I guess you haven't Meta Moderated in a while. That's not really how it works any more, it seems, and hasn't for some time. Instead of deciding whether a moderation is fair or unfair, you decide on whether a comment is good or bad.

"Top notch" might be overstating it a bit, there are still a few instances where they seem to be lacking. For instance, Windows users who have SLI and multiple monitors have been able to enable SLI and use both of their monitors at the same time since about 2008. But under Linux, no dice.

So if I had two monitors (which I do), and two Nvidia GPUs in SLI mode (which I do), and I wanted to run some 3D app that took advantage of SLI, I would have to: reconfigure X to disable my second monitor and enable SLI, restart X, play the game/use the app I wanted, when I was done I would have to reconfigure X again to enable my second monitor and disable SLI, restart X again, and reopen all my apps. Hardly ideal.

This gets brought up all the time, and I'm not sure I understand it. Why would you pay for a thing that will still expose you to ads? Like any number of websites on the internet? What about radios? Magazines? Newspapers? Or good ol' cable television? A lot of people are willing to put up with the ads on Hulu because it provides what they want: the ability to watch a lot of current shows on their own schedule. Heck, the free version provides limited access in exchange for you watching ads, which seems like a fair trade to me.

Sure, you could use a DVR to get roughly the same thing (watching things on your own schedule), but you still have to wait until they air, make sure the DVR recorded it, that it's not full, and if you want to catch up on something, you have to wait until the repeats are aired again. Or you could go to Hulu and dive through that show's archive. At your convenience. From almost any place in the US with a broadband connection to the Internet. All nice and legal. Even with commercials that's hugely convenient.

Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video are great options, too, since they don't show commercials. But they don't have complete overlap with each other, and aren't quite as current, and I might miss out on some first-run stuff like Game of Thrones until those boneheads get their licensing / DVD releases straightened out, but I can wait. Paying for all three is still cheaper and more convenient than all but the most basic traditional cable subscription in my neck of the woods, and I have access to enough stuff that I can find something to watch, when the urge strikes me, for the foreseeable future.

Hulu started making their "hey, we can't show you a commercial, please turn off your ad-blocker" message longer than the commercial would have been in its place, so I acquiesced... I'm weak.

If this is the first time you've had panic over the fate of the site, you haven't been paying attention. At the very least, the departure of the site's founder should have been a giant red flag. But, sadly, this is another milestone in the slow, steady decline of Slashdot.

Nintendo Power.

Just to be slightly more pedantic, one thing would stop you: the SNES version of Turtles in Time was a 2 player game.

Not all of Indiana is classified as Eastern. I'm also in Indiana, and squarely in the Central Time Zone. But you're right, the time zones in Indiana are a complete mess.

This is a pretty big shock, but I can't say that it's completely unexpected. I kind of got the impression that Taco was phoning in some of the posts of late (he hasn't commented on anything since 2009), and the stories about him visiting tech companies' campuses seemed to be some kind of effort to get this site back toward its roots.

But, without being too big of a downer, I'd like to thank Rob for all he's done and wish him the best in whatever he ends up doing.

It seems to me that they've also got a serious problem attracting new and lapsed users. For the few souls out there that haven't dipped their foot into the WoW Waters(tm) yet, they might pick up the Cataclysm box in the store and notice that it requires Wrath of the Lich King, which requires Burning Crusade, which requires Vanilla WoW, and suddenly they're looking at an investment of $120, and then $15 a month on top of that. Heck, I stopped playing shortly after Burning Crusade came out, and I'd have to blow $80 on expansions if I wanted to jump in and see the new content. That's just too steep for me.

Okay, how about this: A while back, I was browsing the entry for Pibb Xtra and found a spelling error (the author confused "access" and "assess", which I corrected, only to have it immediately reverted. I figured it was an error, so I re-fixed it, only to be accused of vandalism (they thought I was writing "asses"). That was the last time I tried to edit anything on that site.

I can't tell if you're wildly off base on purpose or not, so I'll provide a counter-example: Consider a small child. When born, it has no teeth, and when the teeth start to develop and grow in, what do they do? They cut through the gums, so to speak. So, "cutting teeth" is something that someone does when they're very young, or just starting out (as in, just starting out in life). Hence, "cutting one's teeth" has become roughly analogous to the early skills learned when starting any new endeavor.

Some of the Dragon Ball Z fighting games for the Super NES had split-screens

In the link to the "bad news for PS3 owners", there is actually a lot more info on the dev team changes:

I did when I was programming COBOL back in college... *shudder*