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"this, by far, deserves more diggs than the comedy antics of a 'state trooper'" - Michael Guy

"i would be more worried if Dell decided to buy up near apple store real estate. and even then, not enough to think twice about it." - Michael Guy

"congrats to you for kicking one habit, and moving onto another one. you traded one addiction for another one that is more socially acceptable. while i can sympathise, addiction is something that the individual has to deal with as part of their personality, it's not WoW's fault that the achievement/reward was more than compelling enough to keep you playing for that time. its addictive. yes. but it's not as if you can teach addiction awareness to kids or teens or adults. oh wait..." - Michael Guy

"congrats to you for kicking one habit, and moving onto another one. you traded one addiction for another one that is more socially acceptable. while i can sympathise, addiction is something that the individual has to deal with as part of their personality, it's not WoW's fault that the achievement/reward was more than compelling enough to keep you playing for that time. its addictive. yes. but it's not as if you can teach addiction awareness to kids or teens or adults. oh wait..." - Michael Guy

Time Machine. These decisions are all easier once you sell your soul to Mr. Jobs. - Craig from IM

Video, please??? =P - Dani Figueiredo

Anyone on Windows, bootcamping or virtual, should use this site and download the updater too. Very useful. - Outsanity

i always recommend this site for people who suddenly *need* antivirus, v. helpful. - Michael Guy

I recommend AppFresh for Mac users. - Tom

"according to http://www.blizzard.com/us... pandaren lager is on the menu :)" - Michael Guy

"america's not a democracy. it's a republic with an interchangeable dictator. you were misled into this democracy business, it's no longer anything like a democracy, get over it." - Michael Guy

"long story short - games are audio-visual mediums telling stories about war, history, life, sic. therefore it's art, art is valid, so by watching me beat this virtual stranger to death with a baseball bat or jumping into a sewer pipe to rescue a princess, it's now art. ART. do you feel informed ? i've saved you ~49 page ads, 2000 words of drivel." - Michael Guy

"i never think 'digg's are anything other than measuring sensationalism/audience in a topic." - Michael Guy

"point 1. politics, like money, influences people. while you might imagine politics is something manageable like money, it's very hard to ask someone with a lot of power, to hand it back. arguing that the solution to commercial failure is to let someone back into the game so they can win it all back, is presumptive on so many levels, mostly that the market works if you keep letting people back in if they fail. how do you 'supposed' it happened that politicians meddling in the market was the cause, solution or problem, and that the answer is now, opening up controls to a handful of investors and brokers who don't have anyone's interests except their own ? you need to step back a step, and preface your argument for each point, since it's obvious to you that a free-market economy is vital, but it's ultimately questionable as to wether or not the current political system can handle a truly free-market economic system. can it ? you might believe in free-market economics, but what's your..." - Michael Guy

"try using jaikoz, it integrates MusicIP and musicbrainz metadata, it's also fantastic for bulk-tagging, and filling in metadata in selective bundles. i.e. highlight the album and remote-correct, then if it fails to sync up, undo and try manually tagging one file for the 'proper' name from the Musicbrainz library, then copy/pasting the proper album name (or just copying the MB album id), artist, year, country release, cover art, etc. it's not great at loading more than 2-3,000 songs at a time (java memory alloc is poor i guess.) but you can bulk-tag albums or compilations and the metadata quite easily." - Michael Guy

"reminds me of SUPER's badly run website that stops you from downloading the program. also, front page 2.0 from 1998." - Michael Guy

"the problem with all tagging is ... bulk tagging usually sucks balls if you don't know what it's supposed to be. if you do, making it easy is a great thing. T, the godfather, itunes tagging, etc. makes sense, you can see what those 20 songs are supposed to be, artist bios, genres, release dates, compilation info, etc. 2,000 songs later, do you really want to spend 5 minutes per album, picking between country releases or release dates, placing songs into multiple genres, etc. if you've left the problem alone for a few months, years, etc. you won't remember what an album is if itunes hasn't tagged it properly, and when you import into the bulk taggers, it's 'track 01 01 01.mp4' now, instead of that GTA4 soundtrack or a top 10 compilation disc you grabbed off the cover of a magazine, etc. T doesn't do this." - Michael Guy

