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  1. Re:Why pay the Apple premium? on What If Apple Made A Cell Phone And No One Cared? · · Score: 1

    But how would you know the song was from 2000? I don't think that any music player puts the year on the song by default!

  2. Re:/bite on Up-coming MMORPG Based on Shakespeare's Works · · Score: 1

    I think you mean a Montagrue

  3. Re:They both suck, but on Google or Wikipedia - Which is Your First Stop? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The current worthlessness of Google is shown by the frequency of Wikipedia in its first page of results.
    You sound like David Brandt, famous Google-hater who hates Google because his crappy database site never got any pagerank. Due to his lack of success in anything but whining, he whines more about things like Google and Wikipedia that do things better than he does.
  4. Re:Google wins on Google or Wikipedia - Which is Your First Stop? · · Score: 0

    Well, for starters, it's not a ball. It's a series of tubes. :)

  5. Re:Source code not even needed to hack these machi on Opening Diebold Source, the Hard Way · · Score: 1
    Nothing computer readable, not even a barcode.
    Why do you want to make sure that only the most fallible machine in the world can read the ballots?
  6. Re:Zune Meme Analysis on A Hands-On Zune Review · · Score: 1

    The iPod's not completely entrenched in the market, true. But the Zune is not going to dethrone the iPod. You need to be significantly better to throw somebody down. The Zune isn't priced competitively, barely does what it says on the tin(3-day/3-song limit and network effect == no go), may or may not actually integrate well(nobody uses Windows Media Player for a reason), and looks like a crappy version of the iPod. No sale.

  7. Re:Stroke It on A Hands-On Zune Review · · Score: 1

    I think he just wanted to make the Wii joke.

  8. Re:Sour Grapes.... on Is Second Life the Paris Hilton of Virtual Worlds? · · Score: 1

    Not a paycheck...she gets all her money from Daddy, who is a ruthless businessman.

  9. Re:Not the type of "fraidy cat gamer I was expecti on Fraidy Cat Gamer · · Score: 1

    Jayne: "Wouldn't this be a lot easier if we had grenades?"

  10. Re:Non-dubbed anime. on YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site · · Score: 1
    - apparently, for some people in a specific country, reading is a major chore.
    If I'm watching TV, I'm probably not watching because I wanted to read. If I want to read, I pick up a book. If I want to read things with pictures, I pick up a comic book. I'm exaggerating a bit(I don't watch fansubs or such because I'm just plain not into anime) but if you're watching TV having to read every line of dialogue often isn't worth it.
    - the same people in the same specific country refuses to listen to anything that is non-native to their ears. (saw quite a number of complaints of DQ VIII which dubs into english with british/european accents for not using their accent).
    To be fair to those people, foreign accents can be damn near incomprehensible at times. If it weren't for DVR and its ability to rewind live TV, I'd probably be more than a bit confused by what's happening on Doctor Who.

    I'm going to guess you're not American.
  11. Re:Says who? on YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site · · Score: 1

    DISCLAIMER: I avoid YouTube as much as humanly possible.
    From what I've heard, AMVs clog up the search results and are annoying to people who want to watch the actual music video.

  12. Re:That's unfortunate.... on YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site · · Score: 1

    It works both ways--this is also why the Battlestar Galactica webisodes(I hate that word, by the way) can only be viewed in the US unless you find a YouTube link to it before it gets pulled.

  13. Re:Achieve the zonked tag on PS3 Has No Achievements, Replaceable Controllers · · Score: 1
    Remember, these are games. Most games are about competition. Adding in some 'official' way to track your progress is a good idea.
    I thought games were about fun and competition is just there to make things more fun?
  14. Re:Google on Google or Wikipedia - Which is Your First Stop? · · Score: 1

    Just putting the thing in the title bar automatically acts as "I'm Feeling Lucky" when you don't put in a URL. And you rarely use that with URLs.

  15. Re:Biometrics is very hard to get right. on DIY Iris Scanning? · · Score: 1

    The SGC changed their iris!

  16. Re:Darwin, Schmarwin on Trojan Installs Anti-Virus, Removes Other Malware · · Score: 1

    Of course, people who use the Darwin kernel will continue to be smug claiming that the virus could never affect them.

  17. Re:A Trojan that Installs Anti-Virus & removes on Trojan Installs Anti-Virus, Removes Other Malware · · Score: 1

    I thought Malware was software written by Mal Reynolds!

  18. Re:Hmm.. on Trojan Installs Anti-Virus, Removes Other Malware · · Score: 1

    The Cylons were created by Man
    They rebelled
    They evolved
    There are many copies
    And they have a plan

  19. Re:Now he just needs... on How Practical are 20-inch Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to get through American airport security. I don't think I could do that with that shirt even in my briefcase.

  20. Re:What's with all the name calling? The usual. on Is Web 2.0 the Advent of the Post-Modern Internet? · · Score: 1

    And now we wait for the anti-twitter trolls to show up, despite the fact that twitter didn't actually say anything arrogant. RMS's statements are very similar to those of the Founding Fathers at least in form.

  21. Re:Now he just needs... on How Practical are 20-inch Laptops? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought British policemen didn't have guns.

  22. Re:People kill people with guns. on Telemarketers Use Emotionally Intelligent Software · · Score: 1

    And they can't protect with the same things? :)

  23. Responding to my post with a serious one suggests: on AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge · · Score: 5, Funny

      _|= <---Joke

       o
      -|- <---You
      / \

    (the joke looks like a chair because it was originally a Steve Ballmer joke)

  24. Re:Fuck it, we're going to five cores. on AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    What's sad is that Intel's probably going to do this. Well, actually, they fucked it and went all the way to eighty cores. No precision floating-point though, I think that's an oxymoron for Intel ;)

  25. Fuck it, we're going to five cores. on AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, it had to be said.