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  1. Re:WTF on Google Voice Opens To All · · Score: 1

    No, it's like me (an Irishman) being invited to your party where you offer "world cuisine" consisting of Texan, Mexican, Canadian & McDonalds (because we all know McDonalds is worldwide, right?) And you turn your nose up at my Irish Stew, because it's weird foreign food.

    Looking forward to the World Series this October?

  2. Re:might shatner boldly lead canada ? on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    I thought Picard was bold, not Kirk.

    And a Knight.

  3. Re:Can - You on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather Not.

  4. Re:in absolute terms, yes on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    If I am 30 and the child is 10, we wind on the clock forward to when I'm 40 and the 'child' is 20, then instead of being 1/3rd my age he's now 1/2, so must be catching up on me.

    The limit as time tends to infinity would put us at the same age, so he will eventually catch up on me.

    Thus any younger person is ageing faster than any older person

  5. Swyper on Toshiba Demos Dual-Touchscreen Netbook · · Score: 1

    Swyper would be great on this.

  6. Replace regular keyboard? on Swype Beta For Android Is Open, Temporarily · · Score: 1

    Is this something that could be useful in place of a hardware keyboard? There are IR projected devices, or some other invention perhaps, I dunno, where a touch input (Star Trek!!!) can be used in place of a key pressing physical device. Or are we not judging like for like? Is there software for use with normal keyboard that predicts what you type allowing you to use tab-completion or something?

  7. Re:Where is the DVD? on Made-For-Torrents Sci-Fi Drama "Pioneer One" Debuts · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know where I can get copies of FBI and piracy warnings to throw in before the show? My viewing experience is not the same without them.

  8. Review Time... on Better Development Through Competition? · · Score: 1

    “So Paul let me see what you’ve done for the first milestone”

    “Nothing Bill”

    “Nothing?”

    “Not a thing at all ”

    *A crash is heard outside*

    “Oh, I did reprogram the elevator to plummet 40 floors when the other two were in it.”

  9. Re:Life Life Life on Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Torn between modding this up and commenting on it.

    My Fiancé does not play games at all, not even worth considering casual. But we do play some co-op games, including Borderlands.

    I selected for her a sniper class so she wouldn’t have to rush into the middle of combat, while I picked the soldier (shotgun assault rifle) so I could ‘agro’ the masses.

    She finds it great fun sniping, and has even graduated to a bit of close combat fighting with a SMG, where before she would just panic when anything got in close. The important thing is that I’m always close by to shotgun her (as I got skill for friendly fire = heal) or the mobs around her if there are too many.

    The point is that a complicated game with missions, skill/talent points, and complicated-ish equipment ratings can be played by a casual gamer as long as they have help in choosing these things, don’t have to worry, and just enjoy the bits they like, with a possibility of graduating to managing these things on their own down the line.

    What annoys ME, is the lack of such games, where a casual gamer can play with a hardcore and not get owned all the time in head to head (FPS/Racing/Tekken etc).

    I wish there were more good co-op games (for the PS3) especially RPGs (I hear Sacred 2 blows).

    If you want to bridge the gap, then make more co-op games where you can get by if one player is able to handle all the complicated parts.

  10. Re:Has anyone considered... on Struggling To Bridge the Casual-Hardcore Game Gap · · Score: 1

    That might make sense if there were anywhere near 85 million WoW players.

    Also in the 5 years I've played WoW, I'd say I've had 3 times when the server was down for more than 20 minutes.

  11. Re:With apologies to Philip K. Dick on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    After spending the entire day being stroked , sometimes two fingers at a time, I bet they have some VERY raunchy dreams. Well at least they would if porn wasn't disabled on them.

  12. Okay Bill on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1

    This almost makes up for Giving the Feds emergency powers to control our internets.

    But I've still got my eyes on you.

  13. Re:Big surprise! on Australian Government May Shelve Internet Filter · · Score: 2

    Yet they have no problem with bestiality. They have been showing completely unclothed animals on TV since the early days of broadcast. They even use milk-dispensing body parts to advertise Milk products, sometimes even in cartoon form to get the attention of Children.

  14. Re:Big surprise! on Australian Government May Shelve Internet Filter · · Score: 1

    Ohhhh, You've been a BAD boy *cracks whip*

  15. And then after? on Australian Government May Shelve Internet Filter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So when you go ask a politician if they intend on bringing the filter online after the election, they won't answer you?

  16. Re:Psychohistory on DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you have not already been contacted to take part, it is because it had been mathematically determined that you would provide no useful input.

  17. I don't See on Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Set For Launch · · Score: 1

    Crysis is not on this list.

  18. Ring Ring Ring on San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings · · Score: 1

    Bananaphone!

  19. Re:New genre of games ? on Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving · · Score: 1

    I was once stopped for speeding on the highway.

    When the cop came to me I simply did up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, start and he let me off with a warning.

  20. Re:The question is... on Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting for: "The human hand, it's got an opposable thumbs, useful for in-numeral complex tasks. But will it blend?"

  21. Re:The difference between Microsoft & Apple on Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display · · Score: 1

    Microhard

  22. Re:Dark matter? on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know people will be drawing blasphemous pictures of Dark Matter

  23. Re:great on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 1

    now instead of scalping someone's finger to access their stuff, now i get to pull a hannibal lecter

    There, fixed that for you.

  24. Re:5 years from now we find out... on Newly Discovered Bacteria Could Aid Oil Cleanup · · Score: 1

    Yes, because we clearly didn't have that already either...

  25. Re:problem is with collecting, not separating on Newly Discovered Bacteria Could Aid Oil Cleanup · · Score: 1

    Yes, a machine that sucks more than Waterworld, that would definitely be newsworthy