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  1. Re:Face the fact that laptops are ... on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    show me anything under 20in with more than 1k vertical?

    My 4 year old 17" dell m1710 laptop has a native resolution of 1920x1200
    love it.
    So sad that it has finally given up the ghost though. It had a beautiful screen.

  2. Re:Oh, if I could get the hours lost back on Lost Online Games From the Pre-Web Era · · Score: 1

    No. I loved LoD. It was amazing. for years after BBSs were more or less dead I'd fire it up. he was working on a web version at one point but it never materialized. It was the ultimate door game. it had everything.

    player created bases, items, automated weapons, tons of monsters, lots of loot, all kinds of stuff going on.

  3. It's okay on White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites · · Score: 1

    The American government realizes that the American public has become fat, lazy and complacent as a whole. I don't really care about your individual tale, and neither does the American government unless you're someone who is truly in a position to changes things as an individual.

    Long gone are the revolutionary freedom loving days, and unfortunately the whole world may end up suffering for it at some point.

  4. Re:Oh no. Not again. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Except star trek voyager still regularly dealt with the star trek universe. Tech, aliens, etc. They may have been new aliens and new tech being a different part of the universe, but we got extensive information and time spent on them. SGU is unlike any of them because it's basically thrown the franchise under the bus.

  5. Re:Oh no. Not again. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    sgu isn't remotely in the same place as deep space nine. Even if they weren't trekking through the stars the show still regularly dealt with the Star Trek Universe. SGU has a very tiny grasp on that as it is. It's one thing to not focus on the gate, it's another thing to basically brush over all the sci-finess of the show and turn it into a soap opera that could be set anywhere, any time with very little impact on the story.

    That's kind of the problem. The best episodes were the ones where SG-1 characters were still in it. Not because of them being there, but because it brought the focus back onto the "universe" from where this show supposedly came. It brought back the tech, sci-finess.

    We have an ancient ship, we have alien stuff on the planets... this is ripe for discovery and expanding the universe, instead its covered in montages or ignored so some character can look forlorn and depressed.

  6. Re:Oh no. Not again. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    haven has so much cheese in it, I couldn't make it through the first episode. Stargate in its current incarnation has nothing to do with stargate. Even if we allow them to completely change the genre of the show, the show itself just has almost nothing to do with stargate. They've barely touched on the universe at all in an entire season. The first time they landed on a planet with an alien building, it was covered in a "montage".

  7. Re:Third Rate Shopping on A Video Guide To Akihabara · · Score: 1

    you feel this is a fair non-troll assessment about shops in japan serving the locals?

    Most of the stuff will only work on the Japanese electric grid, on Asia-encoded DVD players, or on computers with Windows Japan installed on it.

  8. Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? on UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act · · Score: 1

    owner no..but location shouldn't be an issue.
    they're giving nothing other than geographic coordinates.

  9. Re:GOG was great, but Steam is easier on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 1

    your speed with steam may be your issue. I regularly get of 2MB/s downloading games.

    Yes there are no bonuses, but installation is just as straightforward.

    as for mods, I applied several to Deus Ex and other games and have had no issue with Steam trying to tell me something is wrong with my game.

  10. Re:"Publisher" is the problem. on DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone · · Score: 1

    Yes and no.
    Given how many game companies there are, it would be silly if each one of them developed independent game delivery platforms. That just leads to chaos and users having to have dozens of clients on their system. There is value in having a third party aggregate and provide service, so long as they're in it for the long haul.

    A third party helps promote games, introduce players to other games, and helps keep the costs lower for those companies. Those companies would have to hire people to manage those digital delivery systems otherwise. Their removal would really fragment the community. There is also no guarantee that the developer will last any longer than the content delivery system. Plenty of developers go belly up after a bad game. Those games would disappear just as fast, at least with an independent system, they'd still be available were that to happen. It offers redundancy. If the developer falls before the system, the system is still there. If the system falls before the developer, they could still provide the game to customers.

    If its only the developer and they disappear, you're out of luck.

    As long as there is more than one company in the market, an online digital clearing house like steam, direct2drive, gamersgate, impulse, etc are needed.

    I think GoG though had an identity problem. They founded themselves on good old games without drm. The problem came recently when games they were adding were not good old games. They were more recent games or piles of crap.

  11. Re:Again?! on APB To Close Mere Months After Launch · · Score: 1

    Hellgate is coming back.

  12. Re:really? on Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' · · Score: 1

    Yes you could have sworn it was true, but that's what happens when you grow complacent and distracted..

