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  1. Are all of IGN's staff children? on IGN's Top 100 Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No Amiga games, no Atari ST games, no Spectrum or C64 games in fact nothing predating the NES and Megadrive (Genesis). Where's Elite, Sensible Soccer, Jeff Minter's games, and they've got a platformer at number one, I was bored of platformers years before it even came out.

  2. It's already been decided on Majority Of Customers Prefer Blu-Ray · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lest face it, this time next year there will be a few thousand HD-DVD players sold to early adopters and a few million Blu-Ray players sold disguised as PS3's.

    There will also be hell of a lot more people who won't what to upgrade from the DVD players they brought last year.

    Over here in the UK we might have actually have PS3's by then and possible be in four figures for the number of people watching HDTV.

  3. Re:Next: the US on EU Says No To Software Patents · · Score: 2, Funny

    Florida !

  4. Re:Who is to say... on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1

    A very cleverly designed one. So well designed it included a fail safe to make sure the simulated computers would never become powerful enough to simulate the universe to the same degree allowing the simulated inhabitants to discovered they are merely simulations.

    It does this by ball and chaining the computers with Microsoft software, which promptly uses all available resources.

  5. Re:Typically Lame Thinking From Thieves on How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV · · Score: 2

    And how is this different to 1. Show gets low ratings 2. Show available on p2p 3. The low ratings due are to piracy. ?

  6. Re:Not Mac? That's unfortunate. on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In order to port GIMP to win32 Tor had to port GTK+ to win32. I would imagine that is why Novell hired him more than the GIMP part.

    The lack of a Native GTK+ port for the Mac is probably a major brick wall to a native port of Evolution to the Mac.

  7. Re:Getting Excited on Apple Confirms G5 Based iMac to Ship in September · · Score: 1

    Top of the range is a DUAL CPU boxm I suspect that if the IMac ships with a 2.5 G5 it will be with a single CPU

  8. Re:I love Qt! on Trolltech Releases First Qt 4 Technology Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    This does not seem to have been posted yet...

    I've you really want to have GLP'd QT on Win32 help out here...

    Otherwise stop moaning about it.

  9. Re:Acceptance or just plain old screwed? on Copy-protected CD Tops U.S. Charts · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough I can't remember that last time I saw the Phillips CD logo on any disc.

  10. Re:What is the point of your post? RAND is a probl on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Only until the point that some one stands up in front of an honest judge (if they still exist) and claims that any fee is discriminatory to the vast army of open source developers.

  11. Re:Good... on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft still haven't finished PNG support despite free open helper libraries, what makes you think they'll do a good job on the huge JPEG2000 spec where there isn't even complete reference code ?

  12. Re:Straw Man Argument on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    I'm impressed people get hundred of hits, my tatse in music appears to be so obscure I often get no results and when I do, well lets say Job's isn't far of the mark, most of the hits are from people I can't connect too.

  13. Re:I've been wrong before, but ... on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so f---ing what, after all they'll be joining the Russain's as the only people to be able to put people into space at the moment. That puts them about a year ahead on the curve compared to NASA.

  14. Re:Gotta ask on Is There Life Beyond DirectX? · · Score: 1
    Yes, it's free. Yes it'll run on any machine you own. Afterall, if you're a gamer, you have Windows installed.

    Excuse me, I'm not the AC above, but I'm a gamer. I own a Mac, a Playstation 2 and a GameCube. Which of these will run DirectX ?
  15. Re:Who says ESR can't code? on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 1

    Warning dudes the ESR link above trys to install Gator... Well done joeytsai, yuo become the first person on my enemies list.

  16. Re:And now for something completely silly on More Criticism of SCO's Claims To UNIX · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be the Knights that say "*nix" :-)

  17. Re:Financial Impact? on Ask a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA · · Score: 1

    I think the number one reason is that they are releasing a lot less new albums.

  18. Re:NOT SENSIBLE on Ask a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA · · Score: 1

    okay...you're dumb.

    Yes you can only burn 10 CD of one mix of iTMS brought songs.
    There's nothing to stop you copying that CD ad infinitum once you've burnt it

  19. Re:CD Sales are up in Britain. on Ask a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:xwin.org on XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website · · Score: 1

    xwnin have something to do with it. They are hosting the Wiki and there's a big link at the top of the xouvert page

  21. Re:load times on Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks · · Score: 1

    Some people believe in saving energy and actually switch electical devices off when not in use.

  22. Re:OSX News Reader on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I've only had one or two minor problems with text aliasing, but I've always used fink's build from source option which I guess may make a difference.

  23. Re:MS has failures. So what ? on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1

    I was really diappointed when I first saw that Apple had done the wrong thing with the close button on OSX. F[Y|E]I... The amiga's GUI workbenck also had the close button of the opposite side to the min/max buttons.

  24. Re:OSX News Reader on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it, I'm using fink's port of 'Pan', so I have to start X11 up just to read News.

    Now I've got a new one to try, I hope it doesn't share Mozilla 'dislike' of my ISP's news server.

  25. Re:Upgrade Pricing... on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well Jags been out for what 14 months now, and everyone has known Panther was coming for ages, so why did you buy Jaguar now ?