Comment Re:It's time. (Score 2, Funny) 716
Don't you mean - half looking like a man, half looking like a bear and half looking like a pig?
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."
Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" 545
zaphod was one of several readers unhappy with the sentiment expressed in President Obama's graduation address to the students of Virginia's Hampton University, writing: "According to Obama, 'information becomes a distraction' when it comes to iPads, the Xbox, etc. (All items he admits not knowing how to use.) He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.' Of course, he's referring to talk radio, blogs and other mediums that tend to disagree with his political views."
CNET has a slightly different, less critical reaction, focusing on the differences among the actual devices named; they note that the Xbox is not an iPad.
Comment Oh, the Irony (Score 2, Funny) 615
Star Wars and Jediism is accepted as a religion, but using marijuana for spiritual purposes is not accepted as a religion, even though the law permits the latter.
Don't get me wrong - I love Star Wars, but this whole situation makes me a bit bitter. :)
Don't get me wrong - I love Star Wars, but this whole situation makes me a bit bitter.
Comment The Obvious Answer is... (Score 0) 144
Skype's core is made by estonians. Of course Russia feels threatened. ;-)
Comment I Bet (Score 0) 239
The Bug populations are getting bigger because of the Global Warming.
Comment Re:Free gas courtesy of Mircosoft! (Score 1, Funny) 257
It's not a theft - it's a feature!
Comment Re:Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? (Score 0) 468
Profit!
Comment In Soviet Russia (Score 1, Funny) 600
What comrade Putin says is that Soviet Russia produces some of the best cracks, viruses, hacks, worms, backdoors, keygenerators and hacking utilities in the world. Besides, it's all in cyrillic and nobody except soviet russians understand it anyway. :-)
Comment Global Warming? (Score 0) 695
I noticed that somebody is describing / tagging this as a global warming.
Scientific evidence shows that sunspots have lower temperature than overall.
Then how could they contribute to global warming?
Shouldn't it be ice age instead? :)
Or maybe the lower temperature is co-produced with a deadlier form of radiation?
Scientific evidence shows that sunspots have lower temperature than overall.
Then how could they contribute to global warming?
Shouldn't it be ice age instead?
Or maybe the lower temperature is co-produced with a deadlier form of radiation?
