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Comment Re:A Clockwork Orange (Score 1) 721

Classical music gets played outside at my local cinema complex, which is more of a multiplex thing, as it has a bowling alley with arcade, a McDonalds, and a private gym with a swimming pool all in the one complex. It's a bit of an oddity, but the shape of it and its convenient awning makes it a magnet for chavs and other disaffected youth. The speakers aren't bad quality, but nothing special. I quite like it myself. They also play popular music, but generally older music you find on "best of" compilations and not chart stuff. McDonalds, of course, plays whatever the hell it feels like, but it's not a large enough restaurant for "loitering", as the entire place is in view of the counter staff.

Comment Re:I hope Apple adopts this (Score 1) 220

Nokia's here in the UK are almost entirely still circular jacks, mostly 3.5mm jacks with a smattering of 2mm jacks. I found a lovely charger that's a 3.5mm with a 3.5-2mm adaptor and I'm making do with it. Still, if the fragile 2mm pin breaks like my last one, I'll definitely be craving a standardised USB one.

Comment Re:Why not? (Score 3, Informative) 216

It's not special drivers for specific games. It's regular drivers with exceptions coded in to make them appear faster on "standardised" tests, which are meant to be an all-purpose benchmark to help consumers identify the sort of card they need (and to compare competing cards). This is cheating to increase sales among the early adopter/benchmarker crowd, impress marketing types and get more units on shelves, and is generally at the cost of the consumer.

Comment Re:Gritty realism? (Score 1) 122

Sometimes, it's better not to break ground, but explore what's already been cracked open. You might just find something unexpected, be it grim or beautiful, and finding the unexpected leads to both entertainment and learning.

Comment Re:Can you spell Face Plant? (Score 1) 282

Actually, there's a lot of cross-pollination and many European derivatives of American words, and more often the English settlers who speak the "American dialect" of English actually use spellings once used in Great Britain; it was during and after the split that British spellings began to deviate towards French influence with additional "u"s and such variations.

Although personally, as a Brit leaning towards some internationalisation, I prefer "isation" over "ization" (see previous clause) and prefer "honour" over "honor".

Comment Re:Typing with two fingers (Score 1) 65

I'm still typing with two fingers, having never learned to touch-type and generally having enough muscle memory to work with what I've got. Sure, my WPM is dreadful and I'll never be a typist, but for programming at the scale I do, it's less about vast pages of code and more about knowing what I'm writing.

I'm also a strong advocate of Brain-Computer Interface technology, although whether it's out of reluctance to re-learn typing or a desire to push the boundaries of the human condition, well... ...a little from column A, a little from column B...

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