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  1. As soon as games require it. on $100 Million Marketing Push For Vista · · Score: 4, Informative

    As soon as games require it I'll be switching, I held off on Windows 95 until I got Diablo. I'm personally quite happy with XP and until I'm required to change so I can play my games I'll be sticking with it.

  2. Product Demonstration on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Product Demonstration here

  3. Re:Another Security issue on Another School Exposes Private Information · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was later found out to be a misspelt url that was causing the problem.

  4. Re:Arrrrgh... on Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act · · Score: 1

    I like to play the race card as much as possible, Ali-G Style

  5. Re:European Water on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 4, Insightful

    God damn it, Nuclear != MELTDOWN OMG RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!!ONE.

    Its people like you who have no understanding of the state of the technology these days that are holding the world back. There are far more factories producing loads of toxic chemicals in the world then there are nuclear plants, and they typically don't have to have nearly as high standards of safety. I'm not flaming its just that Nuclear power generation technology has progressed a long way since chernobyl.

  6. Re:I wonder.. on Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market · · Score: 1

    Whats the difference? I mean I use AVG at home and guess which one I'll be first to recommend if my Boss asks me?

  7. Re:How will this turn out? on Kazaa Appeal Likely In 2006 · · Score: 1

    As of the latest American Australian free trade agreement:

    Australian Law == American Law

    Unless there is a situation where Americans may be better off, in that case American Law overrules Australian law.

  8. Re:Captain France? on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films · · Score: 1

    Well I'm not French. But I'm sure if a hero like that existed his catch phrase would be:
    "But I'm le tired"

  9. As a non-american... on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I never really "got" Captain America, I mean I know people can be patriotic and all but a superhero like him seems so lame to me.

    Its like a Politician draping themselves in their countries flag. I mean if someone did something like that in my country, and I'm sure a few have, most people would think they were a tool.

    Really I'm not flaming I just want to know why he is so popular? Did parents find buying a comic for their kids a lot easier when they knew he was fighting for American ideals?

  10. Re:This is inertially-confined fusion on Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel bad for your university because its plans will all fall in a heap when they realise they don't have the essential shark component for their laser.

  11. Re:Pirate Pistols on Australian Court says Kazaa Users Breach Copyright · · Score: 1

    The courts have already cracked down on guns, these days Australians can't own semi-automatic firearms.

  12. Re:Meh... on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    They last a lot longer if you take them out before the spin cycle.

  13. Re:Gouging, et al on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    Umm in Canada you can walk into a private practice today and get a mammogram, if you are willing to pay. How is that different to the US?

  14. Re:Chinese room on New Algorithm for Learning Languages · · Score: 1

    Sure we will build it in this box...

    Once I get that damn cat out of it.

  15. Re:For something to be libel on Blog Faces Lawsuit Over Reader Comments · · Score: 1
    The statements had to be made with the intent to cause harm. If they were made as a joke, it's not libel. Again, gets in to an argument of if you really intended to cause harm.

    This rule is the most important, you must always remember to postfix any negitive statement you make on the net with "lol" in order to protect yourself from possible lawsuit. As an example:

    CowboyNeal is a rapist
    - Not cool

    CowboyNeal is a rapist lol
    - Cool

  16. Re:OS X is a terrible interface in my experience on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Press enter please

  17. Re:Ham Radio on Communications Infrastructure No Match for Katrina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone tell me what is wrong with CB radio? If anything? It seems to me CB is the perfect fallback system.

  18. Re:why? on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I'm not sparking a debate here, but you guys need to think for a second. You haven't been denied the right to vote, discriminated at the workplace, took lesser wages, get constanly objectified... all because you're a chick.
    ... Unless your black.
  19. Re:EQ (emotional intelligence) on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1

    I predict it will be found that the number of times you put unnecessary enters in a comment is inversely proportional to your intelligence.

  20. Re:Antivirus vs. WIndows Update on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1
    Maybe Windowsupdate will provide an option to "Update and install automatically" like A/V does with signatures.
    It does. It is the "Automatically download and install updates" option in the "Automatic Updates" section of your control panel.
  21. Re:Movie Theaters are Obsolete on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1

    I realise that we have always had a fair share of crappy movies but you have to admit there have been absoultly no good movies come out for a good year now.

  22. Re:no longer compelling? on GMail Sign-Ups Via Mobile · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I used to be happy with Hotmail for a long time before I switched to Gmail. I could deal with the ads on hotmail because I had an adblock extension, but the final straw was that god damned Today tab. Every time I logged in I got this fucking Today tab and I'd have to click inbox to see my email. I don't even know what the hell the Today tab is meant to do, it was a constant annoyance of mine. I'd log into hotmail, to get my mail and here would be this god damned TODAY tab fucking winking at me. I hated that thing.

    Sorry I got carried away.

    To sum up:
    Gmail doesn't have a today tab.

  23. Re:In other words on More Students Prefer Interdisciplinary to CS · · Score: 1

    I'm currently in my final year of of a CS Degree at University I'm not too sure how my course stacks up against others because this is the only degree I've ever taken but in the past three years I have:
    Learnt programming basics in C
    Progressed on to C++ and Object oriented programming
    Done a wonderful course on Human Interface Design
    Done a course specifically on processor architecture and assembly programming
    Database theory, development and implementation courses
    A course on technical writing
    Indepth courses on computer hardware and software and how they interact.
    Systems analysis courses
    Networking courses
    A paid work placement where, lo and behold, I was the programmer/systems analysist/tech support/printer paper changer.
    Computer graphics courses 2d and 3d
    A course on COBOL
    AI Classes using Prolog
    Amongst many others

    After all this I can honestly say that I am not a very good programmer, I have very little experiance in advanced C++ and OOP programming and only have limited experiance in others COBOL, prolog, assembler etc. However I do believe that by knowing the basics of programming theory and being able to program, basically at least, in a wide variety of languages will help a great deal when it comes to get a proper job.

  24. Re:s/creating/destroying on Scientists Create New Human Embryonic Stem Cell · · Score: 1

    That isn't the question, the question is:
    Knowing these people were going to die anyway would you prefer their deaths to have a scientific purpose or no purpose at all?

  25. Re:Jason Smathers on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 4, Funny

    Press enter please