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  1. Another nail in the first-sale doctrine coffin? on Orange Box In Stores Wednesday · · Score: 1
    From their FAQ:

    May I Buy, Sell or Trade gift subscriptions?
    No. This violates the Steam Subscriber Agreement and may result in having your account disabled.
    Last I checked, you purchased that software. Both of them. Why can you not sell one of the copies?
  2. Re:Zero paradox on Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album · · Score: 1

    Agreed, look at Year Zero's reviews and sales figures, sure, not #1 on all charts, but sure as hell not out of a job.

  3. Re:I have it for the 360 on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    I've read things about this game being Take Two's new hit franchise. Expect sequels and prequels to develop the world of Rapture more.

  4. Re:SPOILER ALERT on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    And hint, Atlas asked you kindly to use the syringe, if I remember correctly.

  5. Re:I'd only recommend the 360 version on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    Ran fine here through twice on 64bit Vista. I'm guessing corrupt OS or bad hardware for him.

  6. Re:I'd only recommend the 360 version on BioShock Review · · Score: 4, Informative

    I played through the game twice on the PC version, and I've not had one crash of any sort, let alone a BSOD.

    And to this point, I'd recommend that if you DO play the 360 version, DO NOT LOOK AT THE ACHIEVEMENT LIST. There are tons of plot spoilers, all the "secret" ones are like, "Shock a guy while he's in water".

  7. Re:I call bull. on GCC 4.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I would have said, there's no way GCC would have lost dominance over GPL3. Then I remembered how fast a license change killed XFree86 dead, to which I would have said the same thing.

  8. Re:Better drivers and more of them on Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive · · Score: 1

    Consider what they support -- Linux, BSD, Windows, OS X, I think they might even have Solaris in there somewhere. And FreeBSD!
  9. Re:First Post! on Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System · · Score: 1

    The public can either have new drugs and pay a lot to support the development costs, or have cheap generic drugs and no new ones. Supply and demand, free-market style (without the protectionism of patents).
    I agree with sentiments of free-market in general. However, this is an example that the short sightedness and self-interest of the masses will end up screwing themselves over (the both aspects of humanity, second is even encouraged by a capitalistic market). Though I still don't think this form of regulatory action is the answer, I just don't know it.
  10. Re:Which leads to... on How To Properly Archive Data On Disc Media · · Score: 1

    The Grand Canyon begs to differ.

  11. Re:Which leads to... on How To Properly Archive Data On Disc Media · · Score: 1

    That's the benefit of digital, it doesn't degrade over copies, so each generation of storage media gets a perfect copy from the last.

  12. Re:Some of this is just wacky on Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I don't necessarily agree with him, he is clearly confusing the words "advocacy" with "zealotry".

  13. Re:Stupid-ass Question on Developers As Pawns and One-Night Stands · · Score: 1
    just about all companies that have ever entered into a "partnership" with Microsoft have found out to their detriment. Why people still try to do business with them is a mystery to me.

    Probably the same reasons regular people still work with bookies and the mob. They see the potential offerings, and think the consequences won't happen to them.
  14. Re:Why Perl? on Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Re:Summary title is vague on Oracle Has More Flaws Than SQL Server · · Score: 1

    Oh?

  16. Re:32002 is an easy fix on WiiConnect24 Update Causing Issues For Wii Owners · · Score: 1

    Ditto to the above. I thought it was a WPA bug or something, but it was just the channel set to 6. At 11, it worked great, updated in about 2 minutes.

  17. I knew this sounded familiar... on Tracking Traffic Jams With Cell Phones · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Please. Do it properly - You too. on Cingular's Free Music · · Score: 1

    Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'free' that I wasn't previously aware of.

  19. Re:Commercial versions vs. "based on" on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 1
    Visio equivalent... dunno

    Pfft. Just use openoffice, it's not like the vast majority of those charts aren't made with WordArt anyway.
    OO.org may not live up to this, but I love dia for visio type projects.
  20. Re:DeCSS for Blue Ray/HD-DVD? on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Playback Under XP · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (x264 for example) is suitable for.

  21. Re:Dbus over Dcop? on First KDE 4 Snapshot Released · · Score: 1

    Then I guess what I like is the extent to which KDE apps have impliment it. I assume there will be a compatibility layer or something for all the KDE programs using dcop?

  22. Dbus over Dcop? on First KDE 4 Snapshot Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    a change from DCOP to DBUS
    Maybe I am a minority, but the dcop interface was one of the things I loved about KDE. It made scripting trivially easy, hell I could do old tasks that used to take a whole script (like a xmms announce script for xchat or something), and do it with a one-liner alias with dcop. Perhaps this will be good for dbus, assuming it's a better backend technology, to give it a dcop-style interface?
  23. Re:My name is Krelorc the Overlord... on Game Addiction Clinic Swamped · · Score: 1

    Surye, 60 Mage, Nathrezim! =D

  24. Real Life on Second Life Native Linux client Released · · Score: 1

    I'm glad they didn't bother porting Real Life to linux, I heard the sequel is so much more interesting.

  25. Re:A 'simple' editor ? on Understanding Memory Usage On Linux · · Score: 1