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  1. Re:Below 90% of web use only. on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    Ding ding ding. Plus I know Windows admins that _do_ surf using their Windows servers, so the Windows number is inflated even more.

  2. Below 90% of web use only. on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    FTA

    In November, 89.6% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors [...]

    It's been below 90% in terms of IP addresses for quite some time. Not a lot of websurfing is done on servers, cluster nodes, or routers.

  3. Not shoplifting, not piracy, not even used sales.. on EMA Suggests Point-Of-Sale Game Activation To Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    It's to eventually tie your game sales to a real person. This is one step away from requiring the store clerk to see a valid driver's license before validating the game. Once real people can be identified (even if they give it away as a gift) in-game advertising becomes more profitable.

  4. Re:Slashdot comments: censorship by glut on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    Whereas people like me that even read -1 never get mod points.

  5. Re:OpenGL Utility Toolkit on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1
    It's sad; GLUT was my first thought too, and I haven't used it for almost five years now.

    Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 3 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment

    Maybe I have better things to do with my time than wait 5 minutes between posts? Obviously not.

  6. Re:Moderation for stories on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    Tagged flamebait, for what it's worth. Someone tagged it Troll too.

  7. In a Nutshell, Not Quite Up To Par on MySQL in a Nutshell · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Not in this economy. on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the U.S., inexperience combined with education is valued more than experience, because the worker's initial pay can be low, and the worker can be trained easily due to the education.

  9. tagged !encyclopedia on Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science · · Score: 3, Funny

    it is apparently wrong and evil to have the person directly responsible for the research itself to be included in the creation of encyclopedia content about said research.

    Good thing Wikipedia is a Wiki and not an encyclopedia then.

  10. Re:The real question is on Gen Con Goes Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    It the highest drawing (money-wise) convention in Indianapolis, pulling more than even the Indy500 crowd.

    Unlikely true if you include the TV income, which is an enormous majority of the profit in almost any televised sport.

    Which the downtown tavern proprietors never see. BTW, GenCon is broadcast too.

  11. Re:It's a deformed child, not a moral trophy on Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb · · Score: 0

    The world is already over populated and resources will only become rarer as time goes on. Humanity needs a new natural predator or plague.

    If you live in the U.S., I hope the FBI has figured out the methods you plan to use to cull humanity, and are working diligently to prevent them. In the mean time, you might want to take a google maps look at the Western U.S. and Canada. Lots of empty space.

  12. Meh on Stephen Hawking Going To Canada · · Score: 2, Funny

    We don't need him in the U.S.A. The world ends in four years and a month anyway.

  13. Re:Awwwwww... on Fundraiser For "White Male" Illness Dropped · · Score: 1

    But, don't you see, _100%_ of white males die.

  14. Re:We don't need no stinking backups... on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    Except these guys didn't have a good backup plan. They had to get Spanish Telesoniara(sp?) to bring McColo's link back up and transfer Terabytes of data to .ru domains. Of course, I bet they do have a good backup plan now.

  15. Re:Males? on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    I read a review that there's eye-candy, but you get slapped for gawking.

  16. Free==good on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    One of the best reasons for role playing games or computer games. I've got friends that regularly waste thousands of dollars on their hobbies, and other friends that invested $100 in a few rulebooks or game CDs, and only spend regular cash on mountain dew and cheetos.

  17. Re:Males? on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    You mentioned in an earlier post that men are attracted to video games due to the visual action. Not always true (turn based strategy games are popular too), but in general it probably is. So, any game where the goal is fostering relationships would probably be quite boring unless it were portrayed as a complex puzzle game (Women: the Most Incredible Puzzle Known to Man). I suppose you could have an ancient Greek version of the Christian FPS games, where you're Eros (grown-up Cupid) shooting couples with love arrows, but that wouldn't really teach anything unless you had to sit invisible, waiting until the perfect female code-words were spoken.

    Of course, there's the game that every guy my age remembers from his youth, where they learned something about social interaction: Leisure Suit Larry.

  18. Re:addiction? on 90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted · · Score: 1

    You too? Uncanny. My game has become tedious, 8 bases filled with workshops and living quarters making Laser Cannons for no good reason, but I can't stop. I need a UFOGlider for the grind.

  19. Re:Offtopic: My frontpage got stuck on Firehose? on The Player Is and Is Not the Character · · Score: 1

    They have to get us to do the editors' job somehow.

  20. Re:2+GB rpm's? on Fedora 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Someone plans to have HD movie rpms if copyright laws are changed?

  21. Re:Is this a good idea? on New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet · · Score: 1

    Capes and robes make a comeback just like cyberpunk predicts.

  22. Re:Mice, keyboards, xbox, ... on Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless · · Score: 1

    A scrollball? Apple has better mice now? Cats and Dogs, living together!

  23. Re:Mice, keyboards, xbox, ... on Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless · · Score: 1

    It might; assuming I remember correctly and they have the patent on wheel mice... which they license to everyone except Apple.

  24. Re:Hmm on Ballmer Ordered To Testify In 'Vista Capable' Case · · Score: 1

    I do feel for them. I have a laptop I bought in April, 4GB RAM, and Vista (preinstalled) has always just been obscenely slow when doing anything like logging in, switching users, etc. Absolutely ridiculous.

    Your problem has been formated bold and italicized. You're not fighting Windows, you're fighting vendor-ware.

  25. Re:Wild leap of logic on Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed · · Score: 1

    They claim iiNet authorised copyright infringement by failing to prevent its users from downloading pirated movies and TV shows.

    So I guess this means that the Jews (and the Catholic Church and the Masons) really were responsible for 9/11 - after all, they failed to prevent it.

    No, it means the MAFIAA authorised copyright infringement by failing to prevent people from pirating movies and TV shows. Don't expose their failed logic; use it against them.