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I am pseudonymous, though. I don't really care if you can e-stalk ANTSANTS to find that they posted in X forum or played Y game, as long as it stays separate from my real identity.…

A little bit, chummer. Not enough to catch your drift, though.

Seconding this. I have browsed forums where important users threw temper tantrums and deleted all of their posts, making it downright impossible to follow years worth of valuable d…

I agree, I love FM and will always think good FM or "real chiptunes" are more impressive than good sample-based synthesis, because you can't just lean on your sample library. There…

And I'm unimpressed by the technology but dig the music! It takes all kinds. I like dubstep when people put some thought into it and aren't just lazily fiddling with an LFO, but to…

Absolutely nothing. I do like these demos for their music and their visual aesthetics, but I'm sorry to say, they aren't in any way technically impressive. The first one [1] is lit…

>Text evolved from shapes chiselled into rock or pressed into wet clay, so the roots of typography are as tactile and 3D as it's possible to be. >Even ink on a scroll has a 3D feel…

A symbol is a symbol. A flat monochrome floppy disk icon represents the concept of saving a file just the same as a lovingly rendered 3D floppy disk or even a photograph would. Tex…

I also used ME for about a year but I don't remember it crashing once. Never understood why everyone had such problems with it, I thought it was just Windows 98 with USB drivers.

John Romero was making shareware games for years before he met John Carmack. He wrote the level editors, much gameplay code, created many levels for, and significantly contributed …

Yeah, the possibility of a "gatekeeper effect" is what's worrisome here. There's no way you can anticipate everything a user might want to do with their computer, so while opt-in s…

Media players are rather large programs that users feed lots of untrusted data (gigabytes of pirated movies/tv shows/porn from suspect sources etc) into. All it takes is one exploi…

I watched it last night and can confirm that C was not explicitly mentioned once.

Yes. Asynchronous image loading and rendering is already built into the browser, and the rest of the content shouldn't take long to load to begin with. Fancy dynamic Javascript fra…

I don't know of anyone that has ever experienced any kind of technical problem with their landline telephone or cable TV services. Rather, you pretty much need a cell phone and (to…

I fear I may never get a better chance to mention Garage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwYYFjGtedw http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Garage:_Bad_Dream_Adventure_...

That's debatable. Even in 64-bit mode, x86-64 processors treat 32-bit integers as the default word size for the majority of integer instructions, requiring a operand size prefix by…

Modern Blogspot strikes again.

>I never would have guessed that. The tech press keeps telling me how hot mobile is and how lame PC's are. There was an interesting discussion on this topic here a few weeks ago: h…

I think you mean Bettie Boop.

Common Sense , the pamphlet that inspired many to fight in the early years of the American Revolution, was published anonymously. Don't discount the power of anonymous dissent; the…

How about "amoral 'journalists' trolling for clickbait," "far left-wing nutjobs salivating at the chance to strike at the tender underbelly of a vulnerable target hesitant to defen…

It's particularly ironic that the author included this quote: >“When I coach women, I tell them how wonderful they are. Women won’t make the ridiculous projections about their comp…

"The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.