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  1. this process still needs a man; but is it... on UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women · · Score: 1

    currently possible, for an egg to be fertilized, only using genetic material from women?

  2. Syndicate on Devs Weigh In On Playing The Bad Guy · · Score: 1

    there was a Genesis version of that game...

    I don't know how closely it stuck to the PC version, but building a criminal empire through kidnapping, and setting people on fire, and listening to them scream, is fairly depraved.

  3. all the technology in the world won't help..if you on Retail Fraud on the Rise · · Score: 1

    still pay employees minimum wage to work the returns counter. A higher quality employee will notice that someone is trying to foist off an ISA soundcard as a top of the line video card, even if the scammers paperwork is flawless.

    I actually did see a USED CD-R shrink-wrapped, and placed on the returned items cart for sale, at Microcenter once.

    it's a sliding scale, the retailer can hire higher quality employees and provide more training, and stop more fraud, but pay more in salaries...they've put more effort into finding exactly where these costs meet, than any of us armchair critics.

  4. Actraiser, and Homeworld haven't been mentioned on For Love of The Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My favorite scene in Actraiser I, was in Kasandora, where one of your subjects is mortally wounded, and as he is dying on the steps of your temple his last request is to be bathed in the tears of his god..

    Both the backstory and the opening chapters in Homeworld were really well done, and turned a space combat came into an epic. The backstory was just a .pdf that came on the CD, but it was facinating nonetheless.

    While the last scene in Halo has been mentioned already, I think it would have been 3202382 times better if they had licensed "The Touch" by Stan Bush to play, for the final driving sequence.

  5. what a lot of posters are missing, is that on The Sims Celebrates Fifth Anniversary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The sims isn't a game you "win". You don't progress twords ONE set final objective, and then it's completed.

    Think of the Sims as a cross between a dollhouse, and a demented sitcom. You just sit back and watch the fireworks.

    Network TV would never have a show about a bank robber named Tortilla Del'sim, his assortment of illigitmate children, their neighbors, whos entire "home" consists of an outhouse, with a phone on the outside, to order pizza from..etc...

  6. am I the only person in the worldwho liked ZeldaII on Nintendo - NES Classics, Metroid Prime 2 Movies · · Score: 1

    I played through the first 2 Zeldas, and for whatever reason, never got into the 3rd one, and none of the others have looked interesting enough to buy a Nintendo console.

  7. Nomar might not hit people.... on Midway's Slugfest, Ballers Inappropriate For Kids? · · Score: 1

    but Pedro
    knows how to handle himself.

  8. not offtopic, haven't any of you seen on Arctic Ocean Survey May Reveal Lost World · · Score: 2, Interesting
  9. because we know it's just for show on Design-Your-Own Computer Case Kits · · Score: 1

    whereas a "type-R" badge on a car that was never offered in that version or a giant spoiler that doesn't produce any downforce, just makes the owner look like an idiot who doesn't know anything about cars.

    a better comparison would be twords people who have "show cars". You probably think anything beyond a functional beige case is just as retarded as putting LCD screens in the headrests of a 2 seater car (where nobody can see them) and an extra one in the trunk.

  10. I got a salami on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    not even an extra large or gourmet one, just one my mom saw in the supermarket yesterday and decided to get for me.

    and salami isn't even my favorite food or anything, it was just a really random gift

  11. it happens to often to be ignorance.. on The Worst Jobs in Science · · Score: 1

    I think they do it on purpose

  12. "specialty music retailing" on The Downward Spiral of Music Retailing · · Score: 1

    when I hear that, regardless of how the article defines it, I don't think of large chains that you find in malls. Rather, I think of small, hole in the wall places, that have a good selection of used music, and you never know what you might find there.

  13. so which is more american? on Down and Out in White-Collar America · · Score: 1

    a Honda assembled in the US
    a Ford assembled in Canada
    a Daimler-Chrylser made in the US

  14. I saw it, thought it was kind of good, but the on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    people I saw it with all thought it sucked.

  15. it doesn't say anything about prefered on Adobe Says PCs Are Preferred · · Score: 5, Informative

    it just shows graphs that say the PC is faster than the mac doing stuff in after effects..and at the end it says, "While the computers used in this study are no longer the fastest in their respective classes, the information is still valid"

  16. although you probably ment the last line in jest on McDonalds to go Wireless? · · Score: 1

    it could be the truth..they might say, take your laptop back to your car, and use it there. Of course this fills up the parking lot, which isn't a problem in a suburban McDonalds, but in downtown NYC or Chicago there isn't any parking..who knows what they're going to do.

  17. it's not just you...listen to any real life 80s on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 2, Interesting

    station, and you'll hear music that was in GTA:VC And when they picked the music for that game, they didn't pick the biggest hits from each artist..ie "Thriller" isn't on there, but there are some other Michael Jackson songs

  18. the ONLY part of GTA3 that I thought was better on GTA: Vice City Sells 8.5 Million Copies in 3 Months · · Score: 1

    was the comercials..they were over the top, silly, and fun to listen to..some of the ones in GTA:VC are just a little too realistic, in that they're anoying, and you want them to end, and get back to the music.

  19. my palm won't sync with my mac..the sky is falling on Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again · · Score: 1

    it seems like this guy is unhappy with this mac, and his "despised" previous one...this isn't enough proof that it's over for apple

  20. if they cared enough about duplicate stories in on Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present · · Score: 1

    the first place, they would have done something about them by now..ergo they don't care, or they enjoy posting duplicates

  21. that happened at my old job on War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers · · Score: 4, Funny

    for whatever reason, the boss had a telephone extension installed in his office bathroom (he owned the building)..one of the things you learned there very quickly was, when you were paged to extension 13, you did NOT pick up the phone.

  22. you beat me too it..I was going to mention the on Cars for Tinkerers? · · Score: 1

    Super-7. What the prior posted didn't fully explain, is that in the US, your only option when buying new is to order a kit..it arives from England in a couple of large crates, and you bolt it together yourself.

  23. well if they just go and license all the on Phantom Game Console · · Score: 1

    Flash games freely availible that'd get them a large catalog...why someone would want to use their console to play those games is another question.

  24. I had a friend who had an X-10 controlled... on Xmas Lights + X10 + Webcam = Fun · · Score: 4, Funny

    light in his house..he let us (people he knew on a message board) connect to it, and turn it on and off...I wanted to send him threatning messages in morse code..but it didn't switch on and off anywhere near fast enough to do that.

  25. this is where wireless would shine on PC in a.... Sphere? · · Score: 2

    imagine the base unit for a wireless keyboard built in, a wireless USB base station..(do they make those?), 802.11, then you could have a sphere on your desk with just one or two cables coming out of it..that would be cool.