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  1. Re:Jesus H Christ on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    How is society better off if gays stayed repressed, sad, and angry? So much for peace and love of Christ eh?

    Perhaps blind people should stop letting their genetically predisposed problem be a problem. It's their choice to be blind right?

  2. Re:Answer. on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Actually unless you're flying international I fly in and out of NYC quite often. It's never taken me a long time to go through checking in and passing through security.

  3. Re:Doom 3 pirated--news that Slashdot won't report on SUSE Openexchange Under GPL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They mention that this wasn't unexpected. And really is there much of a solution? Theives have existed from the very start. Technology isn't going to solve the problem.

    Really it'll come down to parenting. Most parents do not realize that their kids can/will do this. I know when I have kids I will make sure that they understand that downloading songs, movies, anything digital is not right or fair.

    Of course I'll know if a game is pirated. But I hope to make them realize that things are better when you have the rights to them. It might take a grounding or two, but I'll learn them! ::)

  4. Re:Portable Games on Nintendo DS Gets Sleeker Final Design, Same Name · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who says cartoony graphics == simpleton?

    I suppose you don't play Go or chess. Such simple childish graphics. What simpleton must play those.

    Stupid AC

  5. Re:Uh, hello? on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    This is what they mean, you can get playable framerates on these older cards, you just have to lower the settings/resolution.

    There, does that help you?

    And yes the 9600Pro will run the game with most of the settings on medium-high.

    You really don't need a chart that shows your system getting 40-60FPS cause that's all it'll tell you. For every system it will show a nice bar graph with a "45fps". You'll still have to tweak the game settings yourself to get the best experience for YOU.

  6. Re:I don't think you get it on Gentoo for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    Actually I think the point of Gentoo is to grow old while waiting to get your system usable. ::)

  7. Re:Flash? on Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational · · Score: 1

    Oh great jebus, just stay in the basement with the tinfoil hate on. Honestly how do you manage to eat at a restaurant, or do you stand there and watch them make your food. If you know they use javascript you can look at the code to make sure it's not malicious.

    Just because you want information doesn't mean it actually exists. System specs have not been released nor any linux info.

  8. Re:Flash? on Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational · · Score: 1

    Ummm, goto http://doom3.com right on the frontpage there is a button for pre-ordering. Along with the date of release. That takes care of finding out the price.

    ID hasn't even released any specs so those'll be hard to find them at the moment.

    So I don't see what the point is about complaining about the flash, there's nothing other than hype in the flash section so why damn the entire site? No I take that back, there's a list of links to doom3 fan sites etc. But I think if you could google for those.

    IDsoftware.com says that the site is going to be updated as possible. The parent I replied to bitched about the site as if it served no purpose because it used flash.

    While the lack of system specs is a bit annoying, it's not the site's design at fault.

  9. Re:Flash? on Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational · · Score: 1

    And actually what was I thinking. On the front page of Doom 3 in big ass bold letters

    "SHIPS AUGUST 3"

    and then below that a button to

    "PRE-ORDER"

    Did you even goto the site?

    Mod him down, he's just trolling.

  10. Re:Flash? on Doom 3 Web Site Now Operational · · Score: 1

    No I'm sorry, get off your high horse.

    You're not the intended audience for this site. This is supposed to be a promotional website for the next two weeks for gamers to go in and enjoy. If you want the three lines of text you're looking for that say where/when/how to buy goto idsoftware.com

    Not every website is so single minded any more, go back to 1996 if you want just text and some animated gif's.

    Bitching like this is just immature.

  11. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    Oh I know, I was just comparing what was on frontpages. Nice to see they're so confident in their platform they don't need to belittle their opponent. ::)

  12. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    Why do you care so fucking much? 2 ads not condoned by the Democratic Party. 2 ads not even accepted by MoveOn. Have you even seen the ads? Worried about them brainwashing your children? Do you visit MoveOn regularly and were offended by the ads when you saw them?

    Do you care this much that slashdot doesn't remove postings of people comparing Bush to Hitler? Are they not doing their job?

    Comeon get real, quite making mountains out of mole hills. Next thing you'll want to stop the protests at the RNC this summer when someone holds up a sign that says "WMD? Where?"

    You act like MoveOn is the Democratic Party, in which case I'm going to start thinking that the KKK is the voice of the Republican Party. Cause I'm sure the ones intelligent enough to register to vote are going to vote for them yellow bellied democrats.

    And if you want hate perhaps you should compare Bush's website and Kerry's. Let's see, there are three rather lame pieces centered on Kerry(Kerry 'Wrong for your State', the Kerry Gas Tax Calculator, "Kerry: the raw deal: Kerry explains vote for 5th time"). On Kerry's website.... Nothing except information on why Kerry would make a good president.

