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  1. Re:Late? High?? on Wii Hardware To Be Profitable At Launch · · Score: 1

    Heh, I wasn't referring to complexity at all ;)

    All I'm saying is that a Dollar today is worth more then a Dollar tomorrow.

  2. Re:Late? High?? on Wii Hardware To Be Profitable At Launch · · Score: 1

    You forget one thing sure all the past consoles have launched at $200, but $200 back when the NES and even SNES were launched is worth more then $200 now thanks to inflation.

  3. Re:Nice word! on Don't Be Evil — Hire It Done · · Score: 1

    It's actually spelt "Fiduciary", but I think I like the version you have better.

  4. Re:I'd read TFA on Mistrust of Today's Technology · · Score: 1

    And uou trust these new fangled printers?? Back in my day we looked at the individual 1's and 0's on the Magnetic core memory banks to see what was "on screen."

    Kids now days...

  5. Re:DRM is a cryptographical pipe dream on QTFairUse6 Updated Hours After iTunes7 Release · · Score: 1

    Humm...but then don't we only have a fininte number of photons, and other really small physics crap that i don't know anything about floating around?

    would that make everything Digital?

  6. Re:For $60 divx DVD players updates are common. on Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Round Two · · Score: 1

    I was more intrested in what homebrew firmwares where availible, what they add etc.

  7. Re:For $60 divx DVD players updates are common. on Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Round Two · · Score: 1

    Please explain more...

  8. Re:Oh dear, I've been misslead. on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    "No, it will load AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless files."

    Ya, it'll play those formats right out of the box. I think it'll play Ogg with Rockbox but don't quote me.

  9. Re:I agree on YouTube Growing ... Like Cancer? · · Score: 1

    Or just not watch it....I'll admit it makes watercooler conversations a bit harder...

  10. Re:What the ... on Microsoft's High School Opens in PA · · Score: 1

    "if you want to simulate the typical work day try 9:45am - 8:30pm . That will give them a taste."

    Hear Hear! oh what little I knew before I graduated college...

  11. Re:That's sort of fast. on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Karma Bonus?

  12. Re:Interesting spin on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 1

    "That fact that the specs are not open does not mean NTFS is not a real and reliable OS."

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that NTFS isn't an OS...but that's just me ;)

  13. Re:Huh? on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 1

    I'm one of those statistical anomolies. The first time I tried to install XP the setup cd BSOD'ed on me. Now I don't have any problems with windows anymore, I just use linux and OS X.

  14. Re:Stephan Hawking needs respect too. on Stephen Hawking Looking for Assistant · · Score: 1

    Please search my history of postings and find an example where I ever made fun of or even mentioned his name.

  15. Re:Stephan Hawking needs respect too. on Stephen Hawking Looking for Assistant · · Score: 1

    "Maybe I should leave, but I have this hope that occasionally, I might say something that might change a life for the better. Probably my mistake"

    Got much of a god-complex do you? Please sir, change our lives for the better since you are so much more enlightened then the rest of us.

  16. Re:add this caveat: on Stephen Hawking Looking for Assistant · · Score: 1

    I either just heard your mom calling you home or the whoosh of a joke flying over your head

  17. Re:Oh please on Microsoft [to patent] Verb Conjugation · · Score: 1

    I didn't quite catch that last sentence. Can you clarify it for me? ;)

  18. Re:government failure in action on First Responder Networks 5 Years After 9/11 · · Score: 1

    That is all fine'n'dandy, but your kidding yourself if you think that WWII wasn't a clash of ideologies on quite a bigger scale then this war is currently. Note I'm not saying this isn't an ideological/cultural clash. Nor am I saying that it doesn't have the ability to become bigger then WWII, just that it isn't nearly that scale yet.

  19. Re:government failure in action on First Responder Networks 5 Years After 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Wait...are you saying WWII wasn't an war over differing ideologies??

  20. Re:Cheating in video games on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 1

    True but what happens when the person buys something on credi (i.e. a loan) and spends that money on an item, it becomes an asset not a liability to the company or person which they bought that item from. So I guess it would look like this.

    Person A
    $100 in Bank

    Person B
    Owes $90 to Bank, Has the GizmoGadget5000

    Company C
    Has $90 in the Bank.

    Then there would be $190 in play since both A and B have assets that could be converted into cash if they wanted.

    right???

  21. You know what's worse then Opie? on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 0

    Your grammar Gemini. Check your title.

  22. Re:Cheating in video games on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now think about this!

    You put $100 in the bank...Bank loans $90 out ($10 in reserves)...
    Now how much money is there around?

    $190 even though there is only $100 in Cash. ;)

    now imagine that the $90 winds up in a bank, which in turn loans out $81 (less $9 reserves)
    Now there is $271 in circulation!

    100 of your dollers in a bank account, the other guys $90, and the third guys $81. All three of you can spend your money/with draw it, whatever. It is in circulation, but there is only $100 actually hard cash. In this example I used a 10% reserve rate, the Fed controls the amount of $$$ in circulation by adjusting this percentage, which also controls inflation rates(Higher reserve = Value of $$ is higher, and Inflation is lower).....point is Economics is Fun!

    (sorry about going slightly offtopic)

  23. Re:Absurd on FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records · · Score: 1

    Good point, but said officer doesn't have access to my personal information just by looking at my face. That and said officer can't look at a couple millions people faces nearly as fast as a computer can rifle though a database.

  24. Re:Reality: A Step Backwards on Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    I agree! This doesn't look nearly as cool and it's cheaper then the Shuttle! This is an outrage! I don't care if this will bring people to the moon I want my expensive unreliable LEO SpacePlane back that has only launched 2 or 3 times since 2003!

  25. Re:Agreed on Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    "Of course the really big difference is that in the 1960's, Congress basically said "how much will it cost to get this done by the end of the decade?" wrote out a check, and directed most of NASA's resources to Apollo."

    Kinda like how my boss is sometimes...

    "blugu64 how much will it cost to get this does by the end of the week?"