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  1. Re:Linux Support on Ask The Civ IV Dev Team · · Score: 2

    Wrong-o, you are tiny. All of you are voting with your collectively huge wallet, so massive in fact that game devs haven't noticed. I run a fast, stable windows box, and it's people like you that degrade the quality of my games.

    I will repeat:
    YOU ARE A TINY MARKET

  2. Re:Dear Slashdot on E-Mail Server Setup Advice? · · Score: 1

    Why are you so mean? This is unnecessary, and it's flamebait. It seems to me you should be doing your work and not griping at others. He asked a legitimite, detailed question and I think one that many others of us will run into someday. This question serves as a reference for more people than the author, and is in general a learning experience. So chill out.

  3. Re:Just like K-mart/Sears on FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. Why a communications leviathan like Sprint would choose to merge with Nextel is beyond me. I think it would be really interesting to be in the Sprint board meetings to hear just what they think Nextel could bring to the pretty sweet deal Sprint already has going for it.

  4. The first of many on Grandma Sues Over Hot Coffee Mod · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let this be the first of many comments to say that this is officially retarded. To buy a game that is rated for someone older than your child and then sue because content that is not accessible without serious binary editing is found is ridiculous. If your 14 year old wants cartoon sex, grandma, he can search for Hentai on google and find images far more erotic than in GTA.

  5. Re:Replace ghosting for eye strain? No thanks on Philips Working on LCD TV Ghosting · · Score: 1

    I agree, one of the main selling points of LCD's is the lack of eyestrain. This is a dumb move in my opinion.

  6. Re:this just ties in with society on Video Games Need A Woman's Touch · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. First off, learn to capitalize and punctuate. English rules were made for clear, concise communication, and your post really is hard to read.

    Assuming I got it right you're claiming that the US will drastically remoralize in 15 years? Not a chance. Point out one time in history that America (or any society) has remoralized significantly... the only ones I can think of were the Puritan and other religous movements, but no one could honestly claim to expect a resurgence in organized religion.

  7. Re:When they said Battlefield2, they meant the UI on EA's Advice is to Uninstall Battlefield 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The escape buffer doesn't go into the input video, only letter and symbol keys. Plus, anybody who isn't smart enough to rename the intro videos so they autoskip, or login by double clicking the account name deserves having to write out their password.

    A helicopter mapped key will only affect other helicopter keys... if it won't let you map anything, it's because there is something ON THAT PAGE that is mapped the same thing. I find Bf2's system much better than Half Life 2's, where it just unmaps your other key, and suddenly you can't jump.

    The server list is interruptible with the new hotfix.

    When you click the pre selected radio command, IT DOESN'T FIRE YOUR GUN! As long as you are holding down the Battle Commo Rose Button, your gun is on safety.

    I never had the zero-ping problem, and, for those that did, it was patched in the hotfix.

    Battlefield 2 is the greatest game to ever be made, and I doubt that will change until Battlefield 3 is released.

    [MoD] E. Grey

  8. In response to your questions... on How Would You Archive Mounds of Genealogy Data? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    * Scanners: I would go with something basic. I'm a debater for a high school squad, and last year when we decided to digitize literally thousands of pages of evidence, we used one of these HP 5550 It's great, cheap (Only $300)and USB 2.0, the only thing I would say is an absolute requirement. * Image formats: I would use tif. They can be huge and higer resolutions, but scanning at 1bit (Black and White) seems to keep things under control. You also could try adobe's pdf, but then you are locked in with adobe. * OCR software: If your copies are clean, I would say go for OCR, but don't let it replace the images of the page. That's because OCR can now keep 99.9%ish of the text, but it loses all the formatting. So scan in the text for searching, but keep the images around for viewing. * Document Indexing: I would just index them by date, which I wwould make the filenames. * File organization software: Paperport is absolutely great for this task -- you can "stack" images together, put them into colored folders, conversion between formats is just drag and drop, I would highly reccommend using it, it's on verion 9 or 10 by now.