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  1. Re:get rid of multitouch already on Apple Counter-Sues Motorola Over Touchscreen Patents · · Score: 1

    He already gets a plus one for posting his name correctly.

  2. Re:CAPTCHA on Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning · · Score: 1

    So will be be running all learning material through CAPTCHA generator ?

    Only if the font is that knockoff of Helvetica, damn I hate that font. Anything to keep all the letters from looking the same!

  3. Difficult to Read? on Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning · · Score: 1

    I'd hardly think so.

    I need serifs and find 12-point Bodoni MT at 75% greyscale is much easier to read and perhaps comprehend. The Kindle 3 still has about the same contrast and just as "horrid" a font as Bodoni @ 75% greyscale, but it has serifs and therefore is easy enough to read.

    Maybe I'll try Bodoni MT at 12 point on the Kindle. I would also opt for Cambia.

    Arial may be clear and discernible at great distances but I'd not say Arial is a reading font (especially at 16 pt). Everyone I hand papers to needs serifs and ask for Times New Roman 12 pt. Even my excel sheets must be 12pt Times New Roman. There is no doubt Helvetica, Ariel, and Verdana (And perhaps Calibri) are humanistic, clear when printed or read. But clarity does not equate to readability.

    On the topic of Fonts: Does anyone else love Consolas? I love it in Terminal and TextEdit!

  4. Re:Spoiler Alert on Behind the Special Effects of Inception · · Score: 1

    *sometimes* meets certain criteria. It's in the movie. The explanation is not random.

  5. Re:Okay, so... on 100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site · · Score: 1

    Your right.

    The only hack here is CmdrTaco's account by a one Mrs. kdawson, wanted in a string of internet highway robberies.

  6. Re:Spoiler Alert on Behind the Special Effects of Inception · · Score: 1

    How do we know that?

    That's how people leave the dream world.

    Cobb wanted Mal to go on her own.

    Why didn't Mal simply kill Cobb before she committed suicide?

    Good question, why didn't she? Would that make the whole story mute? She didn't need to, I don't think she really could have kill him because someone from his subconscious would probably stopped her. Who knows? The fact is she could have, but didn't. Thank goodness she's gone and dead for real!

  7. Re:Spoiler Alert on Behind the Special Effects of Inception · · Score: 1

    You're dreaming! The cake isn't real and don't drink the Kool-Aid, take the blue pill. If she could go back and rescue him, all she had to do was take out a Colt 45 and shoot him. Unless she woke up strapped down in a scientific laboratory. She seems too boring and plain for a subject of scientific inquiry. Furthermore, she was too villainous, all the Jordanians in my theater clapped when she died. They almost got me clapping but the movie was not yet over. Take the characters at face value, do they deserve to live or to they deserve to remain a figment of your imagination?