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  1. Re:I hate iTunes on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    I've used iTunes and almost every other one on the market. Honestly - the Yahoo Music Engine is easily the best at all of this. Not perfect, but the best. Give it a whirl.

  2. Re:Wii vs 360 vs PS3 on August NPD Numbers Look Good For Wii, 360 · · Score: 1

    No, really just far worse in Japan.

  3. Re:Different Model for Revenue on World Series of Video Games Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Lan tournies all have fees. If you are really too poor to afford an entry fee you can do a satallite tourny or get a sponsor.

  4. Different Model for Revenue on World Series of Video Games Cancelled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not make it more like the World Series of Poker tour where people show up at a venue and pay a fee that goes towards the total pot and the profit or the organization and they sell the TV rights to some cable network and or go halves on the ad revenue.

  5. Re:GoBots coming to live action... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 1
    NO ONE went to the movie for the storyline

    Well, I saw lots of robot on robot action. I would have preferred a sharper story but I realize sharpening the story would break the honest relations with the TV show.

    There was very little real logic in the show itself.

  6. Re:"Johnny" on the radio is boring. on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1
    Yes very informative in that I am glad I never got sucked into the world.

    Of Warcraft

  7. Re:GoBots coming to live action... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering the source material for Transformers, just how could you have made a live action movie any different when space alien robots decided to transform into truck to fight compat jets?

  8. Re:Nevada on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why can't an AI do this?

    And if this is a serious attempt to find the guy, why not just fund a few hundred Indians at $2/hr or so to go through this.

  9. Re:Lilly put it best... on Everything I Needed to Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek · · Score: 1
    there are possible reasons that the Borg cubes are manned primarily with males

    They tried all female borg ship but when they all got on the same cycle, the ship's plumbing got royally fucked up and the ship exploded.

  10. Re:Cybermen came before the Borg on Everything I Needed to Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek · · Score: 1
    Hah! They look like C3PO on riods. Do they talk like homosexuals, too?

    These guys should have taken a look at what a real scary robot looks like.

  11. Re:All I want for Christmas, or any day before tha on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    The Yahoo Music Engine has the best song organization I've used and I've used them all.

  12. Re:"Johnny" on the radio is boring. on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1
    Right. Killed them. In the world of warcraft.

    But it just seems like it was done and then someone added a sound-track afterwards that seemed to correspond to the actions. It looks like the guy that did run in first did so just so cast some spell before the rest of the group.

  13. Re:No...really....?? on How to Rule the World (of WarCraft) - 10 Lessons · · Score: 1

    Do you think the original video is real or fake? Cause I'm leaning towards fake.

  14. Re:It's a good thing on Google News to Host Wire Service Stories · · Score: 1

    If they change it or add to it, then Gnews won't filter it out because it won't show as identical.

  15. Re:It's a good thing on Google News to Host Wire Service Stories · · Score: 1
    Google News is my home page and has been since 2003.

    Now let me explain to you.

    Editorials on their own pages do not get overlooked by this program.

    Re-writing a headline OUGHT to be overlooked.

    And by far, the vast and fast majority of the stories that gnews had been linking were 100% identical. 50000 newspapers carry AP, 50000 newspapers have website, there would be 50000 linked stories on the topic on GNews, making it impossible to find the actual original content.

  16. Re:Yes w/ comments = BS! on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a chance to assuage those among the party who weren't inclined to go along with the yes vote to give some voice to their dissent - OR to rebute arguments made by the 'No, with comments.'

  17. Re:It's a good thing on Google News to Host Wire Service Stories · · Score: 5, Informative
    Try reading. It's easier than being stupid. Let me explain.

    Hundreds of websites run the same identical AP/AFP/Reuters/UPI/Etc. wire services news story. Until now, G news would show ALL of those stories.

    Now, when it detects a story that is from a wire service and just reposted, it will show it on the Gnews site, as Gnews has a subscription for all of them (except AFP apparently.)

    However, if the Corner Podunk Press writes an original story on the shuttle launch, it too will be linked.

    The loser here are news sites that do run wire service stories as they will no longer be getting free traffic from Gnews. This might encourage them to be more original.

  18. Re:Queue the Big-Brother/Orwell freaks in..... on LCD Screen With Embedded Optical Sensors · · Score: 1

    Even with it's current capability, I'd suppose various image disgrognification algorythms could discern something that isn't pressed to the screen.

  19. Re:What's that sound? on Iowa Antitrust Case Costs Microsoft $255M · · Score: 1

    What retard moded you up? Millions of Americans own shares in MSFT. Investments include retirement funds, college savings, etc. Gates is a minority shareholder in the company, not even close to being the majority owner.

  20. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    When the other side's response is 'shut up,' I know I've won the argument. And so do they.

  21. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1
    How many people who used to get their shows via iTunes will go back to methods a bit more shady?

    I recall a few years ago auto makers started to give their customers the same prices that their employees had. That was presumably a middle ground. What shady means did customers return to when the auto makers stopped those offers?

    So you think it's ideal for the mob to get to decide a 'middle ground?'

    When mugged, do you not mind it when you can bargain with the criminal to shoot your girl in the face instead of you? Middle ground and all...

  22. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    So if the demand is for entertainment that is free and free of advertising, how is that suppose to be supplied when it costs money to make? Are you suggesting a return to the fuedal era when all art and music was bespoke by royalty for the benefit of the masses? Do you like listening to classical music on NPR?

  23. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    The problem is that if everyone did this, there would be no eggs.

  24. Re:Turnabout! on Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs · · Score: 1
    Nope. He said buy your computer elsewhere. And I did.

    I don't suppose Walmart is going broke selling it's PCs, either.

  25. Re:Turnabout! on Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs · · Score: 1
    We'd much rather you buy the computer somewhere else, and cause a competitor to lose money.

    Right. Dell is going broke selling computers.