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  1. Prediction: Yet another asteroid.... on City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall · · Score: 1
    Yet another asteroid threatening the earth movie shall be released before September 29th, 2004 to instill fear into us all. I don't think it'll be a movie you'll see in the theatre, it will instead be one of those crappy made for TV movies with awful computer generated graphics.

    We will of course see several showings of Armageddon on FX.

  2. Re:Yet another MMORPG on EverQuest 2 Beta Confirmed, Producer Quizzed · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The problem with free MMORPGs is that MMORPGs require a lot of cash to keep running. Bandwidth, hardware, and colocation cost a lot of money. They also tend to attract annoying little kids who have nothing better to do than play 18 hours a day. These kids tend to harass newer players, leaving the game with a rude community filled with l337 d00dz.

    The problem with the concept of opensource MMORPGs is that it makes it extremely easy for players to write their own bots to play the game for them, or a trainer of some sorts (speed hack, teleporting, seeing players through walls). Script kiddies will definitely ruin the game for anyone who wants to play without having XsploitsX's latest trojan infected trainer.

    Combine these two and you'll have a game that no one will want to play because it's lagging because it is hosted on some guy's webserver that he is running on his cable connection.

  3. My experiences with GIMP 2.0 on Windows on Building Gimp 2.0 on Windows XP? · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's pretty nice but unfortunately the GTK version it requires breaks tray menus in Gaim and breaks Sodipodi's PNG export function and produces many errors.

    I downgraded to GTK 2.2.4.2 revision C and went back to GIMP 1.25. I'll give GIMP 2.0 another try when GTK+ 2.4.1 is released.

  4. Re:Again with the Warcraft! on Creativity, a Problem for the Gaming Industry? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I thought the whole idea of heroes was Kohan's claim to fame, which came out long before WC3. Of course there's probably a ton of other games that implemented heroes before Kohan did.

  5. Re:They should explore on Microsoft's Paul Allen Funds ET Search · · Score: 0

    I seriously doubt they'll find any signs of intelligent life there.

  6. Re:So.... on Microsoft Announces Vanguard MMORPG · · Score: -1

    Penguins and little red demon-like creatures. Both will increase faction with the Holy Church of Microsoft and Lord Bill of Gatestown.

  7. Re:SG-1 and Jack on Stargate Atlantis Coming This Summer · · Score: 0

    No, the doctor died. Apparently Stargate SG-1 is going the route of Enterprise with misleading previews.

  8. There's only one thing you can really do on Australian Commission Rejects Crippled-CD Complaints · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Don't buy CDs.

    A business must sell goods or services to survive. After they sue every file sharer on the internet, they'll give in and start selling non-crippled media. I don't really understand why anyone would really want to listen to a music disc with one or two decent songs and ten to fifteen filler songs.

  9. The one thing that licensing SCO linux will do is on Is Licensing SCO Unix Legally Dangerous? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will make all of your linux friends laugh at you. Your new nickname will be SCO boy or something less flattering.

  10. SimIraq on Iraq - The Computer Game · · Score: 1, Funny

    Rebuild Baghdad! Construct vast palaces and bunker networks! Make money from selling oil to France! Destroy the infidels with sand storms! All this and more in SimIraq 2003! Reserve your copy today!

  11. Huh? on Using Linux for Windows HD Snapshots? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What Windows networks?

  12. wooot on Gundam Online - 160,000 Simultaneous Connections? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gundam Fight! Ready? GOOOO!
    I hope we get the chance to save the Earth from the Dark Gundam.

  13. I'm sorry AMD, but I'm dumping you for Intel. on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 2

    When I received my AthlonXP 2400+ retail box, the heatsink was missing the covering for the adhesive pad. I had two options: Return it and pay a shitload of shipping and wait a week or two, or get thermal grease. I went with the thermal grease. I think I'll go back to Intel when I have to upgrade again.

    Someone should force AMD execs to sleep in a room with a stock fan/heatsink and see how they like it. I get terrible nightmares if I actually manage to fall asleep from the loud roar.

  14. Re:Geez. on Large Scale Solid State Memory Storage? · · Score: 1

    Actually, 10^12 bytes is one TeraByte and 10^15 bytes is one PetaByte.

  15. Why not? I'll tell you why not.. on How About Drivers In Devices? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's cheaper to include a 10 cent CD than re-engineer every god damn product to include said ROM chip. In some cases a ROM chip would be a downgrade, since modern DVD and CD drives already have FlashROM chips for storing the drivers.

    Let's imagine that a virus somehow got on a ROM chip for a popular video card. The company would have to issue a recall. The investors would be angry from losing money over it.

    I'm suprised that virus writers haven't figured out how to update the firmware of DVD drives with infected drivers to ensure a longer life for their creations.

    In review, storing drivers in ROM chips bring extra cost from R&D and Flashable ROM chips introduce new places for evil viruses to hide. Extra costs will be passed on to us and I don't want to pay $425 for the next top of the line video card just because it includes a fancy new ROM chip when Windows VGA driver is good enough.

    "Oh no, a few minutes of 640x480! How will I ever survive?!?!?!"

  16. Re:Kill me now on Tweaked Genes Can Double Worm's Lifespan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Flamebait and Troll? More like Insightful +5 and Funny +5. Mexicans are taking over the United States of America and apparently mexican moderators (who live on my tax dollars) are modding me down so people don't notice their master plan of world domination.

  17. Kill me now on Tweaked Genes Can Double Worm's Lifespan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't want to live in a future with billions of immortal mexicans on welfare.

  18. Privacy Policy on No More WHOIS scams? · · Score: 1

    I'll probably email them later today about the special circumstances regarding the release of my private information. I'll stick with PO boxes if they release the information for anything less than a court order. I don't want people to know exactly where I live. My life would be in danger if someone knew where I live. There are a ton of mentally disturbed people who would kill me in real life for killing them in some online game.

    I'd rather drive a few miles every month to empty the trash out of my PO box than potentially go to sleep and never wake up due to someone placing a bomb outside my bedroom.

  19. Re:Must be a lot of one man clans in Quake on EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections · · Score: 1

    or maybe a lot of four member clans with #clan, #clan-private, #clan-trivia, and #clan-jukebox

  20. Re:no thanks. on Microsoft to Hire Xbox Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Please hand your children over to children and youth services in your area and have a nice long vacation at a psycho ward. You are a sick fuck who doesn't deserve to pass on any genetics. Besides, I don't think it is mentally healthy for children to eat human flesh.

  21. Re:This gesture..... on The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart · · Score: 1

    Trolls are a Midgard race in DAoC so of course they could of "disrupted" this event.

  22. OOOH OOOH I'M AN RPG PROGRAMMER on Selling Linux to AS/400 Shops? · · Score: 1

    PLEASE SWITCH TO LINUX SO YOU MAY PAY ME BIG MONEYS TO CONVERT YOUR PROGRAMS FROM RPG TO WHATEVER OTHER LANGUAGE. YOU BEST HAVE A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND, OR ELSE!

    You need to judge what is cheaper, continued maintenance of your AS/400, or the cost of paying a team of programmers to convert your programs to another language and the initial cost of your new linux servers.

  23. America needs these on African Bees Devastated by Mutant Clone Bees · · Score: 2, Funny

    If these mutant bees are released in the US, we won't have to worry about africanized honey bee hives, or even worse, Hollywood making more movies about africanized honey bee attacks.