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  1. Re:Old methods of copy protection... on The Problems With Game Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Settlers (Serif city in america?) had this for the amiga, they had runes at the bottom of each page of a 300 page manual, annoying but effective.

  2. Re:MRSA on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the NHS, if it makes sense, there not doing it.

  3. Re:Never! on When Does Maturity Set In? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're never going to get first post! Grow up!!!!!

  4. Re:Program Managers Anonymous? on IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests · · Score: 1

    Her therapist must be on some good money.

  5. Movie Quality? on IBM's Radical Cell Processor · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Cell is going to enable PS3 developers to create movie-quality games with blazing-speed graphics.

    Really? Just like the PS1/2 could do on the fly Toy Story quality graphics? Or did you just get around that by saying movie quality games, rather than games that look like movies, but still implied it?

    I have no doubt the cell is going to be impressive, but we are quite along way away from an affordable processor than can replace a render farm (I believe thats what there refered as).

  6. Re:If Nintendo couldn't do it... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    Well yeah... But theres alot of things we can do we could never do 20 years ago, incase you hadn't noticed.

  7. Here's the working download Windows link on aMSN 0.95 Released · · Score: 1
  8. Mod Parent up on New Uranus Moons and Rings Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How that deserved a troll mod i have no idea, maybe we need a -1 unfunny, but troll ain't the substitute.

  9. Re:Unreal Tournament 2700? on UT 2K7 Slated for PS3 Launch · · Score: 1
    When last I checked 2.7k was a 2700 Ohm resister, a 2k700 would be right, 2k50 is 2050.

    Atleast thats how most of us work it in the UK

  10. 'lol no this is not a virus' on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1

    Is that you Skynet?

  11. Re:The eternal what if...... on South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million · · Score: 1
    Imaging buying a new car and finding that every manufacturer has slightly different arrangments for the controls. Maybe the radio buttons are different, or the lights, or the windshield wipers. Maybe the window controls are arranged differently, or the cruise control. How would you cope with that? Could consumers figure out how to drive if 90% of the cars on the lot didn't have exactly the same interface?

    Imagine buying a new car and finding none critical parts have been removed. Maybe the you wanted a radio, or lights, even 4 tyres. Maybe you could go and get some free parts or buy some. How would you cope with that? Would 90% of drivers figure out how to get all the parts they need and attach them without getting ripped off along the way?

  12. Re:Blender on Build Your Own MMOG · · Score: 1
    Stick at it. Most of my modeling experience was in Rhino3d, then to maya to do skeletons for ut2k4 models.

    Had to use blender for a course at Uni. For the first few weeks you want to kill the designers, for the next week you sort of get it, after that its easy to use (because you get used to the different and relatively annoying differences).

  13. Re:Mutual Exclusion? on Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools · · Score: 4, Informative

    Simple. Local markets. They sell them there, the police don't bother with them for the most part, its pretty much the same as markets in china, all the software you could ever want for a few pennies (or cents).

  14. Re:My Question on Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study · · Score: 1

    The study was done while in the employment of BP, and due to certain clauses in the contract (A form of None-disclosure) it would belong to the company after he completed it (They fronted the cash for it and payed his wages, If it was an independant study, he would have).

  15. Re:My Question on Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Thats kind of funny, I had a cousin who came out of University with a Bsc in chemistry. One of the first jobs he got was research for BP (Oil company). Due to his prior diving expirience he was choosen to study the effects of deep sea drilling on local marine life.

    His study showed that there was quite a significant effect on marine life, more than previous studies had shown.

    He was thanked then disposed of within a month, his study left with him. Needless to say had the study said what BP wanted to here he would never have had such a rapid removal from BP.

  16. Re:To those who doubt the paranormal on Is Your Office Haunted? · · Score: 1

    Erm, isn't the point of calling ghosts and the like supernatural specifically because they don't comform to the laws of nature (And as such, any science based around it).

  17. Re:US Against the World on Behind the Fight to Control the Internet · · Score: 1
    I don't know that this true. I am really not sure at all. Didn't Tony Blair get re-elected?

    Thats largely because the alternatives were just as bad if not worse.

  18. Re:The real reason... on No Region Codes for HD-DVD? · · Score: 1
    Here again is another proof that information not only wants to be free, it wants to be available to everyone at the same time.

    Not entirely correct, not all infomation wants (or should) be free. If anything it says:

    Infomation whats to be available to everyone at the same time, or people will (illegally) aquire that infomation for free.

  19. Re:Family torn apart? on RIAA Sues a Child · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of this guy, Mr Slant

  20. Re:Get real. on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1
    George Bush might be a moron, but most Americans believe in free internet access for all.

    Yes... But most americans seem to believe in George Bush...

  21. Re:Master Chief? DOA 4? on Bungie News Next Week · · Score: 1
    The worrying thing is some of the spartans are female.

    It must be like fucking a nuclear bunker door.

  22. Re:Anyone know... on The New Face Lift · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm, Angelina Jolie.

  23. Fall of Reach - First Strike on Games And Books Getting Along · · Score: 1
    Both Halo books, both fantastic, written by Eric Nylund (Sp?). Follows spartans from creation, through to how they get back to Earth from Halo:CE, and why Johnson is still alive. The books are also, by far, better than the game(s), even if the storyline has come into conflict with the game in places.

    As for the book Flood, don't bother, it is written version of Halo:CE, and reads poorley (not written by Eric as I recall). Only worth it for a read for a little more insight into the Halo universe, but thats it.

    Hopefully Eric will pick up the next few books (If there are going to be any).

  24. Re:Patent infringement on Unpatched Firefox Flaw May Expose Users · · Score: 1

    No, merely prior art.

  25. Re:First Post Wishful Thinking on iTMS Launches in Japan · · Score: 1
    ITMS Ankh Morpork (running on Hex OS)

    That would only work without rock music, remember Soul Music...

    Besides Hex's runtime is mostly used for the Arch Chancellors Billiard games.