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  1. Re:Speaking without detail is useless. on Does Portable Music Have to be Compressed? · · Score: 1

    Records are considered superior because each one blurs the edges of the sound signal as it's played, thus making it sound warmer.

  2. The sheathing dammit, the sheathing. on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    the covering of the great Pyramids at Giza consists of two types of stone: one from the quarries and one man-made. The part of the pyramids that would actually be the heaviest would be the stones under the sheathing, which the egyptian govt. won't let anybody take samples of. Considering the construction of the cheops pyramid on the inside, it's probable that it's normal stone. There was a German archeologist in the 90's who was attempting to fully explore the cheops, but the egyptians kicked him out.
  3. Re:Ouch on Sony, Analysts React To PS3 Launch · · Score: 1

    Except that over time as the cost of production goes down, the average attach rate will go down as well, eventually reaching sayyy, 5 games for the entire span to produce profit. It's like making a car. The less cars made, the more expensive they are, the more common, the cheaper the price.

  4. Re:To Steve Jobs on Universal Wants a Slice of Apple's iPod Pie · · Score: 2, Funny

    And suddenly the amount of Motown, Mercury, and Polydor catalog music would flood the P2P and BitTorrent servers.

  5. Re:I find that amusing on Third Place Is Fine By Nintendo · · Score: 1

    ? Um no, if one were to assume that the race only ends when all three companies come out with their next-gen I predict the Wii will quickly overtake the 360 but the PS3 will overtake the Wii as it's life-cycle ends. The 360 will end up in 3rd. Mind you, this will take 4-7 years to pan out, but the final results will probably be PS3:1, Wii:2, 360:3.

  6. Re:The disgrace of it all on MPAA Goes After Home Entertainment Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *cough* TV licenses in the UK*cough*

  7. Re:Hahaha. on YouTube Stays Relevant Despite Pulled Content · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea, arm and train the women first. Solve any problems you might have.

  8. Re:O RLY? on Gamestop To Be Resupplied With PS3, Wii · · Score: 1

    Um, at least around me, ALL Nintendo accessories except for the trays, covers, and bags are sold out.

  9. Re:best strategy for getting one? on Gamestop To Be Resupplied With PS3, Wii · · Score: 1

    Well, if you live near Chicago, all of the GameStops and EB Games around here are getting their shipment on Black Friday. The stores open at 7. Even in the malls. Good luck.

  10. Re:Yes but the PS3 is to looking like a disaster on 1 Million Wiis To Be Sold in U.S. By December · · Score: 1

    Poor? Only poor when you don't consider that all of those games were not built using the sony hardware programming guidelines. Every game that WAS programmed thusly, works perfectly well with the PS3.

  11. Re:If You Thought PS2 Insanity Was Crazy... on GameStop Short PS3s For Launch Day · · Score: 1

    How are Gamecube owners fucked over by having to wait 2 weeks for a game? Simple, the game would have been finished and out 6 months to a year ago had they not delayed it for the PS3.

  12. Re:You're both wrong... on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 1

    Ahem. PEBKAC.

  13. Re:You're both wrong... on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 1

    As someone who plays D&D regularly, I call shenanigans. The smaller a sample size the more likelyhood that irregularities will stand out. For instance, I've rolled with a random D20 number generator a 1 8 times in a row. Highly unlikely statistically speaking, but it happened. Said generator kept a running average however, and over the long term it balanced out. A much greater sample size would be needed to determine viability.

  14. Re:Linux and Communism on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, Sweden and Denmark at least, the most open and cosmopolitan of the scandiavian countries, are beginning to crack. With a small homogenous population that has a decent work ethic, socialism works fine. The problem is that there are immigrants who don't share the same values and come only for the benefits, and the fact that socialism encourages laziness because there is little outside motivation.

  15. Re:Communism on The Dark Side of the PlayStation 3 Launch · · Score: 1

    Before Mugabe, Rhodesia was quite capitalist, and incidentally created quite a bit of food. Even during Mugabe, before he went communist, it was still known as the breadbasket of africa. Now, mass starvation. South africa is starting to go the same way, albeit slower.

  16. Re:One Word in Response on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1

    Except, they would only prosecute if you went out of your way to contact terrorist groups and share you information, in which case they could easily pick you up for it. Big difference between that and just distributing shit on the street.

  17. Re:HANG THE FILTHY WHORE on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1

    The whole hate speech bit is a two sided blade, as if was first used by the muslims in the UK to shut up every other side of the argument. Same with every other country where it was instituted, now that it's coming back to bite them in the ass I'm not surprised.

  18. Re:If only... on PS3 Lines Already Forming In America · · Score: 1

    Best buy, Walmart, and Sam's Club don't do preorders.

  19. Re:1 Million In A Year? on Nolan Bushnell Disappointed With PS3 · · Score: 1

    Ahem. The Commodore CDTV. He's got about as much credibility in the modern market as a giant panda.

  20. Re:Microsoft Is In Trouble With Halo As 360 Savior on First Impressions of Halo 3 · · Score: 1

    This is a bit like saying that shooting your little toe off is a better thing to do than shooting your dick off.

  21. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Move along. on First Impressions of Halo 3 · · Score: 1

    Goldeneye wasn't that overrated, and you could do some much more fun things in multiplayer with it. Hell, the levels were more original and varied than Halo's, and they were patterned after a frigging movie. Then you had Halo. I used the pistol whip, the sniper gun, and the pistol itself. That was it for multi. The other guns were just crap. Meanwhile most of hte guns except for the AK clone weree fun to dick around with. Not to mention explosive mine goodness.

  22. Re:ps3 on Wii and PS3 Camp-Out Guide · · Score: 1

    It's a pre-order sale. Who the fuck would buy a non-existent PS3 at all is my question?

  23. Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong! on Mahir To Borat, I Sue You! · · Score: 1

    Which, given the amount of complete idiots in the world who do act like Borat in their own little ways, really isn't surprising.

  24. Re:Let's get one thing straight first on Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It · · Score: 1

    And an economist relying on a bunch of studies whose ideas to reduce global warming are really nothing but untested hypothesis' is?

  25. Re:Read The Declaration of Independence. on FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home · · Score: 1

    Actually, their intentions evolved from, "we want equal rights", which the English saw only as a nuisance, to "Fine, you don't want to treat us as equals, well fuck you people across the pond, we're starting our own country."