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Comment No Sh*t?! (Score 1) 652

My colleagues and I are currently working on our PHDs in "No Shit." Our studies not only include the one mentioned in TFA but also such ground-breaking work such as "Fire Bad," "Women Good," and the crown jewel of them all; "The Logic and Method to Capturing Ants, Specifically Using Young Growth From Deciduous Trees."

Can I have some grant money please?

Comment Old news?! (Score 1) 265

From TFA:
"Ticketed fans can't reproduce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event."

This disclaimer has been on just about every televised sporting event for the last 15 years, almost verbatim! I actually think I can quote the NFL one from memory: "This broadcast is copyright of the National Football Leage. All information obtained from this broadcast can not be disseminated or reproduced in any way without written permission from the National Football League." Seems to me that TFA is about 20 years too late! NCAA sports = BIG business (period.)

Comment A little tip: (Score 1) 305

When you're stuck in an automated system just scream obscenities... I swear it works like 70% of the time. I think the voice recognition software has been programmed to pick up on that. My old boss taught me this trick, and it was a little unnerving the first time I heard him going to town on the computer voice at the other end of the line, but it really works! Just don't do it in public...
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UI Customization and Capital Ships In Jumpgate Evolution 41

ZAM got a chance to speak with NetDevil's Scott Brown at the recent LOGIN 2009 conference about various aspects of upcoming space MMO Jumpgate Evolution. He mentioned that massive ships will be limited in scope and role to begin with, but may expand and evolve as they figure out what users like. He also made some interesting comments about UI customization: "We built it with the goal of letting people mod the UI. There's still a little bit more work to do that, so I don't know if it'll be ready at launch, but all of our UI is built in Flash. This is with the idea that anybody can build something with Flash and put it in the game. Now, there are problems, for example, if you do certain things in Flash that might cause the game to perform really slowly. We've still got to figure out how to educate people or how we verify this so that you don't make a mod that I download and my game experience is destroyed. We want it to be easier than that. I think that there will be some work to do, but the goal is that, eventually, people will be able to, using Flash, make their own UI."

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