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Comment Re:A new captcha idea. (Score 1) 105

Except those can be solved brute-force with a simple "yes" or "no"... you're guaranteed to be right half the time. You'd need questions with more ambiguous or context-sensitive answers like:

If train A leaves Chicago traveling 100MPH and train B leaves New York traveling 150MPH and the distance between the two cites is 600 miles how far from New York will it be when the two trains meet?

And you thought word problems would never be useful!

Comment Enter By Tomorrow (Score 4, Informative) 77

From the contest website:

The goal of the contest is to develop new interactions on unique hardware that you cannot get anywhere else. We supply you with the special hardware and you show us how innovative you can be with it. ... To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010.

You also have to return the keyboard by October, so it's not yours forever. http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html

Comment Re:KDE is great (Score 1) 302

I really like KDE and I believe that it needs to be supported better by distributions. Kubuntu is a mess.

I've been running KDE on Arch Linux since 4.1, and it's been great.

Comment Re:Shame the ground game sucks. (Score 1) 62

Glad you're enjoying it.

I found PvE space combat to be ridiculously boring. Fly forward, hold D to start circling my target, and let phaser turrets and photo torpedoes auto-fire until it's dead. Select next target. Hold A this time so the enemy wears down a different shield facing. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something. PvP combat at least had enough "oh crap I'm being primaried aaaaaaand I'm dead" excitement to keep me somewhat interested.

Ground combat wasn't any better: walk forward, fire a few times, if something comes into melee range, punch it. Repeat. Occasionally press F to scan something.

I'm sorry, but weekly installments of more of the same just isn't going to get me to resubscribe.

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