To be honest, it's really a paradise for those who want to short sell and gain money on crashing the market. Bitcoinica seems to be one such platform which allows short selling with 1:50 or higher leverage. I guess it's a good opportunity to make some quick cash, but along the way actual Bitcoin users will get fucked over and Bitcoin's value just keeps going lower and lower. I guess the developers didn't really plan for that.

People keep saying that BitCoin will have it's value as long as people keep using it and that you're not supposed to get rich by mining. But that isn't even the problem. I transferred some cash to BitCoins and back on Friday and it was paid out to me on Sunday. By the time I got the transfer, it had lost almost half of its value. Now imagine if that would constantly happen with your real money. It wasn't much, but I sure as hell aren't going to use it again. This is why PayPal and other ecurrencies are fixed to real world value - they are stable (as far as it can be), and BitCoin can't ever get as stable as real world currencies (yes I know they aren't that stable, but that just means even bigger problems with BitCoin)

Do you mean "remember the days when we had the exact same competitions"? We've always had them, we still have them constantly in demo parties. It has nothing to do with actual produced and sold games - it's a freaking competition with time limit, and usually fun one if you take part of it. You stay up for up to 48 hours and try to finish as much as you can. Sometimes the results are really surprising, too.

Besides, this "games used to be better" rant is getting old. We've had tons of fantastic games in recent years. Even EA changed their models and has released many great not-so-common games, like Mirror's Edge, Dead Space and many others.. There's Portal, there's Team Fortress 2 and there's many great indie games. We do have also things like FarmVille, but that's only because gaming has went mainstream with the rise of social networks. There's everything for everyone, and it's not off from you.

Google isn't doing it offer better privacy. It's doing it cause trouble for competing services. It basically requires all website owners to sign up with Google to access Analytics and Webmaster Tools. It's purely an anti-competitive thing and intented to destroy their compteitors. I'd be surprised if FCC doesn't start to crack on Google's monopoly tactics soon. Google is the new Microsoft.

But if you drink water fast enough while eating hot chilis, it helps. So always when eating really hot chilis, have a glass of water near you.

I actually have an HTC phone with the old Windows Mobile currently. Yes, after iPhone and Android it sucks ass, but they weren't available back when I bought it. But it sure as hell was better than Symbian and anything else we had back then.

Nokia isn't a newbie. They have a history of making the best mobile devices on the planet, hardware wise. They suck with software. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is actually great OS to new phones. Combined with Nokia's experience with hardware and their history in mobile technology, I think they will actually go far.

Of course this is Slashdot and people here generally hate Microsoft and want to see them fail just so they can post haha comments.. But I think the whole Nokia+MS partnership was great idea for two companies that weren't doing good, both in the different areas of the industry. They basically combined their good sides to let go off their bad sides.

Windows Phone 7.1 and later. And if you have looked at N9 from Nokia, you'd be ignorant to notice how great it is. Both at hardware side from Nokia, and from software side from Microsoft. I was going to buy iPhone before, but now I just want to wait for what Windows Phone 7 mobiles Nokia comes out with.

Of course I forgot to tell how to actually enable it.. It's in your gfx card options, as most recent (within 3-4 years) drivers actually support the feature and you can enable it just for those red/blue glasses. It's not as good, but it works.

This "omg astroturfer" thing on slashdot thing is getting really old..

Actually, if you don't want to pay upfront to test it, you can try it out with the just the regular old movie red/blue 3D glasses. I guess you could make those yourself, but a geek probably has those lying around. Most gfx (at least nvidia) cards supports them with all their cards, even if you don't own the 3D vision ones. It illustrates the effect somewhat, even though it's not as good (you get some color distraction and the quality isn't as good as with shutter glasses). But you don't need to buy the Vision ones and new monitor just to enjoy the technology.

Games are one place where 3D actually makes a huge difference. The information is already there in the graphics card, fully, so it can process it much more better than in movies. I used to play Left4Dead and Left4Dead2 with the NVIDIAs tools with 3D glasses and the game was MUCH more scarier and cooler. I suggest you try it... it's really a completely different and better experience. It works extremely well for scary and FPS games, but I can see it could be strategically used in RTS games too.

It was obviously converted from the currency used back then. It still amounted to same.

At least here console games have always been 60-70 euros. They were that 10-15 years ago, and they still are. They go down in price a lot faster now than 10 years ago though. On PC things like Steam sales and cheap web stores have also brought down prices a lot.

You do know that you can have anal sex with women too, right? Besides, females don't put much brakes to amount of sex men have, not at least for me. Usually they're trying to get sex too often. On the other hand, I do live in Thailand.

And what would you say about having sex with kathoeys? They're originally men, but have turned into women, have boobs and are generally even more beautiful than real women. Is that gay sex if it's pre-op (still have penis), post-op (now they have vagina, but have been men before)?

They don't drool over the fact they're into other men, they're like that because they (even if unknowingly) know that they cannot get that man. Same is true for men in relationships too. Women show much more interest towards you when someone else already has taken you.

How is that weird? Guys do the same about women. The falling in love part too.

Also, many girls have told me they like watching gay porn much more than lesbian porn.. which is true for most men too, just in reverse.