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  1. Re:That's bull... on Mixed News for Nintendo, Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative
    But now, GBA sales are now practically non-existant

    Um, are you talking about the same GBA that still outsells the PS3?

  2. Re:Pioneer PD-F1009 on Best Practices for a Lossless Music Archive? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have an old 400 disc CD changer from Sony, and as cool as the thing was at the time, I haven't used it to listen to music in years. When you can store that much music completely uncompressed on a $150 hard drive, it just doesn't really make sense anymore.

    Not to mention how you can't take it with you, like you can with an MP3 player, etc.

  3. Re:Easy compared to what? on Repair Computer, Repurchase OS? · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about installing and activating everything in port, and then just backup the partition with g4u or the System Rescue CD? Then, if you do ever need to reinstall it, you just restore your already activated partition from a burned DVD? It's legal, faster, and is a much better way to do things even if you always have a highspeed connection.

  4. Re:My favorite: A Christmas Carol on Explaining Complexity in Software Development? · · Score: 1
    PS. I am not sure if there is a duck in Christmas Carol.

    That depends. Are you watching the Disney version?

  5. Re:Seems like a waste of time and money on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From Senate Bill Number 146 (enacted a few years ago):

    In Sec 2909.04, (B) No person shall knowingly use any computer, computer system, computer network, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system or the internet so as to disrupt, interrupt, or impair the functions of any police, fire, educational, commercial, or governmental operations.

    (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disrupting public services, a felony of the fourth degree.

    So, there's the law. We now return you to the discussion of whether this is an overreaction or not.

  6. Re:Re-install from scratch on Maintaining Windows XP System Performance? · · Score: 1

    This is what I do, except I use the partimage program on the System Rescue CD. If you're at all proficient with Unixish systems you can skip Ghost and use partimage or g4u instead.

  7. Re:Gaming Literature on Games And Books Getting Along · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're ignoring the possibility of a novelization of said movie.

  8. Re:Yeah, it's a gimmick! on Sony Describes DS As Gimmick · · Score: 1

    It's about time anonymous coward weighed in and ended that debate once and for all. Thanks!

  9. Re:all these worlds... on Eerie Sounds from Saturn · · Score: 1

    No, it's the one on the moon that's underground. The one on Saturn is in orbit, until 2010 when it starts orbiting Jupiter (unless, of course, it had previously switched to Jupiter on the release of the film adaptation).

  10. Re:Facts about Tatooine on Tatooine-like Planet Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny
    * You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

    Personally, I think it's a shame that people have to slander everyone from Tatooine just because they've gotten a bad impression from the people in Mos Eisley.

  11. Re:Sounds more like a DoS to me on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    OP has a linksys router. Showing a new MAC to Comcast involves nothing more than going to the linksys box web admin page and typing in something new.

  12. Re:Ob. Simpons reference to: Jumping the Shark(!) on Simpsons Film in Preproduction · · Score: 1

    That slideshow had a song with it, too:

    They'll never stop 'The Simpsons'
    Have no fears
    We got stories for years
    Like...

    Marge becomes a robot
    Maybe Moe gets a cell phone
    Has Bart ever owned a bear
    Or...

    How 'bout a crazy wedding
    Where something happens and do-do-do-do-do
    Sorry for the clip show

    Have no fears
    We got stories for years...

  13. Re:Great Move Nintendo on Some Revolution Downloads Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    Didn't they leave the processor necessary to play GB and GBC games out of the DS, so it can only do GBA and DS games? Otherwise, I agree.

  14. Re:Wrong bloody title. on Drilling to the Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    But what about when they drill through the turtle?

  15. Re:OMFG on Hong Kong Boy Scouts to Protect IP · · Score: 1
    The "Flag Code" says something to the effect that when a flag is no longer fit for display it should be destroyed respectfully, preferably by burning.

    People who are against flag burning aren't against respectful-retiring-burning, they're against "UnAmerican"-protest-burning. That's just harder to say.

    (Disclaimer: I am not in favor of criminalizing flag burning of either kind)

  16. Re:It's all a wind-up. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Here's how that would look if I bothered to preview my posts:

    We have an upper bound on that time, though, and it's 130 years (see Genesis 5:1). That's how long Adam had been around when Seth was born, and that was after they got kicked out of Eden. I'm pretty sure x less than 130 years is not quite long enough that all probabilities approach certainty.

    Furthermore, your logic would be flawed even if we didn't know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden. We know there was a moment in time when he was put there, and we know there was a moment in time when he was kicked out. That's not infinite. "Very long time" is not the same as "infinite", and therefore you can't use the anything that might possibly happen will happen argument.

  17. Re:It's all a wind-up. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    We have an upper bound on that time, though, and it's 130 years (see Genesis 5:1). That's how long Adam had been around when Seth was born, and that was after they got kicked out of Eden. I'm pretty sure xFurthermore, your logic would be flawed even if we didn't know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden. We know there was a moment in time when he was put there, and we know there was a moment in time when he was kicked out. That's not infinite. "Very long time" is not the same as "infinite", and therefore you can't use the anything that might possibly happen will happen argument.

  18. Re:As a conservative... on FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked DSL · · Score: 1

    Who needs suffrage when you've got cash?

  19. Re:Laptops? on Protecting Hardware on Unstable Power Sources? · · Score: 1

    Using old laptops could be part of the solution, but it seems to me that the batteries are the first thing to go on old laptops. That puts you back at the mercy of the power supply, except that now it's harder to swap out individual parts that get damanged.

  20. Re:I'll take the survey in a bit, but... on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 1

    But what do you do in twenty years when you can't find a computer that will boot an operating system capable of reading those files? Or of even having that hard drive plugged in?

  21. Re:Where, PA? on D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths · · Score: 1

    What about Intercourse, PA? They even sell t-shirts with the slogan "I love Intercourse."

  22. Re:It's unfortunate on BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? · · Score: 1

    I remember Student Legal Services at my school promising to provide access to a non-school lawyer if the case involved a conflict of interest like that.

  23. Re:Keep the Momentum on Making the Transition to University? · · Score: 1
    It should be added though, that community college can be time and money down the drain if you don't have at least a basic plan for what you're doing after that. Around here, the state universities are required to accept certain community college classes as equivalent, but others they can just ignore. "Sorry, the Java programming you took at X Community College isn't the same as the Java programming here at University of X."

    If you're considering the community college option, at least look into which of their classes will transfer to wherever you're going after community college, and verify that with the other school.

  24. Re:Myth Busters as well ... on The Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    That was Archimedes, defending Syracuse from a Roman fleet.

  25. Re:3D to 2D to 3D on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there some way I could just give George Lucas my credit card number, and then he could periodically charge me $60 and mail me some discs? That seems like it would be a lot simpler than the current arrangement.