Yet another game made for console and badly ported to a much better platform - the PC

Almost every single game made for console and ported to PC has kept all the lame parts of console UI and taken none of the good parts of PC performance.

The exceptions to that rule can be counted on the fingers of one hand, so don't go thinking that your favorite is one of them - it probably isn't.

Oh, the AI is better at flushing you out now ? Gosh, they've almost reached the performance of Half-Life circa 2004. Congratulations !

No, sorry. Doesn't wash with me. I don't care about the pretty effects or the bullet-time, if a game cannot code its AI as good as something made close to a decade ago, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

The difference between Diablo III and Modern Warfare whatever

is that people will still be playing Diable III in ten years' time.

Heck, people are still playing Diablo II now.

"receive signals from digital billboards and domestic LED-backlit TVs"

Oh great, like we didn't have enough ad surface already.

Grapes ?

Only in space can three grapes push a 68-million ton rock

I've just one word for all this

Headache.

As said elsewhere

The OpenOffice developers have, in their majority, left the OpenOffice project and created LibreOffice.

So if you really want an open Office application, you want LibreOffice.

3 times the power ?

Wow. I wonder how that will translate in terms of frames/second - or will it ?

I hope Nvidia will be able to produce a proper number of chips for end-users, what with TSMC's backlog and all the rest of the problems. Seems to me like we'll see another sale date come without any product in shop - and no, one card on sale somewhere does not count in my view, either you have properly stocked your retail chain, or you can get stuffed is what I say.

Just to clear things up, Mr. Thompson

We're not saying it's your fault. Not at all. We're just saying it's your RESPONSIBILITY.

Responsibility is what makes your pseudo-excuses even more lame than they already are. And the fact that someone apparently needs to explain this to you is what makes me believe that you are indeed not fit to run any company, even if it's naught but a bunch a Yahoos.

But don't worry, Mr. Thompson, you're not alone. There are plenty of CEOs like yourself who blame others and say "not my fault !" as soon as something goes wrong while pocketing plenty of dollars in "compensation" for the "heavy responsibilities" of their position.

Actually, it's the CEO who has the balls to step up to the plate and say "my bad, sorry for that, here's my resignation if you wish" who should be applauded for the proper interpretation of the word "responsibility". I'd even cut him some slack - once. And frankly, I find very surprising that there are so few CEOs who have taken this step, when - from what I've heard - they're all trying to position themselves as the unique swan in a sea of ducks.

But hey, what do I know ? I only have what I've actually done on my CV, so I'm clearly not CEO material.

The whole incident illustrates ...

just how poorly journalistic professionalism resists to the modern media, as well as proving in one fell swoop how modern-day "journalists" are a far cry from anything that could bring down a Nixon.

Once upon a time, a journalist was a feared figure who could track down political miscreants and expose their misdeed after careful detective work and with the weight of their paper behind them.

Nowadays, a "journalist" is a moron who copy/pasts from anything that can sell page views and doesn't know the meaning of the word "integrity" any more than a politician does. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule, but they are exceptions, not the norm.

Hey, Third Point !

I have an accounting diploma AND a computer science diploma !

So, when do I start ?

"this comparatively reassuring picture"

As much as I hate the AGW fear-mongerers, the zealotism concerning AGW and the endless debates about the validity of someone's references on this matter, I see nothing that makes me believe that this "picture" is all that "reassuring".

Climate, and meteorology in general, is the most complex and the least well-understood branch of science. We have precious little experience (barely a century's worth), and the variables that influence the subject are innumerable, out of our control and, most often, out of our technical ability to measure.

We base our computer models on what we think is representative, then derive conclusions from those models without double-checking the source data. Then our governments go spending billions we don't have (due to our already bloated, loan-based budgets) to enforce measures that may or not have an impact on something we don't really understand.

Let's keep on measuring, evaluating and improving our understanding, hmm ? It's the only way to learn, and zealots be damned.

Especially since there seems to be some dispute about how glaciers form, which would totally throw into disarray the ice-dating techniques we've been using to derive data about historical climate conditions.

Oh come on !

He's a CEO - lying is what he's PAID to do.

"ACTA has not been fully successful in this respect"

What a brilliant understatement !

Why does that remind of Yes Minister ?

I wonder.

I was coerced into joining

My ex-boss told me to join since all employees of the firm were on the network.

Join I did, and set all parameters to the most privacy-respecting settings I could.

As a result, I did get a few interesting links, but I never got any spam from the site.

That said, I would gladly remove my profile, but now I am linked to a few people I have genuine respect for, so I can't bring myself to do so.

Yet.

So, how much gas per day ?

According to http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/oceans.htm, the arctic ocean has a surface area of 14,056,000 sq km.

That makes for 28.1 tons per day, if my calculations are correct. However, I'm quite sure that anyone can disprove this result since there is no indication of how the 2 milligrams per square meter figure was reached, so there is no guarantee that my surface area reference is the right one.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how this whole AGW debate has been fueled from the start.

So, Van Gelder doesn't care about proper analysis

I find it very interesting that, on the first occasion where ICANN is actually trying to demonstrate some proper seriousness about a serious issue, some TLD applicants appear to give very little flying monkeys about the whole thing and just want their new shiny to be available ASAP.

Undoubtedly, Van Gelder will be the first to squeal like mad if his .whatdoicare is undercut by a .couldicareless, and will then hold ICANN responsible for the situation, demanding reparation and truckloads of cash.

But for now, let's just revel in the fact that, for once, ICANN is actually trying to be professional about something, and with full disclosure no less.

About bloody time, too.

I've said it before and I'll say it again : I have had nothing but an excellent experience with Steam in general. It is user-friendly, there are good deals to be found, it is robust and doesn't bother me, and it survives hard disk changes and OS wipes/reinstalls/upgrades without any complaint.

I have tried other platforms and they are almost universally trolling the sewers next to Valve (EA Games, I am looking VERY HARD in your particular direction).

If Valve manages to put out some hardware to go along with its service, I'm willing to consider it favorably. That said, I fail to see just what kind of hardware Valve could put out that would be any kind of use. USB disk storage is already widely available, Valve will not replace my ISP and I already have loads of hardware on my PC for what I need. If it's just a dongle, I will be quite disappointed.

One question

I would really, really like to know which companies have been affected by this issue - so as to make sure I never, ever work with them.

Putting payrolls on a cloud ? There isn't a company I know that would do that. Payroll is the one thing that is even more important and secured than even customer lists or industrial secrets. You never hear of anything coming out of a proper HR department, those people are tombs when it comes to communication.

So, payrolls in the cloud ? Come on, tell me who, I practically dare you to justify that statement.

What I cannot understand

Why oh why do scientists not simply buy a web site address and "publish" themselves ?

It's not rocket science, and Google will find them soon enough (with a tiny effort).