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  1. Re:Of course it won't halt moore's law on Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    So what? Indirect effects are also effects...

  2. Re:Of course it won't halt moore's law on Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    Or all of them and more possibilities which have always been given by Moore's law, and will likely continue to exist.

  3. Re:I Heart PS3 on Price Cut Leads To PS3, PSP Sales Boost · · Score: 1

    I'm not interested in how well each company does in comparison to the other, I'm more interested in how well they cater to my interests.

    They're not independent. If any of the consoles does bad, game releases will suffer.
  4. TV don't worry on Wii Puts Japanese Television Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    TV shouldn't worry! Any day now, Sony PS3 domination begins and the Wii fad will end.

    There, is that enough repetitions to make it true already?

  5. Re:that's until... on Vista Use Grows as Mac OS X Stays Flat · · Score: 1

    Yes, Vista has a lot of security problems... ... ...

  6. Re:I'll go for 56% on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 1

    And the 69% section behind the wing are probably all going to be covered in flaming fuel from the wing tanks anyway.


    If that's the case, how come 69% is bigger than 56%?
  7. Re:Its all about money! on A Million PS3s Sold in Japan · · Score: 1

    Well, I haven't seen anyone claiming the contrary. Noone!

  8. Re:Its all about money! on A Million PS3s Sold in Japan · · Score: 1

    Who cares about revenue? Profits are what matters, and the way things are going, the PS3 won't have them for a few years, if at all...

  9. Re:Slashdot groupthink? on A Million PS3s Sold in Japan · · Score: 1

    Maybe nerds want to see Sony die for their stupid remarks, and oh, I think I have something here... a rootkit!

  10. Maybe... on A Million PS3s Sold in Japan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe the reason is that people only have one job? Those slackers...

  11. Re:Boggles My Mind on Don't Hold Your Breath For FFXIII · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they actually have an accurate plan for doing the game?

  12. Re:Muscle Memory on Robot Unravels the Mystery of Walking · · Score: 1

    Is this how schizophrenia begins?


    No, don't worry :P
  13. It's all about the community on Apple Picking a Fight it Can't Win With Safari · · Score: 1

    Still, I don't know why they left out Firefox entirely.

    They have to give Mac fans a chance to understand the graph. If the chart had three sections, they wouldn't be able to use it to make their wet-dream jokes and claims as easily.
  14. Re:Where's the horror? on Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story · · Score: 1

    With a 56k modem, you have guaranteed bandwidth between you and the ISP, not between you and the internet.

  15. Toileat seat on The Man Behind Google's Ranking Algorithm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the algorithm account for the toilet seat's positon?

  16. Re:the creationists will not like this on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    I repeat this again. God is omnipotent, He decided that people are able to decide against His will. Why is this so hard to understand?


    I can make a sentence similar to yours, watch:

    "I repeat this again. God is omniscient, he fully knew what we were going to do when he created us, and he decided to create us that way using his omnipotency even with that knowledge, which makes him responsible. Why is this so hard to understand?"

    If I say - I'm going to create a computer program which will destroy the internet even though I don't want it to be destroyed (or in other words, against my will). I fully know that it will do so, and I decide to create it anyway. Would you say it's my responsibility? Does it even make *any* sense that I say it will do so against my will, considering that I know what it will do and I still choose to create it?

    If this doesn't convince you, I don't know what can.
  17. Re:the creationists will not like this on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but you're clearly logic impaired, so this will be my last attempt to convince you, and I'll try to do it as concisely as possible. We don't even have to bring the concept of free will to this discussion, since the following is enough:

    An omnipotent and omniscient FULLY KNOWS the consequences of what he creates. Therefore, there's no such thing as going against his will, since if he creates something which will behave in some way, it's automatically his will...

  18. Re:2008 on 80 Gig PS3 For South Korea, Slow April for Sony · · Score: 1

    and the Cell chip simply can't keep up with modern multicore PCs.
    ... while at the same time being more difficult to program for than any of those multicore PC chips. And btw, Sony's mistakes go farther than marketing and high-level decision making, read this hilarious article:

    http://www.innerbits.com/blog/2007/05/09/ps3-memor y-footprint/
  19. Re:2008 on 80 Gig PS3 For South Korea, Slow April for Sony · · Score: 1

    If Sony can pull that, I congratulate them, but so far I haven't even seen them guaranteeing the PS3 will have enough good games... And believe it or not, games are the main reason for people to buy a PS3, they don't buy one for using as a coffee or beer machine...

  20. Re:2008 on 80 Gig PS3 For South Korea, Slow April for Sony · · Score: 1

    There's a problem with your item "B". Sony has lost billions and billions of dollars developing, marketing and selling the PS3, and furthermore have stated in their financial report that they want to increase profit. Dropping the price of the PS3 doesn't sound like it would help Sony with those two problems, it's more likely that any cost savings would be used to decrease the enormous pile of money they've thrown out there. Also remember that Sony has tons of PS3 in inventory which cost a lot of money to produce, if they lower the price soon they'll effectively be selling expensive PS3 at a much lower price... And how fast do you think they can clear that inventory?

    For all of the above reasons, if there's a price drop, it will likely not happen very soon, and please remember that the PS3 will *always* be the most expensive current-gen console, Nintendo and Microsoft won't let the PS3 cut them off. All of this, together with the low number of third-party exclusive games doesn't bode well for PS3 sales... After all, why would someone buy a PS3 when a 360 allows them to play almost the same games for a much lower price?

  21. Re:Seer? Pah! on 20 Years of Bill Gates Predictions · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's more interested in more worthwhile causes such as curing diseases? I say this because he does donate a lot of money for disease research and many other charity endeavors, look it up...

  22. Re:the creationists will not like this on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Although I'm not the poster you replied to, I feel forced to repeat his words:

    I don't think you fully grasp what these terms mean

    Irrefutable explanation:

    If god is omniscient, he has to fully know what the humans would choose to do. You cannot refute this since if you say "he doesn't know", you're going against the definition of an omniscient being.

    If god is omnipotent, and combining that with the fact that he's omniscient, you have to accept the fact that when he created the universe, he did it in such a way which would make all of the things we did his fault, effectively. You cannot refute this since if you do, you're going against the combined effect of the concept of him being omnipotent plus the previous paragraph.

  23. Re:Blame on Blame Your Mistakes on Technology · · Score: 1

    or while you clean it.

    What kind of retard wouldn't make sure his weapon isn't loaded before cleaning it??
  24. Re:the creationists will not like this on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Was that before or after punishing us for doing something which was his fault? Him being omnipotent and all, should have known what we were up to when he created us...

  25. Re:More waiting.. on Spore Delayed Until Q2 2008 · · Score: 1

    No, in the meantime the code will get bloated enough to warrant the need for a better computer...