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Military Personnel Weigh In On Being Taliban In Medal of Honor 171

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 20, 2010 @05:29PM from the identity-conflict dept.

SSDNINJA writes "This is a feature from gamrFeed that interviews nine US service members about playing as the Taliban in the upcoming Medal of Honor. One soldier states that games like MoH and Call of Duty are 'profiteering from war.' Another says, 'Honestly, I don't really see what the whole fuss is about. It's a game, and just like in Call of Duty, you don't really care about what side you're taking, just as long as you win. I don't think anyone cares if you're part of the Rangers or Spetznaz, as long as you win.' An excellent and interesting read."

Medieval Copy Protection 226

Posted by samzenpus on Friday August 20, 2010 @04:03PM from the thou-shall-write-your-own-book dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In medieval times a 'book curse' was often included on the inside cover or on the last leaf of a manuscripts, warning away anyone who might do the book some harm. Here's a particularly pretty one from Yale's Beinecke MS 214: 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"

Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? 1100

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 07, 2006 @05:36PM from the would-you-write-"hello-world"-in-it dept.

Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"

Comment Re:When was the last time you edited a .conf? (Score 1) 1070

by fijimf on Tuesday August 30, 2005 @12:53PM (#13437242) Attached to: Five Reasons Not to Use Linux

I really doubt that anyone *needs* to edit their registry ever.

So why does anyone do it?

I take your point, that in the world of Excel, Word, and IE users need never edit the registry, and need not even know it exists. But if you're doing something more sophisticated, there are times you need to edit the registry, and no other solution exists. The larger part of the complexity is trying to identify whether you are in such a situation or not.

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