Comment Re:One dimension is not enough... (Score 1) 639
Worse, there seem to be a whole lot of people in the USA that would like to reduce it to a boolean: { republican, democrat }.
They both ring false to me.
Ba-dum-tish
Comment Re:First post from firefox (Score 2) 507
This may have been a bit later, but there was the ad supported version, which was fine.
Comment Re:Kudos to the JPMC engineers! (Score 1) 210
1048576 rows now.
Comment Re:This sounds familiar... (Score 1) 378
People still have the choice to use Linux and its desktop environments. I would say Linux has truly failed if that choice is taken away.
Comment Re:Daily Mail should call out to ban this evil gam (Score 1) 516
Do not forget the animated buildings! If that's not occult then what is?
Comment Re:My book (Score 1) 355
About the link in your signature, you might want to separate the exclamation mark from it or make it so your web server doesn't care about it.
Comment Re:There are more important issues right now (Score 1) 152
Yeah, it was piss poor. I shouldn't have included it.
Comment Re:Ah, Purchasable? (Score 1) 466
If I were to make a bunch of copies of a game disc, and go around handing it out to people and paying them $5 (note, *I'm* paying them to "buy" my product), then I'm selling the game at an even lower price than the pirates. Yes, it would be incredibly stupid to do that, but that's not the point; the point is, just because the customer isn't paying doesn't mean they're not sales.
I predict a lot of selling, indeed incredibly stupid selling, this Christmas, especially to family and relatives. Just don't mention the 'G' word, it's not kosher these days.
Comment Re:Javaception (Score 1) 234
Or this?
Comment Re:There are more important issues right now (Score 2) 152
Wow , 40+, thats so old! If you're a teenager. For most people the 30s and 40s are when you finally mature into someone who can make sensible decisions and less bound over by knee jerk group think.
With an attitude like that, no wonder. Especially as you yourself are advocating this "group think" you are talking about.
It is fairly accepted that diversity in a group tends to increase the quality of decision making. I do not see the reason in keeping intelligent people away from parliament just because they are not old or "mature" enough.
Fine, using that logic lets vote pre-schoolers into parliament.
That argument is akin to saying "Fine, using that logic lets only drink water and not eat anything" to somebody who said water is good for you. I hope you can see that argument is fallacious, and well, quite silly.
Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 312
phaedrus5001 writes "Tech Crunch is reporting that one of the co-founders of Diaspora, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, has passed away. He was only 22. At the moment, the cause of his death is unknown."
Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1880
Yes, this. As Steve Ballmer said "Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers". By developing for the XBOX the developer is using almost the same Microsoft stack as the one to develop on Microsoft Windows. This helps keep the developers locked in instead of developing using a cross platform API or the other specific technologies that the other console gaming platforms use. This also hugely decreases the friction involved in porting the game to windows. Do you see the Uncharted series on anything but a PS3? No. Do you see major Wii games ported to Windows? Not really. Do you see XBOX (360) games ported to Windows? Very Often. Xbox and Windows are symbiotic.
Comment Re:The IE team has stopped sending cakes (Score 2) 291
Cupcakes!? Surely you mean fruitcakes.
Comment Re:What are you going to do? (Score 1) 1105
Um, I mean it's like never existed when you've died.
Comment Re:What are you going to do? (Score 1) 1105
Yes. As an individual it's like you've never existed when you lived. So although life is horrible, it's not that bad in the end.
