I'm surprised at the vitriol of the people here on Slashdot. The SC2 community is overjoyed to find a way to get together and enjoy a social game, similar to regular sports teams. I'd like to dispel one thing first of all, these events take place (usually) during major events such as MLG. They are not as frequent as twice a week usually. That being said, Starcraft 2 is a fantastic spectator sport. I think one of my best quotes from reddit I had the pleasure of reading goes like this,

I always meet people who know every single player on some football team or the forward of a professional basketball team and I was always awed by the depth of their knowledge of the sport they love. I for one, have never had that and I could not understand the love of watching sports until I started playing/watching Starcraft. Now I finally get it, I fucking love Starcraft.

Good idea in theory, but I'd be willing to guess, it would be very easy to provide a stolen credit card for this information.

My buddies and I used a cardboard computer case for a desperate friend at a lan party in highschool. As we quickly found out, the worst thing about it, is the complete lack of easily mountable intake and outtake fans. The actual ingeneuty of the story is far more interesting (basically 12 of us scrounging for enough computer parts to allow our friend to play), but to this day it still boggles my mind we got the darn thing working. To prevent overheating though, we pulled the mobo and everything out of the cardboard box. It stopped overheating then pretty quickly.

...have it in early Spring (Northern hemisphere). And see if the poll answers change at all. I'd be willing to guess they'd lean more towards Winter -> Spring answer. Just a hunch.

The reason you get a blank stare is because said student is usually a business or communication major and has no clue what Linux is. Heck as I computer science major, I don't know what you mean by 'support' Linux. Do you mean, do they have it in labs? Do they allow you to connect to the dorms using Linux? Do you mean as in what limited Tech support on campus and does it support Linux? Or do they have Linux in the computer labs?

Assuming you mean computer labs, I can tell you here at UNT they do not have linux, but they do have (on every computer) an ssh client that allows you to connect to your Linux account (CS Major).

I like what you've said, but you're drawing the wrong conclusions. Porting that from it's intended system to another can make gameplay difficult and frustrating, but not always. A game doesn't neccisarily rely on it's initial control design for ideal gameplay. I loathed Oblivion on my computer and I can't IMAGINE playing a game like Command and Conquer on a console. But when Doom was ported to allow mouse use, and strafing? Doom became one of the easiest FPS I'd ever played. (Turn your y-axis to nearly 0) There is no 'one ideal' control set for games, but it's generally accepted that mouse/keyboard combination is the superior combination for FPS.

A great example, there HAS been some cross-console gameplay in the past to set precedent for this. MS released a game a while back in 2007 called Shadowrun (terrible game), and allowed 360 users to go head to head against their PC counterparts. Balancing was an issue between PC and 360 and so MS, "implemented a feature which causes the cross-hair to expand during quick movements, thus lowering the player's accuracy... making it impossible to quickly turn and maintain accuracy, reducing the potential advantage of playing with a mouse". This was originally on Shadowrun's website, now found on wikipedia as an excerpt.

I beg to differ. Through evolution, my ancestors will have survived and continue to THRIVE off of high-fructose corn syrup foods.

AMERICA! FUCK YEA!

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You'd think that would waste a lot of energy over a 100+ day trip. Surely there are better things to do? All I can think of is read a book; since you can't even play cards.

Ugh, forgot to proof read my second paragraph.

A CEO/manager may not be privy to the insights of a different sector; so these insights would be though provoking and sound completely logical (even though not backed up with statistics).

Well spoken!

I read about half of his article; and it's actually pretty well thought out for a fifteen year old. I'll post probably my favorite snippet talking about video games (console vs PC).

Now to many of you, this was a 'well duh' moment where you rolled your eyes back through your skull, through the flesh into your mouth and then back. But it's insight like this that I'm sure big CEOs and managers love. Not because they couldn't think it; because any one manager from a specific sector knows these things. But he covers may different areas with seemingly good logic.

That being said, he does not back this up at all with statistics. As a 15 year old, his biggest weakness in his arguments is that they're not going to see a bigger picture. His views are true for a 15 year old living in a certain financial means (his parents), but not true to someone living in a ghetto, or living out in a farm (extremes). There's little insight to other demographics which the companies are selling to. But what do you expect? He's fifteen. That will come in time and experience.

It's definitely worth taking a peek at though.

"Mama's Crossdressing (for men)" on the Nintendo DS. Rippingly funny.

"Call of Duty : War of American Independence"

Not to knock you too hard Howlingmadhowie, but I think the best response to your somewhat anti-american post is another person's post in this thread:

A good example of this; Open source solutions, a free alternative or try to promote a free GUI alternative (opera, Ubuntu, Firefox). While the EU is more likely to enforce some business restrictions; a top down approach. This is a predominantly American website, so of course you're going to see mods like that. And yes; some are of course going to be xenophobic (goodness knows we're a xenophobic nation), but the way we want solutions is simply inherently different (I believe) because of our culture.

So when the EC does what we see to be an overbearing government standard to protect its people, some Americans see it as trying to interfere with fair business practices. I'm not here trying to convince you that you're wrong, but perhaps being a bit quick to judge.

Also regarding your Hyjal site, you used to be able to get in there through a simple death-walk through the gate.

I notice in the article they mention the small 'haunted' house North of Stormwind Harbor. But he misses the BY FAR most fun part of going to this landing, and that is you used to be able to fly there... but not mount. You'd get a warlock to summon you there, hearth to outland, mount up, accept the summon and you could fly in Azeroth. The only downside was if you left the little non-zone area; you'd quickly fall off your mount.

Slashdot. The one place where you get modded offtopic for posting with a title starting OFF TOPIC (duh, you didn't think I don't know that? Friggin asshat modder)

Thanks thanks, I've just been going crazy at how difficult it's been to browse Slashdot the last few days. I suppose it's their way of saying "DON'T DO THIS AT WORK!"