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  1. Re:Why? on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 1

    There's also Gentoo/Prefix. Portage is much nicer than either fink or macports.

  2. Re:Stop whining. Learn how to manage your boss. on The Real Problem With Alexa · · Score: 1

    I salute you, sir.

  3. Re:Safari & XP64 not in love ? on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times · · Score: 1

    Did you reboot Windows after applying the changes? I don't use Windows myself, but this solution has been tested by a fair amount of people I know.

  4. Re:Safari & XP64 not in love ? on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times · · Score: 1

    You're running a non-English version of Windows, right? This is a bug that Apple should've caught in QA; in the meantime, you can fix it by going into Control Panel > Regional & Language Options > Advanced, and setting the Language For Non-Unicode Applications to US English. (The actual names involved might be different; I'm reverse-translating them back into English.)

    Some other crashes may also be fixed by copying the contents of the en.lproj and English.lproj folders into your language folders; for example, pl.lproj and Polish.lproj.

  5. Re:Money talks? on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    Actually, 1 US dollar = 0.74 metric dollars^W^W^H euro.

  6. Inexcusable on PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But the fanless 8-inch Cube was anything but cool in a literal sense. Put a pile of papers down on its top external vents, and the Cube would overheat and shut down.

    That's simply inexcusable. Those defective vents also didn't allow you to brew your coffee inside!

  7. Re:Second Amendment Rights on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    Just to fill everybody in, the campus is designated a "gun-free zone."

    Yeah, it's a real pity the perpetrator didn't know that.

  8. Re:Gun-toting liberal students on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    Right, because the Germans are such a peace-loving nation.

  9. Regurgitating blog posts on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Apple Computers is notoriously quite about the future of their products

    I don't suppose the opinions stated in this blog post deserve much attention if the author can't be bothered to write the name of the company correctly.

  10. Hear that? on A Proof-of-Concept Virus for iPods Running Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the sound of all the real virus authors collectively spinning in their coffins/cells/cubicles.

  11. Re:Emergent Gameplay on How D&D Shaped the Modern Videogame · · Score: 1

    The problem with these scenarios is that it takes the fun out of the interaction, while collapsing a house on a boss villain to set her on file *is cool*. In a video game it's not anything we haven't seen before. It's ho'hum and old hat.

    I don't think I have played a single computer game that would let me interact with the environment in a completely unconstrained manner. I believe you're talking about scripted sequences -- actions provided by the game developers to give the player an illusion of freedom. (For example, clicking on a weakened support beam to trigger a cutscene of the house collapsing.)

    However, the parent poster meant precisely the opposite -- D&D allows emergent gameplay, because the actions available to players are limited only by their imagination (and the GM's whims, of course).

  12. Re:just another pro-Apple site on Inside Symbian: the Platform Nokia Secretly Hates · · Score: 1

    Generally, you're right, but the Newton was introduced as the Personal Digital Assistant, in 1993. Palm Pilots were released in 1996.

  13. Headlines? on Newspaper Headlines Bow To SEO Demands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when search engines care only about the headlines?

  14. MOD PARENT UP on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    Informative-- and the nation's called Poland, FFS.

  15. MOD PARENT UP on Computer Monitor In Eyeglasses · · Score: 1

    Informative.

  16. MOD PARENT UP on Traveling with Too Many Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Informative.

  17. Re:Sure.. on Has 3D Video Finally Arrived? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:ps3 on PS3 Opened For Pictures · · Score: 1

    Would you consider making some of the more visually appealing designs available for online viewing? I would really appreciate that.

  19. Reykjavik on CCP and White Wolf Games To Merge · · Score: 1

    Reychavik? Is that where all the chavs come from?

  20. Re:secret weapon on iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus · · Score: 1

    You conveniently ignored the other thing I wrote. So, let me ask again, why were there infinitely more viruses released for the in the System 6-7 era? (Inifinitely, as in 26 versus 0.)

    I can tell you why, but it's not worth my time, since you've already made up your mind.

  21. Re:secret weapon on iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus · · Score: 1
    Ship a version of MS Word with a virus embedded that targets Macs (yes they do exist, though the small market share makes them much less common).

    I'm sick and tired of hearing this tired excuse of an argument. There are no viruses for Mac OS X. There were, however, plenty of viruses in the System 6-7 era, when Internet access was not very common, and the Macintosh marketshare was lower.

  22. Re:Colour gamut on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1
    2nd hurdle is actually getting the photos to print. You have to be able to bypass all windows color management (which uses sRGB) and use photoshop (or photoshop elements) to print, which needs to have the profile for your printer AND photo paper for things to work right.

    Or you could just use a Mac, like anyone who does preprint work.

  23. Re:Tempting to call bullshit? on Human-Dolphin Partnership Reserve · · Score: 3, Funny

    How does one summon dolphins?

    Why, I would believe that it is customary to use a +1 Coral Wand of Dolphin Summoning.

  24. Move along... on First Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial Imminent · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...there's nothing to sheathe here.

    (I'm sorry.)

  25. Re: Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Asatanaanadanaarandad"? I don't know what occult incantation is that, but it certainly sounds satanic.