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  1. Re:You do realize that's accurate, right? on Hollywood's Depiction of Gamers Getting Better? · · Score: 1

    Yes I do .. but this is 2005 .Gamers still appear to be playing games from the early 80's in movie and TV .. though they all have flat panel HDTVs and Ps2's and game-cubes to play them on .. and I saw no gameboy adaptors .
    It is either the case that their research is awful .. or they are promoting home-brew and emulators

  2. Re:ipod screen on Apple to Replace Faulty Nano Screen · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually think its a conspiracy to reintroduce the smoking jacket. You iPod would be in grand shape if it was housed in a lovely Velvet jacket

  3. If you think thats bad on Hollywood's Depiction of Gamers Getting Better? · · Score: 1

    How about their representation of games .

    I must save the fair gnome princes Gorgonela from the stoat palace , wherein lies the Evil Stoat king Rover .
    I must fight the endless armies of Snorg ,only pushing right on the controller and holding down/madly whacking a button .
    My reward for this achievement will be a high score slightly larger than the last time ..

  4. Re:It's quite hard on id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    This is why the I included the second sentence as the counter to my first . The moral aspect is the important thing which i was trying to highlight

  5. Re:It's quite hard on id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued · · Score: 0

    Very True ,ID could manage a 9-11 Million settlement and it wouldn't really hurt that much .
    If i were him , I would chalk it up to a bad decision and just get on with a nice relaxing life with my multi millions .
    Court cases can go either way , the only real winners are the lawyers . He could save himself months of stress and just walk away . Though if he is telling the truth then ID need a slap .

    Q: Was it his decision to sell the shares

  6. We of the EU on Law Enforcement Targets Online Communication · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We of the EU , The common Wealth and all other nations in the world would like to thank the USA .
    What with these new Spiffy morality and Communications laws ,we will likely see a sharp rise in investment and customers (and already have in many cases ) .
    I would like to thank your politicians from the bottom of my heart for my recent pay rise .

    Though i do feel sympathy for the thousands of unemployed they are attempting to create in their efforts to secure the votes .. um I mean Save the souls of their good people .

  7. It's quite hard on id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued · · Score: -1, Troll

    To find sympathy for a guy who was making in excess of 3.5 million per year . Though his claims do appear to have some grounding in reality ,I am not sure if they are a legal grounding though (only a moral one) .

  8. Re:What is it with US and the word "illegal" on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 1

    Illegal Piracy is the opposite of Legal Piracy . Legal Piracy involves drinking Rum , Singing "Yo ho ho" and keeping pet parrots

  9. Re:Not exactly.... on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 1

    The overuse of technology is fine .. I blame that bad plot and ham acting ;)
    Got to wonder what these people are being charged with though : I will place my money on the fact they will be charged with "Mental distress caused to the people who saw it " .
    That said , It was the best one of the new Star-wars films(not really much of a challenge) and the ships were fairly nifty ..

  10. Re:I give it about 7 days... on Revolution GunCon Concepts · · Score: 1

    games have never given me the urge to commit violent acts .. However the last time I read something by the venerable Mr Thompson I had this overriding urge to commit murder .

  11. Re:Hooray! on 24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched · · Score: 1

    Point of origin (point of Oregon would be a nice pun) , The spam will most likely be sent from Zombies through out the world , but look at where most of the companies are based .
    There will be a hell of a lot of spam networks operating in places as diverse as China and Mozambique , but the companies that are paying the advertising bill are not usually from those countries .

  12. Re:Computer parts on CNET's HDTV World · · Score: 1

    'It is if you go with ATI , Have a look on the apple store ;)

  13. Re:Computer parts on CNET's HDTV World · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know if there any Firewire ,PCIMCIA or USB2 HDTV cards . but for a PCI card the specs for example that the ATI -HDTV wonder requires are--

    System Requirements:
    Intel® Pentium® 4, Celeron(TM), AMD Athlon® or compatible, operating at 1.3GHz or greater
    256MB of system memory
    Available PCI slot for HDTV WONDER(TM) card
    Graphics card with 64MB or greater of frame buffer and Microsoft DirectX 9.0 support
    Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
    Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates
    Remote Control receiver requires available USB port
    Sound card with speakers

    Problem with that one is no Linux drivers , but it gives you an idea of the required specs
      The pcHDTV HD3000 has linux drivers I believe and MythTV supports it

  14. Re:HDTV is as significant as BW - COLOR on CNET's HDTV World · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think most people will mind .The amount of beer drunk whilst watching sporting events is sure to compensate for a low resolution; by adding motion blur and increasing the TVs attractiveness

  15. Computer parts on CNET's HDTV World · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a 22" monitor capable of 1,920x1,080 (1080p) which cost me around 300 , a HDTV tuner card is around 150 . I already have a computer that has PCI slots .. Seems like a far cheaper option at the moment for those who have computers .

