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  1. Re:Always surf the wave's trailing edge on HD-DVD and the Early Adopter Premium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Add then rental, and are you sure you don't just want to go to the theatre?

    There is nothing family orientated about a trip to the local picture show. Every single time I goto the theater I am annoyed or offended.

    The ultimate combination for the casual TV viewer is a modern antenna mounted on your house plus Netflix for the remainder of your desired special programming
  2. Cost Justification of PS3 on HD-DVD and the Early Adopter Premium · · Score: 1

    If it so happens you want the following and your situation lacks all of the following then the price is already around what TFA quotes.
    $133 for Blu-Ray
    $133+External HDD for HTPC (Yellow Dog 6.0)
    $133 for gaming console

  3. Simple economics. on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 1

    M$ doesn't need Yahoo. They want Yahoo.

  4. Script Kiddis Horah! on Largest Hacking Scam in Canadian History · · Score: 1

    "Eh, check 'er out Uper! A Newfoundland!"

  5. Re:is this on Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon? · · Score: 1

    Very unlikely anything that has been brick and mortar for as long as Blockbusters has will actually die. Yes, its easier, cheaper, and more efficient to do things of this nature online. Same goes for banking, bill paying, and shopping.
    But there is still an intangible value of going out and getting it. Video browsing for examble...most non-nerds have 1 family computer, To gather around and so, no go back! Wait I wanna read about that one! As a family, or even a group of friends going out to pick out a few movies simply can't be replaced.

  6. Re:Can't they just use GTA? on Army Opens New Office of Videogames · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod flamebat, off topic or troll...
    ...but
    FUCK YOU! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
    As a combat veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (thats Afghanistan you uninformed retard)
    Valid arguments why you are a piece of shit...
    1. Afghanistan is famous for heroin, and opium.
    2. The Taliban has done much violence in "foreign billets"
    3.I won't say they rape anyone, but I'm sure a civilized homosexual would not say they are homosexual because they simply believe women are only for procreation.
    4. You'd let a 11 year old shoot you in the face and die proudly.

  7. Re:Rough X-mas Shopping on The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the wiki:
    An estimated US$23 billion were secretly spent for research and development on the B-2 in the 1980s. An additional expense was caused by changing its role in 1985 from a high-altitude bomber to a low-altitude bomber, which required a major redesign. B-2 in flight over the Mississippi River (St. Louis, Missouri) with the Gateway Arch and Busch Stadium in the background.The first B-2 was publicly displayed on 22 November 1988, when it was rolled out of its hangar at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, where it was built. Its first public flight was on 17 July 1989.

    So after 23 billion secretly spent dollers you think the American public was the first to see what had been built the day before? Unless you worked on the project, you cannot say when it was "ready" It's probly wasnt ready until the communists figured out what we had built, and it was then obsolete.

  8. Rough X-mas Shopping on The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered · · Score: 1

    Unless you were in the market for a B-2 Stealth bomber
    In which case the Northrop Grumman Corporation had a monopoly on the holiday shopping season.

  9. Re:Risk aversion? on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I guess under 30 was smothered big sarge? My dad, and grandfather worked harder in their lives than anyone i have seen work in the army thus far. Why? So we could grow up in a neighborhood where car-jackings and drive-bys didn't occur. So to goto Afghanistan with a combat engineer battalion and have mortors blow up next to me is not the cause of any PTSD I *might* have....it was my fathers love of his offspring.

    A: The military promotes rif-raf right off the street.

    Q: Whats wrong with the military?

  10. Re:Must have been a pretty slow year... on Top Inventions of 2007 · · Score: 1

    No. I'm saying you can buy the #1 spot. Thats different than buying a full page add in the New York Times advocating global warming.

  11. Must have been a pretty slow year... on Top Inventions of 2007 · · Score: 1

    I have always suspected that magazines are influenced by their #1 pick of any consumer product by some form of income, maybe through advertisement contracts?

    I do not know if there is a law against such a fradulent practice, but fact that money talks seems like there wouldn't be.

  12. I'm rich! Bitch! on Techie Pay Approaches All-time High · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    #whoami Dave Chappell

  13. Obligatory on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our new Lord overlord.

  14. Re:Still harder to make than corn on America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant · · Score: 1

    I maybe mistaken, but I dont think you can get high off industrial hemp. If you ever read High Times magazine they always are selling legal weed in the back. It contains no THC, so i guess its legal. Hemp fuel could end a lot of our fuel problems. Along with solar.

  15. Re:Why? on Arrest Under New NY Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Just another reason why The Simpsons will be the greatest movie of the summer....And our lives!!

    Opens worldwide July 27th.

