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Apart from those that had been in the beta, tomorrow everyone will be newbs, full copy or guest copy.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-14-the-diablo-3-starter-edition-is-a-free-trial-demo Seems kinda silly to only let you play with other guest pass users. "Hey mate, here have my guest pass and then you can play with other peoples mates instead of with me as you'd think would have made sense"

Bah. Fire n brimstone. I thought I'd make a post over at /r/learnprogramming. Turns out that's not a good idea and I remember why I pretty much only lurked around there. Cos most programmers are cunts. (most of the linux crowd too). Obviously if you are having to ask questions it means you don't know how to use google. If you don't know how to use google you must be one of the biggest simpletons on the net. And thus you will be treat as such. Also there is only one set way to do coding, you cannot and may not deviate off the path. You don't learn programming by getting an understanding of the concepts before hand, you must learn programming by picking one of the many languages, even if it's potentially the wrong one, and then follow a tutorial on it to the letter and you'll pick it up in no time. Except you won't because parroting bits of code into an IDE doesn't teach you anything other than the code that works for the tutorial maker works for you too. I've been able to blindly copy code with PHP for PXOD n here and I've not learnt anything of PHP or what the code means, all I know is the expected result works. Just copying what someone else has done doesn't really make you a programmer. Anyone with some good resources (That aren't wikipedia) that given a grounding on the basics and concepts of programming? like what high level n low level is, OOP, not-OOP, functions, variables, garbage collection, IDE, etc?

There was a program I had ages back called Tabbles. It was alright, but it was something that needed to be built into the OS to be any use. Libraray's did close enough what I wanted so I just ended up not using it anymore.

The "Produced by JJ Abrhams" bit didn't give that one away? But yeah the fact chemical based batteries stop would imply the chemical based muscles would too. I'm curious to watch it just to see how they pull off the explanation. Cos an EMP would explain everything stopping, but not for 15 years and with extreme selectivity.

Actually Win 8 is bringing in "ReFS" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx A walkthrough would be neat, and something better than the "Welcome Screen" crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwfCRAtkYEI Not a trailer for a film mind.

Thing is the consumer preview is the "fixed" version. :/ And that's the one where the start menu disappeared to the side. Dev preview:https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2066351/1/Windows_8?h=925ee1#gallery:4 Consumer preview: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2066351/1/Windows_8?h=925ee1#gallery:18

http://www.pcpro.co....s-of-windows-8/ A round-up of the "best new features of Win 8" http://www.pcpro.co....ee-in-windows-8 And a "What it's missing" post. 1 and 10 are two I'd hope will be resolved. The rest would be nice, the Font Manager thing especially(though I don't mess with fonts as much as I used to) Oh yeah does anyone know what Win 8 is like on a dual-screen? Win 7 is real nice but what I've seen of Win 8 suggests it might not play well. I could install Win 8 and try out but I'm not up for that level of commitment. edit: I could always Google (This is Developer) What an odd layout. (This is consumer) http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/five-days-with-the-windows-8-consumer-preview-on-a-dual-screen-desktop-2012035/

So this exists http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/gop-pledge-o-meter/

My mum had my sister put some songs on her phone today. Turns out my younger sisters enjoy this song so now it's kinda stuck in my head (Cos my head enjoys it too) Also thanks to Fuchikoma I will soon be playing Kurushi, which it turns out is under the name "Intelligent Qube" in the US and may explain why it's hard to find out "what the game on the PS1 demo disc with the cubes is called?"

See a casual remark of "That dudes on solitaire" would be an obvious (though unneeded) "oh goofing off at work" joke. But a "That dude is playing galaga" CUT TO man playing Galaga" seems like there's something extra to it and it kinda sucks when that isn't the case. Galaga isn't exactly a well known game. Never mind something you'd be playing randomly at work.

Via http://www.illustrat.../label/avengers (there's more due)

Well it was just rather pointless. At the time I figured (since I'm not like a massive purveyor of Whedons work) that it was some inside joke/reference I didn't get. It just seemed oddly specific to mention that someone is playing games, and that it's specifically Galaga, and then before leaving that scene to have a flash of the guy actually playing it. It adds zilch to the scene or movie. It's as Ethan says "a dumb joke".

Is that all it is, or is that a guess? Cos that's terrible.

Kenshi, the monarchy generates a net profit for the UK. Even excluding the tourism they generate.

You guys added in an extra P? That's not fooling anyone. Either way: Lapland = "home of santa", and also a region crossing a few Scandinavian countries, Sweden included. If Sweden isn't taking advantage of that it's not my issue. You do need something on the tourism front to balance out the fact it's fucking freezing and the whole rotten fish thing.

It isn't for mobile phones AT ALL. Microsoft have their Windows Phone 7 OS for mobiles, Windows CE for embedded devices like consoles/handhelds. iOS is the weird on in taking an embedded OS built for MP3 players and blowing it up to fit on a bigger screen. Before then OSes were scaled down to tablets. Which is pretty much exactly what MS are continuing doing. Apple(and Google) are the ones that take a mobile operating system and put it on tablets, not MS. When MS make a tablet operating system it's built off the same one(usually with a couple tweaks like simpler in-screen keyboard) they put on big bulky desktops. That's how daddy did it, that's how america does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. Just what it means now with Win 8 is not only can manufacturers make Windows tablets on Intel/AMD X86 chips like the past decade, they can now build them on ARM chips too. They can build laptops and desktops with an ARM processor too. Most likely won't be, it'll mainly be maybe a few netbooks and some HTPCs(some HTPCs are Linux running on ARM already).

When was the last time you saw a mobile running Windows? Also ARM isn't "Only works in mobiles". It's been supported by Linux & Co for yonks. It's only big news with Windows cos Windows has a fair chunk of the OS space and up to now had been exclusive to X86. (Windows CE and Windows Mobil/Phone already supported it)

Lapland, Sweden...

Windows 8, not Windows Phone 8 (which is yet to be officially announced afaik)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHEH1wW-AT4

Didn't Massive Dynamic use it to copy the info from John Scotts mind?