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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/03/09

    In reply to Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton's Beard
    If he's really 83, he looks pretty damn good.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/03/09

    In reply to Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton's Beard
    I don't know what a James Lipton is but that is freaking hilarious.

    "She will never know the deliciousness of an almond or walnut."

    Edit: Oh James Lipton...
    I don't know why I needed a google to refresh my memory but it did. The Actors Studio guy.

    Looking at his wiki entry I see we went to the same high school. Just not in the same city or state.
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    Edited by tande04 at 12/03/09 9:50 PM tande04 was starred tande04 was unstarred
    Image of spannu spannu
    12/03/09

    @tande04: Also, the schools had different names. Other than that, exactly the same, right?
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/03/09

    @spannu: No, they had the same name.

    The joke being I'm sure there is a "Central High School" in almost state if not one in almost every city in every state.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/03/09

    In reply to Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton's Beard
    No no...keep it on...

    *shudder*
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 12/03/09 9:37 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/03/09

    In reply to Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton's Beard
    it's almost funny. Almost. Also James Lipton just looks wrong without the beard.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    I refuse to use texting shorthand and abbreviations. When I text, you will get a full sentence from me, complete with punctuation and proper spelling. It's called integrity sonny.
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/22/09

    @Duckspwn: This from the one who left the "a" out of his alias? Or is it "Ducks pwn?" Lose-lose. ;-)
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    Edited by Fractal the Meek at 11/22/09 11:46 PM Fractal the Meek was starred Fractal the Meek was unstarred
    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11/23/09

    @Duckspwn: [twitter.com]
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    11/23/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Duckspwn, as in Ducks Pwn. But that's an alias, so it's acceptable. :P
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    11/23/09

    @psychiccheese: Oh geez. Don't even get me started on that cesspool. #tips
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    Please tell me this is a joke. A gag-product they put up on April 1st (a la ThinkGeek) and just forgot to take down.

    It's like the moronic cousin of that Mavis Beacon "game" they subjected us to in school...
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    So it's a payphone, but you can text, and nobody receives the messages?
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/22/09

    @njdevil: Brilliant.

    Incidentally, you know you have an advocate around these parts?
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    Image of Rick-e Rick-e
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting

    last month when I went to my local arcade, I saw one of this game with a windows error on the screen, it made me and my friends laugh xD
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    dragon:ONE promoted this comment Edited by Rick-e at 11/22/09 7:16 PM Rick-e was starred Rick-e was unstarred
    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    11/22/09

    @Rick-e: A lot of arcade machines that are fairly modern run Windows or Linux and are based off of conventional "off-the-shelf" hardware and software.

    Sega Lindbergh. RingEdge. RingWide. The Merit Megatouch. All of them are standard x86 platforms, with Intel dual-cores and various other devices connected to them.

    I do speak from experience, the Merit Megatouch runs Linux, has no information about GPL software used on its' site, and isn't that hard to muck around with.
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    Image of Rick-e Rick-e
    11/22/09

    @dragon:ONE: yeah it was quite interesting to know that those games run on top of conventional OS's.

    now that I think about it, doesn't that mean that people with Linux should have more access to game than they do now?
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    Image of ColbertSuperNationalist ColbertSuperNationalist
    11/22/09

    @Rick-e: I know the guitar hero cabinets are also windows-based. fail.
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    Image of David Reyburn David Reyburn
    11/22/09

    @ColbertSuperNationalist: @Rick-e:

    I think you've both got it a little wrong. It's easier to start from an embedded operating system to perform the basic functions of a computer when building an arcade game, rather than have each new arcade game also include operating system functions in the code. This also allows for easy altering of the game, eg, turn DDR superNOVA into superNOVA 2 or something.

    As a unintended bonus, it only takes a copy of Windows and some clever searching and one can find the rip of a arcade game's HDD, which means that it's possible to run the arcade edition of say, Beatmania IIDX or some other current arcade game.

    Why don't you have access to this? Arcade cabinets cost tens of thousands of dollars. You think they'd let you roll your own for a fraction of that?
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    11/22/09

    @David Reyburn: Not without legal recourse.

    Someone managed to get Megatouch FORCE 2007 software loaded onto a conventional PC with just a touchscreen.

    Took some hacking to override the security key checks and to make a custom board to recognize parallel port input to, say, add credits and enter operator setup (instead of the USB I/O board they use). All on off the shelf hardware.

    It was up on YouTube... until Merit had him take it down.
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    Image of AlphaPepper AlphaPepper
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    First New Moon brings rakes in $140 million, and now this. I'm officially out of touch. Think I'll write some email whilst watching one of my laserdiscs.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment AlphaPepper was starred AlphaPepper was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    Excellent! 90% of kids age 12+ already communicate in broken textlish, so this is the perfect training tool for our young rising Illiterati.
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    Edited by Segador at 11/22/09 5:31 PM Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/22/09

    @Segador: You know what's the best? When you get a college paper to grade written using ''textlish'' as you phrased it.
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    Image of wira020 wira020
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: i remember reading an article about some university( i think it was oxford) going to let student use short form and textlish for assignments and exams.. i dont really remember what university but i'm sure i've read it this year...
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/22/09

