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Comment Re:Obviously they need brighter people (Score 1) 113

by MaXiMiUS on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:31PM (#44144475) Attached to: Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable

I'd think the correct answer would be the best answer. Does this really qualify as a harder SQL question? I know what a left outer join is just from stuff I've done in my free time.

Comment Flying Cars (Score 1) 139

by MaXiMiUS on Saturday June 01, 2013 @07:51AM (#43881991) Attached to: OK City Data Center Built To Withstand Winds Up To 310 MPH, Says Contractor

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

On a more serious note, I'm not sure they should be worried about the wind. Is 8.5in of reinforced concrete really going to stop a station wagon full of tapes hurtling through the sky at 310mph?

Something tells me that their tornado budget would be better spent on insurance and remote data backups.

Comment Re:Samsung 'Puppy' Video (Score 1) 145

by MaXiMiUS on Sunday December 30, 2012 @09:50AM (#42425777) Attached to: The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year

Haven't been able to find the entire video yet, but I found this: http://video.online.ua/ukr/384821/ubiystvo-pk/

Comment Re:Wrong conclusions (Score 1) 203

by MaXiMiUS on Sunday March 04, 2012 @07:29AM (#39237969) Attached to: Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst

Google searches are not statistically valuable, unless you're gathering statistics on Google searches specifically I suppose. Very few IE crashes are reported in a manner Google can index, if they're even reported at all. Firefox on the other hand has Bugzilla, a public bug tracker with hundreds of thousands of reports.

Comment Re:How long will we have to tolerate cars? (Score 1) 606

by MaXiMiUS on Friday October 08, 2010 @08:43PM (#33842532) Attached to: How Long Until We Commonly Use Flying Cars?

New New York?

Comment Re:Republicans ! - pay enough and (Score 2, Insightful) 423

by MaXiMiUS on Friday June 12, 2009 @07:25PM (#28315533) Attached to: World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry

Seems to me it's more like you pay for what you get..

Comment Re:Turn off your phone... (Score 1) 259

by MaXiMiUS on Monday February 16, 2009 @04:25AM (#26870057) Attached to: Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking

There are.. other.. ways.

Comment Oliver Twist anyone? (Score 5, Funny) 316

by MaXiMiUS on Monday September 22, 2008 @03:12PM (#25108977) Attached to: Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download

"Please, sir, can I have some more?"

Submission + - EA Calls for 'Open Platform' for Games (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday October 19, 2007 @09:48AM

eldavojohn writes: "EA's head of international publishing made some interesting comments on where EA would like platforms & PC gaming to move to. From his statement, "We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible." While the rest of his comments imply that he simply meant 'one' platform instead of removing development licenses, it is an interesting concept. This is obviously a move designed to cut their development time for a game into a fifth of what it is but could this have other implications like easier homebrew development for consoles? There are the obvious concerns about losing the security-through-obscurity that odd hardware gives consoles, lack of being able to take advantage of chip architecture and emulators springing up on PCs. However, maybe this move would benefit everyone involved in gaming?"

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