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  1. Lack of customization is a plus on The Lameness of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes it would be pretty cool if you could make your character look different from all the other male Trolls running around, but keeping it just a few simple bodies that are only wearing different things is how the game stays so fast. If everyone looks completely different, every time you run through a city, your computer would have to load the graphic(and therefore need to be given the specs) for every character in the city instead of just which outline they chose and what the character is wearing. This would increase lag a ton and make it much harder for the game to run at fast speeds.

  2. We could all wake up to error messages like... on Bill Gates On the Past, Future, and Google · · Score: 1

    We are sorry to alert you that your ears are not compatible with the current brain you have installed... please call tech support at: 800-555-5555 to get the correct driver.

  3. Re:Surprise ! on New Phone Uses GPS To Locate Your Contacts · · Score: 1

    Or it could work for the evil enterprise as well... Theives or Vandalists... "Hurry get out theyre coming home"

  4. Re:Did no one realise this one? on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    or how about this one... 1. Invest in energy companies 2. Become president of the country that uses the most energy 3. Make policy to keep that country using lots of energy 4. Profit!

  5. Re:Depends on what you want to do with it on What Math Courses Should We Teach CS Students? · · Score: 1

    I am currently a CS major with a minor in business at Penn State. I feel that we are basically required to take a well rounded number of math related classes. Many of them are under the guise of CSE classes or CSE/MATH classes but were are required to take 2 Stat classes, 3 Calc classes, 2 Logic classes, 1 Algorithms class and a few others that aren't very relevant. Unless you know before you graduate a specific field of study that you want to go into great depth about, I think that the key is to be well rounded so that you have at least a general understanding of the biggest amount of things. Lets say I come to a problem about very complex statistics. Since I didnt specialize in statistics, I may not know how to work it out exactly, but when I search and find items to read up on to understand the complex statistics, they will most likely use many statistical references that I do understand. You can never really know exactly what kind of work you will be doing and what experience you will need to accomplish it until you get to that point so it is important to be well rounded and prepared for anything.

  6. Re:Well on Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention · · Score: 1

    It is also illegal to sell marijuana but technically you are still supposed to pay taxes on them. These taxes were long ago found to just be a trap(i don't know who would be that dumb), but they still exist.