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  1. Re:But they sucked. on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's the one.

  2. Re:But they sucked. on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    I personally use the SGM-V2.01.sf2, but I am currently try to make a real hardware MIDI sound module (well, actually a guitar to midi interface but with a waveblaster compatible Yamaha DB50XG board inside) working.

  3. Re:Remarkable evolution, and not just sound! on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    PC had preemptive multitasking since 1990 (OS/2 1.3)

  4. Re:I disagree! on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    However, the MS software synth doesn't support custom soundfonts and its samples aren't exactly spectacular.

    It kind of does. You just need to overwrite the file %windir%\system32\drivers\gm.dls with a custom one.

  5. Re:But they sucked. on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    Winamp MIDI plugin supports soundfonts IIRC. If not, try AIMP2, it is a better Winamp clone and its MIDI plugin definitely supports soundfonts.

  6. Re:strong whiff of 'Jetsons' fantasy horseshit her on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 1

    A Tu-155 has made a couple of flights on hydrogen and natural gas in the late eighties.

  7. Re:f.lux on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    I personally don't think that a sleep mask is such a good idea - it makes getting up very difficult. I've noticed that I tend to leave my bed much more easily when the sun goes up early, like in summer. In winter, when it is dark all morning, I use a timer that switches the light on half an hour before I have to get up.

  8. Re:they better stop it pretty damn soon on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't tell that to the homeopaths.

  9. Re:Buzzkill on Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4 · · Score: 1

    Well, I've bought the HTC HD2 this week, for EUR 450. Even after the current Euro crash that is still $565.
    Wouldn't pay the same for an iPhone, though, so you are partially right.

  10. Not the first on Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4 · · Score: 1

    HTC has released the Max 4G more than a year ago.

  11. Re:Frequencies on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive · · Score: 5, Funny

    A 90-year-old man said to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year-old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think about that?"

    The doctor considered his question for a minute and then said, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day when he was going out in a bit of a hurry, he accidentally picked up his umbrella instead of his gun.

    When he got to the Creek, he saw a beaver sitting beside the stream. He raised his umbrella and went, 'bang, bang' and the beaver fell dead. What do you think of that?" The 90-year-old said, "I'd say somebody else shot that beaver."

    The doctor replied, "My point exactly."

  12. Re:Risk? on UK Election Arcana, Explained By Software · · Score: 1

    The current German government (which is right wing - a coalition of christian democrats and free market fundamentalists) has just decided to make the largest borrowing in the whole history of Germany - one billion Euros for every German citizen.

  13. Re:The OP forgot VAT. on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is a difference of £75 ($110) "really close"?

  14. Re:Alarm! Alarm! on Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study · · Score: 1

    True, but nowadays our politicians always say that German employees are far too expensive, so I guess we need either robots or more fellow Turkish citizens to do the stabbing.

  15. Re:Priorities! on Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study · · Score: 1

    Well, as far as I know this is the first robot that actually stabs people, so there.

  16. Re:not impressed on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    It is a Timber Wolf, you stravag scum!

  17. Re:Anonymous Cowards on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    I know a guy who was a professional soldier and participated in the yugoslavian wars. He can sleep only every other night.
    And he sais that he deserves this hell, as does every professional soldier.

  18. Re:Stop preaching Linux on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 1

    I have, once. It was not a Windows problem, though. I've decided to do a full defragmentation in the night and went to sleep. In the next morning I found out that Paragon Total Defrag froze. After the reboot I also found out that it froze after doing some defragmentation work but before writing back the modified MFT. Since NTFS is a journalling file system, this should never happen, but it did - maybe Total Defrag uses its own NTFS drivers, I don't know. Anyway, most of the files were damaged beyond repair and I had to reinstall.

    I had a backup of some files, but not of all, so quite a lot of photos and C sources were lost. I don't blame Windows for that, though.

  19. Re:To me, it's a question of mobility. on FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter · · Score: 1

    Opera mini is not a web browser but rather a viewer for images in a special format so it does not compete with Apple software.

  20. Re:Hackers have a new window on Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yawn. The same mantra was repeated again and again when iPhone was introduced and disallowed you to install native applications while you could do that on Windows Mobile and Symbian. According to Jobs native applications were the tool of devil and could bring down the whole GSM network.

    Guess what, there were no hackers to attack both systems then, there are none now. And the GSM networks somehow survived.

  21. Re:He Is Quick to Forgive Apple, Of Course on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    Because Apple doesn't allow alternative browser engines.
    Hint: Opera Mini is not a web browser. It is a viewer for pre-rendered images.

  22. Re:He Is Quick to Forgive Apple, Of Course on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which are nothing more than different GUI for WebKit.
    And Opera Mini isn't a web browser at all.

  23. Re:Iridium? on The Big Technical Mistakes of History · · Score: 2, Funny

    But they were mobile.
    By the definition, mobile is something with one carry handle, semi-mobile has got two handles.

  24. Re:Trolls. Everywhere. on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It is not even a real downside.
    More sunlight means better plant growth (which means that the plants have to consume more CO2.
    More sunlight also means better visibility, thus less need for artifical ligh.

  25. Re:Why is this a surprise? on Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Stalin died in 1953, even before the Sputnik launch. Lunokhod launch was in 1970.