I know it's obvious that I have no love for the RIAA, but today I decided to give the Ruckus service another shot. Ruckus is a download service made available to UT students for "free" to encourage legal downloading of music. Actually UT students pay exorbitant fees for "technology and services" at campus and this could easily be wrapped into that ( Read more... )

This morning Anna went to leave for work and came back inside while telling me that the Honda had been broken into (again). Naturally we figured it was the radio they were after. Why they would choose the relatively beat up old Honda with a pretty cheap Sony radio I don't know... That first lapse of judgement out of the way, upon further ( Read more... )

I think this developer summed up very well that which I consider to be a significant threat to the future of MMO's ( Read more... )

Frequently enough I encounter anthrocentric humans who insist that by virtue of their humanity they are superior to other organisms or, at least, more distinctly different than other animals are from each other. Not long ago this distinction was characterized as sapience, or the ability of judgement. More fundamentally, sapience is metacognition, ( Read more... )

I often find the surges in prevalence of disorders interesting and frequently discuss it with Gyopi. We both suspect mainstream media, high-profile individuals and a natural desire for one's children to be "exceptional" are at the root of the phenomenon. Whenever this happens, the actual disorder typically gets distorted; people only latch on to ( Read more... )

I've been lusting over some cases lately (Antec 900 and Coolermaster 590). Both cases are remarkably well-engineered. Excellent placement of fans, a large number of them, great ventilation and reasonably good looking cases. The problem is that the Antec is ~$100 and the Coolermaster is about $80. Not terribly expensive for a case, but as I already ( Read more... )

Hmm... curious, when I attempted to begin this post, it asked me if I wanted to "restore from previous draft" (or something to that effect). I selected "Ok" just to see what happened. It showed me a fairly old post. I'm not sure why it did this, but when combined with the other oddities I've experienced with LJ, I suppose it's just fine ( Read more... )

Conventionally it seems accepted that to refute a theory requires only one counter-example. So I wonder, is it possible to have less than one counter-example, but more than none?

I just finished (finally) Neverwinter Nights 2 last night. Maybe there are multiple endings; the ending I received last night was just weird. I mean, I played through the entire game with this one voice-actor narrating with the right amount of drama and excitement for the scenes. Then I killed the big boss and suddenly they switch off from using 3d ( Read more... )

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