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  1. Re:Erh what? on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, forgot. The Jesus Phone requires the personal touch. Nevermind then, I'm sensing failure ahead.

  2. Re:Erh what? on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 1

    It still may be worth doing. Take a look at the Nintendo DS's FPS offerings sometime. A stylus for movement isn't that far-fetched.

  3. Re:It exists on World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users · · Score: 1

    A bit? EVE-Online is built around PVP, whether it involves blowing people up or fiddling with the market. It's cutthroat and downright insane at the higher levels (by higher, I mean in terms of organization, not character qualities), teeming with paranoia. EVE invites the players to stake their own claims and fight for their homes, by the Great Bird. Such struggles amongst the "superpowers" breed intrigue, unconsider gambits.

    Space is quite unforgiving, a quality EVE-Online tends to share.

    (22 million skillpoints and counting)

  4. Re: Blah on The Complete History of Format Wars · · Score: 1

    Many more the latter than the former. How often did you even want to play 8 MPEG streams simultaneously on a 1995 era PC?

    Porn?
    Some people have strange preferences, after all.

  5. Re:Great, more holy wars. on The Complete History of Format Wars · · Score: 1

    Masochists use tiny magnets on their hard drives.

    Real men use cat and sed.

  6. Re:what's wrong with T1me Out on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 1

    And honestly how many of you guys use a password like YwMCU07D?

    Actually, most of my passcodes resemble that--I have a general algorithm for devising my own passcodes which includes liberal sprinkling with buckybit characters. It's secure enough for my uses, uses no discrete words, is easily modifiable, and--most importantly--lets me figure out what the heck I last used.

    And (obligatory) Now I have to go change my passcode.

  7. Re:General Atomics fudges numbers on First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed · · Score: 1

    And divide by the number of Predators in use.

  8. Failure is strong with this one... on Tech Writers Spreading FUD About GPLv3 · · Score: 1
    The failure is strong with this [article?]; it's yet another "Scrap the Firehose!" argument builder. Honestly, serious revision--nay, heavy-handed edits--is what this piece of tripe simply begs for. The average /. post is better-written than the [article?]. Any points the author though s/he could have made have been lost to his/her inepititude concerning grammar.

    Profitt is one who looks behind the obvious and analyses things before he commits finger to keyboard. Could you have learned something from him, mayhaps made judicious use of the "Preview" button?
    To quote Star Trek (TOS, "Patterns of Force"):

    His words make no logical sense... random phrases strung together.
  9. Re:Why on Computer Graphics With Java · · Score: 1

    Try Computer Engineering - it's a bit of Electrical Engineering mixed with Computer Science with that C and assembly flavor. Minty!

    It's not the execution speed that makes me stay away from Java -- it's that I like C so much more. Doesn't help that I despise the absurdly long function names (IOCCC parody)

  10. Friends... on Computer Graphics With Java · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...don't let friends code in Java.

  11. Re:Not so sure about that on In Wake of Price Drops, Further PS3 Doubts · · Score: 1

    Not that hard to keep in easy supply when nobody seems to want them.

  12. Re:Engineering vs. Science. on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    Point. Of course, Computer Engineering is a strange bastard mix of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

  13. Re:Hypocrites - total hypocrites on EA Executive Cites Need For More Innovation · · Score: 1

    ... above post is mine, I have no clue why it ended up AC.

  14. Re:That is the problem on Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold · · Score: 1

    designing circuits, optimizing circuits
    Nope, that's engineering. Sorry.
    (Reference: I am an undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering major, or IAAEECE)
  15. Re:Not possible on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 1

    By the way, building Linux from Scratch is a long, long, long procedure. DIY distro mostly teaches you to appreciate the work that goes into a distro's design.

  16. Re:Sony supports it 100% on Sony Says UMD Is Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Other than the odd moron? Bear in mind I knew one who did indeed buy UMD movies for his PSP. Then again, this person was an ass with too much disposable income.

  17. Re:Calling foul on A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents · · Score: 1

    Sardiss: You fool! What you fail to realize, with this new blog-tag system, my proposal will cut through patents like tissue paper!
    Taggart: What you fail to realize, is that The Internet is full of shills!
    Sardiss: :O

  18. Calling foul on A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents · · Score: 1

    PENALTY! Naive (and technical) solution, relying on the goodwill of other people (and unfounded ubiquity of proposed system). Ten minutes in the box.

  19. Re:Hang on? It's the twenty first century now on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    Why, pray tell, would we want to equip the next generation with better bullshit detectors? It's hard enough to pass our bullshit off as it is.

  20. Re:Let me just fix the article on Videogame Spending May Soon Outweigh Music Spending Globally · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting that the increase in resolution and such necessarily involves increasing complexity in design and coding and related assets. Comparitively speaking, the SNES was much easier to put a game together for than next-gen consoles such as the PS3 or even the Wii. This increase in complexity is reinforced by further demands for "better" realism in games. Or did you really think all that power in your consoles came for free?

    Programmer time is not fungible, dammit!

  21. And for the alternative.. on InkJet Printers Lying, Or Just Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Long-Live-Toner! This (and that ink cartridges seem to have "fixed" maximum lifespans [measured in time]) demonstrates to me the superiority of the laser printer for most tasks.

  22. Re:At last! on Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying · · Score: 3, Funny

    Point-taken.
    Unfortunately-the-unbelievers-are-no t-ready-for-the-glory-that-is-excessive-hyphenatio n. Such-wondrous-use-of-the-mighty-hyphen-read-as-inv itations-to-inflict-pain-on-an-author.

  23. Re:At last! on Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny, I don't see it that way, considering BR would be a hop+skip+jump away from the same thing.

  24. Re:Fable on News of Spore Delay Miscommunication · · Score: 1

    I just hope+pray that it doesn't ever become Outpost incomplete. Talk about a boxed prealpha.

  25. Re:They're forgetting a lot of stinkers: on Games They'd Like Us To Forget · · Score: 1

    I tended to keep my residences at 40-50% capacity, which took care of most morale issues. It was the increasingly dangerous death fleets that came swarming in that pwned me.