Comment Re:This will get the lawyer sanctioned (Score 3, Funny) 225
Threatening criminal action for a frivolous cause also seems like marvelous fodder for a RICO case.
Comment So much for travelling (Score 1) 591
I have a notebook. It goes with me everywhere. So do my games.
Dragon Age: Origins is annoying enough, having to have the CD, and being denied access to "bonus features" if I can't be online, but I can live with that - if I'm careful, and don't end up relying on "bonus features" on any key game save. But always-online simply means I won't buy the game, because it's useless to me. I'll be damned if I have to buy a 3G card or pay for airport / airline wifi just to play games while travelling. And internationally - no effing way.
Yeah, obviously I'm not part of the target demographic. It's a long time since I was 20, and I don't spend the evenings holed up in my room in my mom's house. But I'd have thought notebook-toting professionals weren't an insignificant group.
Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release 984
CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."
Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover 334
Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."
An Early Look At Halo: Reach 107
KatanAlpha writes "Based on all the information coming out about Halo: Reach, it seems that Bungie's basic philosophy has been: 'The sequels to the first Halo sucked. Let's fix that.' We've already seen a little bit of this with Halo: ODST, wherein Bungie returned to some of the core elements of Halo gameplay and ditched many of the changes introduced in Halo 2 and 3. Reach seems to continue this idea while trying to invigorate the franchise by introducing greatly improved graphics and additional gameplay mechanics."
Comment There's a glaring discrepancy here. (Score 1) 844
Most of the languages are referenced allegorically, while Perl's usage is literal.
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