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Comment Re:WTF is wrong with you people? (Score 5, Funny) 606

Those are essentially the only barrier to success. Developing those might take a while. Maybe even another century. But saying it's never going to happen??? What are you guys expecting? MAD? Rapture? The sun going supernova? Teleportation devices? Fuck, you disappoint me.

Maybe we just know something you don't know. So long, and thanks for all the fish!

First Person Shooters (Games)

Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends 201

A couple weeks ago, we discussed news that some dedicated Halo 2 fans were keeping the game's multiplayer alive after support for online play was dropped. Now, a few days shy of a month after support ended, the last users have been knocked off the server. "[A user named] Apache N4SIR outlasted everyone. 'May 11th @ 0158hrs I was FORCEFULLY REMOVED!!' he wrote on the forums at Bungie.net. 'I thought I'd be the one turning off the lights but that was done for me. Good night everyone, my Elite needs a rest.' His last comrade in arms, Agent Windex, was still signed on, as spotted by Kotaku at 4 p.m. US Pacific Time on May 10, but their adventure, which began on April 15, ended after Windex announced 21 minutes later that he had been removed from play and Apache N4SIR suffered a similar fate hours later, as he described in his post."

Comment Anthropomorphizing data (Score 2, Interesting) 245

Data is not "consumed." That is a ridiculous way to put it. Tt has no shelf life, it produces no waste byproducts, it can be reused indefinitely. It is transmitted, stored, deleted, and maybe in there it delivers information to a brain. Even then, do we really delete data, or just representations of data?

Comment Re:Good Move (Score 1) 309

" Andre-are you at work today? Gimme a call - 301-555-5555. Gerry" You think Gerry's not already getting a call from someone looking to cash in, or who just thinks they're being funny?

How many of these numbers still ring up the person who carried the device in 2001? Probably not many. Vanishingly small number, in fact. This was before the whole cell phone number portability thing. I don't think I have a single phone number from 2001 that is still in use for me.

Comment ReAtom != 32bit CPU (Score 2, Informative) 1012

Wrong Answer Folks - Atom = 32bit CPU

Except when it doesn't. Current Atom offerings include the 32-bit, no-hyperthreading Z-series aimed for UMPCs, the 32-bit, hyperthreading N-series aimed for netbooks, and the 64-bit, hyperthreading, single-core 200-series aimed for "nettops", and the 64-bit, hyperthreading, dual-core 300-series aimed also aimed for "nettops".

Comment Re:Mac OS X for generic machines. (Score 1) 1012

The expense of adding the support personnel to handle the 9 million driver problems that pop up and the stupid little proprietary pieces of kit on the motherboards are not really worth the effort. Hardware and software from one source, I KNOW who to scream at when it doesn't work! If you like the OS so much buy the hardware, if you don't buy the hardware you don't get the OS you want. It's that simple. The myth that it's vastly overpriced just gos to show how lazy the person perpetuating that myth is.

Comment Because SVG fonts aren't already enough ... (Score -1, Troll) 206

Seriously mozilla, I'm rapidly losing faith in you.

We already have SVG fonts. Why exactly do we need ANOTHER one?

Fix the abomination your browser has turned into and focus on the reason you exist. Its got to the point where IE is going to be less bloated than Firefox.

You've got PLENTY of bugs to fix already, and you can't even agree with anyone on existing compatibility issues.

We don't want more features, we want Firefox to stop running like Navigator did in the late 90s.

Are you trying to become another Novell? Once a respectable company with a good product, but now a has been with nothing of real value to offer? Stop fragmenting the web, we don't need another freaking font format.

FOCUS.

again

FOCUS

Before you become obsolete, of course, with Chrome, it may well be too late.

Comment Re:Liquids on planes (Score 1) 560

Any security focused organization that doesn't listen to its people on the ground is failing at its mission. Not to mention that an inability to provide feedback is a good way to kill moral in an organization.

Well, yes, and I think this is the most apt description I've read so far of the TSA.

They are failing at their mission, which is supposed to be "protecting the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce." They are actually restricting the movement of people and commerce, and without increasing the protection of either.

And I can't think of a job with lower morale. People hate you, your job is boring repetition, and it serves no actual purpose. Plus no one higher up cares about the problems or inefficiencies you see day-to-day.

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