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Comment penmenship doesn't matter (Score 1) 857

penmenship doesn't matter here is 1 reason why: it's worse on your hands than a mouse or keyboard. why keyboards won't fade even with touch is simply because writing by hand, is bad for your hands and bad for your eyes as it requires far more strain on your eyes (looking at back-lit devices puts extra strain on your eyes) math should be done in writing, only because it's faster but text is wholly unimportant and the movements for it are completely unnatural (unlike educated use of a keyboard. which due to the use of board games over several centuries have caused us to be far more naturally adept towards than writing by hand.) and to nostalgia freaks: writing with a pen is about as new as modern as the computer (only the elite of europe used to write in the 17th trough the 18th century). writing text is too inefficient to proceed doing it by hand, eventually keyboards will faid and our minds will be the input device until then keyboards are here to stay (especially on touchpad devices)

Comment i don't like summers (Score 1) 451

i don't like summers, humidity goes upto 80% and heat waves of over 25celcius (everything above 25 Celsius is unhealthy, as in you die faster) no i like everything bellow 25 celcius as it's like living in a swamp in the summer under sea level..
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Girls Wired To Fear Dangerous Animals 224

Foot-in-Mouth writes "New Scientist reports that girls are more "primed" to fear spiders and snakes, compared to boys. Infant boys and girls were shown pairs of images, a fearful and a happy object (such as a spider and a flower), measuring the boys' and girls' dwell times on the images. And in another similar test, normally happy objects (such as a flower) were given a fearful face and fearful objects were given a happy face. The results of these two tests suggested to the researcher that girls are not wired to fear spiders, for example, but rather girls are wired to more quickly learn to fear dangerous animals. The researcher, David Rakison at CMU, 'attributes the difference to behavioural differences between men and women among our hunter-gatherer ancestors. An aversion to spiders may help women avoid dangerous animals, but in men evolution seems to have favoured more risk-taking behaviour for successful hunting.' This reminds one of men's obsession with video games. Will game designers use this information to tweak video games for gender, either to make the games more or less frightening?"

Comment 6 screens or (Score 2, Interesting) 439

6 screens or anti-alias the crap out of it :D in the near future an entire game could be running purely and alone off the GPU. i personally don't agree with John Carmack, i think it would eventually be smarter to not push anything trough the CPU and keep it purely all on the GPU and it's ram (in the future, not right now). but GPU ram does need to become upgradeable! as 2GB of video ram isn't going to cut it anymore (in 2 years).
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Submission + - Having a hard time with halo 3? Why not sue Bungie (tgdaily.com)

drukawski writes: Gamer, distraught over repeated tea bagings, has decided to sue Microsoft and Bungie. His claim is that Halo 3 isn't compatible with the X-box 360. No word yet on if his blanket wrapped 360 kept in an unventilated closet has anything to do with the issue.

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