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  1. Re:government might want to step back on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Just down the road from you, in New London, CT, I found that drivers loved to ACCELERATE toward pedestrians. It never failed - a car would be 100 yards down the road, I'd step in the street, and the vehicle would try to run me down.

  2. Re:wario ware made me think my wiimote was broken on Elebits and Warioware - Bad Wii and Good Wii · · Score: 1

    While not on the same topic... something similar. Why don't more games have an easily accessible way to sync more remotes? Wii Sports thus far has been the only game I've seen that has one - and that's made by Nintendo. The default method, of disconnecting EVERY remote and then reconnecting them in order, is frustrating and time consuming - especially when the game disconnects the remotes less than a minute later (I'm looking at you, Splinter Cell: Double Agent co-op mode; and why do you INSIST on disconnecting them between every level, too?). Also, why is the only remote capable of turning the console on the one that was connected as Player 1 the last time the console was on? Instead o just picking one up, turning on the console and playing, I have to either search for the correct remote, or go through the steps of turning on the console manually, pressing the sync button on the console, and then the sync button on the remote - both of which require some kind of cover to be moved. The games are a TON of fun. But some of the usability issues the console has can drive me batty.

  3. Slightly inaccurate on Google Blogger Leaves Beta · · Score: 1

    There have been two versions of Blogger for a while now - "Blogger" and "Blogger in Beta". "Blogger in Beta" was the upgrade with new features, like the drag-and-drop element placement, the new template code, etc. "Blogger" is the original code. You had a choice between either of them, and each had a separate login area.

    Saying that Blogger is just leaving Beta is inaccurate. The new version is just leaving Beta.

  4. Re:So I don't "exactly" control the sword? on Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess Review · · Score: 1

    The stab is actually not accomplished by stabbing with the remote. The stab is accomplished only by targeting with the Z-button, pushing forward with the analog stick, and slashing with the remote - the same slash used for the regular sword swing.

  5. Re:MS rumored to be making $75 per console sold on Game Consoles Sell Over 3.2 Million Units in November · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to say that the numbers are not incorrect, but the number listed for "Motherboard" on the side by side comparison includes everything ON the MB - CPU, GPU, memory; you can tally the numbers from the first list of individual parts.

  6. Re:Observations... on Microsoft Sticks to 10M Xbox Projection · · Score: 1

    Different story at my local WM. They opened the controller space for Wii and PS3 two weeks before launch, opened about 10 hangers, had the UPC codes already on them. Two were for PS3 controllers. The rest were for Wii controllers. Had Wii games available before launch; have yet to see a PS3 game in stock.

  7. Re:Nextgenwars.com on Microsoft Sticks to 10M Xbox Projection · · Score: 1

    The owner does, in their forums.

  8. Re:Screenshots on What Really Happened To Ubuntu's Edgy Artwork? · · Score: 1

    While I will freely admit that I have NOT seen Edgy installed, the login splash seen on this page and labeled as the Dapper login splash (which, theoretically anyway, they rolled back to for Edgy), is clearly different from every login splash listed here, as the new artwork for the Edgy release.

    And, doing a bit more searching, we can see that the Dapper artwork is very different from the Edgy artwork linked to. Again, this may not be what actually shipped with Edgy, but it's what we're told shipped with it. You seem to have firsthand experience with it; which set of artwork did ship with it?

  9. Re:missing: the one who is not only most important on The 100 Most Influential Women in Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe you mean Grace Hopper.

  10. Re:Yeah... on Windows Vista and the Future of Hardware · · Score: 1

    My roommate's boss uses a couple of the 30 inch CinemaDisplays. For, you know, spreadsheets. Know how many columns you can fit on there?

  11. AutoClerk on Software Options for Operating a Mid-Sized Hotel? · · Score: 1
    There's a company called AutoClerk out of California that offers an eponymous set of software that works wonderfully for our hotel, which has pretty much the same setup you do - 100 rooms, restaurant, bar, meeting rooms. It will interface with various other systems, such as the PBX, and other point-of-sale systems. We're currently using MICROS POS terminals in all of our revenue centers. The MICROS terminals run on Windows 98; the back end MICROS server is running NT 4.51 I think.

