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  1. Re:What the hell? on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 1

    "You don't ever, ever cite one or use information from one directly."

    Which is exactly the opposite of what my honors English class teacher taught us. So what the fuck is happening to our school system?

  2. Re:Obligatory on Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you'll just let revisionist historians fuck up our history with LIES?

    Burn.

  3. Re:13 years of development down the drain on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    OH! The cruelty of piss-poor management of a project!

  4. Re:EA Bought Bioware on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    Ultima 2 under any system gives me a constant divide overflow. It just won't run. everythign else does.

    I loved 5 and 6 the best. Having to learn another written language to play was fucking awesome (plus one of the most innovative forms of copy protection at the time,) and the geeks back in elementary and middle school that played and knew the runic alphabet would write notes to each other, which teachers could not decipher, and we never gave the code out, saying "You're not computer-literate enough to understand."

    Yea, we got in trouble, but we were right - they certainly weren't computer-literate enough to realize we were using a game's written language.

  5. Re:Recruitment tool probably steps over the line on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    Since you refuse to educate yourself, here's the rules concerning incendiary weapons:

    Article 1 of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons defines an incendiary weapon as 'any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target'. The same protocol also prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilians (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions) or in civilian areas.

    Since you can't be bothered to do the fucking research for yourself, there you go.

  6. Re:EA Bought Bioware on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    All of the games minus Ultima 2 work just fine on my dual-core XP system, with or without DOS Box. Ultima 2 gives constant divide overflow when attempting to run.

    I just whipped out my Ultima 1-6 Disc from back when I purchased the 6-pack games pack (Spear of Destiny, Ultima 1-6, Blackthorne, Stellar 7, etc.) just to check.

  7. Re:At least they are protesting on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    World Bank protests, 2002. It's so bad the GOP is STILL trying to cover their asses from it.

    That's one of the most recent ones that stands out, and still has pending court cases.

  8. Re:Recruitment tool probably steps over the line on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    Learn the Geneva and Hague conventions and you'll have your answer, didn't you take World History in high school? Learn the Treaty of Tripoli and you'll see that despite what Christians say we were not founded a Christian Nation. We are not one nation "Under God" and never have been according to Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli.

  9. Re:This is America on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    That permit doesn't ensure a FUCKING THING AND YOU KNOW IT. That permit is designed as a way to stifle the free speech of the poor that cannot afford to pay for such license. It is nothing more than a means to ensure those without money do not have a voice.

  10. Re:In Norway on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    Rules to follow automatically create responsibility. Owning a gun and properly using it takes responsibility.

    Glad to see the military intelligence oxymoron is still alive and well. No responsibility, my ass.

  11. Re:Recruitment tool probably steps over the line on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    "They are very clear on the importance of shooting only the bad guys"

    BUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSHIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

    If that were the case we'd have not used white phosphorous over there.

  12. Re:Recruitment tool probably steps over the line on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    "And your source for this is three commercial t-shirt sites, sites with no actual ties to the army?"

    What did you expect from a 7-digit UID? Actual worthwhile information? Expecially with a UID that high?

    Kill them all and let God sort them out dates WAY back before America was ever around, by about 550 years.

  13. Re:At least they are protesting on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    "Um.... what I saw with my own eyes IS real data"

    And in most places we call that "He-said she-said" and until we see some recorded video from your brain your words and motivations are suspect while we have ACTUAL video footage of some of the crap that happened to watch.

  14. Re:This is America on Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center · · Score: 1

    "Permits for protesting are a matter of public safety."

    He who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserves neither.

    We know exactly what YOU deserve.

  15. Re:Honest Question on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    "They've done two live action adaptations of Dune... the time has come for an Anime adaptation!"

    They certainly wouldn't have any problems with the blue eyes, that's for sure. ;)

  16. Re:Honest Question on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 1

    "And a Satanist! With evil supernatural powers... ah, but I'm becoming nostalgic...."

    No, that would be the Magic players, not RPGers.

  17. Re:What I find disturbing... on A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode · · Score: 1

    I find it more disturbing that a feature 'found in windows Vista or windows 7' has been around in XP the entire time and peopple are just NOW noticing it (left-click the 'remove hardware' icon in the taskbar when you have something plugged into USB.)

    It's sad how ignorant most people are, that they're shown something very old as if it were something new and they go "oooh, shiny!"

  18. Re:Misleading or Deceptive Conduct on Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Because I disagree with a premise, yet not the conclusion, I'm either a troll, shill or moron. Slashdot at its finest. Sounds like a faith based argument to me."

    Nah, just your typical 7-digit UID Youth Squad, freshly brainwashed and clueless. You did nothing wrong.

  19. Re:Set-top-box on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    HP Pavilion DV2000, DV6000, DV1000, DV9000 all have IR remote controls and IR ports.

  20. I would like to know on Tiniest Lamp Spans Quantum, Classical Physics · · Score: 1

    What the luminous efficiency of this? Could the carbon nanotube perhaps include other elements to produce a different spectrum or color temperature?

    Imagine a flexible light-up sheet of carbon nanotubes. With color? Ultra-resolution screens?

  21. Re:8800 = good. Anything else 8xxx or a 9600 = bad on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    During that issue I was working as a repair tech. I read all the engineering reports, it was not bad silicon. It was bad die packaging. We had two engineering recalls on three different lines of laptop, one concerning hinges, the other concerning bad packaging around the die itself. The silicon was fine, and we sent that all back to nVidia to get properly-packaged cores that wouldn't screw up.

    Not nVidia's fault, it was the fault of their outsourced manufacturing partner, which I think was TSMC?

  22. Re:CRT user on Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs · · Score: 1

    SED monitors - basically micro CRT tubes in a grid array. It's expensive, but it's also LCD form factor.

  23. Re:Unfortunately, CRT is still the best for gaming on Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been working on an 800+ character MUGEN game for quite some time, now. My primary monitor is a 32" 1080p LCD made by Samsung, and there are NO timing issues. I even have an X-Arcade controller for testing. No lag. That's like 50 feet of wire/cable between controller and monitor.

    The biggest problems most games have these days on LCD screens is their own inputs. Every guitar hero/rockband controller I've touched likes to double-strum, even on touchier movements. While DBZ BT3 on the Wii is great, part of the control interface lags when doing a gesture movement, or double-taps for you if you press a button only once.

  24. Re:Does this mean i can use a lcd in my mame cabin on Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait, you need two ports taken up so you can display on a 30" screen?

    Crap, I'm still using a single 15-pin D-SUB to connect to my 32" 1080p LCD on my old computer.

  25. Re:8800 = good. Anything else 8xxx or a 9600 = bad on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    All of the 9 series is broken, eh? Why is my 9800GTX+ working just fine? Piece of shit, my ass. It wasn't bad silicon, it was a BAD DIE PACKAGING that fucked the higher end of the 8 series up through the earliest versions of the 200 series, or did you not pay attention to all the news concerning the massive failure rates of nVidia graphics chips in desktop cards and laptop computers? The silicon was fine, bad die packaging caused overheating and burnout.