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  1. Well duh on Techie Pay Approaches All-time High · · Score: 5, Informative

    McDonald's workers were also paid more than any other time in history. If you are going to a study like this without adjusting for ever-present inflation, then of course you will constantly see new records.

  2. Two words on Pondering EA's Move Towards Hardcore · · Score: 3, Funny

    Madden's Gate. 08.

  3. Re:NES emulation on Animal Crossing MMOG / DS Flash Card Rumored · · Score: 1

    Every NES game ever made weighs in at 255MB with nothing more than standard zip compression.

  4. NES emulation on Animal Crossing MMOG / DS Flash Card Rumored · · Score: 1

    I would just like to point out that you can fit a copy of every single NES game from every country on Earth on a 256MB flash device. It's going to be pretty damned insulting when they try and pull $5 per game or something similar.

  5. Re:Physical Product More Profitable? on Manhunt 2 Could Beat Ban With Digital Download · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's simple. The overwhelming majority of video game purchases aren't made by hardcore gamers (Madden 1990-2027 anyone?). Casual gamers or parents think that Steam is what happens to water. The EB, however, is a physical place they can see every time they go to the mall.

  6. Re:funeral's saturday on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You made me choke on my cookie. That was hilarious.

  7. Re:Brain activity and behavior on Spontaneous Brain Activity and Human Behavior · · Score: 1

    Sadly, they are usually inversely proportional.

  8. On a limb on Tabula Rasa Delayed Two Weeks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Richard Garriott will be writing features detailing what endgame content we can expect in Tabula Rasa, and how Destination Games will go about adding updates over time Let me take some wild guesses. The endgame will involve large groups of players getting together to fight incredibly tough monsters which will only drop rewards for a small percentage of those involved. The updates over time will be some minor content and bug fixes released in patch form, while major content additions are sold in separately purchased "expansion packs".
  9. Re:Not Censorship on Verizon Reverses Itself On Pro-Choice News Texting Ban · · Score: 1

    You need to brush up on your dictionary.com skills. This is the very definition of censorship.

    It just isn't illegal.

  10. Re:Obligitory on Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why was the parent modded funny? If anything is should be modded sad but true. Pirated music is typically of better quality (bitrate, encoder, etc) than any "legal" music store on earth.

  11. Great idea, bad implementation on GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Chuck E. Cheese used to have something very similar. You bring in your report card, and you would get free tokens for each good grade. When I read the title I thought this is what the manager was doing and thought it was a fantastic idea. After reading his negative-reinforcement approach, however, I agree fully with his dismissal.

  12. FDISK on Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops · · Score: 3, Informative

    You used to be able to kill any boot sector virus instantly with "fdisk /mbr", but that command was retired when DOS went away.

  13. Re:Incredibly relevant on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 0

    Why the hell was the parent modded down? The article stating that he is in jail for tax evasion is a blatant red herring. It has no bearing on the group's DMCA claims whatsoever.

  14. Re:Never happen on Sony Clarifies Details About PS3 Home · · Score: 1

    you must be 18 for a credit card so user with a registered one is fine You can get a debit card well under 18 years of age.
  15. Never happen on Sony Clarifies Details About PS3 Home · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Areas requiring the user to be 18 will earn this game an AO rating. It will never happen.

  16. Re:Snooze on Debating the Linux Process Scheduler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously has Slashdot got such a boner for Linux that they'll post absolutely every fucking little boring thing they find? You must be new here.
  17. Re:So..? on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this mean that you unwilling to give up any liberty in exchange for safety? I'm willing to give up a small amount of freedom for a large gain in safety. I am not willing to give up a large amount of freedom for something as effective as the "War on drugs". Especially when I know those new governmental powers will just be turned on me and my children in very short order (if they aren't already).
  18. Cool? on In-Game Ads Make Products More Appealing · · Score: 1

    The respondents also indicated that 'quick service restaurant' brands were 'cool' because they were advertised in games ('cool' is left undefined). Come see me sometime, I know what it takes to be cool.
  19. Twelve Step Plan on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. We admitted we were powerless over IE--that our lives had become unmanageable.
    2. Came to believe that a browser greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
    3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Firefox as we understood Him.
    4. Made a google search and fearless moral inventory of bloat.
    5. Admitted to Firefox, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our standards breaking.
    6. Were entirely ready to have Firefox remove all these defects of browser.
    7. Humbly asked Firefox to remove our security vulnerabilities.
    8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
    9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
    10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly installed a patch for it.
    11. Sought through addons and extensions to improve our conscious contact with Firefox, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the plugins to carry that out.
    12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to IE-aholics, and to practice these principles in all our browsing.

  20. Re:$129.99 for a Game? on Halo 3 Preorders Top 1 Million, Marketing Begins · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can buy 2 PS3 games and breakfast for 2 with that cash. A PS3 fan(atic) complaining about price. Now that's ironic.
  21. Version 2.0 on Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber · · Score: 1

    This version is only a slight improvement over the original prototype, which could beam scenes from Gigli directly into a person's retina from up to 2 miles.

  22. Re:Ultimate gaming platform? on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope all those classic games can be played with a single button...cause that's all you're getting. Every SCUMM-based game uses the left mouse button only. As for the MAME stuff, that varies from game to game.
  23. Re:How Many? on Bethesda To Have An MMO-Dev Sibling · · Score: 1

    necessitating a shard system which removes PvP from the game completely for anyone who wants to play without being constantly pwned and teabagged by Legends and Epics There were no "legendaries" or "epics" in UO when they implemented Trammel. Everyone was on equal ground as far as gear. Your character's skills and your personal skill is what separated the good players from the dead. You sound like you are just parroting rhetoric someone else told you.
  24. Re:How Many? on Bethesda To Have An MMO-Dev Sibling · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Give me fun gameplay, lots of content, and character progression that isn't shackled by that atrocity known as class, and you'll have my $15/mo. Ultima Online

    Over a decade old, and it is a classless, skill-based system just like the amazing innovation that is Oblivion.
  25. Re:it would be nice ... on Project Arcade · · Score: 2, Informative

    it would be nice to see a definition of 'MAME' in the review. Too many acronyms people!

    Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator