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  1. Reaching back on Blender 2.33 Re-enables Game Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These games look like they came right off the store shelves back in 1998. You get what you pay for.

  2. Re:Purely Personal on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    Don't you think this would be directly related to why he left?

  3. Re:Purely Personal on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    No, not at all. Robbins cares/cared about Gentoo a great deal, put a lot of effort and personal love in to the project. I'm sure it paid off in other ways, money isn't everything, though pride in your work can't feed your family. Hardly a stupid bitch, but each to their own I suppose.

  4. Re:Purely Personal on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    Apparently someone who cares about what he's created.

  5. Purely Personal on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 5, Informative
    It seems like Daniel's reasons for leaving were purely personal/family related. Not that I can blame him

    Here's a snippit:

    "OK. The purpose of this is to allow me to continue to support my family by doing things like pay for a house, pay for food, and potentially pay off some of the $20,000 in debt I accumulated during my tenure as Chief Architect of Gentoo, etc."
  6. Re:Gentoo on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1
    3) I was free from being unwitting pawn in the software binary release freedom debate

    It's amazing how you use the term, unwitting pawn. I use Gentoo, don't bring the binary debate in to this... don't ruin it for me.

  7. Re:D Robbins on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    His spirit??? He's not dead man.

  8. Movie? on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 1

    This all sounds like a great plot for a movie! Guess we'll have to see what happens the day after tomorrow.

  9. so..... on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 2, Funny

    So men ARE from mars! In that case, lets send a probe over to Venus.

  10. Re:Any word on X support? on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming it will work easily with XFree86 and X.org without issue. X.org hasn't made any major changes since they forked the project. Don't worry, you'll be able to play Tuxracer like never before.

  11. Re:Power Requirements on Positive Reviews For Nvidia' GeForce 6800 Ultra · · Score: 1

    This is the 6800 Ultra, the non-Ultra version will only take one AGP slot. This is the grandaddy of the new Nvidia cards. Expect to slower, more economic cards to be smaller and cosume less power.

  12. Re:She was TOLD to drink lots of water on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 1

    Maybe. Ecstasy gives you dry mouth like nothing you've ever experienced. How do you battle that? Drink lots and lots of water. Unfortunately you could drink 100 glasses of water and still have a dry mouth. On top of that, you really don't pay attention to your body saying, "Hey my stomach is kind of full right now, no more water, okay?", so you keep on drinking. I've seen it happen. Water-intox is not a fun thing.

  13. Lets hope their reception is better... on USDTV Announces Low-Cost, Localized Digital TV · · Score: 1

    Lets hope their reception is better then their webserver:
    Click on Reception Maps:

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/Connections/u sdtv.php on line 9

    Fatal error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/Connections/u sdtv.php on line 9

  14. Re:drivers on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Consider me confused. :)

  15. Re:drivers on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes, they're very similar but X.org is mainly a testbed for ideas. That's fine and all, but X.org doesn't even have a stable branch. I've tried it out and it runs a bit slow right now, and a refhresh rate of 60hz is kinda hard on the eyes. Last I checked that's what you were stuck with.

  16. When I lived with my parents... on Protecting Our Parents' PCs? · · Score: 1

    When I lived with my parents the only protecting I did was to hide my porn in C:\windows\system\important\secure\

  17. Awe Crap on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 1
  18. eunuchs on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    That's nothing, I work with 7 fat old men with long beards alawys talking about eunuchs.

  19. Huffing? on Chemists Crack Secrets of Mussels' Super Glue · · Score: 2, Funny

    But does anything happen when you huff muscle glue?

  20. in related news.... on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 1

    In related news, aol users are reported to be among the worlds biggest spammers. No I don't want to send this email to 40 people in order to have my crush fall deeply in love with me.

  21. how about? on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 1

    How about pulling the plug on SCO? SCO's `you filthy little theives` approach isn't all that well respected around here.

  22. Re:MS: "We don't lock you into Internet Explorer!" on Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent · · Score: 1

    Honestly I don't see why you complain about this. That's like saying you don't want to use GTK in gnome or qt in KDE. Internet explorer isn't just a web browser, it is the engine for a good majority of the OS.

  23. Re:Someone please save WinAmp!!! on AOL Lays Off 450 In California · · Score: 1

    If you read the winamp forums this isn't their whole team that's going away. Two of the guys that were 'let go' were the lead developers for Winamp3. From my take on it, they're still working on 5.
    Read up here

  24. Re:eh on AOL Lays Off 450 In California · · Score: 2

    Looks like he still works at Nullsoft to me, though it doesn't look like he knew that this was coming, or he didn't care: http://www.webdog.org/plans/314/

  25. Re:Importing Jobs on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    I see how I came off, and I understand your perspective. I'm friends with a lot of Indians that I work with and go out to drinks occasionally with them. Does this make me a non-racist? No.

    I was trying to make a point, apparently that didn't come across correctly. I did not form an opinion about anybody. I formed an opinion about the company I work for and their 'necessity' to hire out of country people in order to keep costs low. I understand the need to turn a profit, especially in these times.

    As for they need to buy food, eat and drink. I understand that as well. I just know (at least for a good dozen or so) their paycheck is being banked in order to move back to India and live a live of luxary, which I would do given the opportunity. Who wouldn't?

    Does this make sense? Or am I still coming across a racist?