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Comment Re:Hope It Helps End the Fighting (Score 4, Interesting) 782

Rounds are going to be relatively expensive yes, but it's not as if you fire the thing full auto.

How it changes the game in that enemies behind hard cover - who might otherwise engage you in a protracted firefight - will lose the benefit of that cover.

It's in service now with the 101st airborne apparently, so I'm sure we'll shortly find out whether it's the exceptionally useful tool it appears to promise to be.

Comment Posture (Score 1) 430

Call me laptops have decent keyboards and screens that can be raised up/away from the base into a position appropriate for viewing without wrecking your posture/eyesight.

Comment Re:Thank God (Score 1) 426

Agree. Well done NYT!

There is nothing so unique about posting text on a twitter.com page that makes it substantially different from posting text on a personal website, forum, or anywhere else.

It doesn't need a verb. Its marketing department would love you to adopt their suggested verb though, and use it here, there and everywhere.

Comment Re:"Man Hours of Innovation"? Ha. (Score 5, Funny) 375

Boy that word sure doesn't mean jackshit when it just gets thrown around and abused like that, huh? Like watching the word 'fuck' get detoothed in Scorsese's Goodfellas, there's this sort of desensitization toward 'innovation' that leaves me confused as to how I should describe people like Tesla, Turing and Shannon

"Fucking innovative".

Comment Standard Definition (Score 1) 128

"Standard Definition Gaming" appears to be a stupid invented term with - pun intended - no certain definition.

I'd call a PC game running in 1680x1050 "standard" or even "low" definition.

But a TV is apparently "high" even at a pathetic Wx768.

So when they offer - as they no doubt will in glowing, flash-animated virtual-mile-high letters on their websites - "High Definition Gaming!" - are they talking about a pitiful 768 pixel high display or just an almost-good-enough 1050?

Comment Re:My plate is pretty full right now... (Score 1) 479

I wouldn't guess quite so high, but well up there certainly. I also deal extensively with NHS customers. We took the decision a year ago to have our app demand something newer than IE6 and so far haven't had any resistance from NHS IT teams in getting them to at least provide a newer version of IE, if not some other browser.

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