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  1. Re:Outdated? on After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Do you realize you make it sound worse by transcoding from 128k to 320k? You're sending a lossy encoding, through another lossy process, and will lose more information.

  2. Re:Party on Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    "Two freshman MIT students have automated their dorm room" No females were implied in my post. Just the two geeks who put the system together. It mentions the party mode creates a rave atmosphere. I wonder if these two drop X, strap on glowsticks, and dance till morning.

  3. Party on Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    Wuwu, party for two.

  4. Best IF character on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 1

    The best IF character ever? Floyd the Droid from Planetfall iirc. I cried when he sacrificed himself for me. Anybody want to play a game of hucka bucka beanstalk?

  5. Re:It took how long? on Sun Research Yields Unexpected Results · · Score: 1

    I suspect they only recently came up with the idea to perform these experiments and instead of going to the moon for a new sample, just borrowed a sample that was already available.

  6. Feeling like... on The Near Future of Intel · · Score: 1

    Rip Van Winkel here. I haven't paid any attention to the processor wars lately, but what the heck happened to make AMD and Intel swap positions? I thought only in Bizarro world would people be wondering if AMD would rest on its laurels while Intel was trying to come up with a plan to unseat them from their throne.

  7. Not getting burned again on Next DVD Format War Still Wide Open · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was an early adopter of the HDTV format. First person I knew to have an hdtv AND hdtv content to view.

    Fast forward 4 (or 5) years. This format war is meaningless to me because neither player will work on my TV. I don't have any DRM enabled inputs because my TV was built before they existed.
    I have an upconverting DVD player that only works with my tv because of some almost-hacks that disable HDCP and macrovision to allow the upconvert over component. Unless i can find a similar player that will allow me to bypass DRM, (I know, dream on) I won't be going HD DVD or Blu-Ray.

    I'm the customer they want, but they can't have me since they stabbed me in the back last time.