By turning off the sound and music, you ruined part of the experience. A lot of what people appreciated about the game WAS the story. The way it starts out as a simple puzzle game, but then as you play you realize that there actually is a story, especially with the hidden rooms that you find. If you just rush through a game without looking around or appreciating the full experience, you'll get a distilled, boring, output, as you did.

Ah those were the days. Us friends all subscribed to different magazines and then swapped issues and CDs so we could get fixes more than once a month.

I loved your Austin Powers reference! That's what you were intending, right?

Here's a hint: "non-pharma" = "recreational" :-D

In my case, what I would definitely NOT let lapse is my utilities service. Gotta have water and electricity. Either that, or house payments / rent. If you have a home, you can live, and go elsewhere for everything else.

Yes it would. And we in Bangladesh have got just that. I've seen numerous jams solely because cars were unsure which to follow, the cops or the lights.

Damn you! I was about the write the VERY same comment. :-( But you beat me to it.

Yep!

If you had bothered to read the article, you'd see that the author has done JUST that. Not only did he prove (using proper statistical methods) that the results are significantly not random, he also dug up the exact javascript source code that does the shuffling and explained why it is faulty. RTFA!

You are actually trying to support your claim that Vista had it first by saying YOU saw the Vista one first, that's why?

Looks great, and the price seems awesome. Is it too good to be true?

Actually, you should divide by 4 (not 2), to eliminate the 3 extra 90 degree rotations of the same final image.

EXACTLY. You, my friend have just summarized what is the absolute truth. True science fiction is not fully focused on the fictional science. It's a story involving drama, action, mystery, or what not in a fictional science setting.

Ender's Game was a war story, Dune was about a prophet, the I Robot series was a detective series. They all took place in a fictional science setting. THAT is science fiction.

This is a great idea. It whould promote more interest in the specific problems and unsolved math problems in general. Besides, more collaboration should result in better research.

Pretty dump question. Any worshiper would reply God doesn't have what you call a penis. He isn't a sexual creature that needs an organ to reproduce.

I actually liked that movie - I remember it as "that odd night when I was tiny".