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  1. Technically yes. You could even browse with Internet Explorer as usual, then connect a VPN and switch to Icognito mode in Google Chrome and they still know who you are.

  2. Re:It will have VR headset. on Nintendo's Mysterious 'NX' Gaming Platform To Be Launched In March 2017 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree it's likely not VR. Nintendo still caters to the younger crowd and there are many concerns for developing brains using artificial VR realities for long periods of time.

  3. Re:Yes! I'm so glad someone said it. on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 1

    Yes brother, this is the way it is. We are all one, and in oneness, two-ness must be illusion. Death is the ego's most prized possession in creating fear about what will ultimately be viewed as a non-event, thus destroying ones peace during their time here.

    Nothing is ever lost, with oneness, there is no where to lose it to, hence too, you will never die.

  4. Guarenteed to work, use Dvorak on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Switch your keyboard layout from QWERTY to Devorak. Learn Devorak over a week or so and then you're all set.

    I bet when you tell them, "Yeah, go ahead, but my keyboard is wonky, it has a different layout", they'll try to type, get frusterated fast, won't want to tell you their passwords then say "thanks but no thanks".

    It's worked for me over the last decade in dozens of situations and environments. People just won't touch your computer if they can't type on it.

  5. Re:Doing the math on Digital TV Coupon Program Under Way Again · · Score: 1

    Yeah, before television, I think every time a storm came, people just ran outside got zapped by lightning and flew around in the air by the tornados until they landed in Oz.

  6. Re:Software Development? Really? on Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? · · Score: 1

    I had to use a piece of coal on some flattened bark to write the first word on parchment in human history.

    If you have an 8" floppy, I'd hate to see it hard.
     

  7. Try this FS: FAT-16 on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try this, it should be good for what you need:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat16

    If it doesn't support all your needs, then nothing will.

    Oh also, 640k of ram is enough for anybody.

  8. I use 250 Gigabytes/mo on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    I use 250GB, because that's when Comcast shuts me off.

  9. Re:Interesting on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    It renders everything to look sorta like this:

        o===3

  10. Re:Interesting on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    My sick friends as a joke bought me Nvidia's 8800 OGC card which supports "Super Cockrenderer 3" only.

    Bastards.

  11. Re:Tough to fix hardware issue with firmware patch on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 1

    There are also countless iPhones that don't work correctly, but their users don't really know this. They expect a crappy phone experience, dropped calls, etc.

    If 90% of the phone population never really browsed the web on a phone before, and they start with a 3G iPhone, they are going to think "This is the experience, it is just okay".

    When the more tech savy people know it's really not working as advertised.

  12. Re:Oops on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Ye have little faith.

    Technically, it is POSSIBLE although highly improbable to win the super jackpot lottery an infinite number of times in a row.

    See what I did there?

  13. Re:Oops on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    I think more like winning the superball jackpot lottery an infinite number of times in a row.

  14. Memory not better on Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field · · Score: 1

    I can't remember things any better before or after FF3, so I don't get what the big deal is.

  15. Re:Why bother with an antique player at all? on The Grammy In Mathematics · · Score: 1

    I came the comment section to say something similar, I thought it was more of an etching but by what you say, magnetic. Regardless, I figured they would just try to scan / 3D Scan or use some kind of sensors rather than try to play it back "old-school" snapping the wire, kinking it, etc.

  16. The only time I read is when I travel on The Duel Between Gaming Magazines and Websites · · Score: 1

    The only time I read them is when I travel on an airplane and don't have access to the net. I'll be at the airport waiting to board, so I'll go over to a magazine rack and pick up a few and one usually is a gaming magazine.

    Otherwise, I never buy them, I can read just about anything online for free before paying for it in a magazine.

    The one thing they can do, if not already, is get exclusives with the game developers and publish only in the magazine.

    The overall problem though I think is, it's cheaper to publish online, and more profitable with targeted ads to boot. The game magazines will probably be all gone within 5 to 10 years.

    I used to be an avid Electronic Gaming Monthly SUBSCRIBER, back in the early to mid 1990's...

  17. Re:Good Point on Multitouch Without Touch Using Wiimote · · Score: 1

    >> Somebody watching a presentation could point the wiimote at a diagram to show everyone exactly what part he was asking a question about

    If only we had some kind of really cheap laser pen type thingy... oh wait.

  18. Re:Oy! My payments... on First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI · · Score: 1

    Or he can hold a gun to your head, and then you'll be backing him 100%.

  19. I've had NO issues on Leopard Early Adopters Suffer For The Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    I haven't had a single issue that has affected me in any way.

    Perhaps I don't browse Java sites, or what not people were complaining about.... But I do develop software with Ruby on Rails (TextMate), Adobe Flex 2, .NET 2005 (Under VMWare Fusion), XCode (Cocoa), and use Photoshop a lot.

    The new spotlight is fantastic, spaces are a godsend to me with all the simultaneous development environments I am using.

    Overall, I think Leopard is a huge upgrade from Tiger in many ways I'm not even listing here.

  20. Re:It's still over $600 here! on EU Release of Price Cut 40 GB PS3 Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Where should I send my penny to?

  21. Re:It's still over $600 here! on EU Release of Price Cut 40 GB PS3 Confirmed · · Score: 1

    You realize you can't really compare to USD anymore, our money is pretty worthless. Sony isn't an American company any more than its a British company.

  22. Re:Read between the lines on Halo 3 Review · · Score: 1

    Correct. It does not count you Atari 2600 gamers. For the rest of the world, it's the most pre-ordered game ever, and will most likely be the most in sales.

  23. I already did this on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 1

    I grew my own heart valves about 29 years ago thank you very much.

  24. In other news BioShock... on Haze Now Slated As A PS3 Exclusive · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other news BioShock isn't coming to the PS3.

  25. Re:Redundand? on Via Unveils 1-Watt x86 CPU · · Score: 1

    This is targeted to Windows 2000 and Windows XP running on a ULV CPU. At the same time it can handle Linux with every major popular distribution, where as an ARM cpu while it can run linux, is less flexible.

    The x86 architecture does drag a lot of baggage, but Intel, AMD and possibly VIA seem to have figured out how to deal with it by now. Look at the Core 2 Duo compared to the performance of any Itanium processor or what not.

    I think the baggage isn't really a big deal anymore as it used to be.