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  1. Re:Vorpal bladework on The Death of Clippy · · Score: 1

    It's not needless. The new UI kicks ass and is actually much easier to use than before. Boo-hoo, you'll have to spend fifteen minutes figuring it out.

  2. Re:HP on How D&D Shaped the Modern Videogame · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And people say Halo isn't innovative... as far as I know, this type of health system was invented in Halo 2. IMO it's infinitely superior to hit points.

  3. Re:Other countries on OSDL's Review of Desktop Linux In 2006 · · Score: 1
    I call this PONIIC, Price Of Not Investing In Change.

    It's actually called opportunity cost.

  4. Re:Sick Software "Patents" on Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who modified this informative? The idea that corporations are "artificial persons" (slightly different wording, same basic idea) originated in England well before the U.S. was formed. And, FYI, they aren't "practically indistinguishable" either, they have a distinct subset of the abilities of a regular person.

  5. Re:What, no Sims? on 7 Game Franchises They Drove Into the Ground · · Score: 1

    I'm not, given how it remains incredibly popular and makes a hell of a lot of money.

  6. Re:Not only sponges: a microwave will melt metal on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    That's not quite true. The object still gives off thermal radiation, so once the temperature of the object is higher than the temperature of the radiation inside the microwave, it will lose energy.

  7. Re:Contradicts itself. on Researchers Developing Single-Pixel Camera · · Score: 1

    It could use complex mathematics to do away with the need for (much) processing.

  8. Re:do the physics, it's about DE-celeration on Extraterrestrials Probably Haven't Found Us - Yet · · Score: 1

    Deploy a solar sail as a sort of parachute. Space isn't a vacuum, it's just very, very sparse.

  9. Oblivion already has tons of great content on Oblivion Expansion Confirmed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that content is crippled by a shitty combat system and a completely ass-backwards levelling system (it practically requires min-maxing). Oblivion is a beautiful but broken game.

  10. Re: 95 miles altitude is space..Way Cool on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Except they're probably GPS or laser-guided, so they make course corrections and you can't just track them backwards.

  11. Re:Redunant: I won't be downloading anytime soon on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    An unlimited cap over the local network, though, for many (at least mine). Once someone else gets it you can have it in a few minutes, assuming 100 Mbps.

  12. Re:why not to use them in schools on UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In · · Score: 1

    Funny, at my middle school we had Macs (I think OS 8?) and we didn't think "oh cool" we thought "wow, these suck."

  13. Re:I wonder if time is dilated there... on Black Hole Found Inside Globular Cluster · · Score: 1

    No different than before, because the gravitational field of a sphere outside of that sphere is equal to the graviational field of all the mass concentrated at a point. So the graviational effect of the star/black hole on the planet would be unchanged.

  14. Indiana Jones shot first on Lucas, Ford to Start Filming New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Indiana Jones shot first!

  15. Re:this changes things a bit on Judge Rules Against Deep-Linking of Content · · Score: 1

    Criticism, particularly political criticism, is covered by fair use.

  16. Re:Kind of funny. on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    A child of a comment above yours [url:http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si d=212742&cid=17313074] provided a source where Ubisoft said it would in fact improve the AI. And wasn't there a huge fuss over how the bandwidth between the RSX and the additional RAM sucked?

  17. Re:Is the story full of it? on iTunes Sales 'Collapsing' · · Score: 1

    If Apple wasn't trying to lock in their customers, they would agree to license the Fairplay DRM to other music stores.

  18. Re:Supply.... on Outsourcing Growing Beyond India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't require more skilled programmers, though. They require more skilled specialists in whatever field the program is being used.

  19. Re:IBM's "Rapid Resume" on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called "hibernate."

  20. Re:Just Wait... on Activating Vista Enterprise Using a Spoofed Server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If playing WoW is one of your major activites on the computer then what exactly is wrong with ability to run WoW being a factor in OS choice?

  21. Re:Next Voyager mission? on A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD? · · Score: 1

    Backup is the only thing I can think of it would be useful for right now. I doubt they've managed to improve read speeds at all, meaning it would take *forever* to actually look at a lot of that data.

  22. Actually on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Mr. L'Hopital pretty much bought his theorem. Rather, Mr. Bernoulli would be the one saying something.

  23. Re:Wrong end of the stick on Apple Console Rumour Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    A tri-core PPC CPU, custom video card, and optional hard drive qualifies as a "PC"?

  24. Re:It better. on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 2, Informative

    As I understand it, in DX10 all cards must support all of the features of DX10 or be non-compliant; in 9.0 cards could pick and choose certain features to support or not.

  25. Re:What's with use of Pointers? on Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() · · Score: 1

    At CMU, oddly enough it *isn't* required for the CS degree but I do have to take it for my Math double.