Comment My Litmus Test (Score 1) 545
If I look at it's UI and think, "1990's AOL called and wants its interface back"... I'm not interested.
Comment This is not recent... (Score 1) 1134
It is, however, starting to boil over. History has a way of repeating itself. From my generation, it was the HellKitten incident and the Quake Green Ribbon Campaign. For people who have no clue as to what I'm talking about:
Quake Green Ribbon Campaign
Quake Green Ribbon Campaign
Comment The 2014 Award for the Ugliest Case goes to... (Score 1) 149
The Alienware "Trapezoidal" Area 51 Case.
Jesus... That thing is ugly.
Jesus... That thing is ugly.
Comment Wait... what? (Score 1) 611
So... People wouldn't be willing to pay 11-12 pounds (19-20 USD) extra a month for an ad free Internet?
Really?
o.O
Comment C'mon, seriously? (Score 2) 46
Look, we all know the answer to this.
For Dropbox to get access to China, they have to allow the Chinese National Security Commission unfettered access to their resident's Dropbox accounts.
For Dropbox to get access to China, they have to allow the Chinese National Security Commission unfettered access to their resident's Dropbox accounts.
Comment How about... (Score 1) 470
anon.penet.fi... Oh, wait...
Comment The devolution of WoW (Score 2) 523
I was an early adopter, joining the game in the Vanilla WoW beta. I ran one of the top 5 Alliance raiding guilds on the Bronzebeard server in Vanilla (Exiled Kingdom) until politics and my burn out of having the second job of running a guild killed it. I played regularly until 2009, when I returned to school.
WoW Vanilla was awesome.
The Burning Crusade was okay.
Wrath of the Lich King was epic.
Cataclysm was the beginning of the end.
Mists of Pandaria was the core collapse of the game... I'm still trying to decide if it's a black hole or a neutron star.
Killing theorycrafting by revamping the trees, introducing Pokemon, making Pandarians as a race... It has all contributed to breaking the back of the game. I left WoW and have not been back since. I moved on to Star Wars: The Old Republic and I've not looked back.
WoW Vanilla was awesome.
The Burning Crusade was okay.
Wrath of the Lich King was epic.
Cataclysm was the beginning of the end.
Mists of Pandaria was the core collapse of the game... I'm still trying to decide if it's a black hole or a neutron star.
Killing theorycrafting by revamping the trees, introducing Pokemon, making Pandarians as a race... It has all contributed to breaking the back of the game. I left WoW and have not been back since. I moved on to Star Wars: The Old Republic and I've not looked back.
Comment So... (Score 2) 146
I realize that consistency is highly overrated... but is the CEO's last name Dalwat or Dawlat?
Comment Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is (Score 1) 615
How are things up on New York's Upper West Side?
Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android 352
Spy Handler writes "In a Microsoft-esque move, Google threatened Acer with banishment from Android if it went ahead with its new cellphone project with Alibaba (China's version of Amazon), using an OS called Aliyun. Acer has remained silent on the issue, but Alibaba reports that they received notification from Google, stating 'if the new product launch with Aliyun went ahead, Google would terminate Android product cooperation and related technical authorization with Acer.' A possible reason for Google's upset is that the Aliyun OS, which is not Android, can run Android apps as well as its own."
Comment Re:It's... (Score 1) 836
And then I make a spelling error that I missed in the preview. Yay me. *grumbles and goes for coffee*
Comment It's... (Score 1) 836
Franklin, TN, no Frankin. It's a suburb of Nashville.
Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe 340
wiredmikey writes "Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives, after much buzz, today released the recipe for White House Honey Ale and White House Honey Porter, two brews made right on site at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. According to Kass, the White House Honey Brown Ale is the first alcohol brewed or distilled on the White House grounds, as far as they know. "George Washington brewed beer and distilled whiskey at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson made wine but there's no evidence that any beer has been brewed in the White House. (Although we do know there was some drinking during prohibition)," Kass wrote in a blog post. The recipe can be found here along with a short video 'Inside The White House Beer Brewing' which shows the brewing in process. Your tax dollars hard at work yet again!"
Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux 371
colinneagle writes "Earlier this week I installed the final version of Windows 8. And it is awesome. That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar. And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux. Why is that? What is it about Linux that makes me so excited to use it — even while enjoying another operating system that I view as, in all seriousness, a work of art? Why do I not simply install Windows 8 on every machine I own and be happy with it? For me, it's the ability to slowly chip away and remove items from your user interface until you are left with only want you want, and nothing more. The option of looking at an item on the screen, right clicking on it, and declaring to said item 'Listen up, mister Thing-On-My-Screen. I don't want you anymore. Be gone!' Panels, bars, docks, launchers, widgets, gadgets – whatever is on your screen, there is probably a way to send it to whatever form of the afterlife is reserved for unwanted Desktop Crud. And, I'll tell you this right now – as great as it is, you don't find a whole lot of 'Right click, Remove Panel' in Windows 8."
Comment My two choices... (Score 1) 1130
I'm going to trot out two authors that I think are very underrated.
George Alec Effinger (Esp. his Marid Audran series); and;
Walter Jon Williams (Esp. Hardwired and related books).
