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  1. Re:yes, but they now they are smarting up again on Lego Vs. Meccano & Engineering Knowledge · · Score: 2

    I guess girlfriends would rather buy sweaters than toys for they husbonds for Xmas

    If your girlfriend has a husband, I think you have bigger problems than not getting Legos for Xmas.

  2. Re:It's all about the ladies on Andromeda · · Score: 1

    Even in the distant future, the tech industry is dominated by lonely, geeky guys who would never see a girl naked if they didn't program her themselves.

  3. Re:Disney Classics on Disney and Anime Plagiarism? · · Score: 1

    Nope. The proper pluralization of "dwarf" is "dwarrow".

  4. Re:So, um, on Taking Games Seriously In Korea · · Score: 1

    the population seems to be a pretty thorough mix of Korean, Japanese, European, and American players, judging by the languages being spoken and the way a lot of people speak English...

    Like the way people speak English on Slashdot?

  5. Re:Not a big deal on XBox Goes Down in Public · · Score: 1

    Consoles crash all the time

    The last game I crashed was Final Fantasy 3(6) when I had Relm sketch invisible enemies, and I was trying to crash it so it would screw up my items and give me 255 Excaliburs.

  6. Re:well id imagine.... on Civil Rights For Aliens? · · Score: 1

    > imagine a grey driving a taxi, or working in a 7-11.....

    Or better yet, McDonald's:
    "Welcome to McDonald's. You'll have a Big Mac, large fries, and a medium Coke. And you're allergic to pickles..."

  7. Re:Where's the punch? on Mario's Revenge? · · Score: 1

    That should be 650 thousand. 650 million is 5 times the entire population of Japan.

  8. Re:Need decoder to read briefing on DeCSS Reply Brief Posted · · Score: 1

    > Actually the very purpose of legalese is to make ordinary people unable to understand it.

    Does that make legalese a type of contect control that prevents anyone without a law degree from actually reading it? Would a program that converts legalese to English be illegal under the DMCA?

  9. 2001-03-17 19:08:01 on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    2001-03-17 19:08:01
    Just like the lotto, gotta play birthdays!

  10. Re:Sad, really... on Up, Up, Down, Down: Part Three · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but the games I play have as much reading as a book, and often better character development and dialogue.

  11. Re:Where are the keychains?!?! on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 2

    I found them, buried near the bottom of the specials page:

    http://ocz.safeshopper.com/29/5934.htm?562

    It may be cheaper than blowing up your own chip, but it's less fun.

  12. Re:do over on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    I prefer having a "none of the above" option on the ballot, and if it gets enough votes then the election has to be done over with new people.

    Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think this would happen quite often.

  13. Re:Electoral College on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    Only in some states. In others, the electors (I think that's the word) could vote for Nader if they wanted to.

  14. Re:Remember - the richest 10% pay most of the taxe on A Minor Political Screed · · Score: 1

    Inheritance tax is a tax on saved income, income that got taxed. So, it's a weird consumption encourager, and "unfair" in the sense that it is double taxation.

    You could say the same thing about sales tax: you're getting taxed for spending money that's already been taxed.

  15. Re:Naked? on Microsoft vs. "Naked PCs" · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? Some people have no sense of humor

  16. Re:Playable? on Nintendo Unveils GAMECUBE At Spaceworld 2000 · · Score: 4

    Nope, the only pre-rendered demos were Metroid and I believe one other (can't remember which). And Mario 128 was "playable", at least in the same way as the face in Mario 64 that you could stretch. Miyamoto was controlling it in real time.

  17. mandatory Microsoft bashing on The Corporate Lame Name Game · · Score: 1

    hmmm, micro and soft... needs Viagra.

  18. Typewriter not Y2K... on Medium Rare Quickies · · Score: 2

    ...unless, of course, you can find antique typewriter ribbons.

  19. Re:What did CE stand for? on Wince at WinCE's New Name: 'Windows Powered' · · Score: 1

    I always thought it stood for "chaotic evil"

  20. not another one on The Rare Glitch Project · · Score: 1

    that was really bad, like the world needs another blair witch parody. the survey was funny though, 90% said windows is buggy

  21. just a little mistake on Mars Orbiter Lost Over Metric Conversion Error · · Score: 0

    "People sometimes make errors," Pretty damn expensive mistake.

    No wonder people are losing interest in space exploration, if NASA can't even send a probe to Mars. I certainly wouldn't want to be on the first manned mission to Mars

  22. Re:But how far? on First small planet found outside our solar system · · Score: 1

    I was wondering how long it would take the inhabitants of the planet to get here (assuming there are any, I find it kind of arrogant to think we're alone)

  23. Re:Don't forget, it's compatable with old PS games on Playstation 2 Pix and Rollout · · Score: 2

    if you have old PS games, you have an old PS, therefore you don't need backwards compatibility

  24. Re:Don't buy any of them! on Playstation 2 delayed again · · Score: 1

    The reason emulators took so long to develop is because, up until recently, you couldn't sell them. They were written by open-sourcers and fans of the old platform. I can see many small companies devoting full-time (and paid) programmers to make commercial emulators. So you wait a year before the emulator comes out. The first games are never really good anyways.

  25. Don't buy any of them! on Playstation 2 delayed again · · Score: 1

    With 3 really good systems coming out within a year of each other (assuming Nintendo can release theirs on time), you're going to see game developers taking sides. If you like one game on dreamcast and another game on playstation 2, you're going to be screwed for money. Rather than buying all 3 systems for a couple of games apiece, get a new PC and a really good emulator for each. You'll spend about the same and get a much better system.