do some recreational reading. But something just staring out the window and daydreaming was good. I had one teacher who'd take the test, sit behind me and grade it right there. That was a little unnerving, but it always came back with a good grade.

    I recognized that the teachers simply didn't have time to prepare material for the rest of the class, and then prepare a second accelerated class for maybe 2-3 other students. In a different class, the teacher went so slow that I simply ignored his lectures and read the textbook myself, by the end of the year I got 3/4 of the way through the textbook while the class only got 1/2.

  3. Re:Even scarier... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 4, Informative

    And by a very strict literal interpretation of the constitution, the government can only suspend Habeas Corpus in cases of "rebellion or invasion"

  4. Re:Sudden? on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, the solution is to just treat them like crap. Bush is determined to not find out if they are really enemies.

  5. Re:More good reading on the decision on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    No, that's exactly what we don't need. Constitutional protections apply to everyone, citizens, non-citizen legal residents, illegal immigrants, visitors, and even people in other countries. These are basic human rights. People should not have to live in fear that they will be arrested and held indefinitely without a fair chance to defend themselves. How would you feel if you were visiting Europe and were pulled off the street, told you were a murderer and thrown in prison for life without trial?

  6. What is best in AoC? on AoC Bug Penalizes Female Characters? · · Score: 5, Funny

    To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the female characters.

  7. Re:Don't let the door hit you on the way out... on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 1

    This completely ignores that editors can also come with script engines to allow users to greatly enhance their own productivity. Changing editors can often cause the loss of many other valuable tools. If you have all the developers using a single editor, they can all share those scripts and any tool written by one developer can be shared among the others. That's some benefit, but not necessarily outweighing letting everyone use the tool they're most used to.
  8. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    I hate Joe Isuzu

  9. Re:Huh? Didn't you get the memo? on TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID · · Score: 1

    Someone asking you for your papers would be addressing you formally, so they would use Ihr, rather than dein. (Yes, confusingly, ihr can be either the 2nd person nominative plural pronoun, or the possessive of sie (she or they). Ihr (with the capital) is the possesive of Sie, which is the formal form of you (both singular and plural).

  10. Mine it! on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 1

    Mine it for cheese. If we start bringing our cheese down from the moon, we won't need as many dairy cows which will cut down on global warming.

  11. Re:Blue tooth buttons and video interface. on iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games · · Score: 1

    So people would have to not only buy a special protective skin from one particular vendor, they might have to buy 3 or 4 of them to have the "right" skin for the game they want to play on their phone?

  12. Re:I miss Dejanews on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    "This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing."

  13. Re:Say what you will.... on Sci-Fi Channel Merging TV Show with MMO · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sci-Fi didn't have the courage to "Bring back" Doctor Who to the US until the new series had already proven to be successful in the UK. Despite large demand from fans, they initally passed on the series.

  14. Re:What Happened When HD-DVD Gave Up on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    I think Blu-Ray's biggest problem is its abbreviation. Blu-Ray is a pretty cool name, and gets points for being easier and faster to say than the competing HD-DVD. But the abbreviation BD just loses it all. BD doesn't make you think Blu-Ray, so it's potentially confusing, and it doesn't invoke the coolness of the full name. In speach, BD will either be mistaken for CD, or make you sound like Twiki from Buck Rogers.

  15. Re:What Happened When HD-DVD Gave Up on Toshiba Going After Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    If only for the reason that it kept their price down. I recently got a HD TV, and have thought about getting a PS3 to see what HD can really do, but the prices are still too high. (So I'm stuck with upscaled (often badly) content from the cable company). Widescreen DVDs look good taking up the whole screen, though.

  16. Re:All these funny comments but.. on Seven Failed Foot-Based Game Controllers · · Score: 1

    There's a few that require you to run by shaking both hands up and down in sequence, and the music games take both hands. and I thought there were more, but I can't think of any off hand. It's possible that there are at most one of those on each "level" so you could skip them.

  17. Re:All these funny comments but.. on Seven Failed Foot-Based Game Controllers · · Score: 1

    Well some of the games on Rayman work with one controller. There are a lot that require both. And you can't advance to get to later games without beating the earlier ones.

    I'm currently playing Zack and Wiki, which is a fun game which only uses the one controller.

  18. Re:My Sweet Lord on An Imaginative Use For CCTVs · · Score: 1

    Or ask John Fogerty about plagiarizing himself.

  19. Re:Wait, CCTV owners? on An Imaginative Use For CCTVs · · Score: 1

    So they can't charge you until you refuse to stop? This wouldn't prevent them from performing for the CCTV's freely, just as long as they pack up and leave when asked.

  20. Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 1

    With the success of the GTA series so far, though, I'd say the percentage option would be a pretty good bet. It all depends on how the percentage and cash amounts pay out (And of course, percentage of WHAT. Make sure they can't come back to you and say that hugely succesfull video game lost money so you get no royalty)

  21. Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 1

    GTA II and IV do not have the same voice actors. I only know this because GTA II had no voice acting (just some squawky unintelligible radio). Even if it did, no I don't think I'd care.

  22. Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 1

    Not every actor is a superstar pulling in millions for every movie. This guy may be the "star" of GTA IV, but he's more comparible to the countless actors picking up small parts whose name no one remembers than Harrison Ford. I just read the summary a few minutes ago, and I've already forgotten his name.

  23. Re:Windows woes on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    Apt-get (debian's update software, used by ubuntu) allows you to register additional software sources to update from. So, I can add Opera's repository to /etc/apt/sources.list, and opera updates are then handled just like updating any other software on the system. I'm not familiar with how the other distros do it, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were similar mechanisms.

  24. Re:Power consumption, my friends on Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's not green about that? Baby seal skin is a renewable resource.

  25. Re:Please dont comment without knowing about on Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    EVE is not a pure PVP game. There are huge parts of the world that are PVP free, and you can get along fine with only brief runs through pvp-legal space when traveling from point to point (And in most of those areas, you're perfectly safe 99% of the time). I've looked at the forums, there's plenty of flamewars going on between PVPers and "carebears"