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Comment Re:waiting game (Score 1) 102

OSX can't decode h.264 fast enough to watch that you have to boot windows?

I find that curious since I use fedora and an onboard nvidia gpu with shared memory and it decodes 720p and 1080i/p x264 videos just fine. Maybe your CPU is the bottleneck? I have the low quadcore Q6600 or whatever.
Just curious what you're running that is giving issues in OSX, since I'd think the hardware utilization of OSX & linux would be similar to each other when compared to windows drivers.

Comment Re:Cash! (Score 1) 267

While I'm sure it'd feel pretty great to buy a Car or a House with a bucket of bills, I don't think many would appreciate the kingly feel of counting all that money. Unless you met at a bank and they counted it there or something. Car wouldn't be so bad if all you had were hundreds, but a house would still be pretty shitty to count.

Kinda like paying for groceries with pennies. Sure you could, but I don't think it would be recommended.

Not to mention maximum carry limits for cash, and being mugged.

Comment Re:What's missing... (Score 1) 82

Why not make all the tracks DLC? It's stupid to have to switch in discs for a game like GH/RB. All the damn games should just have been a DLC pack for $50 or whatever they're charging for the disc.

I really doubt anyone seriously uses the XBox360s that have no HD, and for PS3 its not a problem, only PS2/Wii really lag behind there. It should be DLC for the same price.

Comment Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. (Score 1) 869

I also have been using KDE4.0/4.1 since it launched. 4.0 was missing too many features for me to use, so I went back to 3.5 branch, but since 4.1 it has been 'usable enough' for most of my needs. I'd still like better lirc support, since apparently nobody ported the old kde 3.5 lirc configuration stuff to 4, I think because the remote software used some other software for interfacing with kde that is not used in 4.0.

It is understandable, and not really a make or break feature for me. Still has quirks, but from reading the changes in 4.2, I think 4.2 will be much more usable, though still not nearly as robust as 3.5 or even gnome.

Comment Re:Finally happened (Score 3, Informative) 1044

This already happened like a year ago. A couple had a picture of themselves and it was sent via email. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/20/teen-couple-who-phot.html

And here's the ruling that Child Porn laws apply to minors, that will probably be referred to in the current case. And this all was at the start of 2007. http://politechbot.com/docs/child.porn.laws.apply.to.minors.020807.html

Comment Re:Same day release and appropriate pricing (Score 4, Interesting) 509

My sister tried that with DVDs of the West Wing she got on ebay. They were pretty low quality, bad Aspect Ratio, and half of the last episode on each disc was cut off. The bitrate was awfully low, trying to crap 6 episodes per single layer DVD. Spelling errors all over the otherwise decent looking counterfeit packaging.

So often with the counterfeit DVDs, quality issues can arise. It seems like a much better idea, rather than to import illegal/stolen goods, to do the piracy yourself. Then you could control the quality of the DVDs made from the source files, and it would cost nearly nothing.

Comment Re:This booting thing is overrated. (Score 1) 654

suspend works for me just fine. FC9 on an acer laptop. Suspends correctly via lid, menu selection, and sleep key. Wakes correctly from any keypress. Hibernate also works fine.

One thing though, the first time I tried it after clean install from disc, coming back from resume the terminal screens were mangled and could only see a corner of them, the rest being off screen. At some point in the last 4-5 months that stopped happening for me.
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Switching To Solar Power — Six Months Later 591

ThinSkin writes "Slashdot readers may remember an article regarding ExtremeTech's Loyd Case's experiences with solar power for the home after one month of usage. During that time six months ago, it sure seemed like a great deal, but the tables have turned significantly once winter approached. While it's no surprise solar power generation is expected to dwindle during the winter, Loyd compares solar power data of the last six months to determine if solar power is still worth the time and money."

Comment Re:to $1 Billion in Sales? (Score 1) 106

the monthly fee does not add itself to the total of sales. That would be like they claiming they sold 456 billion copies of the game if they could claim each monthly renewal was a new game disc, account, and source of income.

Though using that, I would claim that GHIII should not count money fleeced from people for downloaded songs, since that is quite similar to a subscription model, though more a hybrid between an expansion and a monthly fee.

Comment Re:Time to buy a Playstation 3? (Score 1) 78

Interesting choice, making that argument without mentioning that the PS3 launched with hardware PS2/PSX backwards compatibility that had a high percentage of playable games.

Though the more recent models have had that feature reduced and cut, it probably not the best logic to use that argument to bash Sony. The PS3s with hardware for PS2/PSX games probably play a vast number more old games than the X360's game specific emulation can.

Comment Re:Asheron's Call already had this quest... (Score 2, Informative) 249

I wouldn't really call the evil actions 'rotten', rather more like pointlessly evil. They weren't often actions with evil intent, or ways to do things with evil motives, but instead they were just completely retarded and random evil things.

You can be evil, and still do 'good' things to achieve evil ends, but in that game, you are evil by doing stupid things like randomly kill people all the time, or pick fights for no apparent reason or benefit.

The evil in KOTOR was pretty stupid most of the time, and pointless other than to make your character 'evil' through random acts of violence rather than cold, calculated evil.

I guess in D&D terms, you could be lawful good, neutral, or chaotic evil. Not really any choice to be both evil and sane.

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