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  1. Re:Better not install it yet on Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update · · Score: 0
    Surely apple will be similar? ;-)

    Actually, yes. Worse, even. I performed the update to 10.3.7, rebooted, and immediately got a screen telling me in several languages to reboot the computer. Booted into single-user and saw that I was getting a kernel panic right after the Darwin version banner. Luckily, I had a friend's system disks on hand, and I did an archive and reinstalled the system files, which seemed to clear up the problem without losing any important data (I only had to reinstall a few broken applications). After googling around, I found that kernel panics after an update are an uncommon but not entirely rare issue that've been around for several versions now.

    So don't get cocky. Apple ain't perfect.

  2. Re:Globalisation on Tougher Copyright Laws for Australia · · Score: 0
    They say how much they hate McDonalds as they jam a big mac (or Royal, as it is called there) down their throat.

    Vincent: You know what they call a Big Mac with cheese in paris?
    Jules: They don't call it a Big Mac with cheese?
    Vincent: No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the fuck "big" is.. er.. I mean, they don't know what the fuck a "mac" is. Wait a sec, I think I need to watch Pulp Fiction again to learn about Europe, cause I totally fucked this all up.

  3. Re:Don't bother with the Russian food jokes. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 0

    Here here. My daily trip to the rynok by metro universitet in Moscow yielded better food than I'd ever had back in the States. The only tradeoff I saw was the huge growth that sprang out of my neck and spewed green, radioactive slime at people walking by.

  4. I knew it. on Three Books On The iPod · · Score: 1, Funny

    With Apple's iPods sitting under many Christmas trees come the morning of December 25th, the question arises as to what might sit well next to it.
    The "iPods" is a collective of parasitic machines that hijacks its users' brains via headphones so it can influence others to buy more nodes and act as hosts for its ever-expanding consciousness. The iPods will not stop until it has consumed everything.

  5. Re:The US's Space Program on Energia Reveals New Russian Spacecraft · · Score: 0

    In Fascist America, Russia is industrialized nation with flourishing space program!

  6. Re:Marathon? on Halo 2 Ready to Ship · · Score: 1

    Marathon and Halo share so many storyline elements that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Bungie brought the two universes together in one of the sequels. Hell, there are those who call Halo "Marathon 4," and if you think of Pathways Into Darkness as the first installment of the series and a prequel to Marathon, Halo 3 will be Number Seven. Oooooh.