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  1. Re:fp on Music Downloading not Entirely to Blame · · Score: 1

    Don't think the fact that cds produced today sound like shit compared to older recordings is as big a problem for someone who doesn't like current music as the (perceived) lower quality of the compositions and/or arrangements.

  2. Re:Not as good as Progress Quest on Everquest 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I can't wait for the expansion. They'd better let us import our existing characters though, I'll be pissed off if all the effort that's gone into my level 83 enchanted motorcycle voodoo princess will have been wasted.

  3. Re:A million monkeys... on Dell Infringes on Patent by Selling Overseas? · · Score: 1

    You only have to make the monkeys type into a wordprocessor, i.e "on a computer" instead of typewriters and you have yourself a patent.

  4. Re:my thoughts on Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches · · Score: 1

    If you want to play a MMORPG and make progress while still having a life, you'll probably like Progressquest. Best of all, it's free.

  5. Re:What did you do in the original? on Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Launches · · Score: 1

    It might be cool the first few times but after you've done it 50 times it'll be just as bloody boring as staring a normal loading screen is.

  6. Re:Scouring of the Shire on LotR: RotK Extended Edition Preview Available · · Score: 1

    The ending of the book is sad too and I think it's great they let the movie end the same way. It's a lot more touching and leaves a more lasting impression than yer typical 'yay us, we rock *crowd cheers* -> end credits' Hollywood ending, I feel.

  7. Re:Dupe on 30 Years Of Dungeons And Dragons · · Score: 1

    Neither of those stories are about this great Gathering of Virgins, they're about other aspects of this momentous geek event.

  8. Re:It worked! on Detailed Changes In Star Wars DVD Release w/Pics · · Score: 1

    Peter Jackson has done ok when given increasingly larger budgets compared to what he had for Bad Taste too.

  9. Re:Antivirus is not a thing you "build in" on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    Have there been many anti-trust lawsuits from firewall makers now that they've put a firewall (of sorts) into SP2?

  10. Re:My favourite bits... on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 1

    There was a Montage song in the South Park episode where they go on a skiing vacation too, same one?

  11. Re:Look, it's simple... on RIAA, MPAA Ask High Court To Review P2P Decision · · Score: 1

    When the artist dies, all works by that artist revert to the public.

    I think it would be fair to let the family of the artist benefit for a while if the artist produces a great work and then croaks shortly after it's released. Some sort of time limit (from when the work is published, not from when he dies) that's 'fair' to both the family and the public would be ok.

  12. Re:games and tv on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    I came to college because I didn't know what to do with myself, taking a major that was easy but a bit pointless. I discovered the internet and eventually turned into a real MUD junkie. I did that for about two years before becoming a coder there because I wanted to add my own areas. I didn't know crap about coding but the people there taught me the basics and I thought it was interesting and fun and eventually switched major to Computer Science. Now I have a nice programming job. Things have nice way of working themselves out some times.

  13. Re:Bah. on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    Apparently Michael O'Hare (who played Sinclair) got a role on Broadway and couldn't do B5 at the same time and rather than having another actor play the same role for season two they wrote Sinclair out (sort of) and Sheridan into the show.

    Can't remember where I heard that now but I think it was from one of the season dvds.

  14. Re:I'm waiting for Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars.. on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    When preparing the special editions, Lucas was clearly influenced by how Jules and Vincent seem like decent, honorable good guys throughout the film after letting the hand cannon guy fire first before they take him out.

  15. Re:bad Idea on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    I think he only has to manage to make them better than the prequels to please most people. "Well, maybe it wasn't as good as the originals but at least it doesn't have Jar Jar", like. If he knows his stuff, that task shouldn't appear too daunting.

  16. Re:I am impressed. on Apple Releases Logic 7, New Jam Packs · · Score: 1

    People's jaws drop when they hear the amp simulation in Garage Band

    How do the simulations in Garage Band compare to things like Amplitube and the Line 6 and Vox modelling boxes? Is the Garage Band stuff related to some older product that a non Mac user (so far) would recognize under another name?

  17. Re:This ROCKS. on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 2, Informative

    The map has the Matlock expressway as a not completed road connecting Pressboard estates to the Michael Jackson.

  18. Re:With all this talk of new versions.... on 378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s · · Score: 1

    I thought that was what Thumb Wars was. Luke wasn't less annoying in that one though.

  19. Re:Time -1, Flamebait on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 1

    That's some poorly written material.

    The photo of Carrie Fisher + stunt double sunbathing in matching metal bikinis more than makes up for that though, wouldn't you say?

  20. Re:and in the next version... on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 1

    Maybe he'll finally snap and make it so Greedo shoots first, and doesn't miss. Some rather heavy editing of the stuff that follows will be necessary but maybe he'll feel that will be worth it to show the complainers he's not one to be messed with.

  21. Re:Donald Becker on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1
    Donald Becker started working on clustering Linux machines. He was one of the original founders of Beowulf, without which Slashdot would lose a lot of its culture.

    Not to mention some of its usernames. Donald Becker, I salute you.
  22. Re:Yeah, this is going to TOTALLY smoke the iPod. on Microsoft Portable Media Center Reviewed · · Score: 1
    So not only does it take ages to copy stuff over, but it actually has to convert it too.


    It doesn't have to convert. He says there's an option not to, it only does it if you don't tell it not to.
  23. Re:Maybe because it's slow ? on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    Azureus uses SWT though, not Swing.

  24. Re:sooo? on U2 Threatens to Release Album Early on iTunes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    U2 songs don't reach their ultimate potential before they've played them live for a while anyway. I have all their albums on cd but I pretty much only listen to live bootlegs and rips from the live dvds since almost everything is better live. I think I'm a so called 'real fan' but I won't feel let down by this as long as there's a live dvd from the coming tours!

  25. Re:Has anyone heard anything? on New iPod Design Pictures Leak · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my experience. When I go to work in the morning the battery is full. I play it all day and it still has power left to play in the car on the way home 9 hours (or so) later. It's about 18 months old and has been put through this 5 days a week most weeks since then.

    I just choose some playlist or artist and let it play, I seldom fiddle with it more than that.