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  1. Re:"Playstation 2 graphics?" on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sony reference dictionary

    PS2 Toy Story graphics
    --> PS1 enhanced graphics

    1.8GB media
    --> in option (default: 16 Ko)

    Wireless 802.11, USB 2.0
    --> when connected to the handheld port replicator base (if the option has been bought)

    7.1 channel Audio
    --> When at home with a 7.1 Kit (the cables will be incompatible with other brands so you will have to buy the Sony 7.1 Handheld Kit®, um any1 has experienced it with Vaios for external devices ?).
    --> or you can buy our new Roswell haedphone kit with subwoofer integrated.

    24bit 16x9 screen TFT LCD screen
    --> TFT screen with a maximum resolution of 640x400 but every game will use 320 x 200 (well Playstaion 2 level graphics ?)

  2. Re:File Sharing Copyright Violation? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    Heh, still you would not be allowed to copy the books/CD/DVD for yourself and give the original to your friends/family.

    The same for P2P networks, if one buys the material, it does not give the right to millions of people to get it and one could argue in justice that providing a way to access to it, is like providing copies.

  3. Re:File Sharing Copyright Violation? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    I'm totally with you about the guys who sell illegal copies, but in fact compagnies are fighting the ones who provide them the copies. Many copies come from China, where some illegal factories make cheap copies CDs and DVDs with fake authentification stickers for software and print their own covers for DVDs.

    I do not know about legal issues for sharing files, because you are still providing an easy way to download the files. Nobody forced you to provide an access to these files. The editors could say that you have given an access to copyrighted work without checking if these people had the right to download them.

    I understand your point of view, but it will be hard to make understand a juge that you may provide a way to get copyrighted work and still respect the law. IMHO sharing copyrighted files on any P2P network should not be legal, because you know that anybody can download it.

    Still, when RIAA or any editor attacks a particular, it is more to scare the other people than anything else. It is like the protections on DVD (especially for XBOX and PS2), they may not be unbreakable but if it stops 95% of the people from copying it, it is a success, these protections were done to stop M. Average Joe from stealing copyrighted work.

    Aside from that, I think that audio CDs should be sold track per track, many times, I do not buy an entire album because I know that 15 of the 20 tracks are total crap and I feel ripped when I listen to the other tracks than the ones I like.

  4. Re:File Sharing Copyright Violation? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    If you give for free copyrighted work (software, DVD rips, ...), I think that you could be attacked in justice in real life.

    So why not on Internet

  5. Re:The old solution is retarded. on Microbes for Bioremediation · · Score: 1

    If you take a Geiger counter, you will find that there is some radioactivity anywhere. It is even used to date finds in archeology.

    So if the water is 0.01% more radioactive than before it won't change anything, and it is still better to get the radioactive elements in a safe place where they are treated than in a place where they could be nocive for people.

  6. Re:Java and MySQL? Overkill? on MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    Why do they need a program ? Just use emails and someone could use printed tables and dices to get the results. Screw software =).

  7. Re:Nuclear energy is clean on Microbes for Bioremediation · · Score: 1

    Yah, yah I heard that too many times. That's what the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles® said too before to invade the theaters.

  8. Re:i'm missing something here.... on Microbes for Bioremediation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to Mining bacteria's appetite for toxic waste

    A complex community of microorganisms thrives by "breathing" oxides of sulfur, iron, aluminum and even more hazardous compounds like the uranium and other radioactive elements. As the microbes obtain their oxygen from soluble uranium oxide, for example, they transform it into a highly insoluble form called uraninite.

    The article does not say what is uraninite. Uraninite is the primary ore of uranium. Uraninite is a reduced form of uranium which appears in places where there is few oxygen. So what the bacteria do, is consuming the oxygen and altering the environment of uranium so it changes the environment so uranium alters into uraninite faster which is only stable when uranium cannot associate itself with oxygen.

    Ok now, according to The Mineral URANINITE:

    Uraninite is a highly radioactive and interesting mineral. It is the chief ore of uranium and radium, which is found in trace amounts. Helium was first discovered on the earth in samples of uraninite.

    So we have changed a radioactive material into a highly radioactive and interesting mineral ? Wow that's a deal =), now it is not only radioactive but interesting also.

  9. Re:Mini-Nanotech on Microbes for Bioremediation · · Score: 1

    2059 - The nanobots became self-aware 2060 - Unfortunately humans cannot fight enemies who live at the atom-scale 2061 - The nanobots have conquered the whole world and they even have baseball and TV showing their advance on the rest of the world.

  10. Re:Languages, VB ?? on MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    Haskal ... each time I browse Slashdot I learn a new word =)

  11. Re:LINUX GAMING MODE on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, that's called do not install what you do not need and it is already avaible on most of the distributions.

  12. Re:Linux version runs well on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    He probably means that the game will go trough several months after release of beta testing before to get a decent netcode and some gameplay.

  13. Re:To all the NWN trolls on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by more stable ? I have seen really few games these years that are not stable or patched in the next days even on Windows.

  14. Re:Here is how to bring it down... on Clock Ticking for Hubble · · Score: 1

    *Mission Impossible theme*

  15. Re:wrong rationale methinks on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    But editors sells more games on Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube than on PC.

  16. Re:I don't see why this is so difficult. on Savage to Support Linux · · Score: 1

    Because it costs too much money compared to what you ll earn. If you are targetting something else than the consumers who mostly do not know how to bypass protections or get cracks, you will not sell many copies.

    That is why there are fewer and fewer games on PC now.

  17. Re:p2p != music sharing, idiots with no taste get. on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    I said ... you can record for your very own private use but it is forbidden to share/upload, please read the post before hitting that reply button.

  18. Re:p2p != music sharing, idiots with no taste get. on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    It is forbidden to share these TV episodes, you can record them for private use only. But I guess that nobody cares about TV episodes anyway, so we are safe =).

  19. Re:Could they find you with GNUTella and Freenet? on RIAA Now Targets Pirates' Parents · · Score: 1

    He would probably not have the total file too but just a chunk.

  20. Re:Psychic /.ers on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    I thought that David Lockwood was the CEO of Intertrust, but what happened to him :?

  21. Re:The usual English statement on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    It was not as funny as the original =/

  22. Re:Don't forget the software! on Re-Opened Computer History Museum Explored · · Score: 1

    I won't and I am waiting the day when Microsoft products will sit in this museum.

  23. Re:Security isn't something you "cook" on Linux Security Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I think that you mean "security consultants" by "system administration" because the admins who work for a fixed company do not make that much money.

  24. Re:L'homme n'a eu aucune alternative. on Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers · · Score: 1

    Please answer to the original thread, I'm just translating =)

  25. Re:L'homme n'a eu aucune alternative. on Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Translation:

    This is a consequence of new opportunist companies which promises many things but accomplish few. They promise to make some drivers and do nothing after. They are as bad as winmodem manufacturers. Why hardware should need drivers ? What's the matter with good old ioctl system calls ?

    Why don't these companies develop drivers for *NIX ? They think that these systems are not viable, economically speaking, but in fact they are forgetting about a market going wider, and they went back from the promises to the community. In fact, they are probably waiting that someone with enough free time, writes driver for their own hardware