Comment Re:And this doesn't seem like a bad idea? (Score 1) 105
For starters, you could accidentally let the clowns out of the circus.
Comment Fins (Score 3, Funny) 105
Aaaand 3... 2... 1... Deploy flyswatters!
Comment Re:Mutant registration is a good idea, by the way (Score 1) 493
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad somebody had the nerve to say it. Too many people these days are content to sit around and ponder hypotheticals like "does the anti-vax movement harm society as a whole?" Meanwhile they're ignoring the all-too-real threat of mutants causing global warming and teleporting past metal detectors.
Comment Re:Not again... (Score 1) 1110
Has the CD / DVD / BluRay software been upgraded to something more useful?
In fact, MS removed Windows DVD Creator from Windows 8. And Media Player no longer supports DVD playback.
Comment Re:A very MS centric blog indeed... (Score 4, Funny) 357
Apparently you have not seen the new retina screen. Nothing prepares you for it because you can't see it on any monitor you have now. Letters look like they are carved in the glass with a diamond stylus. They just pop with sharpness you never knew you were missing.
Have you seen the actual letters MS based their fonts on? You can't tell from the way they look on your retina display, but in person each letter looks as if it emerged fully-formed from the head of Zeus. When I first laid eyes on the "A" I wept tears of sweet honey and was transported to a world of dazzling rainbows.
Comment Re:Editing required. (Score 1) 55
"(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)"
-- e. e. cummings
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)"
-- e. e. cummings
Comment Re:Hrm (Score 5, Funny) 547
Maybe his girlfriend's name is Swimantha.
Comment Re:Dell Netbooks do this (Score 1) 320
It happened to my Mini 9 last night.
Comment Re:This is idiotic behavior. (Score 1) 570
Why would they go to Parchman? That's two states away.
Comment Re:Nuke it from orbit (Score 1) 547
You should be able to put an AT4 round into your work PC without and adverse impact to your employer beyond the fact that an already amortized asset has been been converted into a pile of slag.
By "already amortized asset" you mean the building, right?
Comment Re:O, Hell No! I'm GETTIN that interview! (Score 1) 168
Orange badges are for contractors.
Blue badges are for long term employees.
Comment Re:Self-fulfilled research (Score 1) 136
Yes. He is getting paid in euros in Mexico. And Turkey.
Comment Re:I am the 1% (Score 1) 138
Comment Re:Whatever doesn't kill us, makes us stronger... (Score 1) 754
Until we're fitted with bio-mechanical replacements that give us near super-powers...
I'm choosing to believe that was a M.A.N.T.I.S. reference.
Comment Re:Silly. (Score 1) 401
IIRC, that's about the time arcade games went funny. (Maybe I'm missing it by a few years?) Games like Robotron 2084 or Sinistar or even Pac Man are sort of open-ended. You play until you die x times and you try to get on the high scores list. Whereas something like Golden Axe is a pure grind. If you have enough quarters, you can play to the end. What fun is that?
