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  1. Re:Steam is horrible for impulse buys on Game Retailers Hurting Themselves With Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Do any brick and mortar stores allow that anymore? I thought it went out with the onset of CD/DVD burners.

  2. Re:not Bethesda, Obsidian on Bethesda Announces New Fallout Game For 2010 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To me NWN2 LOOKED fantastic.

    I might never know though, since on release it was unplayable due to stability and gameplay bugs.

    Consider me less than enthused about Obsidian's involvement.

  3. Re:From experience on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Who do you work for again?

  4. Re:hmm .... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    "It's a form issue in my case which the shoe helps to correct. I'm guessing those people who run barefoot have really good form"

    Meaning, not everyone is put together perfectly from the hip down, and quality running shoes help compensate for things like bad arches, foot pronation or supination or similar.

    Running with any of that stuff going on means the intricate machine that is the leg isn't absorbing shock the way it's "supposed" to, and a whole world of hurt (as the OP suggested) is the result.

  5. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    I've always heard (from track and CC friends and classmates) that running on the balls of your feet is bad form (I'd always assumed injury inducing) --is that just a common misconception or what?

  6. Re:Heavy Metal.... Loudly on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Check out Stormwarrior, Ensiferum, Wintersun, Eluveitie, and Nile, all favorites on my at work playlist.

  7. From experience on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    within arm's reach of a pint of stout.

  8. Re:Cost will fall flat... on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 1

    Small business owners have always dealt with this mindset.

    Possibly off topic but this is really widespread in everyday consumers as well, not just business people--A common discovery among craftspeople is setting a "fair" price and finding items don't move until they double it.

  9. Re:Announcement today by Fictionwise on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens · · Score: 1

    To be sure, if you're a regular customer it's a nice enough system, but as someone who's not, and is (so far) unfamiliar with FW's selection I'd rather be able to spend the refund where I please.

    That said, they seem to have some history books that look good, so I may go along with it.

  10. Re:Libel troll protection on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens · · Score: 1

    Doubtful. Most people won't bother, unless FlyingBishop is set to become the next JK Rowling.

  11. Re:Announcement today by Fictionwise on eReader.com Limits E-book Sales To US Citizens · · Score: 1

    I'd be significantly more interested if I could just have the books for free (like Amazon does with its promotions) rather than having to pay for them and getting the total in store credit.

  12. Re:Not sure what is wrong with Tierd service on Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests · · Score: 1

    The problem is the structure of the tiers.

    Rather than having it work like electricity, where there is a peak and off peak rate per kWh, and paying for what you use, it would end up being more like a cell phone plan, where you pay for 10 gigs, and if you go over by a kilobyte suddenly THAT bandwidth costs fifty times as much.

    At least my cell provider rolls over minutes (to a certain extent) each month if I don't use them; you can bet Time Warner would not be so gracious towards people who don't fully utilize what they pay for.

  13. Re:BMW/Mini on the other hand... on Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta · · Score: 1

    8 thousand dollars to drive a car for a year. Christ it's no wonder they're having to make an effort to get people to drive them.

  14. Re:I've seen this first hand on Why IT Won't Power Down PCs · · Score: 1

    Only useless when others know they're inflated.

  15. Re:Unfortunately I'm a Bit Skeptical on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    For all we know it was insured and replaced. People still leave negative feedback for the most asinine things, often as a way of getting back at the sender for some slight.

  16. Re:From "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    I grew up in the country, asshole.

    I think I'm qualified to comment.

  17. Re:Touch Sceen and Pay System on NYC Wants Ideas For "Taxi Technology 2.0" · · Score: 1

    "Shut up and work or you can kiss all your tips for this week goodbye" -Taxi company

  18. Re:Do-over on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Lucky.

    My current home, (Charlotte) has, as i understand it, an almost nil chance of getting FIOS in the near future :(

  19. Re:Do-over on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    It's not a bad example, although it may fit better in a local sense, where there may be "You go here if you live within X miles and tough luck if you don't like it" sort of rules. Charter schools among other things are making it less so, lately.

  20. Re:Do-over on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Between labor and equipment it quite probably did cost them that. Why they decided to do it, who knows. Are there many houses between yours and the road that might be hooked up later?

  21. Re:Do-over on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    Don't forget: the phone company will insist their shit is working just fine and that it's the provider's issue. Good luck.

  22. Re:Don't call it a baloot.. on Sophisticated Balloons Could Help Steer Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I feel better seeing i wasn't the only person to think of this

  23. Hygeine on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile Linux users everywhere are scratching their heads.

    If they'd shower a bit more often scalp dryness wouldn't be a problem.

  24. Calling florida solar panel users: on Florida To Build Solar-Powered City · · Score: 1

    I assume you can rig these things to be armored against flying debris and high wind for hurricane season...right? Or is it just accepted that every so often you're gonna need to replace one?

  25. Re:From "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    Palin is likely one of the most benign things to come from that "secondary america"