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  1. Re:WTF on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but the chances of our getting said technology before the economic collapse grows smaller every day.

  2. Re:PCs for teh win! on Wikipedia Closes Wii, PS3, Sony Entries · · Score: 1

    Console gamers. The type of people who think Halo is a good game.

  3. Re:Sex Bad Violence Good on What Really Happened To Ubuntu's Edgy Artwork? · · Score: 1

    For what? Understanding that he should try to change what he has a snowball's chance in hell of changing?

  4. Re:Paraphrase, for the link a'feared on The 10 Lamest Game Consoles Ever · · Score: 1

    It was the console that had the original version of Chip's Challenge.

  5. Re:The lesson to be learned on Wikipedia Closes Wii, PS3, Sony Entries · · Score: 1

    How fitting that you included a piece of vandalism that was quickly fixed, showing how Wikipedia works.

  6. Re:finally on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    If GNU were the name of the library that every Java user used, that every distribution of Java shipped with, and without which there would be no Java then RMS would be talking about GNU/Java.

  7. Re:I'm a loser on Interview With Spreadsheet Creator · · Score: 1

    so why don't you kill me?

  8. Re:Beyond publicity, is there a point? on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My point was that by the time someone realizes the debt needs to be paid the baby boomers will mostly be either dead or living off of Federal retirement programs such as Social Security and therefore not really taxable.

  9. Re:its simple on Fighting For the Chinese Gaming Market · · Score: 1

    I thought the Japanese were the ones with an almost religious aversion to Unicode?

  10. Re:Shameful on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 1

    Actually, the only significant difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is the size of the disc.

  11. Re:Make sure to check out their videos on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 1

    Actually it's called the "frontal lobe". Of course, that also houses all higher-level thought.

  12. Re:I see blue lasers... on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 1

    ...Because neither of those have a blue laser in them? The 360 is using DVDs which use red lasers(aka Cheat Commando lasers) and the Wii is either using DVD-like or CD-like disks(red and infrared lasers respectively), probably the former though.
    And Blu-Ray is actually less proprietary than HD-DVD. Blu-Ray is being supported by a very large consortium of companies. HD-DVD is being supported by...Microsoft. And one or two companies that are trying to make players that play both.

  13. Re:Beyond publicity, is there a point? on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Calling it a "progressive" tax makes it sound like a good thing. It's not.
    Calling it a tax "cut" makes it sound like a good thing. It's not. (hint: who will be paying for these tax "cuts"? It's not the baby boomers...)
  14. Re:hacker's field day? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    You'd have to be devious enough to make it look like 'good' code.

  15. Re:bravo on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    Answer: What year is it?

  16. Re:Java sucks on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    It's obviously because you're using SuSE. It's anticipation for the IE for Linux that will be part of the Novell/Microsoft deal.

    (But seriously, I have no clue what's happening with the Novell/Microsoft deal.)

  17. Re:Al Gore invented it 16 years ago? on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    The. Internet. Is. Not. The. World. Wide. Web.
    Now write that on a board 50 million times.

  18. Re:When will they stop making asses of themselves? on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 1

    The commercials are PC vs Mac. Not necessarily OS-based.

  19. Re:What a crock of shit! on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero · · Score: 1
    And how would it have been licensed?
    Noncommercially. Which would have prevented it from getting nearly as far as it did today.
  20. Re:Bill Atkinson? on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero · · Score: 1

    The honor for that should go to Compaq, who made the first PC clone.

  21. Re:Ok...lemme get this straigh on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero · · Score: 1

    Wrong, kinda right, wrong, wrong, wrong.
    He got lucky, grew a business, and released an inferior product with behemoth IBM's at a price that should have been considered too high but IBM was expensive so it didn't matter which consumers paid for because they wanted IBM.

  22. Re:Origin, Jeff "The Prior" Bezos on How Bezos Messed With Texas · · Score: 1

    Here.

  23. Re:Good god on Making the Sounds of Vista · · Score: 1

    Well, there isn't much difference between the Zune and dung...

  24. Re:When will they stop making asses of themselves? on Justin Long No Longer A Mac · · Score: 1

    I shaved a hundred dollars off my PC upgrade by using the same monitor. I shaved fifty more off by using the same speakers. I shaved sixty more off by using the same hard drive. And that was for a computer that had a 900MHz Duron. It would have cost $700 to upgrade were it not for those things, it only cost about $500 because of those things. That's a little more than 10% savings.

  25. Re:Yet another.... on Microsoft Debuts MySpace-Like IT Site · · Score: 1

    Google's is the real deal. Because it's Google. :)