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  1. Re:Douglas Adams got it right on What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but then we'll all die from an infection from a dirty phone.

  2. Re:Great Questions on What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga · · Score: 2

    X-boxes is a bad example because it is believed to be the last of this generation of consoles that is still sold at a loss. PS2 or GameCube fits, though Nintendo make a large amount of their money on their own titles (Mario, Zelda, etc), and Sony makes a good amount on theirs.

  3. Re:A football analogy on What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga · · Score: 1

    I don't think that works. In that case you would add the 5 yard penalty to the 7 you gained to get 12, which is better than 7.

    If that's not the case, then taking the 5 would make sense since I'm sure they wouldn't increment your down counter. Being 1st and 5 is arguably better than 2nd and 3. But this isn't how the game is played anyway. You would get 12 and be back at 1st and 10.

  4. Re:"Fighting" piracy on Nintendo To Sell Old Consoles To China? · · Score: 2

    And they are releasing the 2-D 16-bit games on GBA. An example is A Link to the Past (Zelda 3 for the Super Nintendo).

  5. Re:My prediction... on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 2

    Mods, this isn't a troll. Duck Bill Platypuses do have poisonous spurs on their legs and you really shouldn't pick them up. In addition to it hurting, the poison can cause necrosis and could lead to whatever it struck being amputated. Not fun at all.

  6. Re:My guess: on How Will Animals Look 250 Million Years From Now? · · Score: 1

    Potatoes don't cast a shadow in their natural envirnoment because they are subterranian.

    However, it was a Simpson's quote.

  7. Re:Prevailing Wage? on AFL-CIO Proposed Reforms for the H1B Program · · Score: 2

    You don't have to give up nationality to get a green card (or EB visa). However, you're right in that said CEO was probably an H-1B before getting an EB (as is the common progression towards a greencard). You parent is very wrong about CEOs being filled by H-1Bs, it occurs frequently, although less so than jobs lower in the ladder as a company typically only needs one or two CEOs per country.

  8. Re:Grammar Nazi alert on newdocms: Beyond the Hierarchical File System · · Score: 1

    really
    Pronunciation Key (r-l, rl)
    adv.
    1. In actual truth or fact: The horseshoe crab isn't really a crab at all.
    2. Truly; genuinely: That was a really enjoyable evening.
    3. Indeed: Really, you shouldn't have done it.

    As in "It's *indeed* unique" or "It's *truely* unique" or "It's *in fact* unique".

    Not "It's *very* unique."

  9. Re:JIT? on Linux Number Crunching: Languages and Tools · · Score: 1

    I read that part to mean different ia32 architectures (Pentium III, Pentium IV, Itanium, Athlon, and Opteron are examples listed). While these are all compatible on one level, they each have their own ways to optimize towards.

  10. Re:Little impact? on Windows Security Holes Go Mostly Unexploited · · Score: 2

    I was hit by Monkey B in 98. Lost all my files. Luckily I had a lot of them backed up to another computer (which also had Monkey B, but I was able to bring the first one back up, move the files over and wipe the other one), but I lost at least 3 months of personal work that was only on my computer.

  11. Choices on RC Car Craze: The Spam Connection · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, I can supply fake info, or support MS via the advertising on their site.

    Choices choices

  12. Re:If you're such a geek on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    If you read the post, it says why.

  13. Re:Negative review, but not (intentional) flamebai on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 2

    Reading it as a teenager, he was the model of wisdom, temperance and simply having one's head screwed on straight for my wife.

    It's funny you should say that because that was the impression I got of Faramir. Just as a background, I read the books a very long time ago, to the point that seeing them now I just have flashes of deja vu, rather than am able to compare them to the characters in the original text. To me, Faramir was a character that made a lot of sense. He's leading a rogue army, and he captures these hobbits who he doesn't know from Adam. They have a good story but they lie about Gollum ebing with them. What would you do? Send them on their way? I sure wouldn't.

    When he learns they have the ring, he could easily have taken it then and there, but he didn't. I thought he did show the restraint you felt wasn't there. The only things I disliked about that part was Sam's speech, which was over the top, IMO, and the whole "your life is forfeit" thing. The phrase literally mean he's going to be executed, but that doesn't make sense. Apparently in the book his life is forfeit if letting them go proves to be bad for his city, in the movie he's going to be executed because he let them go regardless of whether it's good or not (this is a nit pick on a single line, but the line really changes a lot). I'm guessing he won't actually be executed, or even try to execute him as that would be kinda weird.

    I also really liked the Gollum self discussion. It was funny.

  14. Alternative solution on Would a Boycott of the MPAA/RIAA Help Matters? · · Score: 2

    As others have said, there are better alternatives to this. If I were mega rich (or had enough time to organize it as a charity), I would make an organization that tours from city to city giving studio time free to aspiring artists on the condition that the music they record enters the public domain. They can use the recording to promote themselves, and the organization website would promote the bands and have downloads.

    The issue with boycotting the RIAA is that it doesn't really go to what I see the root of the problem is: they are a middle man that can be cut out. They don't produce the content, but they control it unfairly. Finding ways around the RIAA is a better way of going about it, IMO.

  15. Re:few rare games i own on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 2

    What an aptly named device to send it to.

    I too remember the ASCII porn. Then I remember the programs that came later that coverted GIFs into ASCII. Then I remember the programs that converted ASCII pictures into greyscale pics.

    That's when I felt it got rediculous.

  16. Re:All your base... on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 2

    I too have E.T. and it's available at our local flea market. With 1 million copies sold and no body really wanting it, it's not really rare.

  17. Re:The Rightful King on David Brin On LOTR · · Score: 2

    Bloody peasant.

  18. Re:Cheap reviewers on Should You Trust Website Customer Reviews? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was Andersen Consulting that renamed themselves to Accenture.

  19. Re:WRONG!:Piracy is GOOD on Tim O'Reilly Says Piracy is Progressive Taxation · · Score: 1

    What evidence do have that Robin Hood didn't exist? While not all of the legend is true, it is possible that he existed, in the same way it's possible Jesus existed.

  20. Re:that's nice but .... on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it's not my fault you don't have one.

  21. Re:How do you take payments on this? on Bell Canada Turns Payphones into Public Hotspots · · Score: 2

    This will be a little bit hard, since your won't have a bell certificate, but if you keep everything HTTP, I wonder how many people would notice they never got the "you are enteringa secure site" box (I know I would, but I'm super paranoid about giving my CC on the net, and will check that the lock is closed and the address bar is https).

  22. Re:Highly Polished on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 1

    Part of being a good director is seeing a scene and cutting it ot rewriting it to fit the pace of the movie before.

    Of course, the problem with out and out cutting these scenes is that it has to be believable that Anakin and Pademe get is on later so that they have Luke and Leia.

  23. Re:MAD MAX Beyond Geritol on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 2

    I ain't getting in no plane, Max!

  24. Re:How is a nation-wide WiFi possible? on Reviving Ricochet: Better Than WiFi? · · Score: 2

    As the other person said, the directional antennas are legal. There is a maximum power requirement, but you can choose how to spend this power. If you go omnidirectional, then you have a short range as the power is diffused over a volume (so you need to take the 3rd root). There are antenna that mostly go flat but circularily out (kinda 2nd root). And you can go directional.

  25. Re:I didn't know Bill was sick on META Predicts Linux Software From Microsoft in 2004 · · Score: 1

    Products have websites. That still doesn't say "SourceGear".