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Or just a few turns, depending on your difficulty setting. (-;

Especially interesting since it is technically the "intro" or "B plot." (Most of the series is a mini-version of The Right Stuff.) But the first third of the series is an oddball f…

The sender was not the person being punk'd; it was the recipient. The person who would have seen that confirmation dialog would have been in on the joke...

I remember seeing an arcade redemption machine that worked on the same principle. It had a database of hundreds of screenshots from soccer/footy games and the player had to guess w…

Actually, the fact that young Spock was an outcast was already established by the early '70's thanks to the animated series’ episode “Yesteryear”, written by D. C. Fontana. For the…

Where’s cost of living in the metrics? Without that, unemployment and median income paint a very incomplete picture.

It’s one thing to edit Wikipedia; it’s another thing altogether to make that edit stick. Now that Will Wright has been cited in an article published by a third party, an editor has…

As well written as this article is, I do have a problem with its tone. The writer seems willing ignorant of why the Internet “sucks” for gaming; it was not designed for real time s…

> If the music tugged at all the right heartstrings, but you knew it wasn't made by a human, could you feel that depth of connection? I do think this is a false dichotomy of sorts.…

Telltale Games has been carrying the torch for these kinds of games for the last decade. Beside resurrecting old LucasArt staples like Monkey Island and Sam & Max, they’ve launched…

As much as I agree btilly might have crossed a line, “hating an idea” would be considered a fatal flaw by many, including myself, depending on the social context and idea itself. M…

> My question then is why I can't get a wine glass today made this way? :-) Likely for a similar reason that glass was mostly forgotten by the West during the early Middle Age and …

> chemistry was alchemically transformed into nanotechnology under the Clinton administration Clever way to put it… although how much was the president’s doing directly, or the con…

That language is math . Which, due to historical accident, was inspired by Arabic writing, rather than the Latin variety.

> The natural question I asked is "Why are you having kids you can't afford?" The question wasn't asked during the piece and it's something that isn't asked worldwide. You are misu…

"Last Updated 12-22-10" Wow. I guess the income from the swag (and their 15 minutes) ran out.

I believe that is part of what his definition of “ingoing and outgoing entropy” is refering to. That said, it does seem weird to heavily bias for the 2-3 letter and 7-8 cases. I wo…

Actually, it’s “Extra Credits” summary. PATV just hosts them now after they had a falling out with The Escapist involving a fundraiser for covering medical bills.

I don’t think that word is pronounced the way the blogger thinks it is… http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ume

America Online began as “AppleLink Personal Edition” before the company struck out on its own, Apple tried a service called “eWorld,” and the replacement for MobileMe, iCloud, scal…

More like evil genius… Variations of this trick are a common optimization in embedded systems for years. (Stuff like this is why “premature optimization” is considered such a bad t…

I came here to post this same thing… Except for a couple of holdouts like Square Enix, the notion of paying more for something non-consumable vs. consumable seems to be at an end i…

And only current Macs to boot... it doesn't work under Snow Leopard. EDIT: Looking at his home page, it’s pretty clear he is designing towards tablets first, and other machine type…

I mostly depends on how much resources you can provide to your legal team verses what your opponent can. The vast majority of the time, it boils down to who has more money. The exc…