"i also never had a smooth experience with FixTunes, kept breaking MP4 files and breaking official compilations into random albums, etc. plus their trial is a bad, bad idea, 50 songs is meaningless if it won't work for the kinds of songs you don't see in the first 50 that show up. useless" - Michael Guy

"mostly because they all use ffmpeg or mencoder to convert, as does VLC. and since ffmpeg doesn't handle subtitles almost at all, neither do these frontends." - Michael Guy

"this would be valid, if i could end up downloading the 9gb open beta at more than 20kb/sec. a truly sucky release though, i can't wait for the retail game to get pirated and released properly, by "professionals"" - Michael Guy

"i, for one, welcome our internet overlords, all hail google." - Michael Guy

"29 ! ... after two minutes, i was just throwing in adjectives for the words i wanted to be there, completely forgot what i was supposed to be doing." - Michael Guy

"you know, by not using my amazon referrals link, youre making me lose $890 million dollars this christmas. oh wait, i don't have an amazon referral link, carry on." - Michael Guy

"well, at least you know you're being screwed up front, instead of behind your back. that's being conscientious of your dignity while they give the reach around. this, along with the THQ decision to boycott australia and new zealand, is completely unforgivable and rightly appaling business practises." - Michael Guy

"i think the worst part of the EA's PR "maneuver" to get games onto macs is that they are all are cider ports, which you can do yourself if you download cider from transgaming's website and wrap it around bf2142 or cnc3, etc. its not native code, it's windows directx code running under emulation layers, the same way that linux gamers run games under cedega or wine. you can almost do the same thing with steam and halflife 2 / team fortress 2, run it entirely in cider and play the game from within the emulation. it wont work all that well, but it's an option. if valve got a native steam portal running for OS X PPC and intel users, they could use it to really get developers from all aspects to pitch in and develop a solid delivery platform for mac apps and linux apps by extension, the code is similar enough to be made universal for all platforms, and just stick emulation around the packages in a pinch. and it's relatively easy to do. aspyr has done this in it's game agent for notifying of..." - Michael Guy

"i read the tagline and thought, well, you really have to stand up before you flush ..." - Michael Guy

"its a pain, since the enlightenment "team" haven even bothered to put up a "given up, gone home for the day, here's what ive got so far" release for DR17 of enlightenment in over a year, neither have they sent it off to a few people to build a stable or even remotely complete version other than DR16 to the repositories to create .deb/ .ebuild / .rpm files for the common distro's. given that linux is entirely fed by word of mouth in some ways due to the lacsadistic qualities of non-conformity, it definitely requires a propulsive momentum to help out, slapping the word alpha on the end and sending it out to the common people might just be enough to get a few excellent people to contribute code and not give it up as a lost cause." - Michael Guy

"considering the difficulty i had with gentoo & amd64 last year when it was *new*, ubuntu is almost juvenile in it's difficulties. TBH, i havent really had it running more than a few days, so i might try running WoW in WINE now that it's an option. i could try loading WoW or Civ4 in cedega, but $60 for a vote + emulation that WINE does well, i don't see the benefit. heh, maybe iĺl see if adobe CS3 works in WINE, i won't hold my breath." - Michael Guy

"100 reasons why ubuntu is getting better. maybe. still, it's a great list of threads from ubuntu forum howto's that, while good, are written out almost verbatim from dozens of other linux forums that have jumped through the same hoops and foibles in getting their hardware and apps to work. i know i've read the same kind of material on the gentoo forums for sure, though popularity and a good kernel modules package helps a lot with getting those users who would give up pretty quickly once they realise how much work is involved going past apps as packages. yey for linux." - Michael Guy

just another hyped blog ... - Michael Guy

"quotes from the self-help manual The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates" - Michael Guy

"quotes from the self-help manual The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates" - Michael Guy

essentially a top list of the scifi/fantasy novels and series, that one should at least be slightly familiar with one, or all of the novels listed to get some idea of the depth and breadth of the genre - Michael Guy

essentially a top list of the scifi/fantasy novels and series, that one should at least be slightly familiar with one, or all of the novels listed to get some idea of the depth and breadth of the genre - Michael Guy