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  1. Re:That's odd - I think games are boring on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1

    Why gaming would make someone depressed makes zero sense to me.

    (me thinks) 30 seconds left in the match...only one guy left...

    speakers roar with those fatal words "HEADSHOT!!!"

    F@#k!!! F@#k!!! Stupid game, this mouse is trash... crappy card, the frame rates keep dropping... man, I wish I had a better job, then I could buy something sweet... man, I wish I didn't live in this basement.

  2. god dammit on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No see its ok. It's with a lowercase g so it's my god and not the real God.

  3. Re:Fear the power on WikiLeaks' Daniel Schmitt Speaks · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't know about this really being troll. This seemed like it was a well constructed argument. It even has a touch of constructive critisism for wikileaks. It may not be an opinion you like or one that is even right but I don't think everyone should have to go with the status quo or be tagged a troll.

  4. Re:Where's India's domestic economy? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    and you made 9 dollars

  5. Interesting on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    Because people 'feel entitled' to have what they want when they want it, and if they can't get it for free, 'they'll steal it

    I agree with this statement but my conclusion is the exact oposite...it is for this reason that I feel the internet is amazing

  6. Not so blazing on 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no first post

  7. Re:Chuck'em out on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Donating is a good idea I am sure someone could find something to do with them. I would often use flash pens instead of a hard drive on old computers with Damn Small Linux, Puppy, or Slax installed. I found it was often the hard drive that slowed down older PCs and none of the other hardware. Also buying a hard drive is a waste of money if using an older PC, paying 80 bucks is a big invest when you can just use a 1 gig flash pen that someone else thinks is worthless.

  8. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    I am not a hunter but I think deer shit pellets are much the same size as rabbits but more oval shaped, obviously the deer pile is larger. I could be wrong.

  9. Re:Jobs Aren't About Education, Skill, or Experien on Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? · · Score: 1

    One was nice, giving his team members credit, taking responsibility when something went wrong.

    That is probably the problem. In the higher-ups eyes at one time something went wrong and that guy did it.

  10. Re:If it 'snot good enough for the feds... on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    There are standards for data removal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure#Standards If you are hiding things from the government (OMG pr0n) and you need more security you will have other issues to worry about as you will not be going through the normal court systems in which case you might want to try things like thermite or other incindiaries.

  11. Re:Good luck with that! on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    that etc including the massive increase in your insurance for a very long time

  12. Re:Wait, girl or boy? on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 1

    Nevermind I'm an idiot. I only looked at the first name Weilong. It's She as in Weilong She. doh!

  13. Wait, girl or boy? on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article is unclear to me, maybe I missed something

    ...Weilong She and his colleagues...

    Ok so we are talking about a guy right?

    This paper is a beautiful piece of work and may become one of the classic papers on the momentum of light" said Ulf Leonhardt a researcher...

    hmm not sure article doesn't indicate one way or another

    ...Hermann Minkowski had proposed in 1908 that light momenta is proportional to a material's refractive index then the following year, another German theorist, Max Abraham proposed the opposite...

    Still guys right?

    21st Century makeover

    She and colleagues have now finally overcome these difficulties by replacing the water surface with a nanometre silica filament.


    Wait who is a she???

  14. Pingus - Lemmings remake on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    http://pingus.seul.org/ Uses penguins instead of lemmings. Actually I find it better than lemmings. It does more special tasks for the penguins like jumping, which is really hard to make a penguin jump multiple times while trying to do the same for his other penguin buddies. Installs on windows, osx, and linux. It has its own level editor so you can make as many boards as you want but from the default it has way more than any single version of lemmings did.

  15. Better Solutions on What Needs Fixing In Linux · · Score: 2

    Maybe I am not looking hard enough but I feel there needs to be more lists of software solutions. Someone in my LUG group brought my attention to http://opensourcesmall.biz/ which is a great little site (no affiliation) that gives software solutions for small businesses. Some others I find googling are http://www.icewalkers.com/ and http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/ (Czech site I just checked the google cache) For me that seems to be the most important part. If open source small business software names were as common to mom and pop places as vlc, firefox, and other free software are to us it drive linux adoption at crazy rates. This would force hardware manufactures to release their specs or get passed up on a purchase to a competitor. Other than that linux is great and I could never ask for more for free. Usually the big hurdle for people is software familiarity once you learn bash basics, if you never learn bash you usually struggle.

  16. Re:last sentence on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    I bought a 1000H or a XP eeepc not because I need XP but because it came on a 80 Gig SATA drive that costs me nothing to replace or upgrade. The other flavors with Xandros come on smaller SSDs, I figured I would let the SSD market mature and they would be SATA interface and could upgrade if I felt necessary. Xandros sux anyway. I run Slax and Ubuntu on mine. This probably isn't the most common reason for most eeepc owners but I bet you it is for a lot...

  17. Re:This is not meant to flame on Cray's CX1 Desktop Supercomputer, Now For Sale · · Score: 2, Informative

    FTA the CX1, it is trying to push down into a market where newbies in life sciences, digital rendering, financial services, and other fields are playing around with supers for the first time.

    25,000 that seems like a lot of cash to fork for something that you don't know how to use.

    It's a fact: Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) combines the power of the Windows Server platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity and reduce the complexity of your HPC environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure. http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/default.aspx

    So this is meant for people that need a rendering farm or some calculations performed but have no idea how to build a cluster, again how big is this market?

  18. This is not meant to flame on Cray's CX1 Desktop Supercomputer, Now For Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there a reason microsoft would be the prefered OS for this type of machine? I would think the type of people requiring such hardware would be quite capable of running some kind of *nix OS to perform their operations and see the advantages in doing so, like a familiar OS. I imagine MS has invested a decent amount of cash to be the logo broadcasted on the cray site, is there a reason why they want this market? This seems like it would be a very niche market for them.

  19. Problem Solved on Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just leave mine on all day!

  20. Choose you own adventure on Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain · · Score: 1

    I would chalk this up to the fact that you have a limited supply of paper material to read but on the internet you can start reading about something and then find something else that intrigues you even more and jump to that. Sometimes I can spend a good hour or more on wikipedia, the quality of the material is tolerable enough to stay there just jumping from article to article and find yourself so far from your original interest but always within YOUR own interests and not really some authors per say.

  21. webpage rendering is breaking (maybe just me) on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Why does idle not have the sectional navigation panel on the left side but every other saction does. This forces you to press back on the browser rather than just Main?

    Why is idle's scheme so different from the rest?

    Why do the tags get cut off when logged in Anonymous and disappear entirely when logged in?

  22. Re:Yes, you can de-obfuscate black rectangles. on Recovering Blurred Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Or you could type in Courier...

  23. Re:Making math illegal. on DMCA Exemption Time · · Score: 1

    Between DVD encryption and that game with the scrambled picture and the missing square that you have to move around in order to figure out the picture?

  24. Re:I was just reading on The Pirate Bay — "Just a Very Large Hobby" · · Score: 1

    The no-cd and cracks are illegal

     
    Actually no-cd's are not illegal that is why places like gamecopyworld exist.

  25. Better Work Conditions? on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    demand better working conditions?

    I'm reading /.!!!