40 special moves? I remember struggling to learn the shoto kid's 3 special moves in SF2. Blanka was a character of choice, and even then it took a while to get the ball down.

@Malthian: I'm vaguely surprised by these price numbers. They're just a polarized filter attached to a plastic frame. At $35, you're starting to look at camera-grade polarizing filters.

Yay! Someone FINALLY created a modern graphing calculator. Are you watching, Texas Instruments? For those who don't know, Texas Instruments is selling exactly the same calculators, for exactly the same price that they did in the mid 90's. Some of them still advertise that they have the "expanded" 64k of RAM.

@Sakilla: If only Bobby were in a position to make this a reality. I mean, he's only the CEO of the company that owns CoD.

I have to say, going for the novelization is actually kind of brilliant. It stays true to the source material, but you have proven storylines that are actually stories. While I love games dearly, they're not linear passive media. Novelizations are the first step in that direction, and a great thing to base a movie…

Let me see if I understand this... The Xbox 360 is keeping the Windows division afloat, so Microsoft should be trying to get rid of it.

@lugal317: It could be auto-generated. You need to be [condition] to [goal].

The box should just say "Sure. We did it... You're welcome."

The way GIF encodes images, it compresses very well if there are large swaths of solid colors horizontally. Hence, for cartoons generated on computer, or particular parts of web design without much color change and no gradients, GIF can encode far smaller than many other systems. But only having 256 colors, usually…

@LoftyDog: Yeah. I hate that feeling too. Clearly there is a better experience around here somewhere, I'm just not privy to it. Even though I know that feeling isn't true at all, I do hate graphics settings. I wish the games would just set all of the ugly stuff automagically, so that we wouldn't have to be told…

@LoftyDog: While I would tend to agree, you can create an OK PC rig for about 600, and then upgrade the graphics card every 2 years for 100. You'll never play games at the highest graphics settings, but you'll always be able to play whatever is released.

@Psyfa: It's not even running a program. If your PS3 is on a network, it will prompt you automatically. It already does the work for you. You just hit X.

Geek Squad: Because you might not already realize that Best Buy is trying to rip you off.

@twitnip: It could always be "two shot." Fire one shot, calculate offset, fire a second shot.

@Ash Paulsen: WoW, for all of it's faults, is actually pretty easy on the graphics card. They make up for a lack of effects with solid art direction. And the engine scales well. It used to run fine on my old integrated 915. If this can handle 3D at all, it should handle WoW.

Considering that's a tiny helicopter tethered to a sail about ten times its size, I can't imagine what must have gone wrong.

Do the scouts realize that playing a legally purchased CD in a car full of non-relatives counts as a public performance for which they do not have proper licensing? Pirates!

@Dodge2002: My laptop came with a "biometric face monitoring" application on the webcam. This basically lead to two things.

@parad0x360: If a handgun gun is supposed to be weaker than a machine gun, give it a 700 ms cool-down time. If you don't, there will be players who can naturally rapid fire it at 40 ms between presses. I know these people. That's basically as fast as the 360 can poll anyway. If the designer doesn't put a cool…

Turbo Fire counts as cheating now? You kids. If hammering a button repeatedly / quickly gives you an advantage, your game sucks.