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  1. Re:Yep... this is *the* problem, here and now.... on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 1

    Use your brain. Like it or not, that lame show/whatever is popular.

  2. Re:Slashvertisement on Surgeon Simulator: Inside the World's Hardest Game · · Score: 1

    I'm confused how a non-adversarial game can be unbalanced.

  3. Re:This, this, and more this! on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 1

    Just like regular users can make edits, regular users can revert edits.

    They should have edited it themselves to fix the error, but are you sure it wasn't just a newbie making a process mistake?

  4. Re:Yep... this is *the* problem, here and now.... on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 1

    They were probably not notable. Wikipedia isn't intended to have everything written up, there's supposed to be some level of "filtering."

  5. Re:Sounds ominous, but... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Not really. They revolted because they were being taxed by a government they had no power to change or influence. We at least have the ability to vote for which face wears the boots.

  6. Re:Sounds ominous, but... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    No.

    If I were to go to our other office, I could take an 8-10 hour non-stop drive at highway speeds, or I could take a 1.5 hour flight with an hour downtime at the airport. I fail to see how the car driving itself for those 8-10 hours is going to matter.

  7. Re:Tax Identification Number on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the fun part - despite being exactly that, it's used all over the place as some sort of password or secret identifier.

    That you can't change, and that everyone already fucking knows.

  8. Re:"Almost Awesome"? on Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twisty Tapeworm.

  9. Re:No Generic OS for Mobile devices yet. on Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" · · Score: 1

    Or Acer? Whatever, point still stands.

  10. Re:No Generic OS for Mobile devices yet. on Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" · · Score: 1

    Nexus is Google's (Asus rather) product. It's the closest to stock android you can get, because it is stock android.

  11. Re:Browser upgrade requirement on A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2

    I think it's HTML5, so no - probably not.

  12. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    Except those certifications were too easy to earn. Try earning your RHCE without knowing what you're doing - good luck!

  13. Re:Just buy the game like everyone else... on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    Oh. I was talking about the Thief series specifically, which this is a modern "remake" of. Go back to the start of the thread where the idiot made the comment about buying it already? I said some of us may not be able to tolerate the age of the engine anymore. From the start -we- have been talking about those engines specifically.

  14. Re:Just buy the game like everyone else... on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    No, it didn't. Which clears quite a bit up. I thought you were talking about the original two games, and then the mentions of eye candy and such made it sound like you didn't know anything about them. Apologies for the confusion.

    Enjoy the link, though.

  15. Re:CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported? on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Debian would consider asking for a wavier. It's in the license - any part of it can be dropped with a wavier from the holder.

  16. Re:Just buy the game like everyone else... on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    Try a few -thousand- FPS. There's not much eye candy to turn on...

    I get the feeling you (and Black LED) know nothing about Thief 1 and 2?

  17. Re:Just buy the game like everyone else... on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    The renderer was written in 1995, game released 1998. Your comment is entirely useless in this context.

  18. Re:CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported? on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here you are, your highness.

    I don't know why Debian can't package it, but I think it has to do with the fact that Debian is extraordinarily picky about licensing.

  19. Unfortunately I had not had to run tdm_update.exe previously, so I had no mirror data saved away. So, now I have to wait for the site to come back up so I can update my installation :(

  20. Re:Just buy the game like everyone else... on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    At some point you get sick of playing in the original engine(s). The games were great, but they are showing their age.

  21. Re:There goes another one on Wireshark Switches To Qt · · Score: 1

    GIMP isn't named GIMP because it used GTK.

  22. Re:Slow on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    What is most absurd is that this HTML5 app runs far more slowly than a direct emulation of the original 6502 code.

    That's the fault of your browser.

  23. Re:Slow on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    100% usage is 100% usage... of one core. Some OS' measure CPU usage in a meaningful way.

  24. Re:Game design is hard on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Its intentions aside, there is absolutely no proof that it spurs innovation or creativity, whichever industry you look in, whatever the term, and however you quantify the goods.

    Devil's advocate: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

    Also, you don't need to put carriage returns to wrap your text, the site does that for you. It just makes it obnoxious for people who want to quote a section of your reply.

  25. Re:Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Please don't go around holding up the worst examples of us as, well, examples of us.