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Comment Leverage (Score 1) 151

Leverage is a high quality independitly produced show currently about to finish it's 3rd season. It's backed by a produciton company, but that company is owned and financially backed by Dean Devlin who is a producer of the show. Reading lead writer/producer John Roger's blog will show you that at least he considers it independent

Comment Re:From TOFA ( O == other) (Score 1) 442

It all depends on what you use to partition the drive. As long as the partitions are 4k aligned it's fine, so if you use 4k aware partitioning software (ie Win 7) all should be fine. You'll only hit the performance issue if you use XP to set up the partitions. And even then you can use the WD align tool that they provide to align the partitions.
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Treading the Fuzzy Line Between Game Cloning and Theft 235

eldavojohn writes "Ars analyzes some knockoffs and near-knockoffs in the gaming world that led to problems with the original developers. Jenova Chen, creator of Flower and flOw, discusses how he feels about the clones made of his games. Chen reveals his true feelings about the takedown of Aquatica (a flOw knockoff): 'What bothers me the most is that because of my own overreaction, I might have created a lot of inconvenience to the creator of Aquatica and interrupted his game-making. He is clearly talented, and certainly a fan of flOw. I hope he can continue creating video games, but with his own design.' The article also notes the apparent similarities between Zynga's Cafe World and Playfish's Restaurant City (the two most popular Facebook games). Is that cloning or theft? Should clones be welcomed or abhorred?"

Comment Re:I guess (Score 1) 251

Yeah, my first reaction when I read, paraphrase, "We don't understand this" was: Coool. The neatest thing are discovered when scientist find something they don't understand. Because it means what they thought they knew was wrong (or at least not completely right) and so now they have to find out what is right. It's the same for the LHC what I'm hoping for as a result is something no one has predicted, and hence something new to research. If they finally smash the partials at full power and go "WTF!" at the results I will be estatic.

Comment Re:Potential (Score 2, Insightful) 829

I though that the Dr. Rush taking control was actualy more pragmatic on his part. He wants to see what is out there, at any cost. This can be seen before they leave in his disappointment in Eli want to to go eat instead of work, and dialing the gate even though it means they will probably be stranded. He tries to take control to make sure they stay out there, instead of going back right away, if they could. as he "knows" they can't dial back from the milky way galaxy. At least that's the way I read it.

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