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  1. Re:there is no question on Making Statements With Video Games · · Score: 1

    There are very few games that have some appeal as a work of art, but they do exist. ICO and Shadow of the Colossus come to mind.

  2. Re:Apple iChat on A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents? · · Score: 1

    It does, and for me, it's pretty stable.
    But there's no support for that "High Quality" feature the Windows version is supposed to have. Which is a shame, as the default resolution sucks.

  3. Re:That's a bit scary on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 1

    He probably profits a lot from Nintendo's well-being, in the form of shares or whatever.
    So, he has to trust management's business decisions - and that's all this is, a business decision.

  4. Re:Erste gepostung on Inferring Personality From Email Addresses · · Score: 2, Funny

    My guess is that he tried to emulate what he knew about American humor from watching MTV.
    In other words, he was being a twat.

  5. Re:Good Luck... on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    Do you know more about that?
    Many of the vegetarians I've met in western nations look extremely unhealthy - and those that don't complement their diet with drugs.
    Those in India and China don't seem to have this problem. Are there genetic differences? Akin to most Chinese being intolerant to lactose?

  6. Re:PSP - N770 on Touchscreen Project For PSP · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because web browsing on a PSP is so much fun.

  7. Re:Who'd want to pirate the Olympics? on MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    C'mon, while spectator sports generally aren't all that interesting in their own right, the social experience of a large crowd of people following one event can't be ignored.
    You might come close if you got together with your friends to watch people running in the park, randomly choosing a favorite runner.
    But you don't really pay for watching the Olympics - except with a little of your time and even less of your attention.

  8. Re:Yay, more documentation for shit hardware! on VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True that. I had negative experiences with VIA Socket 7, SIS Socket A and nVidia AM2 chipsets.
    Seems I only have two choices left when it's time for a new mainboard..

  9. Re:linux? on VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux · · Score: 1

    Absolution is even better.
    Given the graveness of your sin, a donation of, say, 25% of your income to the FSF just might save your soul.

  10. Re:Space Unity on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1

    Woah, you went a little over the top for a funny mod there.
    Unless you aspired for an idiot mod - in that case you're right on track.

  11. Re:Links to pics and the BBC article on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1

    Huh? Those 80s style 3D renderings actually qualify as "decent pics"?

  12. Re:Page absolutely and totally broken on NASA Opens Space Image Library · · Score: 1

    So you're attempting to browse NASA's gallery from your employer's computer and are afraid of being fired for turning on javascript? ;)
    This actually is the best web gallery I've seen so far, can anyone suggest an opensource work-/lookalike web gallery software?

  13. Re:KDE 4.1 on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    Why not?
    Those people's expectations were not met, so they complained. If your expectations are not met, do you always make the effort to find out why before complaining?
    I know I don't, I rather save the time, complain a bit and go on to other things.

  14. Re:TFS is a lie? on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    At this time, the mods are as confused as you seem to be.
    I'll just wait and see.

    Actually, I probably should have said "configure their Apache manually, editing httpd.conf, knowing exactly what they're doing". But then, there wouldn't be as big a chance for a funny mod...

  15. Re:TFS is a lie? on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    OTOH, people that configure their Apache usually don't use Ubuntu. You don't belong their target market.
    Disclaimer: I never really used Ubuntu, except on a LiveCD, but that's the impression I got from interacting with Ubuntu users.

  16. Re:KDE 4.1 on What To Expect In KDE 4.1 · · Score: 1

    Oh please.
    They made a release, people of course have certain expectation when software gets released (certain OSes and PC games notwithstanding) - and KDE4 didn't even come close to meeting those.
    Yes, they said it's supposed to be kind of a tech demo, a preview to what they're up to in order to increase public interest, i.e. marketing.
    But that's just not what releases are supposed to be.

  17. Re:Compression on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    So basically you observed that IO is not the bottleneck in PNG compression.
    *gasp*

    Those are world shattering findings, you'd better write a paper or something, you'll be rich and famous is no time.

  18. Re:His "inbox"... on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    I almost clicked that link, expecting an article on how high the bounty for that guy is.
    That sure would have been disappointing.

    Seriously, you really think you need to link the definition of "bounty hunter"? Gah.

  19. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not posting a link doesn't make your post an any less shameless plug, just a more pointless one.

  20. Re:Shorts on Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story · · Score: 1

    It's not just humans that are painful to look at in CG - anything that's trying to imitate real life[tm] in CG does.
    That's something I like about Pixar - it seems they're aware CG is far from being able to imitate reality, so they don't (or at least rarely) try.

  21. Re:Not 1 year on Hardware-Based Video Acceleration Coming To Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hm. My 2x2.6ghz AMD64 CPU can't do it. On Linux, with Nvidia's GPU driver.
    Don't know if I've missed something, but it seems your video decoding is GPU accelerated.

  22. Re:Perfect Strangers ? on Why Microsoft Is Chasing Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Yeah well, "to yahoo" or "to altavista" make lousy verbs. They just don't fit the general language very well.
    OTOH, "to google" does, and I guess that really helped them establish their brand and make it ubiquitous.
    But I don't think this alone makes a very good indicator for market domination.

    BTW, GP, using stock exchange codes or whatever they are instead of company names is annoying - what is this, "News for MBAs, Stuff that Pays"?

  23. Re:How many more cases? on German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you publish this?
    Of course after giving them time to fix it, but a deadline gets things done faster.
    Also, their customers might have liked to know their information should be assumed to having been compromised.

  24. Re:Not "Lost" on German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records · · Score: 1

    In the linked (german) article they explained how they got access to 41000 data sets.
    Of course, that's no evidence, but what are they supposed to do? Publish them?

  25. Re:Another day, another data leak. on German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records · · Score: 1

    In this case, "driving them out of business" might be a little harder than you might imagine - they're a huge company with 14k employees in 70 countries, and their customers are governments, companies and press agencies.
    Those people whose data they lost are not their customers, and even if they were - 5 minutes/hours/days of research wouldn't have helped them, as this security leak was not published before and they don't have a history of (published) data loss.