  13. nothing like some good weasel words.. on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    There is a percentage of people in the world who hold that DS stylus a bit differently than the rest of you gamers out there

    What an utter non-starter for an opening sentence.
    a percentage you say? What would that percentage be? You don't want to tell us.
    That must mean it's low.
    if it was high, he'd certainly tell us.
    or if he knew.
    So it's either very low or he has no clue.

    Either way it shows that this article is written by someone who doesn't care or about a segment of the population that is insignificant. Thanks for letting me know I could stop reading.

  14. Re:Obviously Monty Pythonesque on White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack · · Score: 1

    quite simple. One of the staff workers obviously got a new phone and wasn't sure how to use it. She asked him to help her, and while demonstrating some of the features he obviously snuck in a few sample tweets.

  15. Re:And so it begins on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    since you're all criminals it must be a giant fraud /s

  16. Re:Waste on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    As a cost-cutting measure Ryanair's CEO has asked pilots not to have heart attacks while on the job.

  17. Re:Price on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It should be the case because accusations are cheap, and when it comes to an allegations of a sex crime a guys life is pretty much done as soon as it hits the paper. His accusations is front page news, while is exoneration is barely a foot note on page J-57 in the weekend paper. False accusations are hard to prove, and if charges are withdrawn on a he said/she said, it's unlikely the woman will be prosecuted for it.
    Sex crimes should have a total publication ban on the identity of the accused and victim unless the prosecution can provide exceptional circumstances.

  18. Re:iPhone by Cisco? on Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype · · Score: 1

    I've got the CIT400 iPhone which I use all the time. It's fantastic. I bought a couple a few years ago and gave one to my parents. Living overseas with an unlimited calling plan on skype is great, but having this phone is even better. Especially since it's DECT, which means no standard interference from 2.4Ghz things.

    Cisco really should have pushed their skype phone lines more. They're great, and decent quality. They're now impossible to find. So I really hope it doesn't die anytime soon on me.

  19. Re:Molestation charge on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1

    "Under Swedish law, molestation is defined broadly and can refer to anything from groping someone to inappropriate nonsexual behavior, such as disrupting public order. "

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575451351660880566.html

    I'm trying to find the actual law that was provided last time.

    To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't an official english copy of swedish law which was what was quoted. It sounded very legalese at the time.

  20. Re:Molestation charge on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone actually quoted the text of the swedish law on molestation in a previous story and the wording was something along the lines of "if someone does something by word or deed that offends the sexual personality, integrity or something or other" I'd have to dig it up but I remember it being ridiculous, and a strict reading of it did mean that basically anything I woman found offensive could technically be a crime. Simply say "Hey nice ass" to a woman walking down the street, or even a friend, could theoretically be a criminal offense because the text included "by word"

  21. Re:it's dead jim on Digg In the Future · · Score: 1

    I would, but I can't figure out where to do that. I can't get through the damn interface.

  22. it's dead jim on Digg In the Future · · Score: 3, Informative

    I assume it'll be a lot less stories. The new digg revamp is absolutely terrible. It's impenetrable. Most of the useful features before are gone, it's half broken, with comments not loading, or links to your own comments not working. It shows you basically none of the information it showed you before, the new main feed is completely out to lunch. Apparently the "most recent" story on digg was submitted 2 days ago, and I know I saw it on the front page yesterday since they busted it. So digg is telling me since the upgrade, no one has made any story popular.

  23. Re:Silly prosecutors on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    Tom Selleck has prior art on the iStache

  24. Re:George W Bush did on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    But Montana gets colder you say.

    Who said anything about Montana?
    There is a whole big world out there.

    My point wasn't about whether it would stand up to the weather, the problem was that the system didn't really provide sufficient heat to create a truly comfortable living space, compared to other heating methods. Fluctuation is irrelevant. We're talking about at those constant low temperatures geo thermal doesn't adequately keep up with it.

  25. Re:George W Bush did on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    They are great, especially in harsh heating climates. We live near Pittsburgh, and they have proved quite affordable.

    Come again?
    There is nothing harsh about Pittsburgh's climate.
    the lowest average low is in January at a whopping -6.72 C.
    with a record low of only -24.
    I've spent over a week at -49 with wind, and not just in a single year.
    Pittsburgh is t-shirt weather.

    Geothermals actually don't do that well in "harsh" climates.
    my neighbour growing up, and a good friend of the family, installed geothermal a few years ago. it's not bad, but his place isn't exactly comfortable in the winter. Used in conjunction with his other heating, I believe it helps reduce the cost there, but on its own it can't stand up.