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  1. Re:Shit gets shittier on Another Windows 8 Pre-Beta Surfaces · · Score: 1

    No, your just people who choose to use a program that requires more keystrokes/clicks to accomplish the same task as Office 2003.

    I'm no MS apologist, but I would like to see an example of what you're talking about.

  2. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Why not measure drywall in metric to begin with? 1.2m is only slightly less than 48", and 40cm is roughly 16".

  3. Re:St. Louis video game museum on San Francisco Opening Computer & Video Game Museum · · Score: 2

    The Museum of Play in Rochester, NY is home of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, if you're looking for another video game museum :)

  4. Re:MAAAAAAAAAEMOOOOOOOOE! on Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta For Android, Maemo · · Score: 1

    You could probably run gimp in maemo, if that's what you're asking.

  5. Re:dev IE9 and dev FF vs release Chrome? on IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look, apart from the fact that it was a little too heavy on my ram (FAR less than FF btw) Opera was ok, BUT i thought it was unfortunate that they filled it with superfluous crap. Like the massive toolbar on top which is now a tiny toolbar that FF4 is copying quite directly, the animated tab switch thingo (which you could disable mind), and that annoying dialer thing which every browser has now

    FTFY

  6. Re:Well on 'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC · · Score: 1

    Is that a Yogiism? Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded?

    I'm from the Lakes Region. Crowded has nothing to do with it. It's only crowded one or two weeks of the year unless you go somewhere like Wolfeboro where it is crowded all summer because of the out-of-staters.

    Anyway, the real reason nobody wants to go to the Lakes Region is because it is awful

  7. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    1. If you believe in god, why would the existence of aliens prove that god doesn't exist?

    Read Genesis. God created the heavens, the Earth, Man and assorted other critters and varmints. God creating aliens is never mentioned. And the Bible is infallible, so UFOs with an alien crew would put theologists in a bit of a bind. And in the part about Noah's Ark, it is never mentioned that Noah rounded up two aliens.

    I am not religious so I don't know the rules, but could it be, perhaps, that the bible tells a story of creation but not necessarily the WHOLE story? There are already a startling number of details left out (I imagine whoever actually wrote Genesis did this to keep it from being disproved), I wouldn't be surprised if another world and its inhabitants were left out especially if it's all something we were meant to discover on our own.

  8. Re:Or.. on Alien Swarm Can Be Played As a Terrifying FPS · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you all like games with real life tactics better? Not the aim for the head!, or finish the guy off with a pistol at 300 yds kind...

    Absolutely not. In fact I can't stand the trend of shooters trying to be super realistic. It's one of the reasons I still play Quake 3 after >10 years.

  9. Re:In other news... on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Just call yourself the Fat Alcoholic Smoker Association of America and you could easily get 500 billion

  10. Re:modest proposal on Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, Apple will offer their 'Doing Apple' to give us all some choice - but at the same time will sue anyone trying to 'Do Nothing' or 'Do Something' and not 'Doing Apple'...

    Not to mention all the early adopters of the first-gen iDo are gonna get screwed when the new one comes out next year

  11. Re:An Opportunity on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you also have a few random garbage generators installed on the system, that also makes it look more plausible.

    Luckily, several of these are built into Windows itself!

  12. Re:One step closer to the one-button computer! on Multimodal, Multitouch Gaming Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, I also saw some windows laptops were coming out with multitouch pads... I'm very excited about those.

    Just about any new-ish laptop with a Synaptics touchpad (all of them) supports multitouch, even netbooks.

  13. Re:Swype on 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared · · Score: 1

    Better yet, I wonder how well a setup like HexInput would perform.

  14. Outside on Life Imagined As One Big RPG · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Eh? on Nokia, Intel Merge Maemo, Moblin Into MeeGo · · Score: 1

    All Linux distros can potentially run on ARM ...

    All Windows distros can potentially run

    Well played

  16. Re:What they NEED? on Warner To End Free Streaming of Its Content · · Score: 1

    And from now on, Warmer music isn't worth listening to me.

    I've always preferred Cooler music anyway.

  17. Re:Eerily? on Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over "iPad" Name · · Score: 1

    [...] except that their lawyer is a ghost pirate [...]

    Is he a ghost pirate or a pirate ghost?

  18. Re:The Appeal of Mass Market Gaming on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales · · Score: 1

    Regardless of Mario's success, I'm sure we can expect to see about 12 of the same first person shooter arrive this fall

  19. Re:Damn! on Scientists Use Quake 2 To Study the Brains of Mice · · Score: 1

    This sort of sounds like the text file explanation of some of the characters from the first Quake, who had a similar device embedded in their brains.

  20. Re:Your are not the only one looking... on Good PDF Reader Device With Internet Browsing? · · Score: 1

    I don't even buy textbooks for school anymore if there's a PDF version available, now that I have an n810 and an 8gb card.

  21. 360 Muppets on Increase In Xbox 360 E74 Problems · · Score: 1

    ANA/HANA
    Doot doooo do-do-do.

  22. Re:DANGER on Breaking Into Games Writing? · · Score: 1

    To be fair the Game Development degree at RIT is basically the same as their IT or CS degrees, plus advanced study classes (AI, 3d graphics programming, procedural shading, etc) and co-op education. So, there ARE some legitimate "game design" degree programs at respectable schools ... BUT... this example is geared more toward development and some art than anything else. IMO you're probably better off being an English major or something, or maybe you could just major/minor in CS and Literature. It's still better than some chain college game design course- Rochester Institute of Technology is a much better idea than Art Institute, DeVry or most two year "factory schools" which exist just to get you out the door.

  23. Re:shrouding? on id, Raven Developers Discuss New Wolfenstein · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to mention "Injun-Mode" in Prey

  24. Re:Tr2n? on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I think "2ron" would make more sense but either way, having the 2 in there looks rather stupid

  25. Re:Message to people who gripe about interfaces on Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender · · Score: 1

    Maybe YOU can't figure it out with video tutorials. Blender does have a slight learning curve if you've used another 3D application since it's so different, but just like high school chemistry, you reach a certain point where you just "get it." Unfortunately, also just like high school chemistry, no one seems to care enough to learn. I've been using Blender for a while and I think 3DS Max has one of the worst interfaces I've ever seen. Honestly, what the hell IS that?