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Comment Re:30-odd employees (Score 1) 121

by joshuaobrien on Sunday June 30, 2013 @06:15PM (#44149259) Attached to: Clinkle Wants To Become Your Wallet

The benefit is not having to carry around that plastic card.

Comment Re:Well now (Score 2) 775

by joshuaobrien on Monday May 27, 2013 @09:40PM (#43836701) Attached to: Google Glass: What's With All the Hate?

Suddenly the Guy Fawkes masks don't look so bad.

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 432

by joshuaobrien on Thursday March 17, 2011 @05:28PM (#35522718) Attached to: Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons

Not only that, explicit conversations with people pretending to be under 18 are illegal?

Have I Lost My Gaming Mojo? 418

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 25, 2010 @02:51AM from the blame-dr.-evil dept.

danabnormal writes "Increasingly I'm being frustrated in my attempts to find a game I want to play. In an effort to catch up, I've been using my bog standard Dell laptop to dig out treasures I have missed, such as American McGee's Alice, Grim Fandango and Syberia. I don't often get the time to play games, so I like to have the opportunity to dip in and out of a title without feeling like I'm losing something by not playing it for periods of time. But when I find a title I like, I make the time. Heavy Rain is the last game that gripped me, that truly engaged me and made me want to complete it in a single sitting. I'm tired of the GTA formulas, bored of CoDs and don't have the reaction time to think on my feet for AOE III. Is it about time I tossed in the controller and resigned myself to the fact that the games I want only come out once in a blue moon? Or have I just not found that one great title that will open me up to a brand new genre? Lords of Ultima is going OK at the moment — is there anything of that ilk I've missed? What are your thoughts? Do you stick to a particular genre? Are you finding it harder, as you get more mature, to find something you want to play?"

Comment Re:Well, whaddaya know (Score 1) 548

by joshuaobrien on Monday June 29, 2009 @08:13PM (#28522169) Attached to: Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU

Microsoft want as many people to pay for Windows as possible. They also want as many people to use Windows as possible. These are not necessarily related.

Comment Re:I am not a lawyer.... (Score 1) 554

by joshuaobrien on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @03:12AM (#27671909) Attached to: RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation

I prefer the term unprofessional bigtop pants.

Comment Re:A Bad Idea Made Worse (Score 1) 174

by joshuaobrien on Monday April 13, 2009 @09:11PM (#27565391) Attached to: Google Open Sources Updater

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

Navigate the Linux Kernel Like Google Maps 77

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @06:26PM from the where's-my-house dept.

MakeLinux writes with a link to a cool interactive map of the kernel: "A picture is worth a thousand words. Just try it, and navigate the Linux kernel like Google Maps."

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