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Comment Re:Never played DS 1 or 2. Any opinions on them? (Score 1) 84

Difficult, eh?

IMO, the only way to die in-game would be to set options to manual control (assuming you didn't already do that) and then go away for half an hour or so (while in the middle of a boss fight, mind you!).

Personally, I hated DS2, while I basically loved DS1 - at least in Co-op.

Comment Sources I ommitted... (Score 1) 1

Comment My methods: (Score 1) 308

-) I have to go, but afterwards I don't feel relieved.
-) I am somewhere high above ground and I don't care (I am deathly afraid of heights, in RL)
-) I am Ranma Saotome
-) I am the Scourge of the post-apocalyptic wastes
-) continue with any video game cliché you like

The high-above-ground-stuff usually preludes some fun boss fights, I tell ya.

Comment It all comes down to preference (Score 1) 646

I mean, I liked Opera from the very beginning, but I never even got close to liking Firefox (which I'm forced to use at work); which is interesting, because I liked the Netscape Navigator (not much, but I did).

Yet, my best friend just loves FF, while he finds Opera too restrictive (don't ask).

One of my co-workers OTOH prefers IE, although she permanently manages to infect her laptop (yeah, I know: O.o).

So, as far as preference goes, there's all kinds of flavors to choose from, so why all this bickering?

Comment Funny... (Score 1) 310

The reason for this is clear: the software being created is just not interesting enough or compelling enough to drive Wii owners to buy more than two [games] per year, [...]

Counting only the real games I possess for the Wii, I'd say it exists for more than 12 years...

[...] and most of those purchases are first party software.

Interesting... What Nintendo Wii is he talking about?

Comment Re:Blackberry? (Score 1) 253

I'll tell you once I find out. You could even go as far as claim he predicted the internet, for that matter.

Anyway; product placement aside, it really isn't that surprising he predicted wireless communication. I mean, look at his areas of scientific interest and research.

What I'm still waiting for is generation of energy from thin air, preferably cheaply available to anyone.

Comment Re:What bugs me... (Score 1) 472

At least now two alternative engines are starting to get recognition around the world, and newer one of those two seems to strive more for standards compliance (they wouldn't make this post otherwise). There was a time when a lot of sites appeared to be made primarilly with "IE + FF" in mind...which didn't really change that much in the grand scheme of things.

Thanks. Quite interesting, though it only seems to test JavaScript compliance, as far as I understand it.

But now perhaps sites will, to a greater degree, simply target standards... (just look at the link above to see why that's great news for you)

No news to me, but thanks again.

BTW, regarding safety of Opera - considering that it's big in post Soviet Block areas (typically #2 browser; in places #1, ahead of IE already)...maybe they just don't want to eat their turd? ;)

I frankly can't figure out an answer to that.

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andylim writes: According to the Telegraph, the BlackBerry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer. Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics' current technology editor, disclosed Tesla’s prediction at a presentation, titled “108 years of futurism”, to industry figures recently in New York. Recombu.com has published the original Popular Mechanics article in which Tesla predicts a mobile phone revolution.

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