Recent content by YawningAngel

"Completely anonymous" is fairly misleading. It does nothing to stop someone reading what you send figuring out who you are from what you say, and it's vulnerable to certain kinds of attack to find out a user's identity from packets alone.

Allow me to suggest that the problem isn't with the execution of the games, but the lack of artistic risk. The issue with Bioware isn't that they're incompetent: nobody disagrees with the notion that they're able to produce a well-written, enjoyable game. The problem is that they've ceased to be...

I've seen a lot of posts on both sides of this issue, but what's struck me is that I haven't seen anyone question this basic premise of Blizzard's argument here. Can anyone provide me with a cogent explanation of why they couldn't just allow single player and then disallow importing of...

I refuse to believe that anyone in the industry hasn't played those.

It's laudable because nobody else is interested in doing it. Bioware know full well that it isn't new, they're the guys that made those RPGs.

Can we inject a note of realism into this? We need only compare Sandy Bridge gaming performance to Sandy Bridge-E to see that modern games do NOT benefit from massive core counts, and a PowerPC architecture is unlikely given that MS have already shown interest in unifying the PC and Xbox in the...

They review stuff and decide whether to publish it, and having read it I can tell you that the vast majority of the studies they publish are not done in the US. Thus, I'm not going to countenance the idea that this is one of the rare exceptions without evidence.

This graph is dubious. The BMJ is not likely to have published a US study.

We have seven of us! My entire group is people who screw around, works nicely enough.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Obviously.

Not really. I've had fun while sober plenty of times, and I've enjoyed conversations more than I would have if both parties had been drunk plenty of times as well.

No, the error is that you've set x = 0/0 That's not allowable, since 0/0 involves division by zero, which is an undefined operation

Abortion is a societally convenient form of not-exactly-murder which has done a great deal to advance women's rights. While I'm not exactly sanguine about it, I accept that it's probably a necessary evil for a host of reasons, ranging from the consequences to people who would otherwise be denied...

Benny. Absolutely every single device I've had to name is called Benny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production Creating matter happens all the time. Creating matter FROM NOTHING is the tricky part.