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  1. Re:I returned Return to Zork in one day on Game Difficulty As a Virtue · · Score: 1

    I cut the bonding plant instead of rooting it and wondered why I couldn't go into the comedy club and had to play the whole thing again hehehe. Quite challenging.

  2. Re:Michio Kaku on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah but not all 41 trillion operations were devoted entirely to logics in that 0.68 seconds. The Borg queen practically felt him up and kept licking on the that piece of skin on his face. That stimuli is a lot of operations for an android you insensitive clod.

  3. Re:bleach is great but focus on antibiotics on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 0, Troll

    I used to pour strong base down the drain in my basement every night. Now I got older, less often.

  4. Re:Go Vegan on Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef · · Score: 1

    no sir you got it all wrong, it means drooling over Alexa Vega on google images:

    http://images.google.com.hk/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enHK291HK303&sourceid=chrome&q=vega&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

  5. Re:Simpsons Already Did It! on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    While "being eroticise" as you said could be valid, it might also had to do with the fact that we had less media back then to shout about boobs. However, that didn't stop me from thinking that on a personal level, males were still fixated on the bouncy bouncy when they had nice athletic sex. It's just less talked about.

    The way you said it sounded like nipples and breasts were less sensitive 200 years ago, which I believe isn't true.

  6. Re:Computer Science != Computer Skills on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok sure, it's like when a car runs out of gasoline, you have to fill it up. But sometimes you do it with 87 octane and you know it's not enough.

    So you go to the supermarkets, and get a can of green peas and also a copy of electronic gaming monthly. You head back to the car and all of a sudden, the 87 octane didn't seem so bad cuz if you filled it with 93, you would've have the peas.

    Get it?

  7. Re:Computer Science != Computer Skills on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 1

    A closer analogy I think is:

    Knowing how to make a pizza and then making it, doesn't mean it'll taste good. And, making good pizza doesn't mean you know exactly what you did, you're just talented.

  8. Computer Science != Computer Skills on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I super hates stories like this that generalize "computer skills" with computer science. Most of the programmers I know aren't gamers, and most gamers aren't programmers. Most of the programmers have great skills solving a computer science problem, but might run into problems with diagnosing a hardware/software conflict to make their legacy Soundblaster Audigy work with Battlefield 2 (as an example).

    For a car analogy *ahem* this is just like, a godlike car mechanic might not be a "good" driver, whatever good means, and a good driver might not be able to fix cars. Both driving and fixing are skills. Teaching kids to make games doesn't magically make him/her a better computer user. It doesn't teach them to Win-L when they walk away from the terminal.

  9. more reading, less doing. on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What concerns me most is that the next generation might spend more time reading about something and not have the time to actually DO them. I find the information overload very annoying already at work. Mostly emails. And I feel myself slowly being trained into ASKING for the info rather than experimenting and have your own observation in things.

    Don't know how to put it in better words.

  10. Re:Linux Gripes on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 1

    And instead of all these talking bullshit, I actually told all my relatives and friends (except my parents of course hehe) to fuck off asking me for help. Let's see how "easy" it is now.

    I think the geek squad just need to stop helping Windows noobs if we REALLY want to see the movement to alternative OS. Just say no, sorry.

  11. Ask your boss to cut your pay for a week. on How Do You Volunteer Professional Services? · · Score: 1

    Brah, this is too easy, why not just ask your boss to pay you 1 week less. Done!!

  12. Re:Linux Gripes on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 1

    I agree. But with just a normal XFX 9800GT, Win 7 installation fails to load the proper driver and after the boots, I only see black screen (right before the login windows supposed to come up).

    Luckily I installed Win 7 on a separate HDD and had the option to boot whatever I want with a BIOS boot order. I doubt a soccer mom would have a 9800GT but can you imagine the chaos if she only had 1 HDD?

    It's not just me man, if it were I would be fscked. "Luckily" it wasn't just me, so that I was able to google this up with the XP HDD.

  13. Re:Linux Gripes on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry it wasn't shift F10 then, it's a key combo I needed to push after the first boot of the installation to bring up the command prompt to run something else. It's related to installing the correct Nvidia driver that Win 7 installation fails to load properly in device manager.

    The APIC dance was after installation :P For some reason, my Win 7 only installs when the BIOS is in PIC mode. It was always in APIC mode in XP. So after installation, I had to google again how to make it APIC in order for the OS to see 2 cores. Clean installs on a fresh physical HDD btw.

    It was nightmare.

  14. Re:Linux Gripes on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The installation of Windows 7 took me 3 night on 3 work days. The struggle to set the BIOS from APIC to PIC to install, and back to APIC once installed and boots properly. These Shift-F10 crap is "insider" knowledge. However, I didn't need this insider knowledge when installing Ubuntu. It just works. To rephrase, I don't need to dig deeper in Ubuntu than I needed to as Windows.

    Both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) works just fine for soccer moms, it's the person installing and maintaining it that sees the crap in each. If you don't play games, I vote for Ubuntu. Even though I don't use it much and it serves as an HTPC for me, I can see the raw speed from the same hardware.

  15. Jessica Alba Nude beats Unicycle Clown repeatedly. on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 1

    What a fail. Why do you think they call it Uni-versity? It's full of unicycles. And to see clowns in university? Pfftt.. Aren't they supposed to be filled with those too?

    Next time, try a Scarlett Johansson nude doing a kick flip!!!

  16. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    exactly. If people find pixar's stuff still too realistic as a comparison to the Wii, try beavis and butthead, the simpsons, even chip and dale.

    Content is king. I wish I can name a realistic cartoon that sucked but with HD. I can't.

  17. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 0

    good for him :)

  18. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly bro, ever notice the people in Pixar's film don't exactly look like people? Yet their movie completely rocks? It's always the content. The actors do play a part but if you've seen great actors in shit high budget movies you'd know what I mean :)

  19. Re:eating on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 1

    duh.. ever heard of ice?.. wait..

  20. Re:Stunt on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    it's better than trying too soft..

  21. Re:So these guys keep wanting to prove my point! on Gran Turismo 5 Delayed · · Score: 1

    Now, if you actually read any articles and interviews, the GT guys seem to want to add every single possible gametype to the game.
    WRC, F1, Nascar, 'standard' racing cars and of course modified real cars too. Apparently they are going to be able to handle the driving physics and engines for all these types

    Welcome to TOCA Race Driver.

  22. Re:Gran Duke Nukem Turismo... on Gran Turismo 5 Delayed · · Score: 1

    are you nuts? DC was crazy taxi!!! :)

  23. Re:If it didn't happen, it wouldn't have happened. on How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just want to point out 1 more important factor in contacting, or meeting other civilizations in the universe: Time.

    The age of our sun is a blink of an eye in the cosmological time scale. It's like tiny little lightbulbs going on and off and on and off. We might not reach an "on" one before ours turns "off", the destination is simply not turned on yet. It's a very lonely picture, but highly probable.

  24. CS? on Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images · · Score: 1
  25. Mach3. on More On enTourage's Dual-screen E-Book Reader · · Score: 1

    Behold! My 3 screens ebook!!! lolbbq, before you know it, you'd be holding a 143 screen ebook containing all 143 pages of Technology for Dummies.