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  1. The size of WHAT? on Gamepark Releases the GP2X Wiz · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sorry but the author of that sentence has never even seen or held a Game Boy Micro in person.

    From the specifications alone, you can see that the GP2x Wiz is 50% bigger and 70% heavier than a GameBoy Micro:

    Game Boy Micro:
    - 50Ã--101Ã--17.2 mm (86860 mm3)
    - 80 grams (built-in battery)

    GP2x Wiz:
    - 121x61x18 mm (132858 mm3, 50% bigger)
    - 136 g (with battery)

    As far as processing power goes, however, the GP2x Wiz wins. No debate there.

    I'm also not a fan of what seems to be a dual-gamepad setup, even if the pad on the right is supposed to be used as "buttons" (and even if the pad is split in four equal parts, it's still a gamepad). Weird, to say the least.

  2. Re:Just like... on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    5.555555555556e-03 was several months ago?

  3. Re:What's in a name? on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 1

    Because USB isn't implied for a "flash drive", you need to specify the interface (in this case, USB).

  4. Re:This review doesn't make sense from the start on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 1

    Yes I saw the table at the bottom of the first page. But the way their text is written (see quote above), it's confusing at best.

    And from their table, the drives are mostly 4GB, 8GB and 16GB.

  5. Re:What's in a name? on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 1

    USB drive can also refer to an external 2.5" or 3.5" drive, so I prefer to call these things "USB Flash Drives".

    And yes I do know there's 2.5" and 3.5" flash drives...

  6. This review doesn't make sense from the start on Flash Drive Roundup · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To test this commodity theory, we selected a cornucopia of mostly 4GB and 8GB USB flash drives ranging from $9 to $30 dollars (average: $19.00)

    Products (tallest to smallest)
    OCZ Throttle 16GB ($57.98)
    Patriot Xporter XT 16GB ($41.99)
    Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB ($35.99)
    OCZ Rally2 4GB ($25.49)
    Kingston DTI 2GB ($7.99)
    Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB ($10.95)
    Super*Talent Pico-B 4GB ($18.99)
    PQI i820 1GB ($9.99)

    Their list has three 16GB, three 4GB, one 2GB and one 1GB flash drives. How is that "mostly 4GB and 8GB"?

    And the prices go from $10 to $56, how is that "from $9 to $30"? There's three drives over $30 listed, not to mention that only morons view $9.99 as being equal to $9 instead of $10.

  7. Re:In the US ... on For Building DIY Droids, It Helps to Live In Japan · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

  8. Re:No thanks on For Building DIY Droids, It Helps to Live In Japan · · Score: 1, Funny

    These aren't the droids you were looking for.

  9. Re:Saw It in Music! Coming Soon in Games, E-Books on Why Bother With DRM? · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to report that I'm in the 10% of non-pirated copies of World of Goo, because it has no DRM. Had it had any form of DRM I would only have played the demo.

  10. Re:Counteraction? on Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared · · Score: 1

    If they really want to counter it, they should call it Google Marflow.

  11. Re:Ultra Dense Planet on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    Nice Futurama reference.

  12. Re:Dude... That's heavy!!! on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    Coming in 2010: "Dude, where's my ultra-dense deuterium?", staring Ashton Kutcher.

  13. Re:Hmm on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    Or at least, invent Diamondium.

  14. Re:Apple's store on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Indeed, I've also heard that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.

  15. Re:You can get a house for that on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 1

    ... just not the crap house shown in the page you linked to.

    Bleh!

  16. Re:You can get a house for that on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 1

    I sometimes wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a house in Detroit and just have it moved to somewhere else. I know doing that is crazy expensive, but come on, a house for 7500$?

  17. Re:THIS IS NOT NEWS FOR NERDS!!! on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Coward: kdawson sucks, he needs to be fired.
    kdawson: I don't care!
    Anonymous Coward: from a canon, into the sun.
    kdawson: (gulp!)

  18. !Reply on Princeton Boasts Its Kindle Project Is Noblest · · Score: 1

    This is not a reply.

    =Yvan256=

  19. Re:Again? on Apple Eyeing EA? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Apple are about to buy Slashdot?

  20. Re:Please not another minor browser on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 1

    Actually I've never really had a problem between Firefox, Opera and Safari. If anything, it's Firefox's font size difference that's the real problem.

  21. Re:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 1

    It does. Do you know how much a pixel is worth these days?

  22. Re:That's MY damn email address! on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I'm on a Mac, so I'm using "Mail", the one that comes with Mac OS X.

  23. Re:Uploading progress bars? on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    Except that with PHP you can't specify an upload directory or filename, it's all internal with random temporary filenames while uploading.

    The only real work-around that (is supposed to) work is to upload the file to something else than PHP (usually Perl), however all the Perl scripts I've tested on the servers I use (and don't control) just won't update anything until the file is completely uploaded (and no, disabling/flushing the buffers also doesn't work for some reason).

  24. Re:Finally on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    hint: click the link.

  25. Re:That's MY damn email address! on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    ex: say your company asks me for my email address. Your company is called "Very Powerful Tools, inc.". Then I will give you "verypowerfultools@mydomain.com" as my email address. So if I ever get spam in my verypowerfultools@mydomain.com account then I know that your company is selling/giving the email addresses they get.

    My ISP has an option to send all unknown email addresses of my domain to a single address, a "catch-all" if you will.