Zab UvWxy - Slashdot User

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Comment Sorry... (Score 2, Insightful) 64

by Zab UvWxy on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:19PM (#28610467) Attached to: Epic Sticking With Classic Controllers For Now

I may sound like a troll with this post, and my apologies for it. But I've lost all respect for Cliff B., ever since he used the lame-o "piracy" excuse for not porting - PORTING, mind you, not "developing from scratch" - Gears of War 2 to PC. It's a cop-out, and to me it shows a lack of understanding of the issue and ways around it.

After all, Stardock doesn't have any problems developing for PC; they don't DRM their titles beyond what's being implemented with the new GOO platform; and despite the rocky launch of Demigod mired by users connecting with warezed copies, they seem to have made it a fairly successful title.

Comment Meh. (Score 1) 459

by Zab UvWxy on Friday January 26, 2007 @03:29PM (#17773592) Attached to: Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

So they're going to delay releases... so what? We'll either drive over the border to a "local" US theatre, or download a US-recorded pirated copy. Makes no diff.

It's not like there's a lot of good flicks coming out lately anyway.

Journal Journal: Improving Doom 3

Journal by Zab UvWxy on Thursday August 12, 2004 @09:11AM

I love looking at things, especially entertainment (games, TV, movies) and seeing what ideas I could generate to make it "better". Having said that: it seems to me that there are a few little niceties that pop up, now again, in some games but then seem to disappear from the mainstream after that.

Journal Journal: DOOMsday: one week after

Journal by Zab UvWxy on Wednesday August 11, 2004 @08:56AM

Well.... One week has come and gone since I got my copy of Doom 3 (well, as of about 5:30 tonight, but close enough).

Journal Journal: DOOMsday + 1: the day after the install

Journal by Zab UvWxy on Friday August 06, 2004 @10:12AM

Well... Last night, I had an opportunity to play D3 again, for about 2 hours.

The first thing that I noticed when I loaded my last saved game and got to the place where I died the night before, was that I wasn't quite so jumpy. Sure, I was still whipping around with the flashlight to make sure that the groaning noise I heard behind me wasn't a zombie trying to mash my head like a boiled potato, but when imps jump from around corners and hissed at me, I wasn't creeped out quite as much.

Journal Journal: DOOMsday 2

Journal by Zab UvWxy on Thursday August 05, 2004 @07:55AM

For me, yesterday was DOOMsday: I picked up my copy of Doom 3 from EB on the way home from work.

I have to admit, I wasn't sure how I felt about the game at first; sure, I loved most of id's other original games (Doom/Doom II/Quake/Quake II), but I knew my rig wasn't going to be considered a "recommended" specs system (1.5GHz P4, 512MB RDRAM, SB128, 128MB Radeon 9600XT AGP), so I was concerned about performance and IQ.

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