Slashdot needs a -1 informative mod...

Who is trying to create a moral equivalence here?

Why can't we outlaw rape altogether - both the sexual kind and the financial kind?

If you just dropped those two short sentences separating this little contradiction, I wouldn't even have had to put them in separate quotes.

Guild Wars: beating a map, gaining several levels, and then getting a quest later that takes you through the same map. All the monsters are now the equivalent of chuck norris and it takes you two more days to get through the same stupid map.

FYI, Guild Wars has static maps (well, nearly-static, the classes of the mobs get shuffled a little each time). Although there are two difficulty modes for each map (normal/hard), the player has control over which mode they play in.

What you said sounds more like Oblivion, which repopulates areas you've already cleared after a few in-game days and levels NPCs to match the player. Especially painful if you haven't been min-maxing and your character has leveled through out-of-combat skills, since all the speech-craft in the world won't take down a level 20 Daedra.

Its even worse for them then you thought: 1.5m / 100 = 15k, not 150k.

If I had to guess what GP was talking about, I'd say this. First thing that I thought of, anyway.

Yes we have, and I'll admit to being more then a little tired of it (especially in discussion about MMOs and monthly costs). However, if you look closely, the person you replied to said that the increase in development costs of a game today compared to a game one or two console generations ago has been much higher then the increase in the retail price of the same game, which is a completely different statement.

Not that I usually like to hawk extensions/apps on /., but since it's kind of on the current sub-sub-topic...

When I looked at your screen shot I initially thought you were using Tree-Style Tabs (link) with only one tab open. Its a larger* extension than the one you're using, but it deafults to (and works best when) showing the tab section as a vertical bar that looks very similar to the one in your screen shot.

* By which I mean, does a lot more stuff but is less likely to play nice with other tab-related extensions you might be using.

Acutally, this guy said it, but you may not have seen his post since he's modded -1 Flamebait. Do note that this entire thread is in reply to his post.

Also, when the guy you replied to said "GP to your post" he meant "Grand-parent." The post you replied to was the parent to your post (and does not say that Pan's Labyrinth sucked), the post he replied to was the grand-parent to your post (and he did say that). It can easily be found (even if hidden by moderation) by clicking on that handy "Parent" button at the bottom of the post.

I was curious, so I checked the Apple support docs and (when for a minute I couldn't find anything there) some related stuff:
Apple Support: Battery Service
Apple Support: Replacement Batteries
Ars Technica: New Macbook Pro Battery Replacement Information
Apple KB: How to replace a Macbook battery


Investigation revealed that some of the newer Macbook Pros and the Macbook Air have an inaccessible battery. They have a replacement plan to replace the battery for you, either at the store by appointment (though probably walk in would work unless they're that busy), or mail in over a few days.

13' Macbooks look to be pretty much the same as everything else, press a latch and slide the battery out. 15' Macbooks have a slightly more annoying latch (requires a coin or screwdriver to unlock the battery area), but are otherwise basically the same.

So there you have it.

IANA.. whatever's relevant here. However, I'd think that if a journalist flat out made up defaming quotes from "Anonymous Sources" (and you could prove it), they would be liable for any libel charges relating to those quotes. Its just that (and I agree, necessary) laws protecting them and their sources make proving the quote is made up much harder.

See: Jayson Blair

That was supposed to be "Funny" .. sorry about the bad mod.

Also, whoever is modding this troll needs to get one of those iLife things I read about elsewhere in the thread.

No offense, but here's the situation you outlined:

The BSA comes up and asks to check your business computers for pirated software. You tell me to fuck off, so they leave, not forgetting to stop by the nearest relevant court house. They go and get a court order* to check your computer for same pirated software and come back (lets call it) a week later with the order. They find out that in the mean time, you spent the last month switching to free/open-source equivalents for all or most of the software They thought you had pirated.

Now, why wouldn't that be pretty good circumstantial evidence that you had "something to hide" ?

*Making no claims on the upstanding legal merits of the process or high quality evidence they use to obtain such a court order, simply taking it as a given that the order is granted as per the GP post.

It's interesting, I live in California, and the tendency here (at least among myself and people I know) is similar: most of the dead reckoning comes from the general feel that mountains are to the east and ocean is to the west. However, if you actually look at a map* of California, it's quite easy to see that the Pacific Ocean is (for most of the coast, including the part I live near) actually more southwest then straight west. This notion is further reinforced by several of the major freeways: I5, 101, and 99 further inland. Although all three are called "North/South" they are, for most of their run through California, actually Northwest/Southeast oriented.

* The population density map was the only real map of California on the wikipedia page, and I'm to lazy to find a better one. Type "California" into Google maps if you like.

You mean the machine I'm using right now can do other things?

I guess technically it can also read comments posted to slashdot...

There are a few programs like that out there now (Listchecker and GHost++ being the two that I see most often).

Also, your comment about switching. DotA recently added a command to switch two players on opposite teams. The intention is if you are in a situation where one team outnumbers the other by two or more because of leavers, you can switch someone from the bigger team to the smaller. Unfortunately, though depending on who switched, the game is usually still fairly imbalanced afterwords due to the team-based nature of the game.