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  1. Re:The real test on LP files Suit To Stop State Funding Of 3rd Debate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To do otherwise might risk breaking the hegemony of the current two-party system.

    The best way to protect the current two-party system is to let as many Libertarians as possible speak. As soon as they start robo-spouting Ayn Rand sound bites in response to earnest questions people will embrace the dual-party-opoly we have now.

  2. Good choice on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    Kevin Smith and George Lucas have a lot of parallels as directors. They both peaked early (Mallrats and The Empire Strikes Back) and have produced increasingly shitting movies since.

  3. Re:Neverwinter Nights 2 on OpenGL 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    1.5%? You must be including the mac market too.

  4. Re:The Modern RTS Prototype on NYT Profiles Creator of Black & White and Fable · · Score: 1

    Blizzard copped it quick with 'Warcraft' (eventually creating the best-balanced penultimate RTS, 'Starcraft'), et al.

    Penultimate ("next to last") is actually used correctly in your post: the ultimate RTS is Total Annihilation, and Starcraft is (at best) a distant second. It's no suprise the genre stagnated after such a complete and perfect entry.

  5. Re:No big problem. on Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed · · Score: 1

    How can vote tampering in judical races impact judges who are appointed?

  6. The Real Hackers on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1

    This is strictly amateur hour. For the hard core virtual theft you need to turn to the professional theives in Congress.

  7. Re:Can't be bothered to RTFA. on Vive La Loafing! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you haven't been permanently banned from moderating slashdot yet, it means you weren't doing a very good job moderating.

  8. Re:12" 1.33Ghz PowerBook owners, rejoice! on Apple Releases 10.3.5 · · Score: 1

    Boo Hoo!

  9. Re:Trade off on Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's new math

  10. Re:Oh, the possibilities... on GTA San Andreas Goes Swimming, Gangbanging, Smuggling · · Score: 1

    Except everone on slashdot believe in the no-Win scenario.

  11. Re:Forget the game on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    I mistakenly linked to the Game Guide, which probably gets marked as being cross platform. Forums like Super Hero Hype have posts which describe the difference between the two versions. The PC version is intended for a younger audience, so more experienced gamers might be more satisfied with one of the console versions.

    I can't complain about the moderation, I forgot to say "Micro$oft" or talk about using WiFi on my Cowboy Bebop Mysql.

  12. Re:Forget the game on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    That's the PC version, which was done by the same company that brought Harry Potter to the PC. The console version is entirely different. I recommend people purchase the Gamecube version and try it out themselves.

  13. Re:Don't forget the game! on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    Er, make that Spider-Man 2: The Game for the Nintendo Gamecube.

  14. Don't forget the game! on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Howdy, true believers. Don't forget to pick up your copy of Spider-Man 2: The Game for the Nintendo Gamecube. It's your chance ot be part of the action!

  15. Re:Inherent Problem... on The Purposelessness of FPS Professionalism · · Score: 1

    For example, I can't stand playing Final Fantasy games anymore. But watching someone else play is great. I get all the plot without putting in any of the effort.


    The effort of playing a Final Fantasy game? It's the game that invented the "click x to advance plot" genre! It's more effort to press start in a DVD menu.

  16. Re:I'll bite... on Microsoft's Rush To Xbox 2 A Danger? · · Score: 1

    "No, what happen with the pickle slicer!"
    "She got fired too."

  17. Re:Zeno's Paradox on The Mythical Man-Month Revisited · · Score: 1

    What does that have to do with Zeno?

  18. Re:Not exactly on topic but... on GameCube Coders Caught Out By Gigantic Memory Card · · Score: 1

    Also a case of shoddy programming. Most gamecube games asume that you have 1 memory card, on port A.

    Support for a memory card in Slot A is the only requirement. Programmers who want to ship a console game concentrate on making sure the publisher's requirements are met. With the potential cost of failing TRC check so high, it shouldn't be a suprise that people do the bare minimum amount of interaction with those subsystems.

  19. Re:WOPR's 'guesses' on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    I remember a similar story from "The Growing Fungus," but the "tell" wasn't timing related. The attackers would place the current guess in a char array which was very near the end of a page boundary. Initially, one character might be before the page boundary and seven after. Then, they would test if the password was correct. Since the password was tested one character at a time and returned immediately, if you hit a page fault before the password was reported invalid, the characters before the page boundary were correct. I'm afraid I don't remember any of the specifics though.

  20. canonical help on Developing Games with OpenAL? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Subscribe to the mailing list . Try #openal on irc.freenode.net. You can read a brief introduction to it in Game Programming Gems 4 as well, but as always the most up to date references are online.

  21. Not rocket science on Nintendo's GCNext Direction Outlined By Iwata · · Score: 1

    1) More memory
    2) More memory
    3) For the love of man, no more ARAM

  22. Re:I tried this, but it didn't work for me. on Solutions for Avoiding Traffic? · · Score: 1

    I hear you. I commute from Pasadena to Santa Monica. The 10W from downtown to the 405 is almost always jammed. But it could be worse, I used to commute from Riverside.

    FWIW I highly recommend going the other direction with your schedule: I go in really early and try to get in by 6:30. If I leave my house before 6, a commute that can take 2 hours usually takes 35 minutes.

  23. Re:Sigh... on Apple Plans to Grow to $10 Billion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    +1 Insightful

    Slashdot should outsource the comments to India, I hear they speak English there.

  24. No way on Changing Jobs for Job Satisfaction? · · Score: 1

    That job has a terrible mortality rate

  25. Re:Damn, Unplug and take a walk on Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you don't have a wife or kids. If I ever tried this, there would be a mutiny.

    Mutiny implies that you are in charge. Clearly you don't have a wife or kids.