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  1. Re:Don't calculate the loss from the retail price on Microsoft Loses $126 Per Unit on XBox 360 · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I read this entire thread and this is the first mention I see of this fact. I really doubt that your local wal*mart is selling Xboxen for no profit, or are they?

  2. Re:Easier way on Sticky Tape Defeats Sony DRM Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Guys, from what I've learned from my last girlfriend, if you post something online regarding your relationship, post is it anonymously. . . otherwise, well, it leads to stuff :X

  3. Sure, linux, great.. on Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I mean, yeah, I'm up for IP socialism, but when games come to Linux is when I come to linux. Simple as that! It's windows (frowny face minus :(- ) for me for now.

  4. Re:To Boost Readership? on American Newspapers to Begin Carrying Manga · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are 3 or 4 things that I read in the paper (in order), the comics, the editorial page, the police reports, and maybe, maybe, the front page. Comics /do/ sell the paper and thankfully my paper publisher listened to the complaints of many and cut the likes of Cathy (UGH!) out and put Dilbert (finally!) in. Were there no comics, I'd probably not ever read their newspaper.

  5. Re:Just imagine on No More Science on the ISS Until Further Notice · · Score: 1

    Hear hear!

  6. I don't see the big deal behind intelligent design on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not a devout religious person, but I believe in a God and that he(yes, he), had a hand in creating the universe and guiding progress along. I don't have anything against evolution nor intelligent design and I don't see why other people like that. I don't see why the two theories can't be merged. *shrug*

  7. Re:Woah on IRC as a World-Changing Medium · · Score: 1

    <DrChemicalX> Welcome to ##c++
    <Itsme-HcK> Moo.
    <nav5> propfan: regarding what I was asking before. If you open the floppy disk as a binary file, you can get to data in the boot sector using CreateFile etc.
    <newbie> is anyboy here thatt can help
    <newbie> me
    <Itsme-HcK> newbie: Just ask.
    * spacemanafrica has quit IRC ("Leaving")
    <propfan> nav5: createfile yes, but you probably need deviceiocontrol
    <|-Wraith-LT-|> it's very likely he'll need DeviceIoControl
    <newbie> i  trying to use the mingw compiler to cross compile a wxwidgtes in my gentoo box to a win32
    * fatbrain has left ##c++
    <newbie> but i tells me that he doesnt find the .h
    <|-Wraith-LT-|> unless they're doing it from a driver
    <vincenz> MEh
    <newbie> what can i do
    * DaHoC has joined ##c++
    <propfan> give it the .h
    * dolch has quit IRC ("Quit")
    <newbie> i dont know here it is , and i want to conf my mingw
    <Mws> Moin

    actual conversation from freenode.net ##C++

  8. Re:Where is Charles Manson? on Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego · · Score: 1

    Oh man, this was on the news a while back... They were considering placing MJ in the same place... it sounds quite nice for a prison, they have open cells, a lounge, tvs, and so on. WTF kind of prison is that?

  9. Re:Hey kid, want some candy? on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 1

    Uh, if I recall correctly, this worm targets people on your friendslist. In fact, two of my friends were either infected with this or a similar worm and then they IM-spam me with links to said virus. This is like having one of your friends turn out to be a sleeper agent and coming up to you looking normal and smiling and giving you a box saying, "Look! I bought candy, just for you."

  10. Re:Purely hypocritical and asinine on Using Copyrights To Fight Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Uh, free speech only applies to talking about government, doesn't it? I honestly don't think that free speech covers this..

  11. Re:Calling all whores on How to Build a $500 Gaming Machine · · Score: 1

    Huh, I bought a similar computer for that much 2 years ago ;P

  12. Re:The price. on The Revolution Will Be Globalized · · Score: 1

    Just like the gamecube, right?

  13. Re:"The" Mini-ITX Project? on The Mini-ITX Project Revisited · · Score: 0

    Isn't that "ATX"?

  14. Re:Wizards of the Coast? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    IIRC, TSR sold off D&D to Wizard of the Coast a while back.

  15. Re:Lets Just say... on Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Next-Gen DVDs · · Score: 1

    downloading 400,000 Mb or 240,000 Mb depending on the media.

    Hold on, let me get this right, you're basically predicting how long it would take to download a 50GB or 30GB, but you're overlooking the fact that even though the format can hold that much data, I honestly don't think that the movies themselves are gonna take up that much space. After all, your standard dual layer DVD with it's 9-something gigs of space provides a very good image and also includes some times as much extra content as the movie length. Personally, I don't see why we are moving past the DVD just yet, only recently did they stop making VHS and only those people who can afford the HDTVs of today will be buying this new media to get the extra few pixels out of it.

  16. Re:I remember that on Ballmer - Trusting Vista and Battling Google · · Score: 1

    Give back your user ID, this isn't an MMO, this is a Table Top Dice & Paper game.. *sighs*

  17. Re:Statist Musical Chairs on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is an itty-bitty part of the services available on the Internet.

    One service, yes, but it at one time consisted of 30% of all of the internet's traffic.

  18. Re:single player != mmorpg on Overcomplicated MMO Betas · · Score: 1

    Site a source or stfu, fucktard.

    *quits slashdot because he can't find a single decent group of people to converse with and is bothered by all the griefers*

    PROOF'd

  19. Re:How much did it cost? on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the people residing in povery in america, for the most part, have a TV, cable, and food stamps. Comparing america's "poor" to the chinese poor is like comparing bananas and banana peels.

  20. Re:Wait wait, what the hell? on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 1

    *Looks at his hand* I just violated a plethora of patents, didn't I? Illicit copying of copyrighted works! Yikes!

  21. Wait wait, what the hell? on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought it was a joke that you can patent genes, but I guess it's for real? Wow, that's a real shocker, but it brings up a question, how can you patent something that you didn't invent and what can you do with this patent? Does this mean that 28% of my er.. body belongs to someone else?

    Basically a dumbfounded, "Wh...whaaaaat?"

  22. Re:Why? on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the joke.

  23. Re:genetic discrimination may bring legislation on IBM Vows Not to Genetically Discriminate · · Score: 1

    I think that as long as those genetic defects can go through the regular hiring progress and can do the work that is required of them, they'll be hired anyways... And now IBM can pay less and expect more because noone else wants em..

    IBM: win/win either way.

  24. Re:$299? on AMD Geode Internet Appliance · · Score: 1

    MIT is fast on the road to their $100 laptops [mit.edu] that include a screen and a hand-crank for cryin' out loud.

    Please note: these laptops are not in production. They are not--and will not--be available for purchase by individuals.

    Mkay

  25. Doesn't this somehow infringe? on Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support · · Score: 1

    I thought that there was a big lawsuit a while back by adobe about the PDF standard..