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  1. And? on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    750,000 players use Xbox Live

    And how many people play online games on their computer?? More than that I'm sure.. Online console games tend to have a much shorter lifespan also. Online computer games tend to stay around forever because for many of them players can also host their own games. Especially given the fact that online console gaming has only been around for a couple of years (discluding the Dreamcast of course.. RIP) one would expect either growth or a market failure. All this says is that online console gaming isn't a failure. Saying that it's taking over computer gaming?? That's going a bit far!

  2. What a deal! on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 1

    Programs done with a combination of QT, GTK, KDE libs, GNOME libs, C++, and Objective C. Now our Linux desktops can perform almost as poorly our Windows desktops! Happy Day!!!

  3. What killed the Martians on NASA Says Mars Rocks Formed in a Salty Sea · · Score: 1

    Now we know what killed off life on Mars: high blood pressure

  4. Planet? on Is {pluto|sedna} A Planet? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the problem isn't how we define planet's, but rather how we define asteroids and KBOs. All asteroids are considered 'Minor Planets' a name I think would better suit objects like Pluto, Sedna, Quauor and the "asteroid" Ceres. Consider these minor planets, Mercury through Mars are already classfied as terrestial planets (by size and composition), and of course you have gas giants. And there you have it. With so many minor planets, we could still rank Pluto among the 9 planets as the largest representative of it's class. The only problem with that is that it now seems likely that there are other KBOs larger than Pluto that we haven't detected, possibly even vast numbers of them.

  5. Fah-nix? on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    After reading this document, it is apparent that hooked-on-phonics most definitely does NOT work for SCO employees.

  6. Who's Next?? on The Full Outsourcing Discussion · · Score: 1



    They must buy a lot of Coke to make up for all of the wages lost due to jobs being shipped overseas. When this initially happened to blue collar workers, everybody thought: 'It will be okay, we still have professional jobs and that's what we all want to do anyway.' We thought we were secure in those jobs. Now the white collar jobs are disappearing and we think: 'It's okay, we can all be in sales and management, those are the jobs we want anyway.'

    Really?? Who's going to manage all of these people down the line? Who's going to manage those managers? It is completely rediculous that most of these people are managed from overseas. Sooner or later the management is going to follow the work force, and then the directors will follow the management. How long are we going to blindly follow this path?? Is this really the type of economic model we want for our nation?