    AutoClerk is easy to work with, comes with decent training manuals and videos, and has good support, although labor costs are somewhat expensive. I'd reccomend checking them out.

  12. Re:interesting, but don't lump Google into this mi on Search Engines' Reward Programs · · Score: 2, Informative

    And neither, for that matter, is Yahoo. From TFA:

    "A new site called GoodSearch.com, launched late last year by Los Angeles-based GoodSearch LLC, aims to lure repeat users by donating roughly a cent to a charity of the user's choice every time a search is conducted on its Yahoo-based search engine."

    The line referencing Blingo is similar. Somone misunderstood "Powered by Google", methinks.

  13. Re:bi -lingual ?? on Words Affect Our Reality - On The Right · · Score: 1

    My high school French teacher raised his child speaking two different languages, and taught him another when he was older. The mother speaks Arabic natively, and speaks only to the child in Arabic. The father speaks only in English to him. Eventually, he taught him French also. He also has the benefit of going to a French Immersion school in south Louisiana, where the majority of classes are taught in French.

  14. Re:If they weren't farmers, they'd be on their own on Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In WoW, all cash money found is evenly divided amongst the party. There are a number of built-in looting rules that can be used for item though.

    Round Robin: People take turns looting corpses until everyone has looted a corpse, and then the cycle starts again.

    Group Loot: Same as Round Robin, except there is a loot "threshhold"; if an item is of a certain quality or higher (common, uncommon, rare, epic), then everyone is given a chance to roll on item. Blizzard recently introduced a new loot rolling system so that players can roll Need on an item, indicating they will use the item, or Greed, indicating they will sell it. If there are any Need rolls, the Greed rolls are ignored and only the Need rolls are compared.

    Free-For-All: Anyone can loot any corpse.

    Need before Greed: Essentially the same as Group Loot, except that people who cannot use an item cannot roll on it; if a piece of armor is dropped that is mail, only mail wearing classes can roll on it.

    Master Looter: Only a designated person can loot the corpses, but they can give the loot to anyone. This is usually used by guilds on bosses, to prevent item theft and to provide time to discuss distribution of the item.

    How, with these rules in place, can item theft pe so rampant? Under the old Group Loot rolling system, you could be branded a ninja if you rolled on and won an item not useful to your class - a warrior taking something clearly meant for a mage, for instance. It's somewhat easier under the new system to just wait until everyone has rolled Greed or passed and then to roll Need - the item is automatically yours.

    And, for some unknown reason, it seems popular to have everyone pass and then type /roll, which randomly generates a number from 1-100. However, when everyone passes, the item can be looted by anyone. Or, again, if one person rolls after everyone passes, the item is theirs. This system, again, can be useful in a safe environment, like a guild run, because it gives time to discuss distribution of the item.

    And that is WoW's loot system in a nutshell, with some minor analysis and bias thrown in for good measure.

  15. Re:Him him him... on Panel Confirms S. Korean Cloning Fraud · · Score: 1

    Actually, Hwang would be his surname. This article presents the name in the common Korean sense, as you stated, but Woo-Suk is his given name, not his familial. The hyphen gives that away, usually, at least in Korean names.

  16. Re:SuSE on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I fixed this, by the way, with apt4rpm.

  17. Re:SuSE on 4 Linux Distros Compared To Win XP, Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    The problem with YaST, as I find it, is that it does not provide upgrades for programs. YOU provides security updates, patches and things, but neither would allow me to upgrade, for instance, from Firefox 0.10, which SuSE 9.2 comes with, to 1.0. The ability to upgrade within the system's package and dependancy program would be nice should I have problems.

  18. Re:Azureus Plugin for Exeem on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think his point is that someone should write a plugin that searches and downloads from the Exeem network - much like the irc plugin that comes (or came) with Azureus - thereby avoiding the spyware and adware, and giving cross-platform access to the Exeem network.