  16. Re:Why even bother with word processors? on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that , Most i speak to consider HTML a complex programming language ...
    I think they would have a nervous breakdown if you tried to make them work in TeX or LaTeX

  17. Re:Striptease on Mobile Phone as Home Computer? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think if One were to be playing counter-strike then One would be more likely to say "7urnZ0rZZZ l3ft 3 de3gg wh1l3 T3h p@n t3H 4 d3gr335 ,d1k thenFr4gzorz"

  18. Re:Hmm on Seattle Axes Monorail Project · · Score: 1



    I have a new joke about the monorail .. can you get Mono from the monorail ... DOH

    Simpsons did it Simpsons did it .

  19. Re:Google toolbar on Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta · · Score: 1

    "should NOT take more than 0.01second. IE6SP1 opens instantly,"

    That's because its library files are loaded in to memory the moment you boot your windows installation . Its really quite easy to start up instantly if you have already started

  20. Re:Simple on US Senate Allows NASA To Buy Soyuz Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I think I have found the connection . They are better present than the current President of the USA
    Though not quite as much as Bush .. ranked 54th best president .. so i guess he can't be that bad..oh wait

  21. Re:My nano on iPod nano Owners In Screen Scratch Trauma · · Score: 1

    I always thought the whole point of the Nano was that it had no moving parts (bar the buttons )

  22. Re:Whats in it for Microsoft? on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Palms market share may have faltered recently , but 18% market share is defiantly not crushed .
    It makes them one of the top 3 major players in the market ,which has a great many contenders .
    I believe Blackberry at the number one spot with 20.8% and just after palm comes HP with 17.6.

    So they are not crushed by any means .. they just have a great deal more competition these days

  23. Re:And Palm OS? on Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone · · Score: 3, Informative

    Palm split into two separate companies a couple of years back .
      Palm Inc. (previously Palm one) does the hardware and Palm source handles the software side .
    Palm inc. are still making PDAs using PalmOS but they decided to move their phones to Windows mobile.
    I really hope the trend does not continue on to their PDAs , I do have high hopes for the Next versions of PalmOS( with a linux core) .

  24. Re:It's a Good Thing. on Municipal Broadband Projects Spread Across U.S. · · Score: 1

    Hm .. I would have thought that they could set this up as a non-profit enterprise on behalf of the community.
    It could certainly make money as it doesn't require any real form of marketing budget and could rely on many existing council services for which it could also feed money back .

    If it requires no profit then I have no idea why it should cost tax payers anything unless they use it

    Then I did forget about the ineptitude of most city councils and the corruption . They will see it as a great way to sneak in some tax raise which .

  25. Re:This is not a good thing on Opera Reaches 1 Million Downloads Thanks To Google · · Score: 1

    "Which is closest to W3C's standards? "

    Web-core /khtml based browsers such as konqueror or Safari

      "which is best?"
    Totally up to personal preference . I use safari on mac , Firefox /konqueror on linux , opera on all occasionaly .

    "I've written pages which were valid, standards compliant according to the W3C docs, and displayed correctly in Firefox "
    I have written standards compliant code which firefox did not render properly , though it did do a far better job than MSIE-but Safari displayed it exceptionally .I have written compliant code which rendered better on Firefox than safari . I am yet to make standards compliant code that will render more accurately on MSIE than the other browsers though (Mission impossible) .

    The reason we have a standards committee such as the W3C is to create a (You guessed it ) set of standards . A set standards so that all browser makers can code towards it , giving web devs security that their code will render well no matter the browser.
    Of course no browser is fully compliant , but some are more compliant than others.

    The point about one browser seems a little odd to me :how about a single OS for everything , Everyone could drive the exact same car , everyone could wear the same clothes , we could all eat one food .Life would very boring.

    I understand the frustration of web devs . but one browser monopolising the market has given us the scourge of MSIE.