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by withad 13y ago
Sexist and implicitly homophobic. This community really depresses me sometimes.
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by withad 13y ago
Really? Is there some army of women out there extorting money out of men somehow by accusing them of being creepy and I've somehow missed it? Because it seems like that would be big news. Generally the only "demand" I ever se
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by withad 13y ago
It seems like every other issue of Private Eye has something almost exactly like this in their Ad Nauseum column. A lot of marketing companies are stealing ideas from old viral videos and art projects.
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by withad 13y ago
As someone who probably would identify as a skeptic, I agree with some of the premises here but certainly not his conclusion. He makes some good points about the skeptic community and the serious issues it has, as well as the issues with so
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by withad 13y ago
I've never quite understood this. There are so many simpler and more effective ways of copying DVDs than using screen capture software (let alone taking a single screenshot) that it doesn't seem worth the effort to deliberately block.
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by withad 13y ago
Sonic: Lost World looks interesting but a lot of previous Sonic games have looked interesting without actually being very fun. Honestly, I think part of the problem with the Sonic franchise since it went 3D is that there's been too much
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by withad 14y ago
A steady diet of McDonald's (or any equivalent fast food) isn't nearly as inherently dangerous as things like "Super Size Me" would have you believe. Morgan Spurlock was eating 5000 calories of McDonald's a day, with most of it coming from
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by withad 14y ago
It's worth noting that "processed" is a very loosely-defined term when it comes to food. At it's broadest, even peeling a banana could count as processing.
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by withad 14y ago
Another interesting fact is that the NES was deliberately designed with the horizontal loading rather than the vertical one (as in the original Famicom) so it looked less like a videogame console, helping to dodge the stigma that consoles h
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by withad 14y ago
Because you're legitimately afraid that your assaulter could seriously injure you in a fight? Because you just want to get out of there as fast as possible and escalating into violence is likely just going to draw it out? Because you're afr
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by withad 14y ago
Even so, it still reflects badly on the EFF. It might not have been their idea originally but they accepted the suggestion and gave it their approval.
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by withad 14y ago
Discovering something completely new still is a big deal - do a search for "new species" and then any recent year and you'll find numerous articles (usually written around December) about all the weird and wonderful creatures discovered tha
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by withad 14y ago
For me, Let's Plays fall into two categories. Some are like audio commentary tracks on DVDs - they can be entertaining and informative but you'd never listen to it without watching the film alone first. Others are more like MST3K/RiffTrax,
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by withad 14y ago
Well, World War I was referred to as "the first world war" as early as 1914 [1] and the term was fairly popular even before World War II, so there is some precedent. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Names
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by withad 14y ago
Yeah, that's the one that seems to be a tabloid scare. All the stories are from a few days in August '09 and all cite a single Daily/Sunday Express article (apart from the Wired one, which has some later corrections). And the Daily Express.
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by withad 14y ago
I just did the same thing on Google and got different results, probably because Google adjusts results and auto-completion based on previous search history. Using Chrome and incognito mode, "uk to install" without quotes got me suggestions
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by withad 14y ago
Some of the very few GameCube games that took advantage of the GBA link-up cables made good use of player-specific screens. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles used it for individual inventory management and Four Swords switched play to the G
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by withad 14y ago
I don't see Nintendo fading after just this generation. They've got significant reserves of cash, the Wii's still selling strong, and even with the rise of phones and tablets, they still have a massive chunk of the portable market. It's alw
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by withad 14y ago
But Apple's page doesn't give nearly as much focus to the tech specs as Google's does. Most of the page "above the fold" is given over to a description of what it can do and the details they do give are more about relative improvements (2x
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by withad 14y ago
I've lost count of the number of times I've gone to click play on the new OSX version of VLC and accidentally clicked forward or backward, completely losing my place in the video I was watching as it skips to another. Horrible UI.
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by withad 14y ago
Any time I see a headline ending in a question mark, I always think of this SMBC comic - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2075 .
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by withad 14y ago
I've recently noticed a lot of self-published books on Amazon that just pull their text straight from Wikipedia articles, like this ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Articles-Nintendo-Including-Pictocha... ) or this ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Articl
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by withad 15y ago
It's a good assumption to make if someone points out a random person on the street and asks you to guess their sexual orientation. But in an article about male and female relationships and sexual attraction? It's a pretty bad sign that the
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by withad 15y ago
Even though I think this is great, it still kind of annoys me that they keep calling it a NES when they're clearly using a Famicom. I suspect that's actually going to confuse a lot of people.
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by withad 15y ago
It is steadily becoming a lot more open - Jeb's the lead developer now and a big focus has been put on adding mod support. They've hired the guys behind Bukkit (a popular third-party mod manager for servers) to help with that, I believe. Cl
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by withad 15y ago
I'm a student at the University of Edinburgh and Mandelbrot Maps on Android is my undergraduate dissertation project. I've spent a big chunk of the last few months porting the original Mandelbrot Maps web applet [1] (created by a previous s
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Show HN: Mandelbrot Maps, a real-time Mandelbrot/Julia fractal app for Android(play.google.com)
1 points by withad 15y ago|1 comments
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by withad 15y ago
I've never really played a lot of MMOs (though I had friends who were very into SWG and still lament its changes and eventual demise) but the crazy stuff that goes on in virtual economies like this has always interested me. Reminds me of Ju
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by withad 15y ago
Weren't there some issues with GPL'd code being on the App Store? If I remember correctly, one developer complaining about the license was all it took for Apple to pull VLC. Still, it hopefully won't be an issue here, and this is still a re
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by withad 15y ago
They've apparently recently automated a big chunk of their customer support [1], which (along with the decrease in WoW subscribers) would probably explain big cuts to the customer service department. [1] http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012

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