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  1. Re:Compare the PSP to the Dell Axim x50v on Top Ten Things About the Sony PSP · · Score: 1

    Yes, it would still be a Windows device with crappy games.

  2. Re:Darn! on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1

    I'm very sure they did.

  3. Re:The sky is falling ... on 2004 MN4 Probably Won't Kill Us · · Score: 1

    Why would they? It's a script which tells the probability with more information. It's not a script which tells the story behind anything at all. It has nothing at all to do with that asteroid.

  4. Re:Read this carefully on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll send you an iPod for $1. All you need to do is to send me the $1 bill, then ask 50 of your friends to send me $1 each, then tell 50 of THEIR friends to send me $1 each. In addition, every one of your 50 friends can also get an iPod for $1, as long as every one of their 50 friends send me $1.

    Sure, from the first person you would actually get 1+50+50*50=$2551, but on the last part you would lose... Since you would only get $51 from them, sure you would have some money left after the first round but if all the people wanted an ipod you would get $2551+50*$51=$5101 for 51 ipods.

    But it wouldn't matter since they wouldn't (or even had) get 50 friends to sign up, but anyway! :D

    What a waste of storage and bandwidth this message was.

  5. Re:Mobile Device Teams on More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture · · Score: 1

    You mean an Apple designed PPC nintendo portable gameing console which was based on MacOS X and also had a built in 20GB harddrive would sell well? No way, atleast not if you could also use it as your phone :)

  6. Re:Seems reasonable on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    And it would be so hard to jst put the source somewhere else in that case...

  7. Elena Fractals (ZoneXplorer) on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No article about fractals could be complete without mentioning Elenas excellent ZonXplorer fractal package for AmigaOS 3.5+ and MorphOS (running on the Pegasos PPC). Check out her stuning pictures in her gallery.
    I hope her webpage can handle the load, it's sure enough worth a visit.

  8. Being a vegan on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I will never have these problems.

  9. Re:BUSINESS Winstone, not games on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    "Every modern disk can load 50mb/s. THe largest quake3 level has 27 MB"

    Yes, but Quake3 isn't a modern game, and when it was modern the HDDs didn't read 50MB/s.
    Still you are right about the unpacking data part.

  10. Are there any FREE (speach) ones? on Voice Over IP Goes Global, The DNS Way · · Score: 1

    So, I tried to find anything you could use with a headset, ventrilo server? no problem, allthought client was Windows only. Skype? Only Windows and PocketPC. Teamspeak? Only Windows and Linux and required a lot of weird RPMs to be installed on my beautiful freebsd box so no thanks. So, the question is, are there anyones which actually is FREE and works? I don't care for this proprietarian(?) crap which only run on a single os.

  11. mod parent up on Super MP3 Will Feature User Tracking · · Score: 1

    he should atleast have +6 insightful.

  12. Re:You totally missed the point. on Swedish Pirate Demo · · Score: 1

    The extra money would come from the rich guys and benefit the swedes in non-central parts of Sweden which couldn't have paid for it themself. Simple as that.

  13. Re:You don't seem to understand on Swedish Pirate Demo · · Score: 1

    Yeah, atleast 30% income tax, many pays 50% above a certain amount.
    However we shouldn't forget the "taxes" the companies pays before the money reaches the employee, and the "taxes" you pay in the store when you buy something (25% vat).
    An intresting thing is that then the european central bank made a research about taxes and services in different european countries they came to the conclusion that if we in Sweden was as efficient as the people/government in Luxenburg we would make the same amount of services with 1/3 of the money.

  14. Re:Demanding bandwidth? on Swedish Pirate Demo · · Score: 1

    Just one small problem with that one.
    If it's paid thru taxes and the government handles it everyone pays the amount THEY CAN PAY thru taxes and get the same thing no mather where they live.
    If it's handled private only the few places where you can get a good amount of money back is intresting, and they get it for cheap. The others in small villages like in north Sweden would have to pay a lot to get the same thing.
    Secondly if it's private the only income is for the subscription, if it's governmenttal there is social and country-economical benefits aswell.

