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  1. Theoretically or in practice? on Where Does IT Fall Within Your Organization? · · Score: 0

    Where I work currently, IT is our business (web hosting/colo). Organizationally, we're part of Operations. In practice, we're subordinate to Sales.

  2. This sort of thing is why on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 0

    I love my Macs more and more every day.

  3. Huh... on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 0

    How many calories is that?

  4. Great idea but... on Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space · · Score: 1

    ... latency is gonna be a bitch. Guess they're dealing with that in satcom already, though, right?

  5. Yeah, so... on Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts · · Score: 1

    ... if you're a WoW addict with mulitple level 80s and full tier 8 gear on all of them, would you listen to some level 1 nub trying to counsel you to quit?

  6. Re:Lack of opportunity on Generic Dungeons, Universal Dragons · · Score: 1

    Wizards of the Coast's RPGA Network is also a great way to meet local gamers, if you're willing to play D&D 3.5E. I'd recommend Living Greyhawk over other "campaigns" they offer, however.

  7. Re:How bizarre on EULA Confusion w/ Used Copies of WoW? · · Score: 1

    Uh, "... transfer ownership of the Game and all parts thereof..."

    That would include the original owner's account now, wouldn't it? Hmmm?

    So you wouldn't need a new Authentication Key. Problem solved. Contact the seller and inform them you want the rest of the Game (user name & password for the account) that you bought from them.

  8. Re:Camera shots from space on Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    That's funny, it just looks like a cheap imitation of TV News footage, which totally blows my immersion in the story. In fact, that whole "shaky-cam" and "camera verite" look do nothing but annoy me. There wouldn't *really* be a camera there to show us the ship arriving, anyway, so there's no point to making it overly realistic.

    I want to *see* the story, that's why I'm watching it on TV. The most egregious example of this occured in Bourne Supremacy, which actually made me motion sick. I've never gotten motion sick from watching a movie before in my life, but my stomach was doing flip-flops. It's not that bad in BSG, but it's still damn annoying.

    Just let me see the damn ship. You say it's emphasizing the distances, but I disagree. The "camera" can be placed at any distance. Placing it a thousand miles from the ship just makes it really small on my screen and hard to see. Fee free to place the camera close enough to the ship that I can see it. The only reason they're placing it as far away as they are is so they can do the "I'm a News TV cameraman and I just happened to be pointing my camera in the right direction to catch this candid shot" pan-and-zoom.

    It's more artificial than just showing the ship, because now I have to pretend that, not only is there a camera hanging around in empty space, but there's a news cameraman hanging around in a deserted star system that just happens to catch the BG as she warps in. WTF, over?

  9. Just drive consumers farther away on Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD Burning · · Score: 1

    I already hardly buy any music -- maybe I'm not their target audience. I probably will buy less if I know it's copy-protected so that, 30 years from now, I've already burned my 5 copies and used them to death, or lost them, and now I can't make anymore. bah.