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Comment Re:I guess I'm just old school... (Score 2) 268

I find that sentences describing my thoughts about the service in question and mapped to leet-speak are easy to remember for a large number of sites.

Some hypothetical examples:

1. Slashdot: d0tc0m1.0d1n0s4ur
2. Twitter: 0hg0dwh0c4r3z4b0utth1zsh1t
3. Flickr: 3y3y4mh3r3f0rth3b00b13z--3y3m34n4rt

Comment The left lane (Score 1) 717

Regardless of how fast you're going, PLEASE only use the left lane for passing other vehicles. People seem to be mostly okay with this point on a 2 lane highway, but it applies to 6 lane freeways as well. If you are not actively passing all other vehicles on the roadway, move over. Especially if someone is coming up behind you at a greater rate of speed.

Comment Let them know how you feel (Score 3, Insightful) 385

The message I just sent to billing@blizzard.com:

Just a quick note to let you guys know that I've recently read news articles describing your actions against individuals using single-player mode cheats in SC3, specifically locking them out of their accounts and forbidding even local play. Having been already annoyed by your decision to forbid LAN play in SC3 and require Battle.Net I have decided that your recent actions tip you over onto the "companies who are too evil to give money to" side of the consumer equation.

I had been looking forward to purchasing and playing Diablo 3, however I no longer feel that providing financial support to the tyrannical measures you feel it is necessary to impose upon your customers is morally justifiable.

Comment Re:Configurability or Games? (Score 1) 718

I have a gaming machine which runs Win7, it's the first non-Linux machine I've owned in the last 10 years. The new (to me) UI in MS applications is crazy. It literally took me two minutes to figure out how to save a screenshot I'd pasted into Paint.

Here's a shot of the application. I actually never saw the save icon in the title bar until just now, I've been using the blue drop-down to the left of the "Home" tab to select "Save". Who the heck decided to put application icons in the title bar?

Comment Re:"John Carmack at the controls" (Score 3, Funny) 94

Pfft. Carmack doesn't use WASD, arrow keys, *or* the mouse. He has the console permanently open and controls his character's movement entirely with console commands. None of it is scripted, he's just that fast of a typist. In fact, half the time he's used timers to issue the next 90 seconds of gameplay so that he can just sit back and laugh at how predictable the rest of our movements are.

Comment Re:50% for a frist try? (Score 1) 221

I thought the same thing at first, but that would only be true if they'd looked at four samples and picked winners and losers from there. What they actually did was look at a number of items (the value of N here isn't clear to me) and picked four which they thought were bubbling. 50% of those predictions were correct.

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