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  1. Re:logical falacy on DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Especially since they've sold content without DRM for years, on CDs. How is selling DRM free content over the internet different than selling DRM free content on CDs. Anyone who wants to share their downloaded tracks illegally is already capable of sharing tracks they've ripped off their CDs.

  2. Re:Why do they keep giving him movie rights? on Uwe Boll Returns To Small-Time Terrible Films · · Score: 1

    Why not license it? People know video game movies are bad, so a bad movie isn't going to have a negative effect on the game franchise, and it may actually draw some interest if it is actually somewhat watchable. In the meantime, the game creaters get their movie-check.

  3. Re:PARSEC!! The TI994/A Ruled!! on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    It was even better with the voice synthesizer add-on. "Alien Craft Attacking" It was quite a few years later before we had another gaming machine that could do that.

  4. TI on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    We had a TI computer. Along with BASIC we got to play such classics as Munch-man (a pac-man clone), Parsec and Hunt the Wumpus. Then there was the one really big game that had to be loaded from audio tape. That was fun listening to random electronic noise for 15 minutes while the game loaded.

  5. Re:.exe on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    rename firefox.exe to iexplore.exe. You're good to go. Using filenames to allow/disallow processes is just a bad idea.

  6. Re:Well, he's over 40. on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes · · Score: 1

    You can't argue that Radiohead's selling approach worked for Radiohead on this album. Whether that approach is sustainable long term, or will work for all bands remains to be seen. I applaud them for trying it, but it's too early to say that this is definately the way of the future.

  7. Re:one problem on A Giant Step in Cloning · · Score: 1

    If you're transplanting brains, why put your brain in another squishy human body? Much better to put your brain into a robot body.

  8. Re:hmm on Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Vaporware is were a product has been heavily hyped, but ultimately never actually produced. "Android" has just been announced, of course it is still in design phases. This should not be surprising or disturbing. If in a few years we still don't have it then you can start calling it vaporware.

  9. Re:No Free Lunch on City of Heroes Purchased By NCsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, I might. Not that debt is a big deal anyway, but if I knew all my debt was going to be erased tommorow, I might have fun and mess around a little more (Yeah, I can fight that hundred foot giant robot ALL BY MYSELF. OWWWW, that left a mark).

  10. Safe for work on Tim Schafer Confirms No Psychonauts Sequel Likely · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure, just try to explain that to your bosses. I just want to read the articles, honest!

  11. Re:nope. on Paying People to Argue With You · · Score: 1

    It is NOT!

  12. Re:Anyone ever heard of the manufacturer? on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    I have Kubuntu (Ubunut KDE) running on a 600 Mhz pentium, and it's generally very responsive. It may have a little more memory than that (I seem to remember it having 700 MB when it was running Windows 98), and I don't use it much for audio/video, but it's quite enough for what it does.

  13. Re:I guess I'm odd then on The Best Tech You Can't Get in the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A watch on your wrist is a lot more convenient for checking time than a phone (unless you're already holding the phone for some reason, and not talking on it). You're also less likely to have left it on your desk, or shut it off to conserve battery power. And my cheap phone removes the clock from the main screen if it wants to tell me instead that it has no signal (in a subway), but I'm sure there are phones that aren't that stupid.

  14. Re:Excellent book on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure where I'd rank them in comparison with HHGttG and Restaurant, but both Dirk Gentlys were far superior to the later Hitchhiker books.

  15. Re:Lucy in the sky with Takai, ... on George Takei Now an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Buy you really need to hear him sing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

  16. Re:We claim a mile, but we'll only use an inch... on AT&T Denies Censorship, Won't Change Contract · · Score: 1

    There's a wonderful scene in a novel by John D. MacDonald's book Condominium Is John D. MacDonald's book a good author?
  17. Re:Delete your cookies on Google Unveils Flash Ads · · Score: 1

    Cookies are a sometime food. Do you want your Cookie Monster to get fat?

  18. Re:Pointless but cool? on Realtime ASCII Goggles · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what chewing gum is for?

  19. Re:Not really on Are Game Publishers Late To the (Wii and DS) Game? · · Score: 1

    So, people aren't going to buy 3rd party games because of there will be no good 3rd party games. Therefore, 3rd party publishers should not bother to make games for Wii.

    The only way that logic makes sense is if you have the unstated assumption that 3rd parties are incapable of making good games for the Wii

  20. Re:With all these spare machines sitting around... on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 1

    Then later the other machines leaves, after being declared the winner.

  21. Re:Some nerve on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    They can't demand that you do anything. But if they determine that you're not going to look at their ad and earn them money, they're free to not provide you with services. In response, you're free to encourage people to not use their site even if they don't mind viewing the ads.

  22. Re:This sounds familiar on Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found · · Score: 1

    Zork takes too long, try Pick up the Phone Booth and Die

  23. Re:Softcore on Miyamoto Speaks, Nintendo Ditching the Hardcore? · · Score: 1

    Just because the wii controller has less buttons, doesn't mean the control scheme is more intuitive or easier to remember. You still have to remember that waving your left hand around does this, waving your right hand does this.

    And the wiimote+nunchuck still has an analog stick and 4 easy access buttons (plus a d-pad and four other buttons that require shifting your grip). Zelda uses every single button as well as motion sensing on both controls and the pointing interface. Dragonball uses most of them and the more complex controls take quite some time to get used to.

  24. Re:Sell it on eBay... on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous you didn't think of giving away "slapmyass is my homeboy" t-shirts.

  25. Re:I'll take coffee, thankyouverymuch on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 1

    The problem with coffee is you have to drink it as soon as you pour it. With Coke, you can leave it sitting around taking sips as you work and it'll be ok for hours. If you don't finish your coffee within 10 minutes or so it gets cold, and there is little that is nastier than a cold cup of coffee.