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  1. Re:Incompatibility Problems on Google Brings SVG Support To IE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be easier for them to just add SVG support.

    Can we get rid of IE already, please? Just stop caring about it, and use open standards. If they won't adapt, tough luck.

  2. Re:isn't this obvious? on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This study might explain why some women can treat men like toss-away toys, and not care.

    They can't treat men like that, only whiny little pussies.

    If she's not attracted to you, there's nothing you can do about it. If she is, there's nothing she can do about it.

  3. Re:Does that make me a criminal? on Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers · · Score: 4, Funny

    What article? I only read the comments.

  4. Re:Does that make me a criminal? on Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The classic difference between correlation and causation.

    Also, people who think about security much use secure browsers! Think of the children!

  5. Re:Huh? on BlizzCon Keynote — New WoW Expansion, Diablo 3 Details · · Score: 1

    - Good gear: Your T8-grade gear, which many seem to have access to now, will make great leveling gear. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do l85 dungeons in a lot of them. (except as a tank, I imagine)

    Nope. Instances will still be designed with a minimum gear requirement in mind. It doesn't matter what tanks you have if the healers are weak, and there isn't enough DPS to beat the enrage timer.

  6. Re:Poorly Marketed Sector on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    The current Macbooks have a touchpad interface that supports multi-touch. You can right click on those by pressing and holding with one finger and then tapping with a second finger.

    For a moment there, I thought you want me to tap with my middle finger for right-click.

  7. Re:Poorly Marketed Sector on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    Baldur's Gate only uses one mouse button, which makes it easy on a touchpad.

    Btw, how do you right-click with a touch screen?

  8. Re:Oh, come on... on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But it was still funny and entertaining in the same way that I expected a Douglass Adams work to be.

    It was funny and entertaining in the same way I expected a movie version of a book to be.

    Much of the fun in the books come from the unique descriptions Mr. Adams used. Trying to preserve those on screen felt forced at best, and broke the film into small pieces connected with long pauses. Not good.

    Also, I found the Vogons to be more pathetic than ugly and scary.

  9. Re:This is will never fly in the courts on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 3, Informative

    What happens when he has a typo or transcribes a column wrong and borks an entire train? Customers get angry because they miss expected connections and blame MTA not Schoenfeld.

    This is bullshit. When they arrive at the station and their train is not there, usually they'll ask someone working there or start to complain to someone working there, at which point they'll get informed about the facts of life.

    The problem is, a third party service is required to spread the information. In the UK, there are at least 10 different websites, where you can search, book and print anything you could possibly need (including a bus service or a taxi at the destination), and if you're on the move already, you can just send an SMS, and they'll text you back with the information you need.

  10. Re:This is will never fly in the courts on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to mention stupid. It's their own best interest to make that information as widely available as possible.

  11. Re:hilarious on Open Source Tech Used To Monitor Afghan Election · · Score: 1

    Show me one democratic country where the two biggest parties don't get 70+% of all votes.

  12. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never really considered Godzilla as an argument for nuclear reactors in airplanes.

  13. Re:But the beauty is on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But it's easy to put a nuclear reactor in a ship, and not so easy to put one in a fighter jet.

    Just imagine what would've happened if a nuclear reactor crashed into WTC. The bottom of the sea doesn't have this problem.

  14. Re:hilarious on Open Source Tech Used To Monitor Afghan Election · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How hilarious would it be if Afghanistan ended up with a more verifiable vote than the U.S. because they used open source technology to track the election?

    It doesn't matter as long as people think a) two candidates are enough, and b) they can let the ruling elite choose those candidates.

  15. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 1

    specifically political speech

    Yup. It's hard to get more political than a joke picture about the President.

  16. Re:Ernie Ball on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Normally they're perfectly happy if you just purchase the licenses to cover the gap between what you have licensed and what you are using.

    This thread is now over. You win the discussion, sir.

  17. Re:MSFT's market cap is over 2*10^11 USD on The Problems With Porting Games · · Score: 1

    My comment was about porting to PC. Sorry.

  18. Re:Rob Lang speaks the truth... on The Problems With Porting Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, it's really fucking hard to have redefinable keyboard layouts. I don't know much about console programming, but if there's an event loop capable of calling a buttonpressed routine, you have no excuse.

  19. Re:This may explain... on The Challenges of Class Balance In MMOGs · · Score: 1

    Except Blizzard has repeatedly said they don't balance PvP for anything less than 5v5. Certain classes dominate 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3 and certain classes suck in those instances.

    I know, I had a Priest. However, they do have duels, world PvP and arenas smaller than 5v5, so they should balance that too, it's just that it's impossible.

    But they've never balanced the game well and it seemingly gets worse with each content patch.

    I quit playing right after WOTLK came out. Level 62, questing for some decent gear in Outland, then along comes a shitload of hostile Death Knights, with all their ridiculously overpowered Plates. It might not have been that frustrating if a) I had gear even remotely comparable to theirs, b) the people assisting me through dungeons before hadn't been busy with rushing to get as much Titanium into the AH as possible, or c) there was any other hope of finishing a fucking quest without dying 4-5 times with each.

  20. Re:This may explain... on The Challenges of Class Balance In MMOGs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, Blizzard has it bad. They have to balance for: 1v1, arenas, battlegounds, and to top it all off, raids. That's four very different requirements. Considering most classes have multiple roles and styles to begin with, the whole thing smells like spaghetti code: change one thing, and you have to change five others as well, which trigger more changes.

    Now, add in the players, who will always feel their class is underpowered, and every single change you make to their character will get you flamed, even from those whose particular build is way stronger than it should be according to 90% of the other players.

    Anyone still feel like tackling the problem? The players will also need gear...

  21. Re:Worst ask slashdot ever on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Name them after porn stars. That way when you say "Sylvia went down on me yesterday", people will think you actually have a life.

  22. Re:Try Windows 7? on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (Yes, there's a 64 bit XP, and yes, it has horrible driver support)

    Too bad it never had any sequels.

  23. Re:the next lost generation of koreans on StarCraft II Single-Player Details Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because his left diodes hurt.

  24. Re:Victimless crimes? on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The physical need are the endorphins and adrenalin that are produced by the body in reaction to the gambling activity. Whether the chemical reaction in your body that you feel you "need" is triggered by ingesting or inhaling substances or by mental stimulation is irrelevant to whether or not something qualifies as an addiction.

    Would you ban chocolate because some people are fat?

  25. Re:FreeBASIC on Simple, Portable Physics Simulations · · Score: 1

    This isn't your father's BASIC;

    I learned BASIC on a C64, you insensitive clod!

    P.S. I'm 23 and have no kids.