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  1. The US version failed on The Pirate Party of Canada Is Official · · Score: 4, Funny

    because they all pushed the "R" button.

  2. Re:Will we ever see an Asheron's Call 3? on DDO's Turbine Partners With Notorious SuperRewards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't establish a star-trek movie wave (alternating good and bad with odd/even iterations) with only two sample points.

    Given just two points, what you can plot from them is a line, and in this case it is a line plummeting downwards.

  3. KinP hone by Sharp on Microsoft Unveils 'Pink' Phones As Kin One and Two · · Score: 1

    Get it? (well they hope people get it)....

  4. "isn't going to suck as much as you think it is?" on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seth Green says:

    "Let us assure you this isn't going to suck as much as you think it is."

    It couldn't possibly.

    But it could still suck a great deal without reaching that level.

  5. But can it fold under pressure? on Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot To Fold Towels · · Score: 1

    if not, will it throw in the towel?

  6. If you want to stop things from moving anywhere... on NASA Summoned To Fix Prius Problems · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess today's NASA is a good call...

  7. Half-Life of Bob on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 1

    It worked out pretty well for Gabe Newell, too....

  8. Re:Radio? on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    You think being judged by people who only heard "Another Brick in the Wall Part2" might be part of why they wanted to insist on this clause for future deals?

    Hell, there are probably people who judge them for "In the Flesh"

  9. Writing by hand aids memory.... on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    At least for me it does. However, I'm happy to take notes on my tablet, and it works equally well for that (better, even). I imagine this would be a natural use of an iPad as well....

  10. How secret or quiet can it be on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    The headline notes: " allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains".

    So now its on slashdot. Gee, thanks.

  11. Easier method on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Going by the microsoft graphic of the operation, they could just arrest people who wear dark sunglasses and colored head scarves.

  12. Privateering... brilliant on UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    They just need to offer pirates letters of marque to only pirate foreign-owned software....

  13. Plot Tweaks i'd have done on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1
    Enjoyed it a ton, but... A few tweaks would have elevated it overall greatly to me:
    • 1 - When that guy disconnects Jake's avatar, Jake (in his real body) manages to crawl to a gun and shoot him.
    • 2 - Aiwa (sp?) hive mind manages to chemically transform unobtainium into uselesscrapium, thus removing the reason to remove the natives.
    • 3 - The mutinous pilot girl still disobeys orders, but doesn't go as far as killing her fellow soldiers.
    • 4 - they explain how it is that avatar units can transmit from their base or trailer, yet no other signal can get through.
  14. J2-X? on Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget · · Score: 1

    Is this new one going to use the same J2-X engine? Only two years ago NASA awarded a $1.2 billion contract to P&W to develop this engine. It performed fine in all tests so far, and was scheduled for another test in 2010...

  15. Also lacking "Insane in the Membrane"... on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1
    since this "achievement" doesn't grant any achievement points it isn't needed to max the bar, but is truly hardcore that he's got a ways to go...

    FWIW, Insane in the Membrane, which grants the title of "the Insane" requires:
    • requirements:
    • Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers
    • Exalted with Booty Bay
    • Exalted with Rachet
    • Exalted with Everlook
    • Exalted with Gadgetzan
    • Exalted with Darkmoon Faire
    • Exalted with Shen’dralar
    • Exalted with Ravenholdt

    Our friend here is only Friendly with Shen'dralar, and is hated by all the Steamwheedle Cartel factions (Booty Bay, Rachet, Everlook and Gadgetzan). Given that Bloodsail and Steamwheedle oppose each other, he probably sacked the latter to build up the former, meaning he's after this too. He'll then have to get back in the good graces of Steamwheedle without doing any of the stuff that makes the Bloodsails angry, which means doing stuff in Ferelas, probably Dire Maul Key runs, which coincides with building Shen'dralar faction rep, so that's probably in his plans. Lastly he's only friendly with Ravenholdt, which is understandable since its mostly a rogue-only faction. In order to work this rep (and he's started somewhat already) he'll need to either get a rogue to farm the items for him and hand them to him or use a rogue alt. Either way sounds like even more mindless than what has gone already.

