Ugh, what a terrible way of handling that. >.<

I mean, the function should obviously be boolean.

This is actually very true of some games that are so good the first time through that replay value is less of a factor. Off the top of my head, the Phoenix Wright series' success can back this up. So can any of the more successful story-based adventure games.

A very few of the simpler ones are alright. Anything sufficiently minimalistic. I like the Canucks one, and the Mahjong one isn't bad for instance. But yes, most of them try to treat it like a wallpaper, and plaster the browser with gaudy colours, making things on the menu bar, tab bar and/or status bar unreadable.

Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it.

I've worked for a call centre under a few contracts. That's pretty much the standard everywhere. First thing we were told before getting access to the CS tools was that yes, you could access pretty much anyone's account info you wanted, and that if you did so for any reason other than it being necessary for your work you would be fired on the spot. Only information such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers was not readily available. On one contract, we could log into anyone's account on the website and take any actions with it the user could (and then some), though this was done very rarely.

Honestly, it doesn't stress me out all that much; I put nothing on Facebook that I wouldn't want getting into others' hands. I expect that the things I set to "friends only" won't be available to the average Joe who happens by my profile, but at the same time it doesn't surprise or annoy me that Facebook employees can see it. Of course they can.

64-bit can also crunch larger numbers at once, which can reduce the number of equations running through the processor if a lot of math with huge values is being performed, but only if the code was written for 64-bit specifically, making it at best a really minor advantage.

I don't know, that is probably fading slowly with time. When I bought my laptop it had Vista on it, and rather than downgrade to XP to get the most out of my system, I just installed Ubuntu to speed things up instead. It's probably not all that uncommon of a solution (at least among those who would consider changing their OS in the first place).

Off the top of my head, DFTBA Records is truly independant afaik. They're rather small of course.

I suppose if you use Ctrl-Backspace (delete last word) a lot it's only one extra key. But that said, I do, and I don't recall having ever accidentally killed X.

The comments given by one rep in customer service doesn't really equate to eBay as a company blaming users. Clearing cache and cookies is pretty much an eBay rep's cookie cutter response for any such problems, and if that doesn't work they try other things. Or it could be the rep was just bad, didn't get a memo, or that they hadn't filed a bug yet.

Trust me, I'm no fan of eBay, but I don't think it's valid to say the company is blaming users for the description errors based on that one rep's comment alone.

I had to use MS Office 2007 a lot at work (over half a year at least, probably not a full year, and mainly Excel and Outlook, not so much Word), and so I got pretty used to the ribbon. My verdict is that I still didn't like it even after getting used to where everything was. Some of the options on the ribbon are hidden completely until you select them in the options. (It was 2 weeks before I learned how to get directly to the vbasic editor again lol.) And hotkeys for menus aren't as quick, requiring extra strokes to get to a function (Alt, then the letter for the tab, then the letter for the section on the tab, then the letter for the function, if my memory serves).

I preferred Office 2003 by far, and certainly prefer the existing versions of OOO to 2007, so I really hope they don't go ahead with this emulation, or at the very least make it optional (developing two versions of the menus however would rather seem like a waste of effort -- doubly so if everyone switched off of the new version!).

Keep in mind though eBay didn't need to pay large sums of money for their sellers (or buyers for that matter) to be able to use Skype. In fact, it may have made more sense to try to strike up an advertising deal with Skype if that was their only concern.

Maybe grandparent meant that + should have been used? I mean, in the current wording > resolves before && like so:

A laser diode is much more robust than a laser diode and the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.

(A laser diode > a laser diode) && the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.

If it had been worded as "plus" instead of "and" it would have resolved correctly, like so:

A laser diode is much more robust than a laser diode plus the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals.

A laser diode > (a laser diode + the frequency-doubling package of nonlinear crystals).

"Oh, you never mentioned a family history of heart conditions... DENIED."

Sadly, the likes of this actually happens, albeit not likely often (I hope). :\