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Comment Re:At the risk of my nerd card... (Score 1) 655

and the movie version of "Starship Troopers" was much better than the book.

Didn't /. have a friends AND an Enemies option at one point. It's been years since I've even look, but this post motivated me to look for that Enemies button. All I see is how to friend someone... and I'm sorry elrous0, that aint happenin'.

Comment Re:HTML *was* simple (Score 1) 298

tables were never okay to use tables for layout

But they were easy. Search for "3 column layout" and look at the infinite variety of wildly more, and more complicated solutions. Complexity depends of course on how closely you want to approximate a ridiculously trivial table layout that can have same size columns with or without background colors or images, fixed or fluid sized columns (or a mix!!), and whitespace, with a header pinned to the top and a footer at the bottom regardless of scroll height. Tables made it easy even cross browser without script of any sort. It's considerably trickier with just to meet some arbitrary standard that "tables shouldn't be used for layout". Tables were drop dead easy (until they started _removing_ table support from browsers).

Comment Do we need that kind of precision (Score 0, Troll) 302

10.000

Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 1140

I have three side by side _all_ of them are vertical and I love it. At 1280x1024 (or 1024x1280) I'm at at the standard "max" web width and I have very little need for scrolling. Essentially the same for documents. What I don't like is my one monolithic monitor on my mac. The aspect ratio is "right" but it's not terribly useful.

Comment Re:My guess? Users need to STFU (Score 1) 422

Plain vanilla iMac 10 months out of the box with the nVidia card. It crashes all the time with the recommended settings. It occasionally ( once every day or two ) crashes with all the video settings to Low or Off. No overclocking, apple ventilation and power. The real bummer is that the game runs great and looks phenomenal with the video settings cranked way up. It doesn't drop a bunch of frames like I would expect if I was over taxing the system, it just up and dies. That is the screen shows strange artifacts (snowy), and is frozen. Sometimes the mouse/cursor will jump wildly when I move it while the screen/system is otherwise frozen, but usually it is nowhere to be seen. The only solution is to hold the power button for 10 seconds (and crank the settings down). Did I over-mod or poorly configure my iMac?

Comment Re:Might explain my crashes (Score 1) 422

Hmm, previous gen iMac (with nVidia card :( purchased 10 months ago), it crashes all the time if I don't crank everything down to low (and even then it occasionally locks up the whole system). I thought the cut scenes would be a safe place to increase the resolution, so I enabled HD... big mistake, it crashes all the time with that setting.

Comment Re:Why the censure? (Score 1) 366

...Yeah, if shotgun shooting and Rifle shooting are currently badges that you can earn, I'm not thinking they would have a problem with shooting games.

What they should have a problem with is (as merit badges for Boy Scouts) is video games in general. This new badge will go straight to the top of the list of badges I DON'T want my son to "earn" as a Boy Scout (along side Sculpture, Theater, Cinematography, Computers).

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