  16. 12 million worldwide? probably less than 1 Mil... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 5, Informative

    See discussion on their numbers at adherents.com, a site whose main purpose is to track # of adherents to specific religions world wide, where they discuss why scientology isn't on their default charts. The discussion mentions "8 million", which at the time was the number often found in the media, that number is now apparently often 12 million. But the source of this number is the Church of Scientology itself. From this analysis, they conclude the # of Scientologists claimed by the CoS is "the total number of people who have participated in Church of Scientology activities since the inception of the church."

  17. Clowntech on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 1

    I really wish Clowntech had pursued mass-condensing technology to fit more people inside a small car instead...

  18. Peter Gabriel MMO... on An Early Look At Ragnar Tornquist's The Secret World · · Score: 1

    Secret World has an interesting storyline, compelling music.... but wonder what the genesis of such a theme would be...

  19. Needs better name... on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    Suggestions:

    Thuggee

    Phansigar

    Kalinator

  20. Reminds me of Allegiance on Speaking With the Designer of an Indie MMO Project · · Score: 1

    Don't know if any remember Allegiance. It was a space 3d combat game with resources and objectives and building units and the like, but one player was designated the commander, and he viewed the entire battle from a tactical perspective, ordering units to go do objectives much like in an RTS.... the players would get the orders he gave them as objective way points and the like, but it was up to them to actually pursue them (or not). And the commander could assign better resources (ships, missiles, etc) to people who carried out his orders better (or just on whatever criteria he wanted). It was not a persistent game in terms of continuing combat (though there was some kind of overall campaign scoreboard based on which factions won), but the RTS/Personal dual nature described here reminded me of that. I played and enjoyed it for awhile but moved on at some point. The game had a fairly steep learning curve and for new players to jump into the thick of it against people who had mastered the basics was intimidating. I gather it wasn't a financial success for Microsoft, who developed it, and some time back they open sourced the entire thing. There are still that support it, though haven't checked on it in a long time...

  21. Smeadsoft on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 1

    Smeadsoft might work for you. -- note: I don't work for them or any affiliate of theirs, and have no vested interest in them being used --

    I'm in the process of setting up one of their systems for document management, it seems to be quite capable of that. Its not open source and it would involve some cash to set it up, but I think it worth looking into if those two things don't eliminate it from consideration. (they also handle management of physical files, which is where they came from)... Thus far set up involves setting up a lot of framework and tags for the actual documents, and scanning a lot of physical files to be stored. There is this system of using large scanners with something called VRS, and putting barcode identifier sheets with stacks of documents.

    So for example you could have a large stack of papers, of which half belong to one category (or subcat or subsubetc), the others to a second. You put barcode sheet (a blank paper save for one barcode) for the first category, then all those papers, then a barcode sheet for the next category, and so on. You load them into the scanner (obviously a high capacity one) and it reads them all and puts the scanned documents into the proper location in the database automatically.

  22. Imaginary whiteboard? How about imaginary gun? on Using Mobile Phones To Write Messages In Air · · Score: 1

    Celphone "real world" fps, except you point your phone at people.

  23. Evil Statesman on City of Heroes Going Rogue With New Expansion · · Score: 1

    You know, the one where Statesman and his Cryptic crew leave NCSoft to start their rival game.

  24. Re:Transcript of Richard Garriott's team of lawyer on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    Mr. Shamino, is it not true that you are in fact secretly Lord British?

  25. This will be the plot of Ultima XI on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    NC Soft and teh Guardian team up to destroy Lord British. With the crack lawfirm of Dupre & Fitzowen, Esq advising your moves, you'll have to collect the contracts from the Sandallwood Box, travel to the Shrine of Justice in Yew, convince the Magistrate there that Brittania law applies to South Korea, then track down the vile Chung Blackthorn II.

    Confronting him in his underworld lair from which the Exodus Lineage Server farm runs, you will defeat them, take their funds for a return to space...