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Comment Re:This is just sad on two levels (Score 2, Insightful) 19

by Mytheral on Friday January 08, 2010 @10:30PM (#30703712) Attached to: University to Evict Man 13 Years After Graduation

I've been in bad dorms and good dorms.

Dorms with full kitchens/baths that make cheaper apartments look like doll houses for a fraction of the price.

Then I've been in bare basic dorms that are just claustrophobic places to sleep, and the guy down the hall is trashed 24/7 and always too drunk to clean up his vomit.

Every school and dorm building have different standards. *shrug*

Will Consoles Merge Back Into PCs? 356

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 12, 2008 @07:35AM from the it's-a-definite-possibility dept.

GamePolitics is running an interview with Randy Stude, president of the PC Gaming Alliance, discussing the future of gaming on the PC and the console. Stude has some interesting thoughts regarding the long-term viability of stand-alone consoles: "The guts of every console should tell you that the capability is there for the PC to act as the central point for all the consoles. If you bought a PC and as part of that equation you said, Okay, when you're on the phone with Dell, 'Hey, Dell, on this PC, this new notebook I'm buying, can you make sure it has the PlayStation 4 option built into it?' Well, why not? Why shouldn't that be the case? [Sony is] certainly not making any money on the hardware. I mean, can't they create a stable enough environment to specify that if Dell's going to sell that notebook and say that it's PlayStation 4 [compatible] that it must have certain ingredients and it must meet certain criteria? Absolutely they could [do] that. Are they going to do it? I don't know. I predict that they will. I predict that all of the console makers over time will recognize that it's too expensive to develop the proprietary solution and recognize the value of collapsing back on the PC as a ubiquitous platform."

Comment Re:Oh, get over yourself (Score 1) 556

by Mytheral on Saturday November 29, 2008 @02:00PM (#25926251) Attached to: Computer For a Child?

You can train her to not eat her own poop.

Reason #1: The dog food your feeding her does not have enough nutrients in it that she needs.
Solution: Change to a better dog food and see if she stops.

Reason #2: She thinks her poop "tastes good" or it was a learned behavior from another dog.
Solution: Clean it up every time she poops before she has a chance to eat it.

Complication with #2: This method is complicated by the fact you have multiple dogs, I'd try training her to stay away from the poop and rewarding her when she does so. You do not want this behavior spreading to the other dogs.

Reason #3: Territorial battle.
Solution:If she's just eating her own you can semi-rule this out but still check to make sure that all the dogs socialize properly else introduce the two in a non-threatening area with plenty of rewards for good behavior, when bad separate and re-introduce again rewarding the good behavior.

All of these are just as Easy or easier then cleaning her mouth when you want to play, or that embarrassing surprise when she licks a guest and she has poo on her tongue.

But "She's just eating a bit of poop it wont hurt her." Wrong, this behavior greatly increases her chances of tapeworm, heart worm and about a dozen other life threatening illnesses. If you care about your pet then take care of her.

Comment Which is more ethical? (Score 4, Insightful) 120

by Mytheral on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @12:00AM (#25880501) Attached to: Indonesians Want To Microchip AIDS Patients

Prior to the 1950s an epidemic to the magnitude of AIDS would have had those infected with it quarantined and provided with free medical care. That is free drugs, and a clean sterile environment so they could live as pain-free as possible.

Today we let them go about their business and charge them extravagant rates for medications which is beyond the ability of many to pay.

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