Comment Makes me say, "Oh, my lord." (Score 1) 394

by Tpl2000 on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @02:01PM (#29734503) Attached to: Facebook User Arrested For a Poke

U can't touch this.

Comment Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score 1) 43

by Tpl2000 on Saturday May 16, 2009 @08:16AM (#27978027) Attached to: <em>Guitar Hero 5</em> To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching

Real guitar CAN be profitable in other ways, you know. A prime example would be a guitar teacher--if you're good enough, you can charge $100+ per lesson. I wasn't really speaking in terms of bands as big as RHCP, etc.

Comment Re:can someone explain guitar hero? (Score 2, Insightful) 43

by Tpl2000 on Friday May 15, 2009 @10:43PM (#27975689) Attached to: <em>Guitar Hero 5</em> To Allow Duplicate Instruments, Easy Switching

Real guitar IS a smash at parties--when done properly. That's actually a pretty decent reason to play guitar, believe it or not. And arguably, real guitar is much more fun. For the record...there are people who play guitar hero just as religiously as many play real guitar. Why not choose the one that's actually..y'know...profitable, portable, real, entertaining to those that are watching?

Comment So the cure would be (Score 1) 1079

by Tpl2000 on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @04:02PM (#27575909) Attached to: College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior

Installing linux on all of the campus' computers.

Comment Okay, seriously. (Score 1) 1306

by Tpl2000 on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @04:43PM (#27317831) Attached to: Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution

Assuming that this goes through, what will they do next? Teach that tectonic plates don't really exist, and all continents have always been exactly as they are? Or, more specifically, teach that all scientific theories are flawed, and have no basis, or place in the school curriculum? After they finish all that, they can tell us that all conclusions we make are false, because proof is provided. Damn.

Comment Re:With great genius comes great madness (Score 1) 232

by Tpl2000 on Sunday September 14, 2008 @07:25PM (#25002865) Attached to: David Foster Wallace an Apparent Suicide

Perhaps a rephrasing is in order? With great madness comes great genius?

Journal Journal: Anything preventing Ubuntu from working on my laptop?

Journal by Tpl2000 on Monday April 14, 2008 @09:33PM

Well, I officially can't stand vista, so I was thinking of switching to Ubuntu. Before I do that, I want to make sure there's nothing preventing Ubuntu from working on my Laptop. I've got a HP Pavilion DV2000 (dv2416us to be more specific) with 2gb of RAM, Nvidia GeForce Go 6150, AMD Turion64 x2, some 100GB of hard drive space. I honestly know very little about Ubuntu, so any information would be appreciated. As for the reason, I'm pretty sure it uses less RAM than Vista, at any rate, so I'm pre

Solar System Look-Alike Found 114

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 07, 2008 @05:44PM from the evil-twin dept.

SpuriousLogic writes "Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought."