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  1. Re:Video Arms Race on Previewing ATi's Radeon X800 XT & X800 Pro · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. I have the Radeon 9700, and was thinking of switching to NVidia when the review showever better Unreal scroes Then it showed better Radeon UT2k4 scores, so I switched my mind again.

    Really, I look at the games I'm playing and will be playing for a while and just try to get the best card for a given price. If the original UT is an indication, I'll play UT2k4 for a while so I'd like a card that performs on it. 2k3 didn't have assault so my lack of playing it doesn't mean much.

  2. Re:It is said of code making and breaking on Microsoft's Janus DRM Software Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    it's undefinite for the family who don't know what happened to the person.

  3. Re:What a comical spin by the marketing department on Microsoft's Janus DRM Software Officially Unveiled · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering you can get "The Lion King" from BitTorrent and many other ways, why wouldn't Disney sell it? How does this technology actually propose to prevent people from getting access to the digital content? I don't believe that this will really keep people from making a conversion program/process any mroe than CSS did for DVD, so why would Disney start releasing films under it?

  4. Re:Don't panic, this is called life on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1

    What I find annoying is that there is no disction between and inclusive "we" and exclusive "we" (first person plural), so as to let the person I'm talking to know what I mean by "My friends called. We are going to the beach."

    I suppose I could just say "They and I," but there are other caes where it causes annoying confusion.

  5. Re:I call BS! on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1

    Make him govenor of a united state of America.

  6. Re:This does sound that bad on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the point misses you.

  7. Re:But how does it work? on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    I know it doesn't work this way, but I'd like to see something similar to Salon's day pass, where you have to sit through a commercial, and then you get allowed to use the network.

  8. Re:BBB on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    Actually, int hat case, I can't see the BBB caring. But contacting Amazon would be better.

  9. Re:No problem at all on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    Somewhere at SCO, there is a middlemanager with a printout of 404 errors, riding his content team to figure out why they keep referencing /cgi-bin/addserv.cgi or some such thing, because those 404s are "slowing down the system."

  10. Re:Why the title? on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 1

    It's basically because Chewbacca lives on Endor.

  11. Re:Here's one on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    The chronic lifters I've known have been like that, doing it more for the thrill than the goods. One guy would like to lift stuff while talking to the clerk just for the extra danger.

  12. Re:Why the title? on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 1

    Because Klingons are unlikely to think that since they are probably also made out of mostly water. It isn't a good name for the documentary.

  13. Re:It's easy on A Silent PC Solution? · · Score: 1

    Park the drive when not in use, it should be under your power settings. But that might not be the whine. My sager would make such a whine, which would get worse when touching the mousepad. It's like an electrical kind of whine, hard to figure out.

  14. Re:SIlence is a pipe dream for me on A Silent PC Solution? · · Score: 1

    My carpets were afixed to wood strips that had been nailed into the concrete in the corners. I guess it depends on who is doing it.

  15. Re:Don't look for money. on Moving Up the IT Ladder in a Poor Economy? · · Score: 1

    Um, you really don't generate wealth in America without having debt. A retail store will have most of their inventory financed, a car dealership floor plans with a bank, real estate is bought on credit, and stocks are margined. Without financing, profits are too little to really make money.

  16. Vice City on The Politics of the Video Game · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One night while inebriated and playing Vice City, I came to a realization: it subtly reenforces society's morals on the player. If you kill someone, they send cops. And if you kill the cops, they send more cops! Rob a store, cops come. Bump your car into a cop, cops chase you. It's through the operant conditioning of cops chasing you making the game harder, that it pushes the messages of not killing, stealing, and driving responsibly.

  17. Re:God no... on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 1

    That is pretty good. You could have this as part of your X startup scripts, so when you login, it makes it more snappy, and when you log out, it undoes it. It might be possible to undo it on screensaver and redo on return as well, but I've never done that kind of thing.

  18. Re:God no... on Tuning Linux VM swapping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thig I hate about 2000 is that it seems to hold on to this disk cache RAM for dear life. Eventually, if you hibernate/unhibernate, or just don't turn off the computer, you swap for everything. It's a real pain in my assass well. I've disabled virtual memory on my windows machine at home (at work, I run too much to do so), just because it's not really needed and makes it much faster.

  19. Re:Who are "The MB" - pricing scheme? on Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB · · Score: 1

    It's a joke based on the /. post title "Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB"

  20. Re:I used to LOVE to play on Video Games - Lost in Translation? · · Score: 1

    No, they were made illegal in June 6 2002.

  21. Re:cognitive dissonance as trolling on Videogames as Art · · Score: 2, Funny

    better than the evil /. dimension where everyone has goatses.

  22. Re:Emotional? on Videogames as Art · · Score: 1

    I did cry at the end of Silent Hill 2. That was pretty brutal.

  23. Litigious folks? on Linux Programming by Example · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought the appropriate google bomb was litigious bastards.

  24. Re:You know you're a nerd when.. on Overclocking your Gameboy Advance · · Score: 1

    And the portability

  25. Re:Sky high rates? on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend's cell phone will cause speakers do make a dit-dit-dit noise if it is near them. My roommate's cell phone will often project his voice onto the inhouse speaker system. Cell phones use a very powerful signal to reach those towers, much more powerful than should be beside your head. It's the main reason I use PCS.