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  1. Re:Done with a PC long ago. on A Mac Mini-lennium Falcon · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not the link you are looking for...

    http://mods.xkill.net/redir_falcon.html

  2. Re:I don't know, but I have other thoughts... on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 1

    I guess you are like the person who wrote the caption on the following photo... because these people are white, they "found" this food in a store

    In your pictures the white couple is obviously carrying bread. No one is faulting anyone that is taking food, diapers or other supplies from flooded stores so they can survive. OTOH, the second picture is of a man pulling two large garbage sacks of items. To be fair, it's impossible to tell what's in those garbage sacks, maybe food for his family that didn't want to get wet.

    The news last night did show many people, predominantly black, looting. They were stealing TVs, clothes, shoes, display cases, etc... These people were obviously NOT just getting supplies to get through the disaster.

    The reporter was aware of where these items came from since they wrote "after looting a grocery store".

  3. Re:On natural disasters... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1
    You seem to be forgetting that about 25 years ago a little hill in the southeast part of the state got into a tizzy and dumped a couple of feet of ash all over the state...

    True, I forgot about it. However, "feet" is a gross overstatement. Living on the east side, I've seen worse dust storms.

    It made a mess, and a very few (57) died. Those that did knew for weeks of the danger and were either stubborn or there for the event. Volcanos, generally speaking, (St. Helens or otherwise) do not represent a threat unless you are actually living on the mountain.

  4. Re:On natural disasters... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    We'll welcome you to Washington as well. None of these has caused a significant issue for us. In fact, I'd say that the most restrictive of these items really prepareness issues and don't affect liveability significantly.

  5. Re:On natural disasters... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Had nothing left of the USA after that. Every area of the country has one probkem or another. Except that there are only a few areas of the country that experience any of these to significant degree. Build housing appropriate to the climate, dress for the weather and you get everything back except for flood plains and volcanos.

  6. Re:Makes Sense on Nintendo Patents Insanity · · Score: 1

    (Clutches Conga Drums) My precious, must protect my precious! The nerds, the nerds, the filthy little nerds wants to takes the precious!

  7. Re:Rate of technology acceptance? on Nintendo DS Wireless Game Roundup · · Score: 1
    I'm not a big fan of either (and own neither). However, the DS is said to be selling very well. Partly price, and partly qality titles. For example, if you go to Gamespot.com and look up the 10 highest rated games Nintendo averages an 8.2* where the PSP titles only manage a 7.49.
    *I counted the 3 Nintendogs variations rated as 9.1 as a single title. The PSP has some potential but thus far many games have been derivitives of PS2 titles that weren't that great to begin with. Lumines and Wipeout Pure have been decent but they're the exception in a very small pool of titles for an extremely expensive device. One would think that if you were going to recycle some games, you'd start with your best.

    I hope this will change soon as both platforms will have some titles with great potential due out before the end of the year.

  8. Re:Totally misleading... on Sony Describes DS As Gimmick · · Score: 1

    A: It's not trolling if it's a fact. The vast majority of PSP titles are conversions of older, middling quality PS2 titles. B: Microsoft has nothing to do with this. C: You've totally missed the point of the discussion which is about Harrison's marketing double talk and got yourself all worked up over a parting remark about Sony treating the PSP as a second class (see "A:" above) platform.

  9. Re:Modal Music on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 1

    he said that research had shown that listeners would rate the same song higher if it followed other song of a similar genre. If they play songs of different genres randomly the listener does not enjoy the music as much. May also explain the propensity of some (less diverse) radio stations to play 2-3 songs by the same artist. Additionally, in my area there are several stations that do this once a week all day long. One in particular, culminating in an hour long program of self abuse and Led Zepplin. Or maybe it's something totally different.

  10. Re:Totally misleading... on Sony Describes DS As Gimmick · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    He believes they're targetting different markets

    This is part of his problem. Nintendo and their deveolpers make fun games for all ages (and some are not suitable for children). Sony is ignoring the youth market and saying the markets are entirely different. But ignoring the "safe for youngsters" market doesn't put you in a wholy different market. It simply narrows your scope.

    Thus far it looks a lot like their gaming market is the same as Apple's. That is for people who enjoy playing the same games they played five or six years ago on another platform.

  11. Re:Yeah, it's a gimmick! on Sony Describes DS As Gimmick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's the superior but less sucessful product in the doll-house space? Singles? No. Until I can trap a woman I've "molested" in a room with no doors and thus foil the authorities it will never be able to compete.

