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  1. Re:Google the answer on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    Healthguard Plus XP 2011
    You are minutes away from having a stroke. Please register this program for $39.95 to repair all problems with your body now!

  2. Re:They have, kinda on AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down · · Score: 2

    It's true ATI doesn't have NVIDIA quality drivers; I've never heard of ATI drivers destroying a card. The GTX 590 drivers, however, have a driver issue with their "power limiter" that is supposed to prevent card damaging overvolts. Then there is the whole fan debacle from the 196.75 drivers. I realize people are going say it's what they get for overclocking, but if you add a feature it isn't the user's fault for using it.

    [Sources]
    http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_590/26.html
    http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/13710-geforce-gtx-590-brinner-i-sweclockers-testlabb-drivrutin-boven-i-dramat [Swedish]
    http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53563/Nvidia-196-75-GPU-Drivers-Bugged-Causing-Fans-To-Fail-Cards-To-Overheat

  3. Re:Intended Reaction? on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 1

    Then why don't the PS3 and Xbox 360 suffer from the same issue? You can't blame piracy for Nintendo's failure to court 3rd party devs.

  4. Re:Customer service on Valve Apologizes For 12,000 Erroneous Anti-Cheating Bans · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually played with random pubbies on L4D2? Trust me, the bots give a much better experience.

  5. Re:Bad move.... on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the issue is the fact that uninstalling the drivers do not perform a proper uninstall. They leave files and registry settings behind. Hence why people get stuck having to use driver cleaners.

  6. Re:Bad move.... on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I bet you didn't wipe after removing the NVIDIA drivers did you? Video card drivers are notorious for pulling bullshit like that when changing from NVIDIA to AVI or vice versa. On top of that you are comparing an older, single GPU card that has had time to mature to a very new, immature card with a whole host of new technologies that also has the added complexity of being dual GPU.

  7. Re:recommended AMD card? on AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code · · Score: 1

    The Radeon HD 3650, 4650, or 4670 should all suit your needs. Cards are in order of slowest to fastest.

  8. Re:Old Vs. New on Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath? · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet the softcore porn industry's events often contain copious amounts of softcore porn too.

    See, gaming isn't the only one!

  9. Re:"Gag the Internet" on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Mormonism is about as weird as any other religon.
    We have words for people who talk to things that aren't there, we call them crazy.

    I don't intend this as a troll, I just want to point out how weird most religon really is.

  10. Re:Leaked on Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked · · Score: 1

    Well you could do what I did and use the download.microsoft.com mirrors, I bet those are legit:P

  11. Leaked on Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked · · Score: 1

    Sp3 final has already been leaked, and is actually available from microsoft's webserver

    http://findfiles.com/list.php?string=Windowsxp-Kb936929-Sp3-x86&db=Mirrors&match=All&search=

    List of Mirrors there, enjoy.

  12. Alternative method on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    You could burn all of your outgoing data to DVDs and drive them to you ISP. The latency would suck but I bet you could get some amazing transfer speed!

  13. Re:About time on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    I buy the Forgotten Realms AD&D novels from my local bookstore and I found that prices have decreased dramaticly on them (I can get one for $9 now rather than $12) and this was a month ago.

  14. Re:$10 Million seems right to me... on eBay Seller Sues Autodesk for $10 Million · · Score: 1

    Another reason people claim, and win, obscene amounts of money when sueing corporations is to act as a deterrent for misconuct. If only the amount for damages was given it would be a lot easier for companies to just treat lawsuits like a cost of doing business.

  15. Re:Nintendo is great, but Xbox is still doing well on Wii Outsells 360, PS3 Worldwide · · Score: 1

    You mean like the parent looks down their nose at people who perfer 360 over the Wii?

  16. Error in the rankings. on Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice how opera has 0.47% more share than Mozilla in that chart yet still ranks below it?

  17. Another crappy MMO from Perry on Perry's Secret MMOG - A Beast Riding Game · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet that this game will be as horrible as Dance Online and all the other abominations he has released with Acclaim. Free is too much for this garbage.

  18. Re:Geez... on Protecting Final Fantasy XI From the Gil-Sellers · · Score: 1

    Ah, so would that make Qufim the new dunes huh.

  19. Re:Added features on Would You Pay Pennies For Game Features? · · Score: 1

    A lot of the stuff sold in these stores is stuff that is meant to simply make you look "cool" or aleviate some minor inconvience, say, increased mount speed. Often you can also get minor buffs like a couple hours of a 1.5x experience rate as well. These games are completely playable without spending cash in most cases.

    Unfortunatly all these games are still horrificly boring Korean MMOs.

  20. Re:Geez... on Protecting Final Fantasy XI From the Gil-Sellers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah you did it wrong, around level 10 you should really begin partying with other players for much better XP. It's been a year since I played but i'm assuming the Valkrum Dunes is still the place to go for those levels.

  21. Re:does opera run in Linux? on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser · · Score: 1

    Opera does run in Linux, download it here

  22. Re:Firefox bookmark sync??? on A Preview of Opera 9.5 · · Score: 1

    Safari, and I _THINK_ Konqeror passed acid2 before opera did.

  23. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ on Electronic Arts Delivers OS X Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    and this, fellow slashdotters, is the definition of a fanboy.

  24. Re:Run it under VMware or Parallels. on Electronic Arts Delivers OS X Games · · Score: 1

    uhm... IIRC VMWare doesn't even support 3d acceration.

  25. Re:I like the idea of a player-controlled tech tre on StarCraft 2 Terran Gameplay, Single Player Info · · Score: 1

    This is Blizzard we're talking about, honestly, what have they released that WASN'T done properly?