Comment Don't let it bring you down... (Score 1) 361
...It's only business models burning.
Comment Re:Well that cinches it for me (Score 3, Insightful) 608
Unfortunately too many people don't object when he walks-around issuing commands (or executive orders) as if he were the law-maker.
In observing online US political commentary over the last few years, it has been my experience that many people object when he doesn't (or don't understand when he can't).
Comment Re:Am I getting old? (Score 1) 45
Penny Arcade the comic, that is, not the conventions they do. If you've heard of the former but not the latter somehow, then my apologies.
Comment Re:Am I getting old? (Score 1) 45
There was a perma-link to it on the front page of Slashdot for years, I believe.
Comment Re:Aside from the games' rules themselves... (Score 2) 93
In a way, these games have invigorated the flagging card game genre.
Flagging? If I'm not mistaken, Magic has only continued to grow since pioneering the genre 19 years ago.
Comment Re:jump: Afghanistan - Battleship? (Score 4, Interesting) 212
I think that scene in Iron Man was demonstrating his optical tracking system, letting him rapidly designate as targets the people who were pointing guns at other people's heads. With a human in the driver's seat, the indicators would be pretty obvious.
Comment Re:Weird options (Score 1) 308
First option here. I play WoW, and I spend a lot of my time in front of my home computer. I may only really play a couple hours a day, or even not at all, but I'm almost always logged in when I'm sitting down, letting mods process auctions or chatting or whatever.
Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million 180
An anonymous reader writes "In hopes of protecting the children of California from the ravages of violent video games, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to push through a law that would fine retailers $1000 for each infraction of selling a violent game to an underage child. However, in the wake of appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck down the law, California is now forced to pay the legal fees of all parties to the tune of two million dollars."
Comment Re:I hate this trend! (Score 1) 223
Depends what he's after. I find Google is sometimes "smart" enough with its stemming, synonyms, and other inferences to give me exactly what I was very intentionally not looking for.
Comment Re:People are clueless (Score 1) 720
The sad thing is, people still believe the US government has their best interests at heart and is not trying to oppress them. They seem to think a tyranny is impossible in the USA.
The sadder thing is, I think a lot of the people in the government doing this stuff really believe that too.
Comment Re:Almost everyone in Manitoba knows... (Score 1) 498
Ditto for BC Hydro.
Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean 382
New submitter turkeyfish writes "UK scientists are reporting today in the journal Nature Geoscience that a huge bulge of freshwater is forming in the Western Arctic Ocean caused by a large gyre of freshwater. The gyre appears to indicate that the ice is becoming thin enough over the Arctic Ocean that the wind is beginning to affect the motion of water under the ice. A sudden release of this water or its emergence to the surface will greatly accelerate the melting of the remaining polar oceanic ice and likely alter oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic."
Comment Re:Atheism isn't a belief system (Score 1) 907
Atheism isn't a belief system, but the rejection or lack of one.
Exactly, just as an empty set is not actually a set...oh, wait...
Atheists have religious beliefs in the same way as an empty set has elements.
Comment Re:exponential version growth (Score 1) 309
Yeah, 3.5 really knocked the Wizard and Cleric down to "still by far among the most powerful classes in the game."
Comment Re:I can speak with authority on this... (Score 1) 215
Yeah, everyone knows that all power plants fail catastrophically at 50 years on the dot.
