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Adblock doesn't work 100% on Chrome. The adblock site says I don't use Firebug that much so I can't comment on that.

I use Yahoo Messenger and my main mail account is Yahoo Mail. To me, Yahoo is like a bunch of web services in a complete package Google is like a bunch of web services scattered around, but they are leaner and more interactive.

Have you ever signed up for a website with the same password such as a guild forum?

A handy flowchart on how to become a US citizen. http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad.jpg

The guy in the video says the leaders will talk to you in their native language. I wonder if they use accents that are historically accurate, since I'm sure even English doesn't sound the same as modern times.

You can't respec your stats on the fly. You can reassign, which subtracts 5 points per stat, but you can only do it every few hours. Like I had a Thaamaturge with 60 Int. I've reassigned twice now to get other stats and his Int is at 55 (because stats take 2 points to increase after 40, so...

The only reason computers use 2^10 as a kilobyte is because computers were slow back then and it was much faster to bitshift a number 10 spaces than to divide by 1000 and it was a good enough approximation. Everyone should know that the use of kilo, mega, giga are wrong for computers, just...

It's just one of those quirks that we have to deal with for the rest of humanity I suppose. Kinda like how when you draw a circuit diagram, you draw the electricity going from + to -, when in reality, electrons are negatively charged, so it should be - going to +.

If you've played those games on iphone that use an onscreen joystick, it's not a great way of playing. Your fingers will drift away when you're trying to concentrate on the screen. Sometimes you'll want a quick movement like doing a hadoken or something, so you'll roll your thumb on the...

The market area is just a separate instance area where everyone sets up their bazaar retainers. There's like 8 separate "floors" you could say. Basically, in FF11, you would see a mass of people just afking with their bazaar up. Well, in FF14, I walked in and just saw a mass of retainers.

Just an example of how poorly the UI is designed in this game: To do a crafting quest, first you talk to a guy and select the quest. Your screen fades to black Your character despawns Then the screen and your character come back. Open the menu. Click Synthesize. Click Requested...

They have talented people making the graphics and music, but the programming is like they outsourced it from India.

Anyone having a problem with the fishing quests where the map spot is all the way in the mountains?

So servers are back up with new patches for both the boot loader and client. It was taking forever to download so I did the usual with my bittorrent client. The bootloader patch was 92 bytes!

When you pasted them to the correct folder, were you replacing an existing file, or dropping it completely new in there?

Actually what I said is probably wrong. I think it's that glowing orb that is how unstable it is. It was shooting sparks everywhere so I tried waiting 3 times in a row and nothing changed so I don't know how it works. Also, I found out that the quests are daily. Kinda sucks you can only spend...

Even though it is beta, it's scheduled to come out at the end of the month. There are major issues that need fixing and there's not a lot of time. It's many little things that don't inspire confidence that they'll release a quality product. From the shoddy bittorrent client, the alt-tab...

I suspect that once you start using those elemental crystals in crafting the timer will come into play. I've read on some sites that there's elemental stability, and if the "Durability" number is flashing, it means the element is unstable, so you should wait for it to settle down before taking...

I don't know about starcraft specifically, but there's a certain quality of person that puts a lot of passion into their work that I just don't know how to look for in an interview. I work with this guy as a programmer and he just doesn't put quality into his work. He'll google stuff and just...

I crafted some stuff and after I finished the quest it says I gained the recipe. How do I look at my recipes, or do I have to keep track of the ingredients myself? Also, does increasing any stats boost your craftmanship?

I don't know about the other cities, but the 3rd city, there's a tavern near the north side. There's a circular booth with 2 NPCs in it. They hand out quests.

I played for a bit today. Navigating the UI and stuff will take some time to figure out, but I was able to complete a quest. I started out in the 3rd city. Talk to one of the NPCs near you and he will take you to a tavern kind of place. At one of the booths, an NPC will hand out quests (or...

I was just able to apply for a registration code at 1:28pm PST today. Added the service to my account. Now I just gotta wait until I get home. :D If you are using Square's client downloader, make sure you unblock the port range listed in the options program.

The graphics might be outdated, but the gameplay might also be not very good. And then people would say they should have waited and kept working on it until it was "good".

Why does everything need to be a surprise now? Surprise, Starcraft 2 is coming out! Surprise, Diablo 3 is coming out! Surprise, Portal 2 is coming out! Surprise, Half Life 3 is coming out!

Not everyone is tech savvy. He's a history major! He probably doesn't even know what a USB drive is. I know I had to explain what one was to my mom when I got one for her.

I was looking at stoves a few months ago and I never understood why a stove+oven combo costs half or even 1/3 as much as only the stove top piece.

It's so bizarre hearing them openly say "we want to spy on people," but then say that they don't want people to know they are spying on them.

One of my favorite game themes: Mega Man 3! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aqC69SYSzE

Hulu probably has so many ad impressions because Adblock can't block them. The commercials are served from hulu's own servers.

I used Yahoo mostly until one day I saw a "Powered by Google" link on the Yahoo page and clicked it. I decided to just go directly to the source.

Machinarium and World of Goo, 2 independent games that were DRM free had about 90% piracy rate according to their developers. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/08/1440249/DRM-Free-Game-Suffers-90-Piracy-Offers-Amnesty When the game Demigod from Stardock game out, it shipped without DRM...

From my experience with iphone games, if it doesn't have online play, it will be really short. This is true for regular computer games as well. Games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2. You can pretty much get all the achievements in 2 weeks if you play everyday. Maybe even faster if you don't...

I played puzzle quest 1 on iphone when it was on the freeappaday.com or freegameoftheday.com site. The RPG elements were fun, but at its core it's just playing Bejeweled over and over. I can only stand so much Bejeweled.

I was dismayed to hear that FF14 will still be using keyboard-turning.

Was that screenshot taken with a modern video card? I don't remember reflections (those sparklers out front), and I don't remember seeing glowing effects that good like those torches inside the castle. And that fog under the bridge.

How far we have come.

The 277 shoulders will be gemmed, enchanted, and have a set bonus. I wouldn't switch to the blue until maybe a few more ilvls.

Despite being a higher item level, sometimes an old epic will still be better because epics come with 5 stats vs. blues with 4 stats. (i.e. stam+int+spellpower+haste+crit vs. stam+int+spellpower+haste). I noticed that happening often when leveling to 80. Also gems and enchants can give an item a...

If the mobs are still green to the higher level, there won't be any xp penalty. So basically that's like what? Level 72 and above for an 80?