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  1. Re:Choices on Make Your Own Sputnik · · Score: 0

    Maybe they already are "fun" just that noone have told you.

  2. Re:Don't believe the $25 million on The Story of Baikonur, Russia's Space City · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes.

    Also you would probably save your government a hell of a lot of money if you let the russians produce the hardware.

    If there is anything they do it's reliable stuff. (True for tanks, guns and whatever aswell.)

  3. Re:Adding New Features to Consoles on XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that and also probably not as high development costs of the 360 as the PS3 and much more money to "waste" in R&D and PR from Microsoft.

    I wouldn't agree in them not knowing what they did, Microsoft probably did know why they went without HD-DVD, no clear winner, high prices and not seen as a large extra value for the consumer worth the cost. I've seen it as a little lame especially together with their join with HD-DVD forces which to me have always been a show just to make the bluray in the PS3 seem like less of a feature and something you may worry about never kicking of.
    Sure they would probably had prefered to have more storage all the time, but at that time it wasn't economically reasonable.

    For Sony the problem is probably that people wasn't willing to pay the price, so they need to do SOMETHING. Removing the PS2 part is one of those things trying to get the price of the console down a little.

    Considering I've thought good stuff about the DS and Wii all the time it's sad I didn't had any money to invest in Nintendo a 2 or so years ago ;D
    I'm not that economical intrested and it will probably take quite some time before I get the chance again in an area where I actually know what companies are doing =P
    (I would probably have spent some money on Apple aswell, althought they haven't had as good economical development as Nintendo hade recently.)

  4. Re:Better position to compete? on XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year · · Score: 1

    They don't have an enormous lead, at the same month since release they sell quite similair, they just started to get there consoles out 1 year earlier or whatever it was.

  5. Re:Adding New Features to Consoles on XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year · · Score: 1

    I would argue that 360 will be a third at the end of these consoles life, but only time will tell.

    I would assume that Microsoft will get their next console out before Sony does thought.

  6. Re:Adding New Features to Consoles on XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year · · Score: 1

    Yeah, HD-DVD for movies may be nice if it succeeds but in late 2008-2009 the price of players will probably not be that much anyway and who knows if people care if it's within the console or not.

    For games they are sorta screwed anyway, to add it later will add bulk and look bad.

    At current US prices of 40GB PS3 vs premium 360 I know what I would had choosen, but I'm not intrested in any of them atm, I game to little anyway and still have plenty of DS titles to play. I wonder if PS3 sales will ever kickoff or if they will be on par with 360 the whole time (which they are atm, the sales curves are more or less identical for ps3 and 360, but 360 has been out for a longer period of time.)

  7. Re:Please confirm on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    ... enough of this DRM bullshit, let my media flow thru any hardware! Let's share it with everyone in the world!

  8. Re:Please confirm on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He let it all free ;)

    It's the new open! You are allowed to use it aslong as you share!

  9. Re:Hardly... on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    My point was that normal people don't care that iPhone is locked to (maybe) AT&T and only run whatever software Apple allows atm.

  10. Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    So download burn or buy toast titanium?

  11. Re:Hardly... on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    I would guess most users thinks it's ok on the iPhone aswell. Only nerds complain.

  12. Re:Hardly... on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    Ok I came from *BSD. What's the news? Is it good or bad?

    I guess hardware sales of macs may have gone up because people who are Windows users but likes the design of Apple products can buy them anyway.
    Stupid thing to do considering the prices (atleast over here) but anyway.

  13. Re:collusion on Tracking Online Cheaters in Poker · · Score: 1

    Who even use one to make phone calls?

    I've been living here for 7 years now I think and I have never had a phone line.

    Also I can start as many outgoing phone calls as I feel for =P (well, the client may have a limit.)

  14. Re:Completely Irrelevant on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he should have said if the people normally buying the music, went to conserts, bought items and so on only pirated the music and skiped the rest and never watched mtv/whatever.

  15. Re:Supermassive black holes on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Until there only are one big hole with no more matter to swallow and then it release all the energy and then what? ;(

  16. Re:Microsoft SuSE? on Microsoft Planning to Buy Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    And then they would own the UNIX rights aswell and could sue everyone? ;)

  17. Re:Can I get a little insight, please? on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    Look at NetBSD-kernel instead ;)

    Or QNX Neutrino ;)

  18. Re:Simple solution! on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Aleast you got twice the energy out of it!

    (Well, way more than that since you don't break down all the matter into energy of everything you eat but anyway.)

  19. Re:In the Dark on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Our nearest neighbour is a big piece of cheese.
    People finds holes.
    The guide mentions mouses actually beeing beings from other dimensions or something like that.

    Therefor it's safe to assume the missing mass is the mass of all the mouses.

  20. Re:Possibilities for falsification on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Not at all hard to imagine if you just let the dark sucking be a beam.. a dark traktor beam sucking up darkness.

    Since it's just the reverse of light it will be as easy to explain as the opposit.

  21. Re:Say it ain't so, Joe! on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    I thought one used to only bash single atoms together, and those can't weight that much .. I have no ideas what speeds are needed to make them bash together but accelerating 28000 kg or whatever it was up to fast enough speeds to make it all go together probably requires a lot of energy. That is assuming having only a little of it meet, become a black hole, pick up more stuff before it evaporates and so on.

    Anyway I think it's scary to =P

    The whole world is a scary place.

  22. Re:Supermassive black holes on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Isn't the expansion accelerating? In that case why who it be more common? Sure a more dense hole will have more gravity but if everything gets more apart from eachother will stuff really collide more?

  23. Re:Three Laws of Robotics on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work for gun nuts thought :(

  24. Re:Say it ain't so, Joe! on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Ins't it fairly obvious to you that slaming particles together will likely not create a black hole of 22800kg?
    So yes, I guess they will evaporate much faster than 1 second and not release that much energy.

    Still sounds like a stupid thing to do imho but inaap.

  25. Re:Supermassive black holes on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    Why? Do you know the names for four, five and so on aswell?