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  1. Re:WARNING on Brain Scans May Help Guide Career Choice · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Or.. on Alien Swarm Can Be Played As a Terrifying FPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not everyone likes 3rd person view for all games. I think it sucks for when you control a walking/running character and need to aim. That's the job of 1st person view.

  3. Re:WARNING on Brain Scans May Help Guide Career Choice · · Score: 1

    There was a twilight zone (or some other series) episode where children had to pass an IQ test and were injected with truth serum before the test. The ones that tested with an IQ above the national limit were simply killed.

  4. Re:i! on Forced iAds Coming To OS X? · · Score: 1

    Everybody should have aides.

  5. Re:Good for the consumer on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Posting AC for a reason.

    Because you like to shill out?

    P.S.: can someone fix Slashdot so that it stops removing/cancelling <em> in quotes?

  6. Re:hemp for textiles? on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Isn't hemp textile also a lot more resistant than cotton? But how does it feel compared to cotton, etc?

  7. Re:Wow, Dell... on Dell Ships Infected Motherboards · · Score: 1

    And you all missed the part about "Made in Alpha Centauri".

  8. Re:Wow, Dell... on Dell Ships Infected Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it. We're a Canadian company and have sub-contractors in China that are supposed to make parts for us. However we have learned that our Chinese sub-contractors have themselves sub-contracted another company in India, which themselves sub-contracted another company in Mexico, which themselves sub-contracted another company in the USA.

    The kicker is that we make parts for a company in Japan that resells them to an unknown client that requires the label on the product to read "Made in Alpha Centauri" for some reason.

  9. Re:'tis a sad day on eBook Sales Outpace Hardbacks · · Score: 1

    People were lucky the book in question wasn't Fahrenheit 451 or else their Kindle would have spontaneously combusted.

  10. Re:'tis a sad day on eBook Sales Outpace Hardbacks · · Score: 1

    At least it's more environmentally friendly than just burning them.

  11. Re:solution: on The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's no good, they won't filter anything.

  12. Re:Incontrovertible? What garbage on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Experts say that the evidence is incontrovertible

    Like my raincoat! - President Skroob

  13. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    52% of people in the US (according to some random site I went to, but it's probably not far) consume it every day without negatively affecting their lives, for the great majority.

    Imagine those 52% NOT getting their coffee for a month.

  14. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    if we suddenly found ourselves low on money, she isn't going to sell our DVD player just so she can go to Starbucks.

    Of course not. A used DVD player would only get you half a cup of espresso.

  15. Re:Pre-Matrix joke... on DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries · · Score: 1

    Get your CLAWS off me you damn, dirty robot!

  16. Re:System requirements on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    The "GT" in "9600M GT" could mean it's in a totally different class of GPU, though.

    As I said, Macs have used integrated GPUs since the intel switch. The bare minimum all Macs can have is either intel GMA950, intel X3100, nVidia 9400M and nVidia 320M. Higher performance Macs will have one of these in addition to a discrete GPU. How hard is it to say if those four GPUs are supported or not?

  17. Re:System requirements on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    Lots of Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro and even iMac models had/have the 9400M or the 320M. Blizzard only has a dozen or so GPUs to test for the Macs, why can't they list which ones are supported?

  18. System requirements on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, how is someone supposed to magically know if the GPU in his computer is better or worse than the GPUs listed for Starcraft II?

    Seriously, Apple has used so few GPUs since they switched to intel, the least Blizzard could do is list all of the supported ones.

    Where does the 9400M and the 320M fall in that list? The 320M is more powerful than the 9400M, so we can't even go by numbers alone. Stupid marketing departments with their crazy GPU names.

  19. Re:Great, how long till we can strip mine them? on WISE Discovers 95 New Near-Earth Asteroids · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could also be useful in case somebody wants to build a bypass near us.

  20. Re:A WISE old owl? on WISE Discovers 95 New Near-Earth Asteroids · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wise guy, eh?

  21. Re:India is the 5th country... on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    It is popular in Quebec only if you visit and assume everyone speaks english.

  22. Re:India is the 5th country... on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Molson's. And the middle finger would not be the Canadian way.

    The problem is that designing a dollar symbol that represents "it's not our fault, but we're sorry anyway" is a hard task.

  23. Re:Why use symbols? on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 3, Funny

    1.00$USD
    1.00$CAN
    1.00$AU

    Alternate ways of writing the above:
    1.00 freedom dollar
    1.00 dollar, eh?
    You call that a dollar? THAT's a dollar.

  24. Re:India is the 5th country... on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    There appears to be more than 5

    And they have a plan.

  25. Re:India is the 5th country... on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Where's our Canadian dollar symbol, eh?