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  1. Won't work. on Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army · · Score: 1

    People don't play America's Army for the patriotic parts. They play it because they like to shoot and toss grenades around.

    I have a feeling this game won't be very popular among the existing population.

  2. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    Look at my email address, please. Woosh.

  3. Re:Hold your horses on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    Why would you be burning a DVD while playing a game?

    Buffer underruns, anyone?

  4. Re:Supporting the freedom for my hardware to not w on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    Hey! <glares>

  5. Re:no on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    People. PEOPLE. P.E.O.P.L.E.

    Not ppl, not PPL, not Ppl. People.

  6. Re:no on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 1

    Do the dev a favor and download the demo instead, it's plenty long.

  7. Re:no on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because the law breaking part of this is retarded and needs to go. You bought the game, you should have the right to do whatever you want with it for personal use.

    The DMCA is getting more and more irritating as time goes on.

  8. Re:Frame rate on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    Because the phosphor on a CRT fades to dark before being relit, where the filament of a light bulb glows (with a saw-tooth wave... if you want to be pedantic)

    Fluorescent tubes are different, and they DO flicker. They seem to be in the middle between CRT phosphors and bulbs, as they flicker but not as bad, and only at the edges (motion sensitive) of my vision.

  9. Re:Frame rate on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    It's hard to look for. You need to step-frame it (advance frame by frame, manually) and count the frames, unless you have a very good optical processing system in your brain (it's not your eyes that deals with rates, but your brain)

  10. Re:Anthropic principle on Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 · · Score: 1

    One of the critical attributes of a joke is "being funny".

    I wouldn't classify that as a joke.

  11. Re:Some Further Info on Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 · · Score: 1

    In a superconductor, current doesn't matter, you could have 8.7x10^100 Amps and it would make no difference to the conductor.

    Now, to nearby magnetic fields, it would make a whole lot of difference, but only on the surface of the conductor.

    Now... if there was a flaw in the conductor... oops!

  12. Re:What do you expect? on Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 · · Score: 1

    This being said, I'd say that the LHC has already paid for itself a thousand times over.

    And changed the world as we know it.

  13. Re:Boxee on Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    1. Yes.
    2. Why should I care?

  14. Re:how is this better then ISPs? on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    Wow. That sucks.

    Remind me to take every action I can in the future to the detriment of HOAs.

  15. Re:Random or crashing? on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    Some days, I think you get to pick one.

    But that's only sometimes.

    Truth be told, the only problems I've ever had were directly my fault, and what I was doing was usually highly unusual or warned against.

  16. Re:Nerdcore uprising on Gaming In Sweden Bigger Than Football and Hockey · · Score: 1

    Same here. We didn't really have a 'geek group' so much as a group that didn't give a shit about groups. We attracted all the people who didn't really have their own clique. It was an interesting dynamic in and of itself.

  17. Re:They stopped them once. on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    My brain refuses to simplify, reduce, or factor. I don't know why, nothing else really gives me the trouble.

  18. Re:Hello fudge packers! on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    The random crashes will occur until you install Linux. You see, Linux is the fix for the random crashing!

    </tongue-in-cheek>

  19. Re:how is this better then ISPs? on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    And how are you prevented from terminating your agreement with the HOA? Something seems funny here. Lawyering up would likely get the assholes off your back.

  20. Re:lowest common denominator on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how this works. You won't all have the same IP address, just like how all your peers in your cable circuit don't have the same IP address...

  21. Re:how is this better then ISPs? on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    Do HOAs have the deed, or do you yourself actually own the property?

    How is it that they can have ANY say in your property, when you have the deed?

    (i don't know the answer to question 1, so question 2 might be moot)

  22. Re:light weight media player under linux on Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems · · Score: 1

    Yep, I use both. Sometimes I just use mplayer, it does the job well enough with plain audio. If you give it wildcards or multiple files, it plays them in a playlist:

    mplayer -vo null /my/media/*

  23. Re:great... on Entertainment Software Association Following RIAA? · · Score: 1

    Change that last line to "You have been served by a grue." and it's more accurate, AND you have an awesome double-entendre!

  24. Re:Fine but you have to use Azureus on Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is that I don't want a content management system at all. All I want is a flexible torrent application with all the advanced configuration etc. I don't want any of that multimedia stuff.

    In the same way, I want a media player that plays media. Nothing. Else. Things like rhythmbox and amarok drive me nuts as well... back in windows, the old "classic" winamp was perfect, foobar2000 was perfect, and in linux xmms was perfect.

    Lately, it seems that there is a disturbing trend of feature bloat. Every program can do everything. I like lightweight functional applications, and always have.

    Torrents are no exception.

  25. Re:Fine but you have to use Azureus on Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Azureus was great until they pushed Vuze down. Fuck that shit.