Comment Re:he's right (Score 0) 680
This will be the next big plan to discredit climate change.
Comment Re:MacBook Air (Score 4, Insightful) 104
In the latter case, you know what you were getting into when you got an Apple, boyo.
Or, to be honest, when you bought a laptop.
Comment Re:How Long... (Score 3, Funny) 309
Well, if you're the admin, it means you get the 'document' sent to you with no extra effort.
Comment Re:H3rb41 V14gr4? (Score 1) 162
I hear you can get better by grinding.
Comment Re:Setup (Score 1) 156
It's silicone rather than epoxy based.
Comment Re:I guess I'm not surprised (Score 2, Insightful) 241
So what you're saying is that they might as well implant his brain in a terrifying robotic body *now* and save some time?
Comment Re:We've been spoiled by Televised Science Fiction (Score 1) 205
I think in this case it's poor science education that's hurt real science. Honestly, if people can't tell the difference between space opera tech and real tech, there's some problem with those people, not with the space opera.
Comment Re:It's down to the cost of one disk? (Score 1, Interesting) 551
A separate bootable internal SSD large enough to hold an image which can do it couldn't be that expensive.
Submission + - Angry players lash out at CCP over bugs (eveonline.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A straight forward request from the creators of Eve Online (CCP) to their players to support a bid for best online game at the European Games Award quickly turned embarassing when an angry player base almost universally refused, often throwing support behind other games instead. Players of the beleagered game have been angered by the lack of progress made in squashing bugs that snuck into the last few expansions as well as a recent development blog saying that no developers will be free to work on reviewing existing content for at least 18 months.
Comment Re:Crap Flash Games (Score 1) 186
It's okay that they'll be buggy, though, since they'll just be beta versions.
Comment Re:tell em how you feel... (Score 1) 220
A GBP bankers draft from HSBC Canada cost me something like CAD$3. Going the other way, HSBC UK charges GBP£30 for CAD$ draft. HSBC UK are wankers.
On the other hand, HSBC UK don't charge you a monthly fee just to have an account and access to services, so...
Comment Re:Ordering and Convergence (Score 1) 981
This isn't true, though - the question makes no statement about whether the other can also be a boy born on Tuesday.
Comment Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? (Score 1) 773
That said, his other points, especially about the fact that not all names are properly mapped in unicode, is a good one.
I didn't quite get this - is it a thing about combination characters and accents, or about Unicode not being complete?
Comment Re:Asperger's syndrome (Score 1) 452
Devoid of empathy, social reasoning, social context, or self awareness, they are subhuman meat-calculators,
All I know is that beef == 48879. Oh, and 3735928559 if you kill it.
Comment Re:Just for fun (Score 3, Insightful) 165
Appropriate variants of the 1984 ad.
