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Actually, he didn't do this. Part of the LD is that the theme/topic for the Dare isn't revealed until the game starts. He actually spent about twenty minutes staring at a 5-line te…

I actually enjoyed that part of Anathem. I was in highschool when I read it, so a good portion of that book was actually teaching me concepts. His use of alternate universes was pr…

There are a lot of releases, and fairly often; I've had versions go "out of date" on me within a week of its release. The forums are very active, and when they say something is unb…

That last point is my primary complaint about these systems. While yes, this is actually a quite reasonable series of warnings (the first four carry no penalties at all), it still …

That was my first thought as well. However, I like Hulu's viewing page, so I'm glad YouTube is taking after it (or seems to be, anyway). It's a much less distracting screen than th…

I have the option to not make it permanent at the bottom of the dialog in 4.0.1 on OS X. By default, it's checked, but it is also clearly there for me. Edit: A screenshot, for anyb…

I'm surprised they're not offering even a lesser iPod (iPod Nano, for example) instead. While the the gift card makes sense, since it could get a student comfortable with purchasin…

I like the new Gnome Shell. It feels like Ubuntu's Unity shell, but Done Right. The Shell is kind of hard to describe, because it almost- but not quite- does away with the traditio…

Sure there is. A while ago, while I was using the 4.0 beta, I ran into a problem: modal dialogs wouldn't work. In beta 4 they worked just fine. Beta 5, just fine. When beat 6 rolle…

Is it bad that I want to browse using this bare idea? I had Ubiquity installed in FF3.6, and it was quite handy. The inline maps and other website commands were more and more usefu…

There's still a market for people who want to manually upgrade. There was a comment thread on HN a few months ago about this as well (no way we'll be able to find it now, I don't r…

Reddit appears at the bottom, below HN and Digg, when I've got it maximized at 1024x768. That's going to get obnoxious fast.

It seems like a cross between CoffeeScript and JavaScript, leaning towards the JS side. I haven't tried it, but some of the new features it adds seem interesting (like the ability …

This looks very promising. However, the one concern I have is that e-ink does not work very fast; browsing the web on a Kindle or Nook leaves a lot to be desired. When you're flipp…

I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems to me that you are correct. They analyzed a different section (which is in several of their EULAs; under the Mac/iPhone App Stores' as "USE OF…

Last time I looked over it (I don't actually use iTunes anymore), a lot of the EULA was devoted to the content and how you can't pirate it, and so on. That seems to me to be the ve…

I think the biggest reason that nobody reads these is because of the sheer size of EULA documents. They're dense paragraphs upon paragraphs of legal text. I don't think that it's t…

Yes, you can have multiple accounts per console. And because it's free, I would think (based on a small sample, my friends who own PS3s), it's far more likely that there will be mu…

I'm curious how they settled. Once the details are shared, then the case's importance will be truly established. For now, we can't really assume which way it went: Geohot asked for…

I wasn't saying it was a bad thing. I was curious how this would have led to people getting money that they should not have gotten.

The president supports repeal of the 1099 provision, but he doesn’t like how the bill makes up for the revenue that would be lost: It requires people who receive higher subsidies f…

There's also the possibility of the placebo effect. I agree with donnyg107 in that it'll be a while before we can begin to form a solid "yes, it's better" or "no, we're Reddit" ans…

I see where you're coming from, I think, but I think both of your ideas can definitely work together. You say that some people can support the antagonist, but I'm not sure that's w…

While I agree that Sony should not be suing Geohot for the hacking of his own systems, I think this is a bad move on Anonymous' part. At this point, it has sort of turned into "Son…

Along the same vein, Kevin Rose wrote a blog post ( http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2011/1/11/cityvilles-viral-growth... ) about Facebook games and why they're so popular. He came to th…