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  1. It should be pointed out on GTA Blamed for Columbine-style Massacre Planning · · Score: 2, Informative

    That Blair didn't find any fault with anyone in the Manhunt case either, thanks to ELSPA and some common sense.

  2. Re:So essentially you are looking for XFCE. on eWeek Reviews Gnome 2.8 And KDE 3.3 · · Score: 1

    I've found KDE perfectly useable on a PII 333 Katmai with 256MB of Ram. The same can't be said of Mozilla or OOo though :/

  3. Re:Stupid peripheral bastards. on Play Console Games With a Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1
    Your 'turning around' time will be as limited as the joypad - this just translates mouse movements into joypad movements. Sorry :)

    Of course it does it by whacking the sensitivity right up, but then anyone who plays these games for longer than 5 minutes does that anyway.

  4. Re:Stupid peripheral bastards. on Play Console Games With a Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1
    I prefer dual analog on average, as it doesn't lead to a massive narrowing of game types. I'd be much happier if this thing had never been invented to be honest, there's more than enough FPS games on the PC to keep the religious kb/m people happy.

    Hopefully it won't make FPS games on consoles a no-go area for people who don't really want to have to set up a fucking desk in their living room like some kind of sad twat.

  5. Re:Stupid peripheral bastards. on Play Console Games With a Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    80% of people using joypads = pissed off at mousers = kicks, bad karma = fun spoiled utterly

  6. Re:Duh. on THQ to Charge For Xbox Game Packs · · Score: 1
    Generally, you're talking about a 10-20% expansion, from the paid updates that I've seen. For people that have paid for it, it's great, but there's nothing stopping you starting a game yourself and simply not playing those maps. Online sessions are really not that big. The updates do not 'lock people off servers' at all.

    For the case in point, the online portion is just co-op, and the cost looks like 10% or less. It's quite simple to join a game and agree not to play them, or start your own. Personally, I expect that uptake is quite low, in the same way that online music sales are low, but for big fans of a particular game, it's a fantastic treat to get a lot more at a low price.

  7. Re:Bungie Sold Out on Halo 2 Pre-Orders Reach 1 Million · · Score: 1

    No-one would have known. I've got three Macs and I wouldn't have known. Thank fuck they switched to a major console.

  8. Re:What history? on Halo 2 Pre-Orders Reach 1 Million · · Score: -1, Troll
    In the U.S., Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green each received over 1 million pre-orders.
    Blimey, that's a lot of disappointed customers!
  9. Re:Duh. on THQ to Charge For Xbox Game Packs · · Score: 1

    Currently, premium Xbox Live content is downloaded so that you can play against people with that car, etc. but you will not be able to directly use it yourself unless you pay for it. With a bit of thought it works perfectly well.

  10. Re:Hi, I'm submitting articles to /. and I'm a mor on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Our Windows servers have reboot schedules and these are monitored via our enterprise management tools to ensure that the uptime is not too high. Not drastically different to checking the fuel gauge really. A bit obvious, I thought.

  11. test on Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    test

  12. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you seen how many utterly pointless upgrades have been done over the years because of it?

  13. Ask Slashdot: Moon on a stick? on Linux Desktop Distros with Quality Fonts? · · Score: 1

    Even if you find good fonts, it still lays them out in massive menus because they haven't been explicitly designed with decent ones in mind.

  14. Re:Smart Design on Apple VP discusses iMac G5 Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    Minus the G5? I like the way you just threw that in parentheses there ;-)

  15. Re:eh...so its a laptop? on Apple VP discusses iMac G5 Hardware Design · · Score: 1

    Although it should be pointed out that Apple laptop memory is also user upgradeable. Not very easy on the iBook, but simple on the Powerbooks.

  16. I love my computers audio on What's Up With Computer Audio? · · Score: 1

    But then it is an Airport Express optically attached to my very nice AV system.

  17. Re:NetBSD, here we come! on PlayStation Portable Chip Details · · Score: 1
    To address your utterly offtopic point:

    Since when was Linux running anywhere near as quickly on the Dreamcast?

    Also, the fact that the Dreamcast happily reads CD-R's is another massive reason why it got Linux before the Gamecube ever did. It's still much less useful than the Xbox, as it's very expensive to purchase a network adapter for it.

  18. HARRY SAYS... on Tao of Security Monitoring · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    FUCK PEAS

    BEANS MAKE MY DAY

  19. Re:NetBSD, here we come! on PlayStation Portable Chip Details · · Score: 1

    Nothing to do with the hard drive then?

  20. Re:Studying on Cheating Made Easy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Next week you'll wonder why all these IT admin jobs are being outsourced to India etc.

    The Internet is fine as a resource if all you need to perform your task is knowledge regurgitation (maybe just following Howto's or whatever) but if you need to do something even a little creative you need to know about what you're doing first. Seems fairly obvious to me.

  21. Re:ps2 Vs. XBOX on Xbox, PS2 Get Near-Simultaneous European Price Cuts · · Score: 1
    d) Since XBox's just a PC in a strange case, the games crash a lot.
    I haven't seen a console game crash since back in the PS1 days.

    But then I haven't played Driv3r....

  22. Re:I might be able to afford the system . . . on Xbox, PS2 Get Near-Simultaneous European Price Cuts · · Score: 1
    Several points that just don't add up here though. A console costs less than the extra CPU/Memory and graphics card power required to play the equivalent games on a PC. There is very little justification for that power for doing anything else. You could easily have a console and a very standard PC for less money (I do, a 533Mhz Via with 256MB of Ram runs Windows XP perfectly adequately).

    Of course most games you play are FPS; you use a PC for gaming, there's not exactly much option!

  23. Re:To point out the obvious (not a conspiracy theo on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. He's hanging around in Mos Eisley, he's working for the Hutt's. He charges extra for avoiding Imperial's and takes a no-questions-asked job. Do you need some more? That's just what I can think if immediately.

  24. Re:apple fans on Real Feels iTunes Backlash · · Score: 1

    It's still better though. *:-)

  25. Re:'Star Wars - Interactive' - God help us... on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1

    No, it's a cock-up, not a plot hole. You all want Greedo shooting first removed altogether, so how can it be a plot hole?