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You got put in your place. Don’t pretend you are trolling to save face.

1 day ago on The bitter truth about Greek yogurt: it's producing millions of pounds of toxic waste 2 recommends

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Wow. We are getting extremely specific with these “firsts.”

4 days ago on British explorer Daniel Hughes makes first video call from Everest's peak 2 recommends

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Alternative energy that is not financially viable is useless.

6 days ago on New US Energy Secretary confirmed, supports nuclear energy and natural gas 3 recommends

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Everyone knows Nintendo moves hardware with their exclusives. Nobody has ever bought a Nintendo platform for Madden, FIFA, Mass Effect, etc.

Yes, that’s the problem for 3rd parties.

6 days ago on Electronic Arts is no longer developing games for Nintendo's Wii U

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They had this long drawn out fight with the evil bear or whatever the main enemy was and then in the end she almost gets killed except for the fact that her father saves her. Ultimately her goal is to get permission from her father to be who she wants to be and not be forced to marry. The fact that she does convince him and it ends with her being independent doesn’t change the fact that it centered around her convincing her dad and mom to let her be who she wants to be.

I think if you are going to have a lesson about being true to yourself it shouldn’t be about the fact that you have to convince others that it’s OK. It should be that you are true to yourself and it doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks.

Anyway that’s just how I saw the movie. I can understand that others see it a different way and I don’t spite them that, I just felt like I saw a different movie than everyone else.

6 days ago on Disney abandons sexualization of 'Brave' heroine after public backlash 1 reply

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I feel like I saw a different movie. All she ever did was say she doesn’t want an arranged marriage. Then for the rest of the film she is basically protected by larger, stronger male protagonists and she only wins when those male protagonists decide that it’s ok for her to do what she wants. This is not what we should be teaching our young girls; or boys for that matter.

A terrible lesson. Sexualizing her wouldn’t have made the movie any worse than it already is.

7 days ago on Disney abandons sexualization of 'Brave' heroine after public backlash 1 reply

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The news is Intel’s side of the story.

7 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO

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Edited: Misread your original post.

7 days ago on Intel could have been inside the original iPhone, says outgoing CEO

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Problem is that few carriers have an off contract rate so you pay a premium for the phone if you’re on one of those carriers.

8 days ago on This is the new Nexus: a first look at Samsung's Galaxy S4 with stock Android 7 replies 7 recommends

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Your reply doesn’t match up to what I said…

8 days ago on Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' headed to Fox in 2014

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“News corp leans to the right in some instances”

Understatement of the century.

10 days ago on Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' headed to Fox in 2014 1 reply 7 recommends

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You don’t have to tweak settings. The vast majority of games auto-detect your computer’s capabilities and auto-set the settings. Every game I ever played on my desktop launched at High or Very High Settings with zero intervention by me.

I’m not saying you have to like PC gaming. There’s a lot of people out there that prefer big screen couch gaming. Spreading/believing FUD, however, is another story.

10 days ago on New 'Watch Dogs' gameplay footage is like a high-tech 'Grand Theft Auto' 1 reply

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The worst part about that app was that it was absolutely NOT obvious that you could swipe up on the screen to get at those controls. For about 3 weeks I thought there was simply no way to swipe to specific time points in the podcasts.

For anyone that will say “well that’s because you’re an idiot” please first consider whether the access to that interface was TRULY intuitive or obvious. Maybe I missed some tutorial or instruction at some point, but if your user has to spend time to read instructions or play around with something as simple as a podcast player, then there’s something wrong with your design.

Anyway, poorly designed apps are poor and well designed apps are great. Design language, flat or otherwise, rarely stands in the way of a truly good design. Sure, the designer has to work harder to overcome system limitations, but it’s still possible. If OP as arguing that one motif is easier/harder to design for, then I would be on board.

10 days ago on Flat UI is one dimensional, boring, unattractive, lazy, gross.

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But… But… We made this Amazon coin graphic and it looks like vaguely that Bitcoin graphic. Ergo, it is perfectly reasonable to juxtapose them in an article.

10 days ago on Amazon launches virtual currency Coins

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I really don’t understand this line of thinking. You are spot on about the cost of a serious rig. However in this day and age the lifespan of a gaming PC is much longer than in the past. I went 4 years on my rig without any upgrade and was still able to get graphical output far superior to consoles (I would have gone longer but I gave the rig away because I can’t have a tower at the moment for other reasons). Maybe I couldn’t amp the settings up to insane levels on the last edition of resource hog Crysis, but it still outstripped console easily.

The only real maintenance is downloading a graphics card driver once in a while, which honestly doesn’t even matter that much for the vast majority of use cases.

10 days ago on New 'Watch Dogs' gameplay footage is like a high-tech 'Grand Theft Auto' 1 reply

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It’s mentioned above but I’ll reiterate the point because I believe it’s probably one of two major reasons. When you add a level of Obfuscation to real money, on average people tend to be more loose with the spending.

The other theory that I think is spot on is taxes, but that’s a gut feeling which I have no evidence to back up.

In my opinion, the fact that you can already buy amazon gift cards in the store totally negates the idea that this helps people without credit cards.

10 days ago on Amazon launches virtual currency Coins

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I didn’t know they had $8/month plan. That’s much more enticing to me. Thought it was $12/month only.

10 days ago on Aereo streamlines its plans, eliminates daily and annual subscription options

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You can’t stack IQ like that, it’s not how that works (and you’re ironically lending credence to the OP’s point by saying so)… If he was vastly smarter than any one of us individually then he would be still be smarter than all of us combined (allowing for some increase in intelligence due to the crowd mind). If you combine two average 100 IQ people you don’t get a genius with 200 IQ.

And don’t jump in and say “I was kidding lol” because you were trying to attack someone’s hyperbole with “reason” not humor.

10 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help

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If you are referring to me as one who is conservative bashing, then It’s quite unfair of you to attach an agenda to my statement when I made absolutely no reference to partisanship. As any citizen should be, I regularly question the motives of my governmental representatives. I often find that in the realm of technology, Congress has a recent track record of making what I believe are bad decisions, and I view this video as a setup for another bad decision.

If you are referring to people calling Newt an idiot based on this video, then they are obviously overstating the issue. However, the video taken on it’s own makes it look like he has been living under a rock for 10 years and when he came out someone handed him an IPhone so he’s curious. You don’t have to be partisan to see that. Personally I wouldn’t spite people having a justified laugh at this video but even if I would I don’t think it’s “conservative bashing” to laugh at him over this video.

11 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help

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I hate this video because the fact that he is asking these “questions” implies to me that he wants to redefine the device in order to regulate it or allow government to step in and do something they have no business doing.

Or maybe I’m being too skeptical.

Another reason I hate it is because the name we have, Smartphone, is already good and doesn’t need to be changed, therefore this video is pointless. Although this last point is sort of meaningless because whether or not I think a video is pointless is a matter of personal opinion which doesn’t actually affect anything real.

11 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 2 replies