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Because I'm pretty sure that hasn't been proven. It's just a conspiracy theory that's been kicked around a lot.

FYI, infant mortality rate comparisons are mostly meaningless. Everyone has their own standards when deciding if an infant is "stillborn" or not. Generally, if the baby is in a condition that they can't treat at all, it isn't counted. That's what the U.S.'s rate is comparatively high -- they try to save more infants.

http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060924/2healy.htm

You're not allowed to ask that! The answer is always "more money for education is needed", no matter the results.

And here I thought it was your job to make the U.S. a better place. My bad! Does this apply to government workers in other nations too?

IMHO, there's all sorts of "the truth" that should be covered up. Like how negotiations with China about North Korea are going, or what the U.K. diplomat really thinks of the Prime Minister.

A lack of long cutscenes and spell animations is dated?? I'd say that those two things are dated. Most modern games aren't like Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid. Well I guess the newest Call of Duty has a lot of cutscenes, though I didn't hear about them being long.

What really dates some older games for me is the interface. Some of the best loved classics of yesteryear have horribly clunky interfaces.

• First person games with no freelook.
• Layers upon laters of nested menus.
• No key or button remapping.
• Cluttered, unintuitive information screens.
• Other bad decisions that are obvious in retrospect.

The Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. It's not like they were out of power until 2008.

This was especially funny in WoW whenever endgame content got rebalanced, and especially when 10-man raiding got introduced. All the hardcore players wailed "those noobs are getting to kill our bosses!*"

(*note: in World of Warcraft, most endgame content is located in dungeon "instances". i.e., every group gets their own copy of the dungeon, so nobody is actually losing anything.)

I'm amazed that there's still such a focus on click rates. Tell me, how many clicks do TV ads get? Or newspaper and radio ads? Ads need to look interesting and deliver their message, that's it. Clicks are just a bonus. They only happen if you can entice people to learn more AND it looks at least a little trustworthy (i.e. not adspam).

To be fair, most of WoW's launch problems stemmed from the fact that they had demand unheard of in the MMO industry. They were expecting Everquest numbers and got... well, WoW numbers.

Penny Arcade eventually reinstated the award, by the way.

On the other hand, the official WoW message boards have become a cesspool. If they have one OPTIONAL Real ID-only forum, then I guarantee that it'll quickly become the best one they host.

The same will probably happen in-game. Real ID enabled players will probably be better behaved on average, since they've (theoretically) got their actual identity on the line.

It'll be interesting to see it play out.

I just want some of Apple's innovations without the drawbacks. That's not hypocritical, and certainly doesn't merit a three paragraph rant about "haters".

To be fair, they probably think "Well none of our supporters are in the anti-war movement anymore, so everyone left must be the real crazies!"

(Hm... I know I was just kidding around, but that almost sounds like a brilliantly evil idea.)

I absolutely wouldn't buy a house in an area with no cell reception. If others feel the same wouldn't that lower property values?

For comparison same setup with Firefox 4 Beta 6 got 17568.9ms +/- 0.3%

Setup:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Intel SSD 80GB G2

I just ran the new Kraken benchmark released by Mozilla, result 48979.0ms +/- 2.8%.