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  1. I look on the bright side... on Final Fantasy Creator Sakaguchi Joins Microsoft · · Score: 0

    When I'm stuck with Windows I can probably choose a Final Fantasy back for the Solitaire cards--no wait, that's Square's thing, not Sakaguchi-san's...NOOOOO!!! *turns red and fades into background after dying from shock*

  2. Re:Does anyone bother checking facts? on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 0

    Or maybe Loki damned the site 'cause that movie his mask was in wasn't liked too much and was getting torrent'd instead of being seen at theaters.

  3. Re:Rumours? on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 1
    Why is it allways Apple that's involved with those rumours?

    They should make a new song for the iPod ads. It would lash back at these news agencies always up in their merger business. It would be called..."Rumo--oh nevermind.

  4. Re:Go for it! on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: -1, Redundant
    It'll seem faster because you can skip the commercials.

    Perhaps the iPod shuffle will double as a 5-button remote control, with the commercial skip button being the big center one--for those times when you hear the same old "Life is random" commercial (that probably inspired you to spend/save/sig-link to FreeIPods for the poor little thing) one too many times.

    That ad campaign has some good taste in songs though (except for the uno-dos-tres-catorce of Vertigo--it would annoy any Puerto Rican like me who knew Spanish digits and realized that 14 does not come right after 3) IMHO.

  5. Re:Free on Ubisoft Developing Next America's Army Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If ya get this Army thingy fer free yer a terrist!

    Offensive Bush impressions aside, I don't expect this to be cheap; it is going to be on the XBox and PS2 and I doubt either system's maker will go sans some dough--but then, that's exactly what I wonder: Do the system makers have to get paid for games licensed/made for their system? I do believe makers sign NDAs, etc. to make sure the system's technology doesn't get leaked to the public *cough*emulator makers*cough*...and besides Ubisoft have made non-free games (and quite a few from a glance of their main page).

  6. Re:yeesh on Pushing The 512MB Barrier On Video Cards · · Score: 1

    Cue the "I remember whens"!

    Like the one when I played CrossCountryUSA on an Apple IIe at school? Now that was some slow graphics!

  7. Re:Is there any benefit on Pushing The 512MB Barrier On Video Cards · · Score: 1

    to bumping the video memory from 128 to 256?

    You've probably never played Half-Life 2. Surely any new optimizations in the card will add performance to such games and modeling tools if the megs do not...right?

  8. Re:Awww Riiiight! on News Corp Deal With Eidos Confirmed · · Score: 1
    As Quagmire would say, awwww riiiight!

    You mean Homestar Runner? --and BTW I agree, as long as The Simple Life With Paris and Lara doesn't have an obligatory My Phone Got P\\/N3D!!1 episode.

  9. I've been welcoming them for a while now. on Dell Enters HDTV Market with Plasma Display · · Score: 1

    My e770s handles 1920*1080@60Hz quite easil--what? 42"?

    *checks Dell site hastily for offer*

  10. Take control of Ann Coulter? on News Corp Deal With Eidos Confirmed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even as a Democrat I wouldn't mind controlling her hotness. Especially from a third-person rear perspective...

  11. So that means... on News Corp Deal With Eidos Confirmed · · Score: 1

    ...our next Tomb Raider will have Lara Croft trying to run from a stalker named Bill?

  12. Re:Weblication? on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 1

    I've tried GMail and Google Maps and they're pretty powermazing in themselves. Combined, they're like a good Slashdot post--quite interformative. The mail I get can oftentimes be fularious too.

  13. But you forgot... on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    the SO ORDERED part. (Here's an example where Microsoft is--or seemingly should be--owned by the US.)

    That aside, Daddy likes. I think we should^Wmust have this law and put the government back in par with us so we can be (at least feel) free again; otherwise we'll soon be in Soviet America where legislative malfeasance codifies us and the FBI spies y--oh wait...

  14. Agreed. on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No company--especially one who had a troubled (and now dumped) CEO like HP--would want to spend money on products--like ink--after it has stopped working reliably. They shut off the carts because they don't want people suing HP for bad print jobs from 10-yr-old (or less?) carts.

    No well-known corp wants to spend money supporting something that can't be fully guaranteed. To them it's like having a bastard child--no parent would be too proud of that; they want to be able to support their creations without legal risks like tired old ink.

