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  1. Re:Or, on 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii - The Designer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    But not all of the last gen's at the time of launch. PS2 launched at $300, Xbox launched at $300, and Gamecube launched at $200. That's $800, which is more than even the most expensive PS3 model.

  2. Re:What part of on Government Has a Right to Read Your Email? · · Score: 1

    When you send a letter through the post office, no copy is made. The actual copy that you send is the actual copy that the recipient gets. With email, it's data copy followed by data copy.

    And because of common carrier status, phone companies do not have the right to monitor communications on their lines. There are legal overrides, of course, but most require warrants, the current president notwithstanding.

    So, um, both of you are correct.

  3. Re:This sounds familiar... on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    We could just make it perform a Paradoxical process-consuming puzzle.

  4. Re:Surely on Last Chance to Help Free Ryzom · · Score: 1

    Actually, the point is to keep the game running. The engine itself is already GPL.

  5. Re:I've had this taste in my mouth before. on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Oh, if only I had points...

  6. Re:i've never seen the show... on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    It was a better ending than Enterprise...it didn't even end in the same century that the whole rest of the show took place in. And of course TOS didn't really get an ending.

    Voyager's ending didn't upset me, though I wish they would have elaborated a bit more on the fate of the Borg. DS9's was...alright. Most of the last episode was great, but I didn't like the little clip montage at the end, and "The Sisko" ascending or whatever. TNG's ending, on the other hand, was just about perfect in every way.

  7. Re:Concering copyright of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 1

    Well... it is not that the music community does not have a community spirit. It is rather that in order to do what they do, you need a huge amount of training. I am constantly amazed at the sheer amount of information and knowledge of musical pieces that my music history professors (which is composed of mostly musicologists) know. It is not something that can be done in a wikipedia style; for there is only a select few in the world that can undertake this correctly. Just take the Alte Mozart-Ausgabe as an example. Even though it is done by famous musicologists at the time, and even led by the then Mozart authority Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, it has come under heavy fire for several parts of it which people now say is inadequately researched.

    That's what people thought about general researchers before Wikipedia, but Jimbo proved them wrong. I am constantly amazed at the sheer amount of information on Wikipedia...I mean, just look at the list of good articles. There are some gems in there. I don't doubt a bit that a music research site would flourish...maybe it wouldn't to the degree of Wikipedia (due to the smaller scale) but it would still be successful, I believe. Of course, IANAM (I am not a musicologist), so YMMV.

  8. Re:you are such a govt stooge. on Sea Snail Toxin Offers Promise For Pain · · Score: 1

    I am only ready to pay for bullets for putting down these people if they should ever cross the line that defines my well being. That's the scope of my tolerance of alcohol and pot users. Or, I would imagine, anyone else, amirite?

  9. Re:This should come in handy for anyone that on Sea Snail Toxin Offers Promise For Pain · · Score: 1

    Which is why all of them are used rather sparingly in common medical situations. Heroin is still perscribed as an analgesic in the UK, and was initially developed as a "non-addictive substitute" to morphine, and to escape the side effects of Aspirin. Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic, though the side effects of that application (vasoconstriction) were pretty well known when it was being used as such. Oh, and there was always Coke.

  10. Re:ummm on Nintendo Sued over Wiimote Trigger · · Score: 1

    The Nintendo 64 was publically announced Nov 24, '95, one would assume that they would have submitted a patent much earlier in the development pipeline. I'm at work right now and I can't investigate properly, though...

  11. Re:ummm on Nintendo Sued over Wiimote Trigger · · Score: 2

    Like the Nintendo 64's Z Button?

  12. Re:OSS has benefits to non-coders. on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 1

    You should make it more apparent when you speak about someone's signature.

  13. Re:about your tagline (the saga continues) on Successful Alternatives To Password Authentication? · · Score: 1

    -1 Overanalyzed.

  14. Re:tweakui on Successful Alternatives To Password Authentication? · · Score: 1

    Physical security is just not good enough. Yes, I believe everything I see in the movies.

  15. Re:Sit on it! on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. Does it have a conduit into hammerspace? I think 128 Visas would themselves be thicker than 1/2".

  16. Re:Even Worse Experience! on Comcast Lying About Vonage · · Score: 1

    If her skin is made from latex, she doesn't count.

  17. Re:It'sa me, Mario! on The Decade of the N64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, right, I forget this is Slashdot...

  18. Re:It'sa me, Mario! on The Decade of the N64 · · Score: 1

    Not only did it happen with the Gamecube, it was worse for the Gamecube. In fact, I think the only "Must-Own" game for the GCN is Super Smash Brothers Melee.

  19. It'sa me, Mario! on The Decade of the N64 · · Score: 1

    Even though I got my Nintendo 64 two years before I had a Playstation (imagine the N64 kid, but a bit more sedate), I only owned 4 games for the system - Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros, and TLOZ:OOT. Granted, I spent a lot of money getting games at Blockbuster, but with a few exceptions (Goldeneye, Starfox 64) I had every game I ever wanted to play for more than a weekend. When I finally got a Playstation, I went on to buy at least a dozen games.

    I'm not at all saying that there weren't good games made for the N64...but rather, the amount of "must-own" games was tragically small.

  20. Re:WOW! on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Not only do old games make one feel nostalgic, but, you know, they were good games.

    Of course, I'm spending hundreds of dollars restoring an arcade machine to make it a MAME cabnet, so maybe nostalgia means more to me than other people. I have no problem playing all the old games I've played hundreds of times before. I still have an NES and Genesis plugged into my entertainment center (as well as an XBox, PS2, and GC)

  21. Re:WOW! on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    I like the games I've been playing for 20 years, thank you very much!

  22. Re:These guys learn their lessons well. on Miyamoto Talks Wii-mote Logic · · Score: 1

    So, in other words, Nintendo learned its lesson.

  23. Re:Good news for normal humans on Wii to Launch Nov. 19th for $250 · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize Squeenix was re-releasing FFVIII for the PS3. Excelsior!

  24. Re:Vote! on Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    The question is, though, what is an "islamofacist"? The contraction is nonsense, facism and islamic theocracy are so opposite each other, I don't know how the term even came into the vernacular...except as a neat-sounding marketing term used by the government.

  25. Re:Parried? on PS3 Problems Parried · · Score: 1

    Kick! Punch! Chop! Block!