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  1. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Well thats a step in the right direction. EA is notorious for their Steam prices which generally hold strong during the life of the product (until the next great thing comes out) look at COD4 and COD5 WaW.

  2. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't hold your breath for the price to drop either.

  3. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    There is no need to hack the console when you can use software on your PC to handle locating and connecting to other players. While this isn't a magic bullet it does support popular titles and I'm sure with more involvment attitional titles maybe supported (depending on how they're designed). For more information look at the games XBConnect.com supports.

  4. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should look into XBConnect.

  5. Re:Well... on Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    With the success of Modern Warfare 2 and the model it has put foward the solution you're providing is not absolute.

  6. Re:Does this open the floodgates? on PlayStation 3 Hack Released Online · · Score: 1

    Thirded.

    I've had mine since '03 and it's still going strong. The only hardware mod I've installed is a larger hard drive (which still uses the softmod which I bought a copy of Mech Assault specifically for) and it's great to take to a buddy's house - simply load it up with a few flicks and/or music. It's just a bonus it plays games.

  7. Re:Anyone else outgrow Duke Nukem? on Duke Nukem Forever Not Dead? (Yes, This Again) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Including how the enemies begged for life? "No, no! please!" and then try and kill you? Oh I completely forgot about this game!

  8. Re:What a great idea! on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    I think the first movie I saw on LaserDisk was a Freddy Krueger movie. I remember a few years back on MySpleen.net there were community releases for the original Star Wars trilogy that used the video from the LaserDisc and audio from another source and both A/V were touched up. Pretty cool.

  9. Re:You mean the illegal immigrant? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Speaking of the Irvine population visit Barranca and Culver on a friday evening. Ive witnessed 10 accidents there over the last year. Accidents ranging from minor fender benders, cyclists being hit, or ambulance response.

  10. Re:You aren't missing anything on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    I recommend THX 1138 (1971 George Lucas). 89 on the Tomatometer RottenTomatoes.

  11. Re:I haven't seen it on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    $16 whole dollars is quite a sum. How does Christmas look at the Ravenshrike residence? It's entertainment - apparently a foreign concept to you. FWIW I'm sure you didn't buy Doom 3 but you probably downloaded it. I guess you describe other forms of entertainment as "wastes of time" or videos as a "series of light and sound" (who would want to stare at that!)

  12. Re:Why would you want to go with other people? on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Man you're a tough one to please and you haven't even seen the movie yet. How about watching movies to be entertained? It's not like this is a big investment of time or money. If it sucks you're only out $20 an some time (less time than you spend in traffic every year!). Do you pick apart everything? Let me guess when you watched LOTR you were decrying the use of magic as 'unrealistic' and how racist the film was!

    With that said, go watch a movie in 3D. It's pretty cool. But then again you might bitch about how it's not realistic...

  13. Re:I haven't seen it on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Whats that? I couldn't hear you over the squeeking sound the popcorn makes against teeth.

  14. Re:I haven't seen it on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Man comes from another world to harvest a rare mineral unique to only this extremely hostile planet. Ends up being forced to live among the natives and learn their ways from a local girl who he ends up falling in love with. Has to ride a fearsome creature as a right of passage into manhood, and then unites the local clans and leads them to battle against culture from which he originally came. Can you say Dune? More.

  15. Re:EQ?!? on Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys · · Score: 1

    5% of 11 million+ is more than the entire population of EQ.

  16. Re:Good Material But Lengthy and Bad Delivery on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he's had a stroke? He sounds like Larry Mitchell who made the Cinema4d tutorials.

  17. Real Time Coding on When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? · · Score: 1

    I can relate to evenings like this. Two lines I will never forget:

    "Where we at on this?"
    "Let's see it!"

    I think one of the other lines that really stuck with me/irritated me was "Lets table this". I am glad to have moved on. I'm sure there must be some other lines used by other managers. Lets hear it /. =)

  18. Re:PROOF! on Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool · · Score: 1

    Is that your website?

  19. Re:Mod parent down on Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool · · Score: 1

    Not really though. It's not a Windows 7 tool. You don't really use it from Windows 7.

    That is like a calling a Windows tool to install a Linux iso to a usb driver a "Linux tool." It's not a Linux tool. It's a Windows tool used to do something with a Linux iso.

    Yes, it runs under Windows 7, I'm sure... but it's really meant to help install Windows 7, as I understand it. "Windows 7 Tool" implies that it's included in Windows 7 or used by Windows 7, not used by older OS's in order to install Windows 7.

    Okay so how about: The Tool formerly known as 'Windows 7 Tool'?

  20. Re:PROOF! on Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure its very pretty. But at the end of the day, it doesn't work as well as the Linux kernel.

    Obviously you haven't experienced the joy related to binary Linux drivers (WIFI and 3D come to mind). Let me guess you're doing studio audio production on Linux because of the low latency performance?

    Linux makes for an awesome hackable server and it is very flexible. The tools available for networking and development stand on their own but the awesome begins to fade after that. If only BeOS had lived (yes I've been following HaikuOS)...

  21. Re:Another example of Not Really Free on Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, if all open source code was BSD, there really would be no open source community or ecosystem.

    /usr/ports disagrees with you.

  22. Re:!begsthequestion on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Is that the same Aspergers that lets you replace 'is' with 'if'?

  23. Re:Oh, Dutch... on First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Yes, only the jailbroken ones are affected. You're supporting a moot point. The people who are affected aren't following the instructions. You are told to change your password.

    If you like loan words such as 'gejailbreakte' there is German 'geownt' for owned.

  24. Re:Nit-picking the article on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    The real smart crooks encrypt their stuff in a way that nothing short of banging them over the head with a $5 pipe wrench will ever reveal.

    how would giving someone a concussion reveal their password?

    Maybe it's some kind of buffer overflow or denial of service attack?

  25. Re:yeah i think on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Why the outcry over fiction? Does this mean any fictional books involving Russia are subject too? Why isn't there an outcry over movies with fictional Russian villains?