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Comment Re:Car analogy (Score 0) 403

by N1CK3Y (#38378564) Attached to: Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony
Hey, looky-look what I got here! It's NBA Streets Vol. 2 for Nintendo Gamecube and - OH - What's that? A PAL logo? What could it possibly mean? And what do those cryptic scripture on the other side mean? Let me read this for you : "IMPORTANT: Utiliser seulement avec la version PAL de la NINTENDO GAMECUBE. N'est pas compatible avec les versions Japonaises, U.S. ou Brésiliennes de la NINTENDO GAMECUBE" I think this barely translates to : "Screw you, Americunt!"

Comment Re:Bollocks. (Score 1) 483

by N1CK3Y (#33285450) Attached to: Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away

Having used flash on the HTC Desire and Nexus One on a regular basis, that's bollocks. Flash performs well on those platforms. Any slowness experienced is due to crappy 3G networks and typically goes away after switching to Wifi.

Explain this to me again when my Wildfire slows down and crashes while I'm connected on my own WPA2 WiFi and whitelisting my own MAC adress only... If a 1GHz processor is what it takes to use Flash confortably, I'd rather not use it.

Comment Good job (Score 1) 624

by N1CK3Y (#31734024) Attached to: iPad Jailbroken
All the comments around here are all about how iPad is overpriced and stuff or how superior it is to it's competition. Here is the time for something different : congratulations. Cracking the iPad in 24 hours sure wasn't a piece of cake (or maybe it was?) and I must thank the guy who has done this in the name of all iPad owners (don't own one, don't plan to) because of the freedom it gives them, whether they realise it or not. They chose the most closed and evil competitor but, now, things are different.

Comment This doesn't matter anymore (Score 1) 66

by N1CK3Y (#31722950) Attached to: Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design?
I think this doesn't really matter anymore. I mean Flash is in it's decline. More and more websites start supporting HTML5, CSS is also starting to provide features that make Flash more useless. Not to talk about Flash performance or the fact that it is proprietary. Flash is dying and I think it's a good thing. Flash's omnipresence on the internet is pure evil IMHO.
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Science Attempts To Explain Heaven 692

Posted by kdawson from the what-gene-codes-for-the-harps dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek about the thesis that heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event, but rather something that happens in your brain as you die. The thesis is based, in part, on a growing body of research around near-death experience. According to a 2000 article by Bruce Greyson in The Lancet, between 9 and 18 percent of people who have been demonstrably near death report having had an NDE. Surveys of NDE accounts show great similarities in the details, describing: a tunnel, a light, a gate or a door, a sense of being out of the body, meeting people they know or have heard about, finding themselves in the presence of God, and then returning, changed. Scientists have theorized that NDEs occur as a kind of physiological self-defense mechanism when, in order to guard against damage during trauma, the brain releases protective chemicals that also happen to trigger intense hallucinations. This theory has gained traction after scientists realized that virtually all the features of an NDE can be reproduced with a stiff dose of ketamine, a short-acting, hallucinogenic, dissociative anesthetic. 'I came out into a golden Light. I rose into the Light and found myself having an unspoken interchange with the Light, which I believed to be God,' wrote one user of his experience under ketamine. 'Dante said it better,' writes Miller, 'but the vision is astonishingly the same.'"

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