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  1. Re:Am I the only one on The First Robotic Musician · · Score: 1

    No, it would just be a normal feedback loop.

  2. Re:wow--what a lack of clue on Sopranos' Creator Doubtful of Game Meaning · · Score: 1
    (Stargate SG1 is the only one that comes to mind, actually)
    And that was only achieved because Wright and Glassner made a lot of changes to the movie storyline.
  3. Red Hat not competing with Microsoft on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is competing with the big iron Unices like HPUX and crap like that which costs in the thousands. It's cheap for its niche.

  4. Re:Who needs actual paper money? on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    I'm under 18 and can't use a credit card, but even if I could, two words: Vending Machines.

  5. Re:How much did Steve Jobs pay to bribe MS execs? on Vista to Include Stepped up Anti-Piracy Measures · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you use anything but a small embedded system to do that sort of thing you are inviting failure.

  6. Re:Coins on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    Hercules was European too.

  7. Re:I don't believe it... on Why Software Sucks · · Score: 1

    Men, in the gender-neutral sense, are the root of all evil. Eliminate humanity, and there's no more evil because there's no more sentience. There's no more good either but that's another story.

  8. Re:Scientific... American? on Teleportation Gets a Boost · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it was created long before Bush was elected.

  9. Re:Ubuntu has already won on Mandriva 2007 Released · · Score: 1

    Have a decent, usable search function. Not have those useless "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade" features--the Gentoo method of having every updated system be the latest version was an innovation that should have been thought of sooner. Color-code the text, which allows me to easily tell what things are. This sounds trivial but once you actually use it you miss the extra information. There's a reason we have syntax highlighting.

  10. Re:Intel Mac Only on Public Betas For CrossOver Mac and Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    WINE doesn't work on PowerPC machines because WINE doesn't translate instructions, only function calls.

  11. Re:If people want an alternative to the de facto.. on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Watch out, they might not fit through the tubes.

  12. Re:I say this over and over again.... on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    No, 5.0 is 4.0 with a few extra tools that range from 'useful' to 'mostly harmless'. 5.1 is the 'useless crap' edition.

  13. Re:That's the rule: on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    The same principle applies for Google.

  14. Re:Makes me wonder on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you look for something other than gangster rap.

  15. Re:Almost totally useless _for users_ on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    It's the Ballmer effect. It's not about money even now, it's about fuckingly killing Google and Apple.

  16. Re:Good idea, badly implemented on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    Did it have Chip's Challenge? That was pretty much the best game ever, and one of the few Microsoft products that didn't suck!(It's buggy, which is par for the course for this company, but all but one of the bugs are actually useful to some degree on user-created levels, which was also an unintended feature)

  17. Re:Makes me wonder on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that. He said that it wouldn't do anything to the profits of the company. Actually, DRM does a lot to stop the type of piracy that boosts sales(small-scale, casual stuff) but absolutely nothing to stop the type of piracy that hurts sales(large-scale stuff with big money behind it)

  18. Re:Makes me wonder on Zune's Wireless Almost Totally Worthless · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much the way most bands actually get their money. Only the really big bands get more than a few pennies from CD sales, all but a few bands mostly get their money from touring and T-shirt sales. Of the bands that aren't like that, 99% of them aren't looking for money.

  19. Re:Good think Nobel Prize isn't in US on Americans Win 2006 Nobel Physics Prize · · Score: 1

    How is it like being the model for the Ori?

  20. Re:Sorry, that one's not a hoax on Firefox Zero-Day Code Execution Hoax? · · Score: 1

    I haven't had Firefox memory problems since the days of 1.0. And I have lots of tabs open.

  21. Re:Valve's anti-cheat system on Public Betas For CrossOver Mac and Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can only get banned from Valve by an automated system. There's only been one mistake in the history of the VAC and that was an MP3 player that was part of a lot of cheats. It was fixed.

  22. Re:So... on Social Networks Attract Malware Authors · · Score: 1

    Rupert Murdoch, who also didn't have enough money to continue Firefly.

  23. Re:A few points on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    s/massive object/object with mass/

  24. Re:O'Neill suggested this tech for mining the moon on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    Jack O'Neill suggested this tech? I'd assume it would be Samantha Carter or Rodney McKay.

  25. Re:How cool is that? Intercontinental catapults on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Jack O'Neill's favorite explanation for technology: MAGNETS!