    @wira020: And the death of a language begins...
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: CU L8ter, english!
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    Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    11/22/09

    @wira020: It was New Zealand. Students can now use textlish on nationalized exams.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Oh, I would have so much fun tearing that apart.
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    Image of eagles3 speeeedin eagles3 speeeedin
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Ive never used textlish on a graded assignment, but I regularly use it (or rather a hybrid textlish/AIM) as a form of shorthand in notes and drafts. And I had a calculus prof. who gave lectures which often included textlish. Its nothing more than a form of shorthand, and as far as I'm concerned not unwelcome in a collegiate environment, as long as the context is appropriate.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/23/09

    @eagles3 speeeedin: I have no problem with it if you use it in notes. However, presentations, papers, and exams should be written without them. I haven't seen it yet on a good exam, but other TAs have taken points off for using it in an essay exam. The ones I have seen all deserved bad grades anyways, so why punish them more.
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    Image of madog madog
    11/23/09

    @Segador: I had a teacher claim that some poor, stupid, stupid, girl used textish during a speech in a college course.

    In one hand I wish it weren't true, but on the other hand I hope her humiliation brought tears to her eyes.
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    Image of superberg superberg
    11/02/09

    In reply to Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive
    Not eating! There are so many people who are forced to eat on the go. Plus, when you smell those fries sitting next to you on the passenger seat, how can you resist?

    I'm pretty much in agreement that distracted driving is dangerous. Personally, I think it should be the law to take a defensive driving course to get a license. I avoided three accidents on the way to work today. It's ridiculous. #texting
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    11/02/09

    @superberg: While we're at banning distracting things, we should ban children in cars. Little buggers never shut up. #texting
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    11/02/09

    @FigNinja: If they're in their kiddie seat, you can drown them out with loud, loud music. #texting
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    Image of Unspellable Unspellable
    11/02/09

    In reply to Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive
    I take comfort: only 3% are likely as stupid as Homer J. #texting
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    Image of bonedog73 bonedog73
    11/02/09

    In reply to Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive
    Don't do it!

    One day you're just calmly driving down the road texting... Then the next you're electrocuting yourself to death in a bathtub full of cold water so your hot girlfriend can have your heart! #texting
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    Image of daftrok daftrok
    11/02/09

    @bonedog73: ...What? #texting
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    11/02/09

    @daftrok: 7Pounds #texting
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    Image of Rususeruru Rususeruru
    11/02/09

    In reply to Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive
    Who cares? It's really just another unenforceable law on the books. I mean what are they going to do, pull you over and check your time stamps and then guestimate how long you've been behind the wheel? #texting
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    11/02/09

    @Rususeruru: Here in California we have a hands-free only law for cellphones. If they see you talking on your phone, they pull you over. They've nabbed a lot of people. I suppose if you keep your phone down low they may not see it but if they see you glancing down a lot, they'll probably pull you over. Even if they can't ticket you for texting, they'll get you for unsafe driving. From what I hear they don't have to look in each car to find the people on their phones. They just look for people driving like idiots. #texting
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/02/09

    In reply to Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive
    yeah i'd want to know who they asked. 97%? not even 97% of the country thinks cocaine ought to be illegal. #texting
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    11/02/09

    @nutbastard:

    ah, turns out they only asked 829 people. which means that this statistic doesn't even qualify as being anecdotal.

    hey matt? "Only 3 Percent of Americans Think It Should Be Legal to Text and Drive" is a pretty misleadingly bold headline. you could at least mention in the article that this is from a poll of only 829 people, and perhaps a footnote about how foolish it is to extrapolate the opinions of 300,000,000 people from the anonymous utterances of 829 people with enough spare time to sit around participating in phone polls. I doubt if half of them even own cars. #texting
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    11/02/09

    @nutbastard: But that's how polling works, and in the general sense it holds true. That's not to say that this poll could be total bullshit, but if the sample is representative, it could be no more than 100 people for the percentage.

    'Sides, there's a good argument for making "controlled substances" legal. There isn't for texting while driving, unless you consider the population problem...hmm #texting
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    Image of lbritt2001 lbritt2001
    11/02/09

    @fryhole: Actually, for a poll to be considered accurate for any number of people it needs to represent 10% of the entire group. Thank you Comm. Studies 210 .
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    Image of zlionsfan zlionsfan
    11/02/09

    @nutbastard: Actually, the headline is pretty accurate. You really don't need much of a sample to get a fairly accurate read on a large population, even one in the millions. (In fact, once you get above tens of thousands, there isn't much difference. Extrapolating to 300 million is about the same as extrapolating to 300 thousand.)

    At a 95% confidence level, their results should be accurate within about 1.15%.

    There are some pretty good calculators out there if you're interested in experimenting with various sample sizes and confidence intervals. #texting
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    nutbastard promoted this comment zlionsfan was starred zlionsfan was unstarred
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    11/02/09

    @zlionsfan:

    829 people = 0.00000276% of the population.

    polling on that order could create headlines like '95% of americans are actually 1st generation chinese'. #texting
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    Image of zlionsfan zlionsfan
    11/02/09

    @nutbastard: Look, if you don't know how random sampling works and aren't interested in finding out, that's fine. But that doesn't make the study's conclusion or the article heading misleading or incorrect. #texting
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