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  1. my gripe with both services on Comparison of Pandora and Last.fm · · Score: 1

    Both services seem to forget tempo when calculating. So when I enter a dancey song, I'm fed 400 songs that are similar, but are slow or midtempo snore-fests.

  2. Another idea. on Unlimited Legal Music Downloads for $3.95 a Month? · · Score: 1

    Buying a CD of an artist entitles you to a download of an mp3 compilation of similar artists on the label.

    I love the idea about buying a CD and getting tickets to a show. Here in Boston there is a record store that does it from time to time.

  3. Re:Hooray!! on Romney Continues ODF Support With New Appointee · · Score: 1

    Are you from MA? Because I've followed this pretty closely and he's doing this for one reason... TO LOOK BETTER. This is a kiss ass move that makes him look better in the papers and buys a few more Presidential hopeful points, at the possible risk of losing some House buddies. Trust me when I say that he redefines flipflopper, and has really changed his stance on most major issues greatly in the past year or so.

    But hey, now that he wants to be Prez, he's not such a bad Governor anymore.

  4. I am disappointed. on The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You · · Score: 1

    I had my hopes up that this was going to be announcing a Miami Sound Machine comeback.

  5. Re:Is it just me? on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 1

    I know a feisty astrophysicist that would certainly get creative if he knew someone was knocking his work on the Chandra telescope.

  6. Re:Dear 3rd (hell, even 1st) Party Peripheral Make on Revolution Offers Hope For Disabled Gamers? · · Score: 1

    That is amazing. This time around nintendo should make a similar peripheral more readily available.

  7. Re:Is it just me? on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 1

    It was about local history. Complicated story. We had first and second-hand stories, pictures of the area, and a couple newspaper articles about our subject. I suspect that the edits came from someone who owned adjacent property to the area in question. I think they took offense to our detailed pictures of the graffiti, used condoms, and broken beer bottles that reside on our town's natural landmark.

  8. Dear 3rd (hell, even 1st) Party Peripheral Makers on Revolution Offers Hope For Disabled Gamers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Teaching/TA'ing/Subbing in a few Middle school programs, I had a chance to work with a lot of disabled kids. Bright kids who enjoyed the same activities as their classmates. Some of them tried ridiculously hard to play video games, even though the conventional controller designs were prohibitive. If any game company were to embrace adaptive technology, I certain feel like Nintendo would. And I would applaud it.

  9. Is it just me? on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Am I the only person who avoids Wikipedia like the plague because of these skewed entries and slanderous edit wars? I know I'm missing out, but after an entry I collaborated was "attacked" by someone who held a different opinion (read: blanked the article until Wiki delete minions got at it) I lost faith in its general ability to harbor legitimate information. I know it's there, but I don't want to have to sift through it. That's what the internet is for.

  10. Re:Still wondering on Bill Gates Defends Google's Censorship In China · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Starting on the 5th page of google.cn, some of the famous pictures start to trickle in.

  11. Re:Question for you MMOGers out there... on Massively Multiplayer Games For Dummies · · Score: 1

    http://www.puzzlepirates.com/

    All puzzle-based. Great economy/social atmosphere (on the paid Oceans). $10 per Month. Great for short term or long term game time. I'm Radiskull on the Midnight Ocean if you care to nerd.

  12. Re:Picture perfect on U.S. Plan To Fight The Internet Revealed · · Score: 1

    It screams "Tiger Hands" to me.

  13. Re:How to avoid conflict with 1000s of existing ne on Silicon Valley to get WiFi Coverage · · Score: 1

    I have to laugh... when I was mooching internet this summer, I had 2 neighbors with Netgear routers. When I went from one end of the apartment on the third floor, to the other end in the basement it was a nearly seamless switch.

  14. Re:I think this is a case of on Vaccine Effective Against Avian Flu · · Score: 1

    p.s. My life was hell when I used to play baseball.

  15. Re:Did I miss something? on The Power of Portable Gaming · · Score: 1

    Totally slipped my mind! I forgot about the REAL international drama behind it.

  16. Re:Did I miss something? on The Power of Portable Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QbW3Mr2ZYfQJ:w ww.nesplayer.com/features/lawsuits/tetris.htm+tege n+tetris+history&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3/(Google Cache of Article)

    Tegen put out their own version of Tetris without consent from Nintendo to make games for the system. It got ugly.

  17. yet another drug that will be overused on Vaccine Effective Against Avian Flu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Factory farmed chickens are already pumped full of antibiotics... does this mean that they will now be pumped full of HSN1 vaccine in the future? Both are theorecically used for the purpose of keeping them healthy, but the long term negative effects of eating antibiotic-riddled chicken is still not known. HSN1 vaccine passed from chicken to human might not have the happiest effects.

  18. Re:How to avoid conflict with 1000s of existing ne on Silicon Valley to get WiFi Coverage · · Score: 2

    If they have a good sense of humor, they should name it "Linksys".

  19. Imagine the great dialogue! on Why Does Uwe Boll Keep Making Films? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry Kroduk, I need a healer. I'm going to have to let you go.

    KRODUK SMASH. Kroduk wish you leave crappy ranger Ulora in crypt.

  20. Re: How Do You Job-Hunt If You Work Overtime? on How Do You Job-Hunt If You Work Overtime? · · Score: 1

    Once you're in the real world, how do you get to test out jobs since you can't exactly intern somewhere at a certain point. This is precisely why I wished I'd tried harder to intern during college. I'm in a situation not that dissimilar to yours... I'm just out of college working at a great company with flixible hours and good people, through a TEMP company. The company pays a competitive salary to the agency, and I get the same money I was getting filming division 3 NCAA basketball games two years ago. Private (read: exhorbitant) insurance, and mounting student loan payments. Balancing this, trying to perform well enough to get picked up FT by my company, and with a job hunt has been a bit dicey. This discussion here has been giving me good ideas though.

  21. Dungeon Siege on Why Does Uwe Boll Keep Making Films? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't get me wrong, I love Dungeon Siege, and just recently started the Expansion, so as to delay my buying of the Sequel until it hits the $20 rack (I'm on a young programmer's budget). But I feel like a Dungeon Siege movie would suck worse than Dungeons and Dragons did.

    Someone make a (good) Shadowrun movie already!

  22. Re:Hot coffee? on LA Attorney Sues Rockstar Over Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod this "slow clap +1"

  23. Re:It's easy... on Stubborn Spyware Removal Advice? · · Score: 1

    Thank you! My old clunker PC a friend's roommate gave me was rendered into a pretty plastic box (without the interweb) because of newdotnet. The LSP was smoked. Thanks for mentioning LSPfix, as it worked perfectly.

  24. Chicken and egg... on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    What if they purchased the game BECAUSE they already liked driving fast in real life? Why was the game on the seat... was it just purchased?

  25. Re:Possible designs on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    That Gamecube would be slick. But with I bet it'd chaw batteries with a vengeance.