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  1. Re:Video on mobile phones on VLC For Android May Arrive In Early 2011 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Bittorrent on Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Also, add in the other forms of digital distribution, and digital cable, can't the source providers just collect their own data?

  3. Bittorrent on Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can justify Bittorrent "profit" losses by using download statistics to provide ratings. Nielsen is just an extrapolation anyways. At least for certain markets they could save a ton of money on this research.

  4. Re:But how would this be deployed? on Researchers Enable Mice To Exhale Fat · · Score: 1

    Well, they talked about introducing the genes to the liver. And people can have liver transplants. And we can grow livers. Sounds like aftermarket possibilities. Even if not the liver, some effective organ.

  5. Re:I knew it! on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea... you should write a book on it. And maybe refer to those as Strange Loops.

  6. Re:What Will Firefox Fanboys Do Now? on Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Vista has no issues. Their response on why there is no native 64-bit: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/64-bit-support

  7. Re:I'm more concerned about this part... on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Naw, if you read it right, it won't be installing completely new software, just allowing them to autoupdate and extend chrome. There's nothing new here any other updating software does.

  8. Re:Put into another way on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 1

    Honestly, Alan Moore is the Richard Stallman of comic books. In more ways than one, if you've seen any pictures of him.

  9. Re:Put into another way on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 4, Informative

    Eh, you clearly don't know Alan Moore's opinions of comic book movies, especially his own. He's already (as always) disowned the movie, and says he does not plan on ever seeing it.

    He did say however that David Hayter as the screenwriter is the only chance this movie has, but Moore HATES media crossovers.

  10. Re:Leeeeroy Jenkins! on Video Game Movies "Not Creative Expression" · · Score: 1

    What about Red vs. Blue?

    ...

  11. Re:Leeeeroy Jenkins! on Video Game Movies "Not Creative Expression" · · Score: 1, Informative

    "While they have agreed to leave machinima alone" RTFS

  12. Re:I'll just keep on waiting. . . on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 4, Informative

    Honestly, if Bioware never 'needed' DRM (outside of a license key) for earlier games such as the Baldur's Gate Series, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, etc, and made millions upon millions of dollars of revenue, why do they suddenly need such restrictive DRM?
    I'll give you a hint.
  13. Re:thank you. on Taking the Wii Controller to the Next Level · · Score: 1

    Which is why only BSD/MIT like licenses are the only real OSS licenses.

  14. Re:what I miss from old games on Old Computer Game Covers - Collectible, Or Just Nostalgia? · · Score: 1

    Limited editions of games still have this occasionally. World In Conflict came with a piece of the Berlin wall. Pre-orders do this too, like the Bioshock Big Daddy figurine.

  15. Re:Oh please on NVIDIA Quad SLI Disappoints · · Score: 1

    Then you shopped poorly for your needs, I'm sorry, no one's fault but yours, there are a ton on the market with IDE.

    And if we're talking upgrading a machine, one would assume you already have windows on the old machine. If that was OEM, then yea, another ~$100 for another OEM license. Still not $1200.

  16. Re:Oh please on NVIDIA Quad SLI Disappoints · · Score: 1

    I'll bite.

    At most, Video Card, Mobo, Ram, CPU will be needed to be upgraded. But with technology that is already ~3 years old, so it's not that hard to do economically.

    PSU? No need, you can power entry level components just fine with your old PSU in most every case.
    Monitor? DVI2VGA adapters come with almost every video card, even the 8800GTS 640MB I bought.
    Any entry level mobo will still have IDE.

    So... $100-200 CPU(AMD's offerings are nice for a low price point), $200-300 Video Card, $50 Entry Level Mobo, $75 2GB Ram. That's under $600 easy.

  17. Re:Required features on AOL Opens Up the AIM Instant Messaging Network · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although we have removed many restrictions on usage and development, we still do not permit developers to build Open AIM applications that are interoperable with other IM networks. (Multi-headed applications are now allowed). Please refer to the Developers License Agreement for additional details.
    Pidgin could not implement this if they wanted to.
  18. Re:Real significance: Free as in Freedom on Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album · · Score: 1

    Yes, as per the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license the entire album is under. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

  19. Re:Professional Tools on Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc.
    You might want to read a little more... https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/StudentIdOptions.aspx and http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp?itmNo=11111726 which makes it a lot more then 42 US schools.
  20. Re:And if you play really well, you get abducted.. on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad? When you're fighting in a video game for the earth, you may not even realize you're fighting a real war in real time! "Death Blossom" has got nothing on the "Little Doctor".

  21. Re:Market share? on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Quite a few. If you want all the features and highest quality, which anyone who has the hardware to support it WILL want and will consider it a requirement.

  22. Re:Yes but... on KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's built on QT4, so after they iron out a few details, yes.

  23. Re:Okami and the voices on Okami Confirmed for the Wii · · Score: 1

    Yea, I really liked Midna's voice, and it would have been easily ruined by a bad voice actor. Though this was a first party game, and if it wasn't developed for a Gamecube disc, I would have been upset at them not employing GOOD voice acting.

  24. Re:mod parent up on Orange Box In Stores Wednesday · · Score: 1

    While your analogy is way off base in other ways, no one is asking for a refund, just the right to sell the "bonus". Could you imagine the restaurant saying it was in their terms of sales that you must eat or give away the rice and beans, but you cannot sell it.

  25. Re:mod parent up on Orange Box In Stores Wednesday · · Score: 1

    Really? How do you figure? Last I checked, you buy Orange Box, you get HL2 and Ep1. They aren't free outside of Orange Box, so it's not just included for convenience. That's like saying when you buy a burrito combo, and it comes with rice and beans, you aren't really buying rice and beans.