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Comment Re:Well that explains the Starcraft II delay.... (Score 1) 245

It's just a matter of time before we have our own Ender Wiggin . . . "Real. Not a game. Ender's mind was too tired to cope with it all. They weren't just points of light in the air, they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And a real world that he had blasted into oblivion. He walked through the crowd, dodging their congratulations, ignoring their hands, their words, their rejoicing. When he got to his own room he stripped off his clothes, climbed into bed, and slept."

Comment Re:Can parents take their children out of class? (Score 2, Insightful) 507

Sure, you can tell the school that you don't want your child/children present when this is taught -- and they will most likely comply . . . they also may forward your name and address to the RIAA (and to the House & Senate Committees on Un-American Activites, and whatever other institutions "subversives" get reported to . . . ).

Comment Re:Well, Look at Their Monthly Revenue (Score 1) 188

Did you read the article? They employ around 4000+ people on WoW alone.

Support staff:

Brack went on to talk about the customer support staff, a group with 2,056 game masters, 340 billing managers, and a host of other background staffers. These tireless staffers also work from locations around the world, ensuring that any local variations in culture (or the game) are respected.

Comment Re:All wrong - space travels should be private (Score 1) 206

>>>no profit motive

- Tourism (vacation on the moon or mars!)
- Mining raw materials.
- Services for the tourists/miners like housing, restaurants, and entertainment.

That's the same way we settled desolate areas like Wyoming or Arizona. And before you (or somebody else) say "we shouldn't disturb these heavenly bodies with mining," then I have to respond: If you're going to take that outlook on space exploration then you might as well stay on Earth until the sun explodes and makes humanity go extinct. We either colonize other worlds and make them favorable for habitation, or we stay here and die as a species. That's the choice.

Comment Re:Virtual PC (Score 1) 521

Unless Microsoft can manage something like the Rosetta emulator in Mac OS X, which lets PowerPC apps run on x86 machines.

Come on here, we're talking about a company that is putting a virtualized Windows XP inside Vista 7, both running on x86, because their API's are so broken they can't even map them to themselves cleanly. (sup dawg, I heard you like computer crashes so I put a Windows in your Windows, so you can bluescreen while you bluescreen!)

Comment Re:RAID is here to stay (Score 1) 444

Personally, I like to rotate drives around. That is, pull a few (one at a time) from the RAID and put them aside for when another RAID is built. This gives a variety of drives at different ages to help prevent failures from clustering.

Comment Re:This System is mostly worthless (Score 1) 320

You're right -- the system is mostly worthless to the civilian. The original intent of the color-coded scheme was to provide guidance to law enforcement agencies. Each color actually corresponds to specific guidelines for them.

I'm not defending the program as such -- just clarifying the DHS's original intent as best I understand it.

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