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Comment Re:Obrigatory (Score 1) 375

Your response is a typical north-american response... Try to put some comment on any board with a non-english language (try portuguese, if you can) and get a moron insultating you because you don't knows every single rule and word from their language, and you maybe will understand my irritation. Double moron for you, stupid. You earned this with your "educated response".

They're called Grammar Nazis, so he's obviously not from North America. --Lockblade Oh, BTW: If you're going to insult someone, it honestly does make it more effective if you take the time to correct grammar. Just because English isn't your native language does not make you immune to the rules.

Comment Game Library (Score 1) 272

Granted, there aren't many games for the PSP, but I think a lot of the problem has to do with the fact that there's 50 million PSP owners. That's a ton of people buying games, even if only 1 in 10 people want to buy a game. Since publishers don't expect to sell many copies of a game, they only make a few hundred or thousand copies of a game, contributing to the tiny PSP library. It's more of a quantity problem than a library problem.

Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 515

Ok great, you like having an old system, more power to you.

But, but, that's exactly what they don't want!

Eh, I don't know about that. An old 500 MHz Celeron needs more power than most new laptops. And I'm pretty sure ENIAC needed quite a bit of power to run.

Comment Cyber? (Score 1) 90

Why is it that EVERYTHING that tries (and usually fails) to connect itself to the net label itself "cyber?" Seriously, can we come up with something different, like "Network Operations" or something that doesn't remind me of bad movies from the 80's?
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krou writes: A new study entitled "The Carbon Footprint of Spam" (registration required) by ICF International for McAfee claims that spam uses around 33 billion kilowatt hours of energy annually, which is approximately enough to power 2.4 million US homes, or approximately 3.1 million cars, for a year. They calculated that the average CO2 emission for a spam email is around 0.3 grams. Interestingly, the majority of energy usage (around 4/5ths) comes from users deleting spam, and searching for legitimate emails. They also claim that "An individual company can find that one fifth of the energy budget of its email system is wasted on spam". One of the reports authors, Richi Jennings, writes on his blog that "spam filtering actually saves an incredible amount of energy": "Imagine if every inbox were protected by a state-of-the-art spam filter. We could save about 75% of the spam energy used today--25 TWh per year; that's like taking 2.3 million cars off the road."

Comment Re:This is so arrogant (Score 1) 204

I can't believe it. You had and have Actors as heads of state, only two parties one can vote for, tolerate torture, infiltrate other countries ... WTF is democratic about that. Please go away and do not spread ANYTHING in the world, thank you.

I'm kind of surprised at all of the posts that reflect this kind of thinking. Please remember one thing: Just because YOU don't agree doesn't mean that you're in the majority. Even though people are trying to spread American Democracy©, this doesn't mean that everyone will adopt America's values: For example, say Iraq lawfully votes a religious leader into a public office using an Electoral College system. While I'll bet that a lot of Americans would cry foul, I'd consider that a successful implementation of the American democratic system, as long as it was fair.

Comment Re:Good reason to get shut (Score 1) 922

I hear you, it's just unclear what your point is. If I can absolutely prevent my family from coming to harm by killing a family half a world away I certainly would too.

This is of course a non-existent dilemma, though, in real life. In real life a more likely scenario is that family halfway around the world shares some attribute (ethnicity, religion, regional homeland) with a real threat, so your government tells you that killing them will make you safer. Your government is, most of the time, lying.

In that situation, you're right. But in the case that the GP is presenting, where an extremist from a specific area obtains a nuke, I'd rather glass the area than risk the chance of one exploding near me.

Comment Re:Yay. (Score 1) 425

Much more friendly than the accursed Microsoft though, still no progress (real) towards Linux on there, makes me wish I bought a PS3 :-/

Microsoft has the XNA API for homebrew games.... and they let you sell games on their network. I'd say that's pretty friendly.

Until you realize that you have to shell out $100/year to even test the game on your XBOX. I'm not saying that the PS3 is any better in terms of cost to actually ship a game via disk or direct download, but at least you can "develop" on the PS3 for free.

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