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  1. Re:Who else... on GDC - BANG! Howdy · · Score: 1

    It also showed up somewhere in the business plans in Y!PP (Puzzle Pirates) beta.

  2. Re:[Good] [[to|know]] on GDC - Ron Moore Keynote · · Score: 1

    Its mediawiki markup, not random punctuation. Not that makes it any better. If you are going to just raw copy, at least do it from the rendered version, not the source. I'd rather not have to parse this stuff in my head unless I feel the need to edit.

  3. Re:Ones and Zeroes on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Just because everyone uses it to refer to Superman and Aquaman doesn't mean that "everyone" invented the term."

    Well, Superman, at least. Aquaman's heroics don't extend much past the shore.

  4. Re:I don't own a television on Futurama Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    Carl Kassell, of course. I mean, he's the only one you can get to record an answering machine message for you.

  5. Re:Cell Location:M-S-08-B-22U-B on Spam King Busted by Secret Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope, for his sake, his cellmate hasn't been taking some of the other pills this guy was selling. On second thought, I hope he has.

  6. Re:1.79??? on Review - Full Auto · · Score: 1

    And not only that, but $1.79 for all three grades. Lunacy!

  7. Re:1. What is Darwin? on Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts? · · Score: 1

    Well of course X isn't Unix, its just a popular GUI system for Unix. XNU, however, IS Unix, so XNU can't stand for XNUs not Unix.

  8. Re:A better sentence in the story on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    Both, really. The NES had an extra lockout chip that the Famicon didn't. It was designed to keep third party developers from publishing games with out going through Nintendo. The chip on the console had to handshake with a chip on the cartridge before it would run. The extra chip also ment that a NES cartdige has a few more pins. To play a Famicon cartrige in a NES, you had to use an adapter which had a lockout chip in them. In some of the very early NES games (I think Kung Fu had this), inside the grey NES cart was a famicom board with a adapter fed through an adaptor. To play an NES cartidge in a famicon, you'd still need an adaptor, but it was just convert connectors.

  9. Re:Not staying up on news? on NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Actually, its the Russians and the Chinese, not the Japanese or Europenas, who haved orbital manned spaceflight capabilites. Last time I checked, SpaceShipTwo will not be orbital. SpaceShipThree MIGHT have ISS docking capabilites, but its design is all contingint on SS2's success.

    Yay wikipedia linkage.

  10. Re:Goldeneye on Wanted Revolution Downloads, Nine N64 Titles · · Score: 1

    I belive they are allready working on a new SSB\SSB:M sequal for the Revolution that wil be Internet enabled.

  11. Re:American Red Heart? on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    Next up, the American Heart Association sues.

  12. Now the headline makes sense on ESA Praises Sting of Game Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    Oh, Sting, not String. Now the headline makes more sense. I thought the ESA was praising a series of virtual swashbuckling misadventures.

  13. Re:The Sea Launch Consortium on Falcon 1 Ready to Launch · · Score: 1

    If by "ship" you mean a recycled oil rig, then yes.

  14. Re:Well, then it would be just as accurate... on Gecko's Feet Power New RAM Chips · · Score: 1

    Great, so the first spam message I get sets everything in RAM to 1?

  15. No problems? on Moonshot, CEV Modifications · · Score: 1

    In the 10 Apollo launches aboard the Saturn V rocket, there were no problems with the launch vehicle.

    I seem to rember in Apollo 13 the center 2nd stage engine, a J-2, went out early. The flight computer burned the outter four a bit longer to compensate, but I'd still say that was a problem, if not with the engine itself, at least with the launch vehicle. Then theres the whole lightning strike thing on what was it, Apollo 12? SCE to Aux.

  16. Re:Netscape on Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    There still arround, they've just become the Switzerland of the browser wars.

  17. Re:Who ate whom here? on Pixar Eaten by Mickey Mouse · · Score: 1

    Which will probably spark off round 27 of Apple Computer vs. Apple Records.

  18. Re:What is so proprietary on Diebold's Election Data Off-limits · · Score: 1

    Is there a +1, Scary moderation?

  19. Re:Unofficial Moderation on EFI Modifications Leaves iMac Unbootable? · · Score: 1

    No, you just have to jurry-rig your own HD swapper from that old tape swapper you have lying arround collecting dust. ;)

  20. Re:It's no surprise... on Stargate SG-1 Game Finally Canceled · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see the Stargate universe continue for many years using a rotating cast. It's working for original Law & Order; there aren't _any_ of the original actors left on that show.

    And, for that matter, it's worked for Doctor Who for what, 30 years?

  21. Re:And the question on everybody's lips... on KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    And, if it does, does that mean Dashboard widgets are affected too? Apple uses WebCore to render those, too. See, Microsoft isn't the only one guilty of that sort of sin. Combine it with the vulnerability they had at release, where a website could force feed you widget, and you have problems.

  22. Re:This is why I use Windows on KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found · · Score: 1

    >come to think of it, there are no technical benefits in doing so

    Actually, there are plenty.

    Such as? Come on, if you make a statment like this, back it up with examples, don't go into flamewar mode.
  23. Re:Dependencies... on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you're not somehow handing bars of gold through the screen, they won't stick around longer than it takes to close the tab.

    Wow, thats the first time I ever heard of Windows Updates being refered to as bars of gold. <rant>Seriously, though, thats the only time I use IE anymore. Well, that, and when an application hard codes it as the web browser to open, but I am genernally not pleased with such behavior. Really, folks, how hard can it be to pass a URL to the ShellExecute call and let the OS hand it off to the prefered browser?</rant>

  24. Re:Cool! on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 1

    Is it really, or has someone screwed with the timeline again?

  25. Re:Eccleston or Tennant? on Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March · · Score: 1

    Well, Tennat is featured in the last scene of the series for a good five seconds. But no, this is going to be Rose-The Parting of Ways. Good stuff. I've gotten the torrent, but I'll probably watch it again.

    When (not if) they pick up the second season, I wonder how they will work in the Children in Need mini episode, which runs less then ten minutes, and the Christmas Invasion, which runs at least ten minutes over. Find twenty minutes of deleted sceens somewhere and break it up into two nicely sized 40 minute (1 hour with comercials) epsiodes? I'd hate to loose that stuff. Or atleast, people who havn't torrented to lose that stuff.