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  1. Re:Is this for real? on China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS? · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't really think that has anything to do with being nationalistic and more about not being able to write characters in your native language.

    You think SMS would be used here if it only supported cyrillic?

  2. Re:Is this for real? on China Practically Unreachable By Western SMS? · · Score: 1

    It may be possible to send chinese characters over SMS, but that does not mean any western phone supports displaying those characters.

  3. Re:Again? on Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    Uh, yeah. That makes perfect sense.

    The only way to avoid becoming a teenybopper is to misquote people who swear forever!

  4. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    And why wouldn't the address bar be part of the "page"?

  5. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    The active tab is directly connected with the page that's displayed.

    Why?

  6. Re:Again? on Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the grown-up internet. You're allowed to say "fuck" here.

  7. Re:Forward Compatibility on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    And where would you find a shop that will print your photos with 140-year-old technology?

    See, there are many different kinds of "printing", and there is certainly no guarantee that any given one will last 25 years, much less 140.

  8. Re:Oh noes!!1! on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 1

    Sadly, it is not. Read up on the Debian OpenSSL fiasco to see why.

  9. What a flood of garbage on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alternative title: "How many bullshit redundant replies can you fit in a Slashdot thread?"

  10. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    So what happened to "if you're a fan of portable gaming/entertainment devices, then you'd be able to appreciate the robust package Pandora offers--particularly if you're into homebrew development"?

  11. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    You're the one who said "i think that business philosophy has already been played to death with the N-Gage, Sega Game Gear, DivX (the video rental system, not the codec), and the Gizmondo."

    So what was your argument, and how was it sound?

  12. Re:How is this news? on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, I just actually read the article.

    Details on the attacks â" and targets â" remain scarce but itâ(TM)s a safe bet this is linked to the Debian random number generator flaw that surfaced earlier this year. A working exploit for that vulnerability is publicly available.

  13. Re:Oh noes!!1! on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you generated that key with Debian within the last two years, anybody can figure it out in minutes, remotely.

  14. Re:How is this news? on Compromised SSH Keys Lead To Linux Rootkit Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The news is that this is probably fallout from the Debian OpenSSL fiasco, and that people should take it seriously pretty damn quick and get their keys changed.

  15. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    About 95% of those games were controlled with a single-button joystick without using the keyboard. So yes, I'm going to have fun.

  16. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    If it was satire, it would be hilarious.

  17. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    if you're a fan of portable gaming/entertainment devices, then you'd be able to appreciate the robust package Pandora offers--particularly if you're into homebrew development.

    Yeah, uh, I am into homebrew developement, you know? And a big bulky device with a keyboard on it is about the last thing I'd be interested in developing for or even buying?

  18. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    Pop quiz: How much "forum input" went into the design of the Nintendo DS? How did you average forum react to it when it was released?

    And how many people have bought one to date?

  19. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    "Clearly"? "Everyone"? And you're complaining that I'm making unsupported value judgements?

    Also, "trolling" doesn't mean "saying things I don't like".

  20. Re:WTF on Examining Portal's Teleportation Code · · Score: 1

    If he was, it was pretty clever.

    Although it's still not really physics.

  21. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    It doesn't much matter what it's called if it makes you deliver a mediocre product.

  22. Re:The Pandora on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    If it's "not for me", supposedly because I want a handheld gaming device that makes sense, why do people keep shouting that it's the real successor of the GP2X, a device which is obviously very different?

  23. Re:Specs? on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    It's not really my kind of genre so I wouldn't know. The most RPG-y game I've played was Zelda, which did fine with 3D graphics, although if you wanted smaller sprites you'd probably be better off with hand-drawn 2D graphics.

    Also, you might want to consider getting a DS and a flash cart if you want to make homebrew software for handhelds. I don't have any actual figures, but it seems to me the market of people with a DS and flashcart would be bigger than the market of people with a GP2X or any successor.

  24. Re:Specs? on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    I honestly am curious - what type of gamer prefers blocky graphics to reasonable graphics?

    How about anybody who bought a DS? That'd be 600,000 people in the US last month. You think the DS doesn't have "slow-moving" games where you have to stare at a character for long times?

  25. Re:Specs? on Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld · · Score: 1

    (you *did* read my post, right?).

    The one that said "I'm thinking of creating simplistic diablo type games"? Yes.

    If you honestly think that resolution is that big a barrier to "game experience", you don't really know much about game design.