I would have agreed with you as little as 3 years ago, but I think PC manufacturers are finally starting to catch up. Most of the big players have their own macbook copy-cats that look/feel great.

I think the comment system is shit primarily because it forces one-on-one conversations at the expense of longer, more insightful group discussions. It's nice to be able to respond to multiple people in one post, and for that post to be visible to all who are participating in a given conversation. That's what a thread…

I get so annoyed hearing people talk about speech recognition. It's never going to become the standard mode of control. No one wants to sit in a room, yelling at their computer. It's awkward, and would be annoying as hell in public places. The people who insist that it's the nexus of human-computer interaction are…

"In the current environment, there’s just one company that’s firing the first shot consistently. Most everybody else seems to be getting along really well" -Packingham (from the interview)

meh. If somebody wants to get into my house, they'll get into my house. Why go through all the trouble of securing a door when there's a large glass window 5 ft away on either side?

"movies about making other culture, of course"

I've never subscribed, but I've picked up a few issues at book stores over the years. Edge is not only the best video game magazine, but by far the most well designed magazine I've ever read. Unlike a lot of game magazines, which focus on nothing but previews and reviews, Edge does a really great job of covering…

yeah, blame the comment system. I meant to respond to the other guy

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That just makes me even more terrified of them. They EAT SPIDERS. Anything that eats spiders must be a horrific monster.

haha, yeah, no. I'm talking about these.

Yeah... but Gabe was sort of right about the PS3. It's a comparatively foreign development environment, which requires quite a bit of extra work to port to. Steam support encouraged Valve to embrace the PS3, but note that they always have and continue to support the 360... despite the fact that it's a much more…

Game support is important because the people who are tech savvy enough to adopt a less popular platform like Linux tend to be of the sort who play games, and care the most about game support. If more games worked on Linux, those who play them might be willing to make the switch, which would make the platform more…

Nice post... but what's wrong with Aero!?!? I was definitely annoyed by the extent to which they focused on it in their HORRIBLE advertisements... but what's wrong with it?

Yeah, I've heard it thrown around quite a bit here in Ohio as well. That, and saying 'Earwig' when referring to a Centipede.

Spiders that aren't tiny definitely scare the crap out of me, but my fear of spiders has begun to be replaced by an even greater fear of centipedes. When I know there's a centipede in the bathroom (where I usually find them, which is annoying given that it's the one place where I am most often not wearing shoes, and…

Mayflies are these little fuckers, which swarm coastal areas like crazy in the spring (to the point where every step you take within a 1500 ft radius of a dock is met with a crunch.) They live to breed, and are completely defenseless, and without any form of survival instinct. You can pick them up and pull them apart…

from the video: "China declares all of the South China Sea as Chines TERRORitorial waters."

I think it just means that it lives up to some government, or military standard, or that it's the same brand of knife used by the armed forces

Every server I've ever been in, at least in source, the second someone utters anything close to the n-word, admins are all over him