Comment Re:SW Should Pay! (Score 2) 928
Is "Turret's Syndrome" the one where you're always shooting your mouth off?
Comment Re:Not just $10.5 billion.... (Score 2) 425
Not everyone has been under the knife, but everyone has to deal with the economy. Whether they're thoughts are accurate or way off base, they're irrevocably tied to the system which triggers a strong emotional response, and thus an opinion.
Comment Da Vinci (Score 4, Insightful) 123
Unless 5 million dollars are transferred to the following numbered account in 7 days, I will capsize 5 tankers in the Ellingson fleet.
Comment Re:This is why I won't use Google+ (Score 1) 165
I'm pretty convinced that GOOG411 was just a large scale voice recognition training program for Google Voice Actions on Android.
Comment Just a few short years away from... (Score 1) 184
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game 620
An anonymous reader writes "Massively.com has reported that an EVE Online player recently lost over $1,200 worth of in-game items during a pirate attack. The player in question was carrying 74 PLEX in their ship's cargo hold — in-game 'Pilot's License Extensions' that award 30 days of EVE Online time when used on your account. When the ship was blown up by another player, all 74 PLEX were destroyed in the resulting blast, costing $1,200 worth of damage, or over 6 years of EVE subscription time, however you prefer to count it. Ow."
What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? 569
Mortimer.CA writes "Even though things aren't great in the economy, it's prudent to plan ahead to when things (hopefully) pick up. In light of that, I'd like to update a previously asked question in case things have changed over the last four years: What do you ask every new (prospective) employer? When you're sitting in the interview room after they've finished grilling you, there's usually an opportunity to reciprocate. There will be some niche questions for specializations (sys admin, programming, PM, QA, etc.), but there are some generic ones that come to mind, such as: what is the (official) dress code?"
Similarly, what questions should you avoid? Read on for the rest of Mortimer.CA's thoughts.
Comment Re:Nintendo DS (Score 2, Interesting) 479
I actually agree, though for different reasons. I own probably twice as many DS games as I own for any other systems (barring perhaps PC) and I've been buying systems and games for 20 years. DS just has an excellent mix of completely wacky innovation type games, and traditional old-school style gameplay (including the rebirth of some genres I like, such as text adventures), and games I can show to my grandmother at social gatherings and catch her interest.
For that matter, DS is also well on its way to being the best-selling system of all time--you could argue it's the people's choice.
Comment Re:question for you, sir (Score 1) 161
No matter how many bullets you take, if you hide for 5+ secs without damage, your life will refill to full... at any time.
This is the same health mechanic as Halo {2}, and no one's complaining it about it there.
This is the same health mechanic as Halo {2}, and no one's complaining it about it there.
Journal Journal: Gaming wiki up and running on RPGDL
Right, finally got the RPGDL wiki up and running. Should be productive in the long run, since this group does a lot of collecting game data, however it's an entirely new system to 90% of the users (most of whom have only used message boards and AIM) so there have only been three or four people editing so far.
Journal Journal: www.rpgdl.com -- up and running.
For those that don't know, the RPG Duelling League is a tournament of console-RPG characters inspired by Bobbin Cranbud's RPG Playoffs. Well the community-run website has finally been transferred from my departmental website over to a permanent url www.rpgdl.com. Working on a website has...taught me how to use php, designing images with the GIMP, ssh, ftp, and all that. We've got more programmers who know what th
Journal Journal: Some more data 20
Well, I figure it's time to start a second Journal entry (mostly because the first seems to have hit its limit, or else /. is glitching).
I'm doing a study of the internet which I hope will turn into a
Journal Journal: Highest Posts per Day boards on the Internet? 37
Hmm, well I have been wondering this recently. All the particularly large message boards that I've managed to find in my search have been game boards. (...at least in terms of sheer post volume. Slashdot has considerably larger posts with more intellectual quality, for instance, and this is not measured by post numbers). So far, the largest I've found have been GameFAQs and IGN.com. Well now for some basic data. NOTE: this is just raw data right now; it tells nothing about the actual ra
