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  1. Re:Next step on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 2, Informative

    Calling Parris shady is like calling Hitler mean.

  2. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 1

    It's not that the graphics being better make the game better, but that better graphics allow the developer to portray things in a more detailed way which increases the options for variety

    I never confused any of the bosses or team members from Final Fantasy.

    Better graphics don't allow a developer to do anything better, other than have better graphics. Those graphics are a technique than can be used, and it can be used well or poorly. What it cannot do, ever, is replicate the effect of other techniques--such as mechanics or story. It can work with them such that given equal mechanics and story graphics can improve the game, but graphics can never make the game. A game is, by definition, the mechanics. Graphics (and story for that matter) are secondary flourishes. What defines a game, what makes Pictionary different from Trivial Pursuit, from World of Warcraft, is the mechanics.

  3. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Behind the 'log in' button.

  4. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 1

    I just watched the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari last night, so yes probably. Want to know what I won't be watching though? Transformers 2. Want to know what makes the former better than the latter?

  5. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 1

    And you still can't mate. But that has nothing to do with a suppression field.

  6. Re:A good combination of a storyline and graphics. on What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? · · Score: 1

    What I gather from your post is that mature is whatever you say it is so you can belittle people who disagree with you.

    That an aesthetic theory might mean someone wasted their time does not render it moot, nor does that make it immature.

  7. Re:Maybe. Maybe not. on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that 20-somethings are cheaper, and more likely to put in ridiculous unpaid overtime (both because they can handle it, and because they're cheaper). If you're in a front-line sort of job where you're competing with fresh BS grads, then you're going to face it.

  8. Re:You will have to know tech either way on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one is saying that GOOD managers aren't skilled, just that they've never even heard of a good one.

  9. Re:You gotta fight! For your right! on Jammie Thomas Moves To Strike RIAA $1.92M Verdict · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're simply wrong. The law does NOT say you should not download music. It says you should not upload music.

  10. Re:Statutory Damages on Jammie Thomas Moves To Strike RIAA $1.92M Verdict · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You miss the point--the law is wrong, that is what is being argued. Those statutory damages are designed for corporate infringement--say, by a radio station broadcasting to 100,000 people. Not by 1 person who uploading a song to...oh, the RIAA couldn't demonstrate how many (and yes, in the radio case it would have been easy to demonstrate how many listened, on an approximate level, because the radio station uses that information every day to sell advertising time).

  11. Re:Scare tatics on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    It's hilarious watching someone think they're informative and getting something wrong that even hollywood scriptwriters manage not to fuck up.

    Not only does cocaine != weed, but cocaine isn't made from poppies. It comes from coca. Opium poppies are processed into...OPIUM. Or its derivatives, such as heroine, morphine, laudanum, or oxycontin, a favorite of anti-drug right-wingers who want their substance abuse to support good ol' corporations, instead of gangs of murderous thugs.

  12. Re:... a 7 letter word for synonym ... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to a new word: Jargon. Words used in a technical context do not always mean what they mean in a colloquial or lay context. Synonimity can break down in the switch from one to the other.

  13. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    The only copyright infringements that qualify as criminal acts (from the section you cited) are commercial infringers (the guys selling counterfeit DVDs) or people who leak material pre-release(this counts both pissed off studio employees who don't sell it, and boot-leggers who do). Ripping your CD and putting it on Bittorrent doesn't qualify.

    Moreover, in the US, mere DOWNLOADING is not infringement at all, ever (any more than seeing your neighbor's TV through their window). Only uploading is infringement (or course, most p2p networks automatically upload content you've downloaded, that's how p2p works. But it isn't uploading their rhetoric rails against, it's downloading, the thing that isn't even illegal.

  14. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    Am thinkink you should be notifying said anime studio's lawyers.

  15. Re:If it's within the rules, it's within the rules on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    He played a hero, removing villains was his goal, not racking up points in a database somewhere!

    I'm so glad you don't write comic books. Your heroes would suck.

  16. Re:If it's within the rules, it's within the rules on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    I dunno, ask someone who has sat on a jury for a personal lawsuit.

  17. Re:Wake me when the Voynich is cracked on 200-Year-Old Cipher Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    Possibly. It depends on the context in which the text is found. But it certainly wouldn't be easy without some clues to the nature of the grammar involved. Hieroglyphics were only figured out because of the Rosetta stone, while most of cuneiform is still incomprehensible.

  18. Re:Need to slow down when reading the article titl on Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" · · Score: 1

    That's 1141 years of continuous pr0n. I think (I hope?) it's safe to say that there isn't that much pr0n in existence....yet.

  19. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    I think he meant that they think they can have a pleasant, morphine/heroin overdose type suicide.

  20. Re:Black & White goodness on Universal Lands Rights To Asteroids Movie · · Score: 1

    blowing up aliased circles

    Fixed that for you.

  21. Re:Furthers my stand on crypto, which is: DON'T on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, but you still don't feed them. You either mark them +1 funny, or run with the joke. GP took it super-serial however.

  22. Re:Genetic drift on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    More over, genetic drift is unlikely to operate in this case because natural selection on ants occurs at the colony level--which is to say that it is colonies that whither and die, rather than individuals. For genetic drift to occur there would have to be several different colonies, but in that case the question would be moot.

  23. Re:Obligatory on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent +10 Awesomeness.

  24. Re:Obligatory on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, you've got it backwards. Ask the ants nicely, and pour the boiling water down the PETA hole.

  25. Re:Obligatory quote on Ant Mega-Colony Covers the World · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, no. Your post was supposed to be the FLAME. His was the bait.