Comment Re:Writing (Score 1) 375
It's a doggy dog world...
I realized this from the gecko.
Comment Re:True in theory (Score 5, Insightful) 316
All three of the "Back to the Future" movies are rated PG, not PG-13 as you stated.
If anyone wants to see the clandestine and ridiculous nature of the MPAA ratings board, check out the movie "This Film Is Not Yet Rated". It shows just how messed up the rating process is, and how forcibly they
Submission + - Modern Warfare 3 : Co-Developed by Infinity Ward! (revolt-tech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: New information has been revealed about Modern Warfare 3, revealing that it will be co-developed by the critically acclaimed developer Infinity Ward
Submission + - Record Industry Blames Piracy for Slow Sales
goG writes: As growth in digital music sales slashed in half, the record industry is pointing to piracy as the biggest threat to its survival. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the global recording industry, said on Thursday that revenues from digital music grew 6 per cent to $4.6bn in 2010, down from growth of 12 percent in 2009. The figures represent an overall decline in music sales for an 11th successive year. In 2008, the rate of digital growth was 25 per cent. "As we enter 2011, digital piracy, and the lack of adequate legal tools to fight it, remains the biggest threat to the future of creative industries," Frances Moore, chief executive of IFPI, said.
Comment Re:I miss Blizzard. (Score 1) 227
Narbacular Drop and Portal were developed by the same team. They were just Valve employees when they made the former.
Comment Re:Not just people (Score 2) 234
Seriously?
The difference between C-sharp and D-flat? What difference? They're enharmonically equivalent to each other.
Comment Re:Why HD? (Score 1) 273
Offtopic, but save yourself some money and get a Dell S2309W if you can sacrifice the 1" difference.
Comment Bad idea (Score 1) 2
if you have a nervous twitch.
Comment Re:Google Earth (Score 1) 139
Someone needs to release a product that is a DSLR, professional level camera...WITH A PHONE BUILT IN.
Now, instead of having your shitty pictures interrupted by phone calls, you could have your high quality pictures interrupted by phone calls.
Ingenius!
Comment Yay! (Score 2, Funny) 259
Only 5000 more rep and I'll be exalted with the Microsoft faction! Discounts abound!
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports 466
suraj.sun passes along this excerpt from the Consumerist:
"The Motion Picture Association of American wants to rent movies to TV viewers earlier in the release window, but they don't want anyone potentially streaming that video out to other appliances. That's why last week they went back to the FCC to once again ask for the power to disable analog ports on consumer television sets. This capability is called selectable output control or SOC, and the FCC banned it back in 2003. SOC would allow 'service operators, such as cable companies, to turn off analog outputs on consumer electronics devices, only allowing digital plugs' such as HDMI. The MPAA is arguing that if they could directly turn those plugs on and off, they could offer more goods to consumers."
Comment Re:i'm confused (Score 2, Funny) 227
His in-head rounding skills, however, were taught by Lorena Bobbitt.
EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy 272
Mark.JUK writes "The European Parliament has surrendered to pressure from Member States (especially France) by abandoning amendment 138, a provision adopted on two occasions by an 88% majority of the plenary assembly, and which aimed to protect citizens' right to Internet access. The move paves the way for an EU wide policy supporting arbitrary restrictions of Internet access. Under the original text any restriction of an individual could only be taken following a prior judicial ruling. The new update has completely removed this, meaning that governments now have legal grounds to force Internet providers (ISPs) into disconnecting their customers from the Internet (i.e. such as when 'suspected' of illegal p2p file sharing)."
Comment Re:This sums it up quite nicely (Score 1) 193
You mean Mitchell Fox, right?