    Which one is running on merrit again? I forget.

  13. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    Goldspider, in the post I replied to, said that the Republican Party " have never compared any of their political foes to Adlof Hitler [washtimes.com]."

    The way that is written implies that the Democratic Party has. I was pointing out that this was not the Democratic Party who posted this.

    If goldspider had written, "I've never known any republicans who ..." that would be different.

    MoveOn does not speak for every Democrat. They are NOT the mouth piece for the Democratic Party. I know it's hard to believe but there Democrats out there that don't all believe in "toeing the party line"

    And they said they would post anything inappropriate for television. Which is what they did. They got 1500 submissions, and removed the truely offensive ones.

    If you're going to hold them to such a high standard for what their users post, what do you think of Slashdot? Or Fark? Or any site that is open? (I realize that posting videos required a little more interaction)

  14. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    Just so you realize that wasn't made by MoveOn.org it was a submitted piece. MoveOn said that they would "post anything that would be inappropriate for television"

    "Yesterday, MoveOn.org officials said they don't believe featuring the ads was an endorsement, and they also said they repudiated the two ads themselves. "

    So basically there are a couple of people out there that really dislike Bush and are probably not Republicans. However it wasn't MoveOn that did those videos.

    It wasn't the Democratic Party that compared Bush to hitler either.

    So, unless you want to count all the people who consider themselves republican and would have liked to have seen Clinton killed (I do know a couple who hate the guy that much) I don't see what your point is.

  15. Re:WTF on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Yup, this is the largest problem. There will always be security holes to exploit in every system. So open source patches them quicker than MS. Just how is Joe User going to get these updates with minimal interaction. Heck on laptops in my office whenever I'm called over for a problem I notice the little Windows Update icon crying out to be heard.

    If people can't even deal with Windows Update, what solution is there?

  16. Re:Screw machine learning... on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Searchable bookmarks?

    Doesn't that just mean use google? ::)

  17. Re:apple? on A Six-Step Plan for Apple · · Score: 1

    Macromedia's Studio MX 2004 runs much better on a Windows XP box then a Mac OS X client.

    And I don't mean performance I mean mem leaks and crashes. Of course this is Macromedia's fault and not apple's but I'm just saying.

  18. Re:Let's not forget... on A Six-Step Plan for Apple · · Score: 1

    Not any time soon for my site, which attracts much more joe user types. (It's not 53cleveland.org)

    Out of ~50,000 uniques this month so far, only 5.4% are Moz, Netscape, or Safari.

    Not too big of a change from last year.

    And MacOS Classic still is beating OS X by 0.6%

  19. Re:Should be called on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    I gotta admit, I'm not a big trek fan, but everytime I see that I laugh alittle bit and watch it again.

  20. Re:I hate going to the movies on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    I have a 65" HDTV in my living room with 5.1 surround sound. I'd rather spend 20$ or less on a nice DVD with good reviews 5-6 months after it's theatre debut than spend 40-50$ at the theatre.

    Whaaa $40-50, can I be your friend cause you're apparently paying for everyone :)

    Heh and why does it not surprise me geek has a 65" HDTV ;)

    Oh, and next time just tell the fat bitch to shut up or take it outside.

  21. Re:If they don't stop making shit movies they won' on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    I downloaded Gigli because the MPAA needed to suck wind on that one for daring to put in the theatres and wasting both MY money and the theatre's money.

    Glad to see you're just wasting your time with Gigli rather than your money, the theatre's money AND your time. ::P

  22. Re:Chump Change on Acclaim Reports Large Loss, May Face Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He's close:

    In 2003, the average CEO of a major company received $9.2 million in total compensation

    From Here

    On average they make 531 times the average Joe.

    Nice huh?

    In 1980 they made 42.

  23. Re:Reasons for non-gamers to upgrade their GPU's on Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    Make sure you get a PCIe board, for PCI-Express. PCI-X is just 64-bit PCI, good for servers, not really for desktops.

  24. Re:Unscripted... on Source Engine - In The Belly Of The Beast? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He might have been one of those people who got sucked into upgrading last year with the promise of HL2 a month away.

    Not that what they upgraded to is suddenly bad hardware. But for the money he spent last year he could be getting an X800 or 6800 GPU now.

    He also might be pissed if he was somehow involved in business with Valve. Unless they told ATI that the game was in fact going to need another year, and ATI went ahead with the HL2 coupon anyway, I'd be pissed if I was ATI.

  25. Re:But How Many People Will Switch? on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I never came across a site that rendered so poorly in firefox that it was unusable. Even MS sites are fine.

    Perhaps you didn't install Flash player? That would make sense that 'Nothing works in it'