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  1. The gamer's "other" console? on Revolution Least Expensive Next-Gen Console · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know of quite a few people who bought a GC to go alongside a PS2 or an Xbox, because of its comparatively low price. Perhaps Nintendo noticed this and is aiming the Revolution to be everyone's "other" next-gen console, given their emphasis on different kinds of games than the indistinguishable powerhouses from MS/Sony.

  2. Re:Ya know... on Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm · · Score: 1

    Right, because nothing convinces people to get on yourside like blowing them up.

  3. Re:The Slashdot Headline is WRONG WRONG WRONG!! on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Point taken, but in this case, it's pretty likely that's the intent. I suppose it's jsut a matter of semantics.

  4. Re:Misleading article summary on Internet Gaming Has Not Yet Peaked · · Score: 1

    Oh, certainly, if there's one thing WoW showed it's that there are plenty more potential players out there.

  5. Misleading article summary on Internet Gaming Has Not Yet Peaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It states that the internet has not yet peaked, not online gaming. For all we know almost everyone who wants to play videogames online already does.

  6. Re:I read TF-Bill on A Delay in the Michigan Violent Games Law · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it still killing them if they're ghosts? It's questions like that which must keep politicians up at night.

  7. Re:The Slashdot Headline is WRONG WRONG WRONG!! on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    You could probably argue that "things critical of evolution" is all intelligent design is.

    While the hypothesis is "there is an intelligent designer" the associated body of "evidence" is simply "there are flaws in evolution". Teaching the bulk of a theory without stating the implicit conclusion still comes down to teaching the theory in my book.

  8. Black holes? on Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I can recall someone discussing the possibility of hauling black holes around at will using a similar technique (like a carrot in front of a donkey). Is my memory decieving me, or was it Stephen Hawking?

  9. Re:The consumer should have a said on it on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    I'm in the same boat, no idea where the name popped up from, but I think it has the right kind of overblown connotations for the controller.

  10. Re:The consumer should have a said on it on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    Market research like that lead to the first Xbox and the Duke controller.

    *shiver*

  11. So it's not just Nintendo then on How Microsoft Takes a Name · · Score: 1

    Microsoft are also about kicking ass and taking names.

  12. Re:GC in my computer on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    When the Dreamcast was on its last legs and Sega turned into a thirdparty publisher, there was serious talk of a "Dreamcast-on-a-card" PC graphics card which would allow PC users to play DC software. It fell through in much the same way as the Dreamcast-in-a-set-top-box, but it'd be great to see it revisited.

  13. Re:I think Slashdot is being had on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the article vetting system is now being handled by robots. They see "open source" and terms like "turbine" and it's automatically posted up.

  14. Re:Sorry... on Vertical Axis Wind Turbine With Push and Pull · · Score: 1

    If the patent application's been filed it should be available for all to see. Should ask them what the patent number is so we can look it up.

  15. Re:20m resolution and the landing sites... on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 1

    That's actually a really good idea, might take more than two runs, but if the satellites are going to be flying past ad infinitum anyway...

  16. Re:20m resolution and the landing sites... on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 1

    Where Earth = lunar orbit, I mean. I'm somewhat decaffienated.

  17. Re:20m resolution and the landing sites... on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say it's mainly because the instruments used to take the images have a 20m resolution. When there's a camera which can take pictures of the landing sites from earth, there will be pictures of the landing sites from earth. Not before.

  18. Re:"Typical subwoofers bottom out at 20Hz" on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Actually, I checked, the sub doesn't actually go that low, although the headphones do. My bad. You can get low-frequency transucers for home theatre that go that low, although they're not actually speakers.

  19. Re:"Typical subwoofers bottom out at 20Hz" on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    In the subwoofer's case, it's the aforementioned rumbliness. That's what the LFE channel's there for, after all. As for the headphones, it's only down to 18Hz so it's not a massive dip, I think the designers just overreached on the low end to be on the safe side.

  20. "Typical subwoofers bottom out at 20Hz" on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Even my headphones go lower than that, and my subwoofer is certainly more capable. When did Slashdot become an advertising portal for electronics, anyway?

  21. Re:Is there such a thing as "mouse-related progres on Pixar For Sale? · · Score: 1

    You sure sucked the fun out of that one. :/

  22. Re:First multi-button, then Mickey... on Pixar For Sale? · · Score: 1

    The jig's up! Squee squee squee.

  23. You might want to try... on How to Go About Team Building? · · Score: 1

    ...posting on Slashdot asking how to gather people for your project. That way you'd basically get a big, free "help wanted" ad on an incredibly popular tech site.

    ...

    You sly devil, you. ;)

  24. First multi-button, then Mickey... on Pixar For Sale? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is it with Jobs and resisting mouse-related progress?

    Add your own, presumably better, mouse-related gags if you wish. ;)

  25. Re:Priorities? on Printing Wikipedia · · Score: 0

    Problem is that it's always being corrected and verified. In fact, some areas are in constant flux owing to different viewpoints of the editors (although compromises are reached, minor details still waver back and forth). So if you wait for it to become "correct" it'll never get printed. Much as I love the wikipedia, I can't see this working.