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  1. Re:Quite on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Advanced UNIX users live in the shell.

    I saw this, and read it as "Unix users live in a shell", and I thought you were calling them hermits. :)

  2. Re:More to the point on Build an $800 Gaming PC · · Score: 1

    Not only that, if there are bugs in the console version, the patch has to be sent to Microsoft or Sony first, and from the time the developers release the patch to when it's pushed out to the customers is generally at least a month.

  3. Re:I dunno... on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    That said, do you wash the tap-knobs before washing your hands?

    Actually, I do quite often, because I know how dirty they can get. This is especially apparent in my kitchen, where I'll need to wash my hands to get chicken grease off of them.

  4. Re:Another pro-piracy article on Slashdot on Nesson & Camara Increase Attack Against RIAA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, a 5-digit UID posting at -1 by default! You must really love that negative karma, huh?

  5. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Entirely predictable, for a few reasons on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    Ditto, although most of the Batman ones have been *much* better...

    Sorry, I should've quoted the whole part of the parent post that I wanted to refer to:

    When was the last time you saw a cinematic remake of a 60s TV show which made hundreds of millions of dollars?

    I was being facetious by pointing to the Adam West Batman though, since I know it was a comic book before then.

  7. Re:What's the real reason? on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    Well, you haven't proved it yet, because you were trying to prove that DynamicBits hadn't played it, not me. ;)

    As for me, I've seen Yahtzee's review, and according to him it's worth playing, despite its faults (mostly story, apparently). I may buy it sometime when it's on sale on Steam.

  8. Re:Do the math on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    At some budgets, $45 constitutes a major purchase. We discuss every major purchase with each other.

    If you share a budget with someone, and don't discuss major purchases with them, you'll soon either be broke, or broken up.

  9. Re:Entirely predictable, for a few reasons on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you saw a cinematic remake of a 60s TV show

    Not too long ago, actually...

  10. Re:Not surprised on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then call the new one by its actual title.

  11. Re:Do the math on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (best value) = min($/hour)

    I'd argue it's more like:

    value = ($/hour) * fun

    If your job is on the negative side of the fun scale, then even though you get paid, you wouldn't choose to use your free time for work over a game. Meanwhile, if there's a very fun activity that costs a bunch of money (skydiving, perhaps?), you might decide that you'll only do it once a year.

  12. Re:What's the real reason? on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    I haven't played Braid, but even if it is good, a statistical anomaly does not disprove a generalization.

  13. Re:Do the math on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is how I convinced my girlfriend that pre-ordering Left 4 Dead was worth it.

    I buy about 2 games per year, and play the hell out of them, so even though Left 4 Dead had a 50% off sale 4 months after release, by then I'd already played enough to pass the $1/hour line on my $45 purchase.

  14. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    It needs to be living flesh, which is why Cameron's body wasn't successfully transported in the last episode.

  15. Re:"Power Users"? I don't think so... on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    I use the NT-style login interface, so "Logoff" is one of the options under the Shut Down menu for me.

    If I happen to be on someone else's machine and it requires one or two more presses of the Up arrow, I just adapt to that.

  16. Re:"Power Users"? I don't think so... on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    I use the "Classic" Start Menu, so I imagine there might be an extra step if I used the XP menu.

    Also, if I used Vista on a regular basis, I'd probably do "Windows, c, m, d, Enter" instead.

  17. Re:"Power Users"? I don't think so... on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    I know Windows-R exists, but I still use "Windows, Up, Up, Enter" instead. It's quick enough, IMO.

  18. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    That's the neat thing about the last episode of the show that I did like (thought it was not addressed too deeply). When John jumps forward that last time, he jumps into the future. He skipped the entire time that he was supposed to be fighting. NOBODY knew him or had every heard of John Connor . . . yet the resistance was still there and fighting.

    I'll accept any evidence to support your theory, but I disagree: I think John jumped forward to the same timeline, fairly early on in the fight against Skynet. The resistance members are already fighting Metal, but John Connor's arrival will give them the knowledge needed to make a real impact in the struggle. A few years later, he sends Kyle Reese back in time to save his mother, and so on.

  19. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    Metal wrapped in flesh can be transported. This is why the Terminators can time travel in the first place.

  20. Re:OK, now what... on Court Rejects RIAA's Proposed Protective Order · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was trying to word that into a joke, but now that I read it again, it just sounds condescending.

  21. Re:monetary donation? on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    s/EFF/FSF/g;

  22. Re:What does this have to do with the Clinton Admi on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it's just that you see people criticizing the current administration, and see it as "the Right bashing the Left".

    Some of us just don't like power-hungry politicians, no matter which way they lean socially.

  23. Re:Incoming on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's a 1TB storage device, containing many disks?

  24. Re:Incoming on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but they didn't ruin the place like the most recent outgoing group did.

    How do you know, if the data's been lost?

  25. Re:Crap on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 1

    Gibbs gives her one (large) cup every time he comes by, which is probably no more than once a day. Assuming a 32oz. cup, she's still under 2 liters.