  15. Kick Ass is right. on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I welcome our upcoming legal South Park HDTV episodes with open arms. If there's such a thing as--or need for something like--an HDTV South Park episode. (Maybe we can see the actual food chunks in Mr. Hankey?)

    Seriously, I worry this opposition won't get recognized. TFA does say "...it was unclear whether the judges would strike down the FCC's 2003 rule, since doubts were also raised about whether the American Library Association and other opponents had legal standing to challenge the rule in court." and when money is involved rulings like to end up going the way of The Almighty Dollar(R).

  16. Quite huge. on Delayed Password Disclosure · · Score: 0

    Now even the nearsighted can learn about securing their Beowulf Clusters! (I'm myopic too so don't hurt me now.)

    Seriously, even after RTFA, especially the last part that actually describes the proc in the first place, it's a bit hard for me to understand. I know it involves the server knowing what places the actual password resides within the user's "password" transmission...right?

  17. the cost to "confederate"? on Visions Of The Future Of Grid Computing · · Score: 0

    Didn't we have a whole rivalry a century and four score ago that taught some of us that?

    ...but seriously, yes there would definitely be massive comm-overhead involved, not to mention the overhead and cost of validating the data to make sure it's an actual result and not a "needle in the haystack" that would hurt or even destroy the precision of the results. Take SETI@home for example.

  18. Yes. on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 0

    Remember that Internet access was not too common in older days too, so any list would have been harder to get.

    Noticeably one of those lists has styleXP from TGTSoft, which was hated by WindowBlinds and its users--and perhaps also Microsoft--because styleXP used to "hack" system files for its functionality and uses hacked theme files, unlike WB (now styleXP only changes the loaded system file in memory but still uses hacked style DLLs for each style IIRC).

  19. Sorny TV? on Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated] · · Score: 0

    I think the guys behind that will be forced to change it further, to something more recognizable and less confusing. You know, like Horny TV.

    if they can prove that the other's use of the similar mark creates confusion and/or dillution of the mark, the other can be estopped from using their similar mark.

    estopped? Is that the new trademark for stopping crime online? ;)

  20. But hold on... on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 0

    Surely that's what Microsoft et al. thought when they made an addition to Web pages called VML used mostly by Office? Much of that language, with later input from Adobe, Corel, Canon et al. became the SVG that hasn't caught on too much.

    I think Web Forms 2.0 will suffer the same fate as SVG does (there's already a popular vector format called Flash and a popular form format as part of the still-popular HTML 4 spec, though Web Forms seems to be simply an attempt to translate one format, XForms, into HTML...right?).

  21. Re:BROWSER WARS IV - A New Hope on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 0

    Wow. Can't wait for this movie (actually I'm watching it right now)...but I'm scared that "Darth Gates" will do the parts of both Anakin and Jar Jar in the preq--oh wait that second one's Steve Ballmer's part...

  22. Actually... on Trouble Brewing at the W3C? · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...I'm waiting for the OHHKAAAY-WG and the YEEAAAHHHH-WG.

    It doesn't scare me too much, I know how to make HTML forms and (as the old "Chevy Van" song goes) that's all right with me... I guess we'll soon abandon the "relic in Internet time" known as HTML 4 soon though (not sure when that'll happen at Slash"HTML 3.2 Final"dot--just look at that DOCTYPE in the page source...).

  23. Better yet... on 5 Simple Steps to a Quieter PC · · Score: 0

    get another long USB cable to connect an external CD drive in case inspiration strikes more often. That aside, I wonder if you boot from a USB disk; it interests me that almost any important /dev can be connected via the rectangular port ('cept maybe graphics and sound cards?).

    If more people use only USB (and perhaps ethernet) devices home computers will look much slimmer IMO, if only slower...

  24. Re:Games? on Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet · · Score: 0
    There's a distinct tactical advantage with having soldiers who forget that when you die, you don't respawn...

    ...and that when you win you don't hear Counter-Terrorists Win! after every operation. I wonder exactly what VRs and games these soldiers use; I'm sure CS and Halo are on the menu once in a while, and it scares me somewhat.

  25. an army of 17 year olds in Tora Bora? on Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm glad that hasn't happened ye--oh wait...