Comment Great... (Score 1) 4
Great...more useless babble in the Crossroads channel.
Submission + - Therapists Log on to WoW to Counsel Addicts (telegraph.co.uk) 4
eldavojohn writes: So you can't find the time to leave the World of Warcraft to seek help for your World of Warcraft addiction? Sounds reasonable. Well, addiction therapists are coming to meet you so you don't have to quit playing as they counsel you and your addiction. From the leader of this initiative, Dr. Graham, 'We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it's already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn't be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players. Of course one problem we're going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they're probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft.' Send in the level 5 counselor and let the games begin!
Comment Re:Not all series need reboots (Score 1) 1120
Really! I mean, the mundane uses for a hook shot should should at least earn it a place gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.
Comment A few quick ones... (Score 1) 6
The other neighbor, Jim Nintendo was unavailable for comment...
...thanks folks, I'll be here all week.
Certainly put's another spin on the phrase 'fight or flight'...you know what I'm saying.
Terrific audience, thank you.
...thanks folks, I'll be here all week.
Certainly put's another spin on the phrase 'fight or flight'...you know what I'm saying.
Terrific audience, thank you.
Comment Re:Don't people already do this? (Score 1) 15
If by milk you mean rum, then yes.
And if by Coca-Cola you mean more rum, then that's a big old affirmative as well.
Comment To me, it seems... (Score 1) 1
This seems like a totally rational and logical response to being defamed on the Internet. I think that every time one feels as if they or their interests have been slighted online, one should seek litigation.
Contact me at the law offices of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.
Comment Re:Man, I wish I could have been in that meeting (Score 1) 168
You mean the crippled "internet" service that you can't use for anything other than e-mail/web browsing and VPN?
Right, yeah! That's the same service that mysteriously blocks out most content that, otherwise, would cost money to purchase through Verizon's terrible service?
Comment Re:I've Still Yet to See the Code from Them (Score 1) 237
So if Microsoft weighs the same as a duck, then it's GPL compliant?
Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing 174
levicivita notes ZeroPaid coverage of a recent study by the UK music industry's own economist showing that overall UK music industry revenues were up in 2008 (study, PDF). The study is titled "Adding up the Music Industry for 2008" and it was authored by Will Page, who is the Chief Economist at PRS for Music, a UK-based royalty collecting group for music writers, composers, and publishers. From ZeroPaid: "[T]he music industry is growing increasingly diverse as music fans enjoy a wide range of platforms to hear and consume music. Sales of recorded music fell 6% for example, digital was up 50% while physical dropped 10%, but concert ticket sales grew by 13%. In terms of what consumers spent on music as a whole last year, this surprisingly grew by 3%."
Comment Re:Could not care less. (Score 1) 320
I agree, but the movie "Hackers" was what inspired me to look at a computer as a tool, and not just a portal, so who knows.
Comment Depressed (Score 1) 30
I don't know about anyone else, but what started out as a joyous exploration of memory lane ended as a true to form forehead resting on palm depression inducing episode.
I'm talking 88, 89, and 91-97...just turned me a little misty eyed.
Comment Re:Oh Noes! (Score 1) 921
...so what you're saying is that we need to create some sort of mechanical horse? If so, can we teach them to write? Per haps kill two birds with one stone?
Comment Re:Huh (Score 1) 185
What is a library?
It's like the Internet, except instead of porn they have information...and in order to get the porn (read: information) you might have to look in a "complex" catalog which will guide you near the porn (read: information) but not directly at it, as opposed to the internet where the information (read: porn) is instantly at your finger tips, whether you want it or not.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About 30
runyonave writes "There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week's 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore's Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.
That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias."
Comment Re:Not for Archival Purposes! (Score 2, Insightful) 185
At the end of the BBC article, they mention that there are already prototypes based on reflectivity.
Isn't that how bar codes work already?
