Meh, at least there's the chance the parrot could read you the news. No such luck with the Kindle now.

Also given Obama's recent speech in Saudi Arabia.

I think you mean Egypt.

You don't understand natural selection.

Is flying in front of plans a genetic trait?
If not, it can't be selected for or against.

I wish people would take a few biology classes when they're in college.

I just noticed this too and googled it and got to your journal...weird...

IT'S A TRAP (?)

It's hard to tell from the linked article (yeah, I read it) but it doesn't seem like Crampton has no copies of the articles (surely he would keep of his own stuff) but that they're just not accessible on the Internet. All the links that should point to them from the NYT and the IHT went kablammo when the two sites merged.

There's no way a back up on his end could fix this problem.

But of course awesome things happen if someone manages to take that roguelike core and adds fitting graphics ( Diablo series. )

Add to the list -
Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon
Any other Fushigi na Dungeon series (Yangus, Torneko, the original IP ones)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Shiren the Wanderer
Izuma Legend of the Unemployed Ninja

With so many comments already posted, I doubt this will see the light of day, but in the hopes someone will read it:

I read Daring Fireball pretty regularly and its author has stated he doesn't want comments on his site because he feels it distracts from his own articles.

When I read a newspaper article, I am looking for a reporter's writing. While there is a lot wrong with journalism today, reading the comments on any newspaper website is like mucking through the dregs of human society. The anonymous nature of the Internet allows (and seemingly even encourages) people to post stupid comments. It's not worth reading and on newspaper sites, I don't.

I'm glad and I wish more sites and blogs would forgo comments and concentrate and getting new content out. When I read the BBC news or the New York Times I'm not interested in what Joe Schmo thinks, especially if it's going to be some poorly spelled, angry, outburst.

Slashdot is different in that the moderation system helps filter out the noise and no one in their right mind would come here to read the articles.

I am no fan of fighting games, but MvC2 was the reason I had/have a Dreamcast. Sure, it's somewhat shallow compared to say Virtua Fighter, the art is great, it's easy to pick up (and thus makes a good, geeky party game) and it's a blast to see Capcom and Marvel's characters (much, much cooler than MK vs. DC for example). I hope they keep the voices (the Marvel characters were voiced by their cartoon counterparts, right?) but do something about that jackass announcer.

C'mon, people, on the old slashdot this would have been in the first ten comments!

  Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?

Ms.Krabapple: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.

Bart: God shmod! I want my monkey-man!

It's funny, because I am more trusting (I originally wrote trust, but there are no websites I trust implicitly) of the Pirate Bay not to screw around with my computer or be dicks, while I don't trust Facebook at all with my photos or private information.

I mean I generally agree with you but it sounds like you're on a rant from whatever happened on that other forum.

What if (and this is, of course, an if - I've only started getting into Windows 7 after looking at my options for an HTPC, so outside of Media Center, I don't know much about it) Windows 7 handles things like gobs of RAM or multi-core processors better than XP? Then 7 will be faster on the same hardware than XP.

What you're generally saying is true, sometimes technology (dual channel memory for example?) can level the playing field.

And for reasons I'm not willing to discuss on slashdot, as my friends would say

You just got LA BLUE GIRLED

My question is this then (and I seriously don't know): how is slashdot getting financed? I see the ads (more than I used to and way more then when I started using the site), I remember the site joining OSDN or whatever. Where does that money go?

Does it all go to servers or do you guys make some money?

Because if it's all severs and bandwidth, and the editors are really just doing this as a hobby mistakes are still blemishes, but are, at least, understandable. If you're making money, however, I don't think that "fast, interesting, correct: pick two" mentality really flies.

Who modded this insightful? I run emulators on my PC (actually my Mac) mostly of games I own or never were released in the U.S. (I'm looking at you Mother 3).

Mac emulators are far behind their Windows and even Linux counterparts. While I hope the situation will get better as Macs gain more market share, for a lot of emulation tasks, Mac OS doesn't cut it (Boot Camp is great, of course, but no one wants to boot into Windows just to play Rhythm Tengoku).

However, even on a Windows PC, it's not nearly as great an experience. To get the real feel of the game you have to hook a joypad into the computer (on my precious MacBook Pro, I only have 2 USB ports, expanded to five with a hub). And most of the best game pads are console ons with a USB adaptor. Even full screened, sitting at a chair with a game pad is different from being sprawled out on the couch playing say, Fire Emblem Genealogy of The Holy War. Some time's it's OK to run an emulator and have my IM and web browser in the background, but usually I just want to concentrate on the game. While it's not quite as "pick up and play" as having the original console and game, it's awful close. With easy multiplayer, console emulation can be great, and it's one of the major reasons I am thinking of getting a PS3.