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1. 151.▲
   by bencoder 11y ago

   Except if your disk is damaged and you want to download a working version or get a replacement disk, then it's not just a licence, you gotta buy it again. They want it both ways
2. 152.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   I feel the same, which is very concerning.
3. 153.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   I get this a lot, so many games seem to remind me of Go. I think it's because Go is like the Lisp(or maybe just λ-calculus) of games - as my co-worker put it: remove any of the rules of go and you would no longer have a game.
4. 154.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   I think http://www.londoncontrol.com/ is the closest one out there to what you're looking for
5. 155.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   Pretty sure they pay UK VAT on physical goods. This article is referring to the changes in VAT for digital goods. By the way, physical books are vat-free in the UK (presumably because it is seen as a good thing to encourage people to read),
6. 156.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   Not disagreeing with the overall point of your comment, but: > private chef I can purchase a pre-prepared meal and heat it up in my microwave by pressing two buttons. That's pretty close!
7. 157.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   3d sound in this context means when you turn your head the sound remains in the same '3d' position(so if the sound was coming from the side and you turn to face it, it now sound like it's coming from ahead), which is importan
8. 158.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   This was discussed on /r/oculus and it was suggested that Microsoft could be overdriving the infrared so it's for eye protection
9. 159.▲
   by bencoder 12y ago

   Those are very strange numbers - Are you getting those figures from the ability to look around? So in terms of the 180 degrees from straight up to straight down it's 3240p? I think pixel density is what people want - to make full use o
10. 160.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    That hmd has only a 40 degree field of view, as opposed to the rift's 100 degrees. FOV is normally diagonal, so for 800x600 we have 1000 "diagonal" pixels, and for the rift's 960x1080 (per eye) we have 1444 "diagona
11. 161.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    No it didn't, I believe that image is just an example of "a captcha" for the article
12. 162.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Got to 938 points on my first go. Discovered you can also use left and right arrow keys, which is much more efficient and got me to 1566 on my second go. Thanks for the game
13. 163.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    From the article: > the model is a mat with a picture of Saturn, but will eventually grow to crown a school planetarium at the city
14. 164.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Same thing on Firefox 30 on Win 7. It didn't bother me much though, it's faded to almost-white and I only noticed because I read this comment before.
15. 165.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    I recently integrated paypal. I did a test to see how much extra we could charge if the customer chose an obscure shipping address and there didn't appear to be any limits like I was expecting(I was expecting a percentage +- of the &qu
16. 166.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    OP was saying in some other countries these clauses would not be legally binding, regardless. Your link only shows US court cases.
17. 167.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    I found it: "Everything looks fine on my end"
18. 168.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    As someone who went to the University of Reading, this is pretty sad to me. I do wish they would stop devaluing my (and my peers') education with this nonsense.
19. 169.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    try: > In this case, em dashes are doing something similar to a pair of commas (which can also denote side info but they do it more casually) and parentheses. The commas after "pair of commas" are the parenthetical commas he is
20. 170.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Your comment would contribute much more to the discussion if you explained why.
21. 171.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    There's discussion of that in the comments [1]. It looks like it's referring to the storage capacity. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/...
22. 172.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    I think one could argue that earlier users of google were more likely to be programmers and that the overall proportion of "* programming" related searches has declined, and therefore the normalisation isn't accurate. In fact
23. 173.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    I'm getting Beta 2, from the UK. For some reason your other comment explaining this is [dead]. Can't see any reason why though.
24. 174.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Comma is actually used for decimal separator in more of the world than the period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg
25. 175.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Really nice. Reminds me of ZZT.
26. 176.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    It's an april fools joke, laced with massive amounts of obvious sarcasm.
27. 177.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Thank you!
28. 178.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    > you need to be a citizen of the country if you want to play in the national team. Citizenship and Nationality are two distinct concepts. I am a citizen of the UK, but I do not have UK/English Nationality
29. 179.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Was about to apply but I'm confused about the rules requiring all members to be the same nationality. I have a French passport, so my nationality would legally be French, but I live in the UK, and work with English, Polish, Hungarian,
30. 180.▲
    by bencoder 12y ago

    Those details would allow you to start working on it (even if in your head). Presumably they want everybody to start at the same time.