  16. Another positive for the Wii. on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whatever optional add-ons Nintendo comes out with for the Wii will just add to the system, not take away from. For it is my option if I want the hard drive to play all the old games I grew up with, but for others they have played those games and are not going to spend the money for the nostalgia of owning them again. Either way I decide whether or not I want to pay the money for the HDD. I'm not being told you must have it for our platform. The same goes for HD-DVD. If I am happy with my DVD collection, and it would cost me thousands to get the same collection in HD format I am probably not interested. If I don't have a DVD collection, then maybe I am highly interested in HD-DVD.

    Main point is its my choice.

  17. Re:Lies, not Truth, Appeal to the American Voter on McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet · · Score: 1

    Where are they going to get 400,000 soldiers from? There are roughly 508,000+ soldiers in Active duty army right now. Nobody wants to serve, but everyone wants the right to freedom of speech. I'm glad you enjoy it, and as much as everything you say makes sense, there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

  18. Re:No thanks to you, Slashdot. on Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot · · Score: 1

    Also, the engines themselves are interesting in that they are normally aspirated (i.e. no Turbo, so SuperCharger just incredibly engineered 8Cyl Engines

    The term you are looking for is naturally aspirated. Which means the air going in is less than atmospheric pressure.

    I'm far more concerned about the fact that you say this year they will be running E-85! My Chevy S-10 is flex fuel, but I don't see it everywhere. Even when I do see it it is only slightly cheaper ($0.20) than regular unleaded. Why? I do not know. Does it have anything to do with the D.C. big wigs? Probly. Does the oil companies have the US Government in their back pocket? Most likely. Do I know the cost it takes to bring E-85 vs. regular unleaded to the market? No. Is E-85 made from(hemp would be better) corn? Yes. Does America have the greatest farming in the world? Arguably.

    I hate M$ just as much as the next guy. But I can live my life very easily without giving them one red cent (except maybe from ads) but cant avoid putting gas in my truck.

    Billions still think alternative fuels are The greatest deception ever perpitrated on mankind. This is the economical disaster, not the % of the sharemarket M$ has.

  19. The easiest anser... on Woz Talks About His Gaming Past · · Score: 1

    is usually the correct one.

  20. Re:The end of Microsoft's Golden Age... on Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Your Enterprise Computer · · Score: 1

    The idea that there is only one group of people in the world smart enough to create a reliable and modern PC operating system is simply a falsehood.

    Yes, but the idea that there is only one group dumb enough to think that there is, I must say in not entirely inconsivable. I like to call this demographic "republican"

  21. The Broadband problem that... on New Report On Municipal Wireless · · Score: 1

    could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons...

  22. Re:Somebody set up us the lack of demand on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    Customers didn't want it.

    Specificly Wal-Mart customers didn't want computers with linux pre-loaded on their computer. Those consumers that actually buy any computer (Windows or Linux) from Wal-Mart more than likly buy everything in thier home from there. So to say customers didn't want it is a very limited customer base. Yes countless people shop at Wal-Mart for thier "Everyday low prices" (often lower online) but I'm sure those people who like to think they know a lot about computers or more than the average person research the best price/performance ratio, and come up with a better place to purchace a new 'pute than Wally-World.

  23. Lionel Huts on Test for "Obvious" Patents Questioned · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "You have some people in industry who say, 'Oh, come on--you've got to be kidding me," said Timothy Teter, a partner in the intellectual property practice at the firm Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto, Calif. "This is something we wouldn't ever bother to write down because it's obvious, and we're in a fast-moving field."

    Obvious is something for the court to decide, but fast-moving field? So fast someone can't be contracted to document what you are doing at 70-80 words per minute. Or better yet voice recgonition.

    Can you imagine a wolrd without lawyers?

  24. Re:Southeast Wisconsin on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Don't
    Tread
    On
    Me you worthless piece off white trash

  25. Southeast Wisconsin on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Between Milwaukee and Chicago, I went to a club in Kenosha where they took a digital photo of my drivers license. I figured it was for saftey measures, if someone was to fight or branish a handgun, the police would have something to start with. Not all places do this, I think this specific hotspot just does so because it is so popular. I would rather be safe and risk the extreamly low probability of club management stealing my identy. What does the club need to steal your identity for when they charge $7 for an ounce of 80 proof alcohol?

    You would also be suprised how many people won't accept military ID's of valid forms of identification. I've been asked on several occasions if I had a drivers license instead. I purposly use it to decide if they get my hard earned money. I know I went off-topic a little, but it's bullshit. I don't care if some punk ass bouncer never has seen one before, it says right there in big bold letters *DEPPARTMENT OF THE ARMY*UNITED STATES OF AMMERICA*