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  1. Re:When I can buy an ebook... on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    But have a very nice sauce made of paste and old sneakers.

  2. Re:When I can buy an ebook... on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    No it's not.

    $60.00 shelf every 2 years versus $2500 "good stuff" Yes I know how much the overpriced anal rape "good stuff" costs, I used to have a trophy wife that though money = happiness.

    You can buy shelves for the next 80 years for the price difference.

  3. Re:When I can buy an ebook... on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    Go find a wife that is not a high maintaince money grubbing type. If she freaks out at those you need to ditch her as soon as you possibly can.

    You will save a LOT more in the long run.

  4. Re:TPB has been delivering this for years. on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    If I am being compared to your morals, then I am proud to have NO morals at all compared to you, utterly beaming proud.

  5. Bourne Supremecy cam effects? That would rock.... well actually easy, just install the camera on a paint shaker.

  6. Re:NO WAR FOR BIG OIL on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    What is funnier is the moron thinks that GW bush was a peace loving rights fighting for president. The REpubs here have short term memory problems as they forget that that scumbag president was the single most unamerican president ever. He signed the PATRIOT act.

  7. Re:Sometimes the easy way is the better way on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    It doesnt make or break a deal. I sell high end AV systems (They cost more than your house and your parents house) that use $15,000 or more Pro Videoconference systems. and they dont maintain eye contact. the camera is either mounted above or below the screen. and when you are using a 80" LCD the camera is WAY up there.

  8. Re:Sometimes the easy way is the better way on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    Large size? I have one for my camera the size of an iphone.... which is because it uses an iphone for the teleprompter and the headphones remote as a text scroll control.

    Works great even in bright sunlight and are common for use by many TV stations in the field now.

  9. Re:there's always looking right at the camera on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    You mean like how Every Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, macintosh, and dell has the camera on their laptops and all in one pc's?

  10. Which is false reality.. on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most people do not make Eye contact when talking, people look at the other persons mouth mostly aiming the eyes at the center of the face. direct eye contact is seen as agressive even in the human species.

  11. Re:Moral of the story.... on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    Amen. I would rather indoctrinate my kid with Algebra and Chemistry at 9 years old than have them learn the Disney fairytale that public schools teach as American History. I did not have the time so I sent them to private schools. They ended up with 3X the education that the public schools could deliver.

  12. Re:When I can buy an ebook... on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    $59.00 for a 6 shelf tall unit. IKEA is your friend.

  13. TPB has been delivering this for years. on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I get all my Ebook versions of dead trees that Iown for free from TPB, and will continue to do so as I refuse to allow DRM on my books.

  14. Moral of the story.... on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    If you want your kids to be highly educated. Either put them in private school or home school them.

    Cue the low IQ morons that claim that social interaction skills are more important than actually having an education.

  15. Re:Sych evidence is bound to be ignored... on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 2

    Yeah and TV rots your brain.

    Coma on back when you have real scientific information to back up your wild statement.

  16. Re:D.A.R.E has no benefit on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: -1, Troll

    ""Scarce dollars"? There has been literally trillions of dollars poured into public education over the past 50 years"

    and all of it dumped into useless stuff like the Music, Arts, Sports programs and the Physical Education Programs. I don't see well stocked science labs with equipment that is from this century. Math and Science are all the red headed step children. Almost as bad as the Computer Science programs that are just "learning to type and mouse 050"

  17. Re:Creation on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 2

    Those are not Educators, they are terrorists.

  18. Re:Another marginal perf iteration of Core on Intel Launches Core I7-4960X Flagship CPU · · Score: 2

    "screw power" and either run the chip faster and invest a thousand dollars for a cooling system "
    Water cooling systems are a LOT cheaper than that. Look at what overclockers are using today you can get a good watercooling system to suck out a LOT of that heat for less than a couple hundred bucks.

    Problem is that most guys undersize the heat dump radiator.

  19. And still ineffective... on Intel Launches Core I7-4960X Flagship CPU · · Score: 2

    Because the only Multi Chip processors are still 4 years behind this. Why dont they just enable the ability for me to drop 4 of these on a single motherboard so I can have my 24 core monster for editing and rendering 4K video?

  20. Re:Problem is sensors and processing. on Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish · · Score: 1

    "How would that be different from causing someone to hit your car by turning the lights off on a dark road?"

    My car has headlights and I can see the car as I approach it. Unles they painted the whole thing flat black, the reflectors built into cars will light it up 1000 feet away.

    Now if you are a dolt and drive at 90mph into the dark with your low beams on... you deserve the accident.

  21. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    No it wont. Come on back when you have actually touched one of these. Because I HAVE. They are designed to look for firearmes, bombs, and weapons not something the size of a 1/4 postage stamp.

  22. Re:Switch tech - slightly on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    I prefer a Photo Voltaic power system to a Solar System. They are far more compact and you dont have to deal with the plants constantly spinning and upsetting the neighbors.

  23. Re:The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894 on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 2

    Have you been to London lately? It seems to be that way.

  24. He needs.... on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    To build that Ark reactor he wears....

    Or ask Howard Heughes, the real Tony Stark, for his Ark technology.

    Seriously, the #1 problem with electric vehicles is that we have crap power storage systems. If he wants to change the world, stop with flights of fancy and dump ALL his effort into just tripling battery storage capacity and life.

  25. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    And his point is a straw man that will never happen argument, he might as well have said that they randomly kill someone in line just to keep people on their toes. It's as credible as his horrible made up scenario. Prove that I was "hiding" storage devices with my camera and memory sticks in my luggage. They have to prove intent, and sadly the people we have manning our airports for security receive the worst quality of training and management than any other department in the USA.

    They are 100% ineffective and theater only. Anyone claiming otherwise is just a fool.