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  1. Re:Free2play in games... on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    F2P games have always been P2W.

  2. Keyboard life expectancy on FDA Approves Self-Sanitizing Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to see the life expectancy figures for this. I've seen firsthand what UV lights do to plastic a/c filters and it's not pretty.

  3. Re:Reminds of me Railworks 3 on Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring · · Score: 1

    Funny you mention the music industry since they are reporting the highest record sales in nearly 5 years.

  4. Re:* Planes and runways not included on Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring · · Score: 1

    MS flight sims have always been vastly scalable. You could easily import your own stuff, unless they have removed that ability.

  5. Re:I got my beta invite yesterday on Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually MS has always had some of the best flight sims out there. I've been a fan of MS flight sims since the days when Combat Flight Simulator and the MSN Gaming Zone reigned supreme. The bad thing is my current computer just can't handle flight since X was released.

  6. Re:News? on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    The wood tends to resonate better with age. The same is generally true with well made acoustic guitars, the older they get the better the sound.

  7. Re:News? on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    With the prevalence of cameras, why does the seller not record said item being packed, and end with it having the shipping label affixed where you can see the label tracking numbers time stamp etc clearly. This is by no means a bulletproof system and would also be abused but would seem to me offer some sort of protection to a seller in the event of buyer fraud.

  8. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 4, Informative

    Zombieland, the girls did it with a ring in the gas station.

  9. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What idiot would pay $2500 for a violin online without hearing it. For that amount of money I'd have to have physically inspected it first.

  10. Re:Sauce for the goose on US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted · · Score: 1

    Hmm 8%, I see a Dorkupy Movement in the future.

  11. Re:Unfortunately it's the 1% who calls the shot on US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted · · Score: 2

    I can agree to this. I have downloaded a lot of music from many places on the net. I've never paid for it. I do however make it a point to go see any group that I've found I liked that came anywhere near 200 miles of my town to support them.

    I was always under the impression that the label got more than 90% of all record sales and the groups saw a very small percentage. I always thought the model for a group to be successful other than having a good repertoires was to give away their albums as promotion and have people fill a venue to see them.

  12. Re:Unfortunately it's the 1% who calls the shot on US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You totally missed flyneye's point. It's not the musician selling their music, it's the label. flyneye is suggesting let the labels ("industry") die, and the musicians can take over selling themselves and in doing so profit from it as opposed to the label getting the lion share of the profits/rights to works/rights to name of groups etc.

  13. Re:Totally Wrong Information on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    I say we get Mythbusters to test this one, oh wait... nevermind.

  14. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    I'm one of those that gets massive headaches from watching 5 minutes of anything 3d, so I'll take a pass on that.

  15. Re:so on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    I absolutely did miss them, and I stand corrected.

  16. Re:Sorry, what was the problem? on Judge Doesn't Care About Supreme Court GPS Case · · Score: 1

    As an aside the dipshit should have argued that another vehicle was being used for his transport, there-by negating the gps tracking. GPS only says where the vehicle is, it doesn't say who was driving.

  17. Re:Sorry, what was the problem? on Judge Doesn't Care About Supreme Court GPS Case · · Score: 2

    From TFA the vehicle belonged to the employee in question.

  18. Re:ASP.NET and C# on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    I agree with this. As a longtime PHP user, I've recently (read the last year) started to use C# as my weapon of choice in both stand alone app development and web development. I absolutely love the language. You can even use it with Apache and PHP, using Mono!

  19. Re:so on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    No US carriers have been sunk via attack since the 40's accidentally or otherwise. The only ones that have been sunk were done on purpose to create artificial reefs.

    http://geekswithblogs.net/mtreadwell/archive/2004/05/26/5423.aspx

    From the US mil.
    http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp

  20. Re:so on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    It's not a whole other shooting match, you fail to recall that all US naval vessels have defenses against inbound missiles. It's called AWACS that's even the old way how about reading Phalanx systems.

  21. Re:so on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

    CVN-72 is alive and well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(CVN-72)

  22. Re:Bet I can guess some of the top ten on EU Proposal Would Encourage Web Users To Flag Suspicious Web Pages · · Score: 1

    I agree, I'd also go so far as to say that if you wanted to boycott this system, abusing it would be the best way to show it for the farce it is.

  23. Re:Geek perspective: websites on Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites · · Score: 2

    I'd say it's looking more Orwellian for sure. 1920's Germany though is a stretch, I mean you don't really see masses of people rallying behind the government. Hopefully there's alot of my countrymen that feel as I do, and thinks the government needs a gut check.

  24. Re:Geek perspective: websites on Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites · · Score: 1

    US Citizens could always have been disappeared on US soil and have.

  25. Re:Nah on Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    Just because the US government has power to do a lot of locally illegal things around the world doesn't mean it should use that power every time we see something annoying. What's next? Nuking Justin Bieber?

    Right, cause they've never done that in the past.