User: arose

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On: Linux Geeks To Take Over World

Would he really publish that article if he would believe what he writes?

Re:I can't check my email!

On: Email Addiction Runs Rampant

It's a food industry conspiracy, they get children hooked very early on.

Re:Video games...

On: Are Video Game Patents Next?

You can't patent general ideas.

1-click shopping? Doubl^WTimed clicks?

Re:Homework sucks - but it's just the beginning of

On: Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive

Homework isn't pretty - but it teaches you how to sit down and do stuff.

Speak for yourself, the only thing I ever learned from homework is how to weasle out of work.

Re:Rule of thumb: Wired Wireless

On: Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link?

How would you get there in the first place?

Re:best games are often the cheapest

On: A Gamer's Manifesto

I could go on with about 20 other scenarios like that where I have died with, as far as I could see, no reasonable way to plan for it in advance.

After the first time you can. Then it's just YASD. :-D

Re:The biggest problem with videogames

On: A Gamer's Manifesto

There are no savepoints in Nethack, but it alows you to leave a game in progress (pause is not enough for a month) and offers enough variation. If a game is linear enough to need savepoints a savefunction can only improve it.

Re:The biggest problem with videogames

On: A Gamer's Manifesto

I'm sure that if there were a way for authors to require readers to begin and end at scene boundaries, they would do so.

Another reason why books are better than games...

Is it repetitive to play another game of chess?

Yes, if you interupted the last game and instead of leaving the figures where they were now have to play the smae moves agian.

Re:Yes, but..

On: 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets

What's wrong with Unidentified flying objects?

Re:Take yer ball and stay home!

On: MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag

I'm sitting in a master control suite in a tv station right now. Alone.

Heh, so do I.

Re:you can't be serious

On: MPAA CEO Dan Glickman on the Broadcast Flag

So preventing redistribution makes culture more valueable? He has a really screwed up value system.

Re:well

On: Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays

Your other bones then.

Re:Sarcasm level 11

On: Playstation 3 Not A Video Game Machine

I laughed to tears, the emotion engine must be woring.

Re:And this ended piracy for all time...

On: Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents

If you are talking about building stronger DIY publishing and distribution systems I would agree.

Re:Department of Homeland Security was involved?

On: Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents

Large amounts of money found to be involved with goverment granted monopolies that are described as beeing virtually unlimited in time. More on this story in 70 years.

Re:Encryption use != evil

On: PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case

But he had PGP, which isn't very common at all.

Good doorlocks aren't very common either.

Re:Trying to understand the point

On: Blender's Open Movie Project

Is everything with an open license is written-by-committee? If that isn't your point what is?

Re:Trying to understand the point

On: Blender's Open Movie Project

Stories aren't things that can be put together piecemeal, and generally don't adapt well to the traditional open source paradigm.

Ever heard of folklore?

Re:AMEN....

On: Publishers Protest Google Library Project

Yes, no one should be making money selling nice hardcovers of Shakespeare... Wait, why not?! They provide a good service. Of course (good) public domain book publishers they aren't scared by online versions.

So who is ashamed here?

On: E3 2005 Booth Babe Hall of Shame

The show-goers, the execs, the babes or is it just gamegal.com?

Re:atavistic thinking

On: IBM Europe Workers Strike

What the hell do you think property is?!

Re:Who cares what IBM's profit margin is?

On: IBM Europe Workers Strike

Um, yes. If a worker doesn't provide a profit to the company, why on earth should they hire him?

No one is complaining about IBM not hiring 10 000 workers...

Re:Only on Slashdot...

On: Star Wars Premier: The Line People

OOOOOOO! My tail!

Re:iPod-onomics

On: Eat Right, Earn an iPod

Non-hip people don't have to make their digital music players visible to thieves.

Re:120 days....

On: VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service

The point is that if there's an emergency, you need to get help FAST, without thinking about it.

The point is not to turn your brain of in an emergency. Even if I'd turn my brain of my reflex would be to get my mobile, but then again I'm from Europe and everyone has a mobile here, so it may be different in the "new world".