  12. Re:dislike voice on How Voice Enhances Life Online · · Score: 1
    The other reason is i hate most peoples accents online. thats kind of a personal attack but i'm really not going to take orders from, or have leadership confidence in, some guy who sounds like he lives in his parents basement and starts wheezing when he gets excited. again, it ruins the ambiance.

    A. Asthma is sexy. B. Voice improves survivability and time spent enough that people will do it. So the question is, when can I get a plugin to make me sound like a 19 year old woman. No, I'd never exploit it for f4t l3wtz.

  13. Re:So they are bad because... on Google's Turn To Be The Villain · · Score: 1
    Kinda ruins the business model for everyone else.

    Especially when your business model (requires) paying your employees as little as possible and treating them worse.

    I'm hardly knowledgeable on the subject but from what I've read, it does seem like the industry as a whole has been living like vampires on their talent. I'm not sure Google is so much a fabulous place to work as other places are so terrible.

  14. Re:Who is the fox and who is the hen? on Microsoft Proposes Cooperative Research With OSDL · · Score: 1
    An atomic powered cyber hen with razor claws, laser beams, and an army of parvovirus bearing exploding suicide chicks.

    And Steve Balmer.

    But yes, an interesting analogy.

    Side note... Does MS really need OSDL to do a facts based comparison? Last I checked the source and ready made distro's are available to compare to.

  15. Re:Age of Empire on MS & Game Rentals · · Score: 1
    Age of Empire. It's like Age of Empires, but with just one!

    It's the game you've already won!

  16. Re:Free LCDs! on Video Tombstones · · Score: 1

    presence of children in church... Jesus himself told those people to STFU and let the little bastards in. Still they complain.

  17. What could you do with twice as much money? on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 1

    Finance my own game later. #ifdef the sex scenes in the game. Rape the industry for all it's worth. Buy Paul Allens "old" yacht.

  18. Re:Nailing your own coffin on Xbox 360 Launch to Face Several Hurdles · · Score: 1

    The Mega CD , the 32X , jaguar CD ... We all remember how successful extensions to your console are You're working too hard. Just peep the PS2 Hard Drive. Boy howdy, that went absolutely nowhere. If the XBox360 releases sans HD there will be no point in ever having one with a hard drive for gaming. Note that I said gaming. I'd imagine one of those 'revisions' contains a DVR and might be worth while for that. BTW I'm pretty sure that MS said that *ALL* games ever released for the XBox360 will be released on the current DVD format reguardless of what upgrades are done with the unit.

  19. Re:what do they do? on Spammers on the Run · · Score: 1
    So what, I should love my spam and not complain? Excuse me I am not some random coked up serority whore on gangbang night.

    I have every right to reply to e-mail I recieve either myself or by proxy.

    PS The internet back bone doesn't give a shit about spam. Bandwidth is bought and paid for in both directions.

  20. Not quite on Spammers on the Run · · Score: 1
    Basically, they DDOS spammers websites in hopes that they will shut them down. Bacially they complain on behalf of people that recieved their e-mail.

    There is no DDOS about it. There is no flooding of their e-mail or web site. Simply a single reply for the email someone recieved. The volume aspect is simply an artifact of the spammer e-mailing large quantities of people that have Blue Security send a complaint on their behalf.

    1 spam = 1 complaint

  21. Re:ad blocking 101 on Advertising of the Future, Already Here · · Score: 1

    Awesome. This is way better than Privoxy!

  22. Re:Hopefully including some sort of quality contro on MS Seeks Entrance Fee to XBox Accessory Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Their "Windows Certification" program has certainly shown that a barrier to entry rarely produces a "better" product. Just a product with a logo on it's box. I've owned a lot of Logitech gear and their high end stuff is certainly decent enough. Their low end however, is as craptacular as any other.

  23. Re:Oh great. Wonderful. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Colin Powell and the rest of the administration were aware that the aluminum canisters he was discussing were not appropriate for refining radioactive material. So what were these "50" people doing? Driving the war effort. It is widely documented (obviously unread by yourself) that there was a tremendous amount of bullshit flying about reguarding mounting an invasion. Perhaps you should read more material that doesn't back up you and your "doublethink" mentality and run your mouth less. I'm speechless. Obviously not. Maybe a pompus ass...

  24. Re:Oh great. Wonderful. on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    It's pretty common knowledge at this point that we haven't found a single WMD since invading Iraq Hate to pick nits... :) It was known before hand that there weren't any WMD's to be found. When the topic came up the experts were ignored.

  25. Re:Observations at a local Coffeeshop on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Coin op.