  15. Re:Demanding bandwidth? on Swedish Pirate Demo · · Score: 1

    Hey, this is Sweden.
    Everyone should have good Internet access in the same way as everyone got electricity and phone.
    Who should pay for it all? the government of course. They should have started it all like 3 years ago or so thought but they are screw ups.
    A medium like Internet shouldn't be for the rich only.

  16. Re:Fair light on Fairlight on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    Word, I see nothing wrong in piracing, but then I also live in Sweden ;/. I mostly run FreeBSD and therefor I don't HAVE to pay for much software at all since most needs are saticfied with free software. I've actually bought two games lately aswell, Warcraft III ROC and TFT, why? Because they are worth it. Would I buy Windows to play them? No, why? Because it's not worth it.

    This shit against fairlight just makes me sad, the losses are in the piracing made be each user, IF they would have been considering buying the software instead, but only if that would be the case. To release a crack to something doesn't matter, someone whould have done it sooner or later anyway and noone HAVE to copy any software just because there is a crack available.

    The world needs more cracktros, intros and demos. Let the scene live. What fairlight does is creativity and inspiracy, the piracy of software is made by the actual user. I don't see Bofors getting raided because they make weapons for various wars.

    (btw, I would buy a movie if it costed 50sek, a game for 100-150 if it's not really good, pay 10sek for a music album and so on. But that's about it, to me a movie isn't worth 250sek, and 20 songs of which i like 3 aren't worth 180sek. Simple as that.)

  17. global economy blah blah on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 1

    "Intellectual property theft is a global problem that hurts economies around the world. To be effective, we must respond globally"

    Tss, effective defending of the intellectual property is a major problem for average Joes economy :D
    And also how would if affect hardware(hdds, gfxcards, burners), media bussiness(discs), educational(no windows, office, visual studio, ... for you!) and infrastructur(who cares about "broadband" when there are no warez?).

    In other news there are no scene since the death of Amiga, may it rest in peace! Have you joined #amielite lately?

  18. Re:What's problem? on Protecting Our Parents' PCs? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "If you as a third move install third-party software for netuse (Opera, Mozilla. That kind of stuff), you'll need some pretty clueless people in order to screw the machine over."

    Ah, you mean like parents and Windows users?
    That was the problem.

  19. looks awesome on Half-Life 2D Creators Interviewed · · Score: 2

    I would prefer it to the real thing :D

  20. Re:Great. on WineX 3.3 Out - Now Supports Steam · · Score: 1

    in any case he should be able to play the game he has actually purchased.

  21. Re:Yawn.... on VPN For Kazaa Users Launched · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > That is the price to pay for an additional layer of privacy.

    additional level of piracy you mean? :D

  22. Re:Accessories: where the money is. on Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple · · Score: 1

    that's why i must get a mac now... (vegan)

  23. 3D isn't better than 2D on Disney Shuts Down 2D Animation Studio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Stupid, noone cares if it's 2D or 3D, it's the story which is important, I've liked quite a few animations from both camps lately. With Toy story 3D was cool because it was new, that isn't the case any longer, and sure shrek looks nice, but I have no troubles whatsoever with Mulan either for example.

    3D doesn't have to be better than 2D, just look at the game industry, the only good 3D game I can figure out is Quake and maybe WarCraft3 but that's not any 3D i count, it works like 2D. The rest of the games are blown away by old Amiga titles.

  24. turn it around on Microsoft Unhappy With HP's iTunes Decision · · Score: 1

    Would he have said that if THEIR service was the most popular? I heavily doubt that :D

  25. A child could have thought that out on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1
    Hey, even I could have done it!

    What am I thinking to buy to a kid if I had one? Simple bricks of course. Kids don't care about the perfect look, they want to invent and create. How many kinds of cars or houses can you build with Space 2560 super duper lego kit? Yes, and now the next question, how many can you build with a few simple kind of bricks?

    What you want is 500 pieces of 2x4 bricks and 200 or so of 2x2 bricks.. not a star wars X-fighter kit, how fun is that?