His choice of interior layout is a massive disappointment: redundant corridors, the ring corridor not staying concentric, etc. Epic fail.

There's no-one who knows more about the Falcon than Robert Brown, the only logical layout is his: http://web.archive.org/web/20010426005359/http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/mf/mfplan.htm
http://deckplans.00sf.com/Old_Ships/Old_Gallery.html

Console controllers are tough. I did well with the N64 controller, and any Wii game that doesn't use the extra plugin stick.

Xbox and playstation controllers are harder, but depends on the game type. Fighting games are usually not a serious option (although the latest Soul Calibre was fine), driving games can be ok. Usually I stick to the PC though.

* I can use my wrist on a few keys on the keyboard.

* combos

...lost my left hand at the wrist in an accident when I was 7 years old. I can use my wrist an a few key on the keyboard.

Obviously only real time games are an issue. Currently playing CSGO and minecraft.

I think the most extreme case is an FPS, so I'll just talk about CSGO:

  - get a mouse with plenty of buttons. Mine has 8, which is good, but I'd like a couple more. I tried Warmouse with its 1 million buttons and thumb stick, but it's ergonomically crap.
    - My left wrist can be used on the letf ctrl and alt buttons (with any middle key between them disabled or just removed from the keyboard) for strafing, and on the space bar for some other function (open doors, pickup). Other keys are too hard to press quickly.
    - run, reverse, fire, alt fire, weapon select, jump, duck, zoom, reload are all on my mouse (8 buttons plus wheel)
(Actually CSGO doesn't really use alt-fire, that is more of a legacy from my L4D2 setup where alt-fire (push) is a hugely important function - I should swap that for walk)

This is perfect for L4D2, but I really need one more button for CSGO: can't walk.

If a game doesn't allow total customisation (eg. DDO, Dead Space), get AutoHotkey to remap keys/buttons.

Think about combinations you'll need when choosing which fingers do what, eg duck + jump + strafe + run + walk + fire all together ( firing during ducked jump at walk speed while strafing diagonally) is probably the most extreme example I can think of (I can't do that).
An example I ran into: put forward and reverse on the same finger (thumb for my setup) and not alt-fire and reverse on the same finger - you will find it hard to alt fire while moving backwards.

Some obvious combo that will never happen: left strafe/right strafe, forward/back, fire/reload/change weapon/zoom toggle (any two)
Some others that you want: any movement with any non-movement (a drawback with my current setup is no jump + fire - they both use the same finger), run+ jump + duck together.

My current mouse is a Logitech MX518, but I'm always on the lookout for something both cheap and decent that has more buttons.
What I REALLY want is a wide mouse that uses my 4th and 5th (or is that 3rd and 4th?) fingers - they have no role on a normal mouse.

This is all bullshit anyway. The proposed amendment doesn't remove anything from the bill - just postpones the worst bit until after the bill is passed!!!

I'm in Australia (with the AUD 102% of the USD at the moment) and I can buy a 1TB disk here for $70, or a 2TB disk for $100

"Criminal"? Are you sure about that, Apple? And could I point out, for your idiot lawyers, that Californian and American laws don't meany anything in other countries i.e. China...

5% (or less). Illegal downloaders never have to deal with DRM.

If I label an ice cube "hot", it doesn't make it so. If I label an elephant "small", it doesn't make it so. Likewise with images I've posted on Facebook: they're quite obviously public, regardless of whether I'd like them to be, or how I've tagged them

A "private" tag doesn't magically make a public item private.

Why on earth do you assume everyone here is American? How very narrow-minded. I think the person you replied to was trying to point out how extremely ironic and hypocritical this complaint is. The US is currently constructing a "curtain" of its own.

...guess we were wrong. Anyway, here's your site back, so no harm no foul, right? I mean come on, we only censored (and for false pretenses) you for a year. What's the problem?

...*ideas*, software or otherwise, can't be copyrighted ANYWHERE, not even the US (in fact copyright law explicitly forbids it). If your're going to post about something, at least be reasonably versed in it. You can't own *ideas*, you can't treat *ideas* as IP, you can't copyright *ideas*, you can't patent *ideas*.

"WDS did not disclose how many support calls in general technicians fielded for each platform. " WTF!!? This makes the data virtually useless for comparing platforms. From the same data we could just as validly say iOS and BB devices are more prone to software failures! This article is stupid.

What idiot wrote that title? Sunspot activity isn't related to climate, and not even the article linked makes such a stupid claim. I suspect a troll.