Quote: I wasn't recommending a particular course of action, just explaining one of the reasons why schools generally have a "zero tolerance" policy on violence. And while effectively fighting back is a reasonable approach for an individual, it doesn't help the school reduce the total...

Quote:   Good luck with that.   Your average school district has financial resources that dwarf that of the average parent. The most likely result is that the school district will win in court and the legal costs will bankrupt the parents. That's really showing the school system who's...

Quote: Believe it or not, that's how self defense works in real (adult) life. It's rarely a bright line, black and white sort of deal.   Take the following hypotheticals: A punches B in the chest and walks away. B fights back. A punches B in the chest and keeps punching. B...

Tell your kid not to fight back at school if he's going to get caught by teachers. Think of it as a life lesson on the nature of authority.   Whether the school is right or wrong doesn't matter much. They got the bigger stick and that's that.

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It really depends on what inputs your monitor has. If they're all DVI, the cheapest option is probably a Sapphire 6770 Flex with an additional active DisplayPort>DVI adaptor. Both items should come in at under $300 total. If at least one of the monitors are DisplayPort capable, you can skip the...

Project Gotham Racing 4 and Forza 2 have split screen racing modes. The former is more arcadey, the latter is more sim-like. Should be able to find either one for ~ $15. Not sure about NFS:Carbon.

Those numbers aren't even reasonable. BF3 would have to outperform BFBC2 by over 3x to make 30m units and MW3 would have to outperform BO by about 4x to make 100m units.

Things haven't been right at Glock ever since the Gen 4 changeover. The .40S&W models seem to function correctly, but it's been a long sequence of issues with extractors and recoil assemblies on the 9mm variants. Couldn't have happened at a worse time either with the market success of the S&W...

Finished up DX:HR last weekend. It does almost everything well, but rarely manages to reach greatness. Maybe next time. I hear SquareEnix Montreal is doubling their headcount...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44341803/ns/business-us_business/   That certainly makes things more interesting. Wonder what Deutsche Telekom is going to do with T-Mobile if the deal doesn't go through.

Update schedule has been the cause of the major performance differences in the last few months. NoDo brought significant performance gains, but the update schedule was staggered from March to July. That was partially due to carrier interference, but there were also some hardware related hitches...

The 512MB internal and 16GB microSD flash are run in JBOD configuration to provide a unified storage space to the OS. Makes some things easier, but no performance advantage there. The JBOD bit is why there's the weird microSD corruption issue when you remove microSD cards from WP7 phones.  ...

From the OS perspective, current WP7 phones actually have less hardware variation than iOS devices.   iOS currently supports two CPU/GPU hardware platforms (Cortex-A8/SGX535 in the 3GS/4/iPad, Cortex-A9/SGX543MP2 in the iPad2) and three resolutions (480x320, 960x640, 1024x768). iOS also used...

PC games are less expensive, but console games can be freely resold. Pretty much a wash here unless you buy well past launch. Even if you spot the PC $10/game, it's still tough to bridge the ~ $400 differential between a console and a competent gaming PC. Far as AAA exclusives, I'd feel pretty...

Far as I see it, consoles provide a superior option for most gamers. * Pricing - Consoles are pretty inexpensive these days. Not so much for gaming PCs. * AAA Gaming - Consoles dominate AAA. PCs ports are often late, poor, or nonexistant. * Japan - Less of a factor now, but Japanese gaming...

WP7 is also sandboxed with ASLR and DEP. There's also the Apple-like fully curated app store with kill switch capability and the much complained about 3rd party inability to run native code. It's still missing some important security features, like device encryption and full backup capability...

  Quote: I think you need to move to a better neighborhood.  

The elephant in the corner that no one's mentioned yet is money. Anime dubbing, if union, pays about a third of what American animation voicework does upfront and residuals are significantly worse. If it's not a union job, and many productions aren't, the payscale is even worse. Voice actors are...

My Silverstone's SG07's power supply decided to bite the dust, so I figured it was time for a bit of a change up.   Intel i5-760 @ 3.8 GHz MSI P55 Big Bang Fuzion 8 GB DDR3 1333 SDRAM 3x AMD Radeon 6970 2GB 3x NEC 23" EA231WMi Monitors 2x Patriot Inferno 120 GB SSD 1x WD 2TB HD...

Also have an '09 WRX. Stuck an Eclipse AVN4430 navigation/headunit in there and installation was fairly painless as far as these things go. Subaru has an OEM double DIN radio bezel and the aftermarket fit kits work pretty well. Going for anything above mediocre SQ is a bit pointless though. Too...

Been playing the BF3 Alpha. Prone > Sticky chest high walls.   3DS price drop was sooner and larger than expected. Course, last quarter was also pretty brutal for Nintendo.

  Quote:   No one bothers with such a device since you can't get them on a major carrier's network. Not much more useless than a phone that can't make calls. ATT's Average Revenue Per User for postpaid customers with dataplans is 1.8x that of those without dataplans. Good luck...

  Quote: Bad example of what? You're being quite cryptic there.      Quote:   ... and fits the bill as a low end, low margin, direct competitor to the iPhone 4. One which hasn't cannibalized iPhone 4 to an extent that would cause Apple to pull it from market.   If...

I'm going to take your cue and call the hypothetical iPhone/iTouch hybrid an iPhone Mini.   Quote:     Industry accepted doesn't mean it's not arbitrary. DoMoCo featurephones have long had high spec hardware, high end mobile gaming, third party application support, and various...