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  1. Fallout 3 has the answer on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 1

    I believe fallout 3 handled the issue of too many doors and not enough resources to program a room on the other side quite nicely as demonstrated in this clip (possible NSFW) http://youtu.be/WGKs9-VLgsQ?t=...

  2. Re:Cost on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    if you do lunch for say $2 each, then you could get 6 million lunches, which covers about a third of all the poor children in the us for one meal for one day. (http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/)

  3. Re:Please on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    Judging by the image results on searching his name, Andy Pruitt does wear a helmet. Of course a helmet doesn't prevent injuries to the hip (in fact may increase them by risk normalisation) but what additional injuries may have been prevented by wearing the helmet.

  4. Use in driving tests? on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 2

    I dont know about other countries, but in the UK maneuvers such as reverse and parallel parking can be part of the test, i wonder what the stance is if you have a car capable of doing it for you in the test? Maybe not too common now, but in the future... For that matter how about self driving cars in general, at what point do you stop needing a license in order to 'operate' it one operation becomes merely telling it where to go.

  5. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    I think the OP was taking issue with the flexibility, not the OLED. If the screen is to be flexible, this only becomes useful if everything else it's attached to is also flexible, in this case the glass protective screen, but actually also the electronic circuits it is to be attached to. If flexible screens can become mass produced so they are cheap enough to ship to consumers, then we may start to see some of the stuff that has been shown off as concept for years, e.g a fold up (http://static.ibnlive.in.com/pix/slideshow/01-2013/samsungs-shows-off/10-samsung-fexible-screen-youm.jpg) or roll up (http://static.ibnlive.in.com/pix/slideshow/01-2013/samsungs-shows-off/13-samsung-fexible-screen-youm.jpg) screen

    Personally i see the fold up being realistic as it is essentially based on the clam shell that has been popular in the past, whereas the roll up screen would require the electronics be fit into a different, potentially smaller package as well has having the issue of supporting the screen while extended

  6. Will they allow the reverse? on Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be able to have the choice of OS on your device is a good thing, maybe you like the S3 but like windows OS. or you like the nokia lumia hardware but prefer andoid. Now its never going to be allowed to happen with iphone/iOS but choice of OS on other devices can only be a good thing

  7. Re:more torch then rifle on New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch · · Score: 2

    If the light was circularly polarized, would that cover rifling for you?

  8. Re:Let's let them. on Meet a Group of Aspiring Mars Colonists · · Score: 2

    if you look at the introductory video on the mars one website, it seems the intention is to fund the project through 'media'. The mars colony will essentially become an unending series of big brother

  9. Re:I'll save you some reading on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    disappointingly, none of the pledge levels allow you to put forward a projectile and a target.

  10. Re:60,000Gs ? on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 4, Informative

    did you even look? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(acceleration) its basicly the sort of acceleration a bullet undergoes, and artillery shells exist with electronics in them that are designed to survive launch.

  11. Very skeptical on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Ill wait and see how well it works in kerbal space program before buying into it.

  12. Re:Business Model on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    all electric motorcylces have already beaten the 7 second mark at over 200mph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing

  13. Re:Why? on Improving the Fedora Boot Experience · · Score: 2

    If you are so keen on uptime to reboot only twice a year then you should be particularly interested in boot time, shortening the boot time could push you from 3 nines to 4!

  14. antibioticas for viral = bad on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 0

    im all for giving a placebo to people where appropriate, they have been shown to be a powerful cure-all. However using antibiotics to treat a viral infection is only going to hasten antibiotic immunity, sure a doctor should know better than that.

    Also, does this mean that pharmacists keep a stock of placebos?

  15. Re:Prediction: on Startup Launches Open Wi-Fi, Challenging ISPs · · Score: 2, Insightful
  16. oblig xkcd on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 1
  17. it can fly? on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 0

    maybe im missing something, but unless this update is going to make it sprout wings, why does it need flight software when it's already landed

  18. On a related note... on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've wondered what F1 would be like without all the restrictions. Modifying humans to this extreme is probably going to have unforeseen consequences in the long term. However with F1, if you were to take out the human element and have AI or remote control, you needn't worry about human safety and could lift all sorts of restrictions, allowing R+D budgets to be spent on whole new automotive areas.

  19. Just use a bell curve on The Problem With Metacritic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    sounds in principle like a fairly simple solution. Put together a separate histogram of the scores by each reviewer. From this you can estimate what an average score really is and how many standard deviations an individual score is above or below. The meta-score then becomes the average number of sigma's the game is above or below the various averages. If necessary this score can be sanitised to something easier to read for those less familiar with Gaussian statistics

  20. Re:I'll be impressed when... on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    scrap that, wrong thread, ignore me

  21. Re:I'll be impressed when... on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    that was I, just noticed I wasn't logged in.

  22. No skiing on The Dry Ice 'Snowflakes' of Mars · · Score: 2

    The lubrication in skiing comes from a thin layer of the snow beneath the ski melting, it's the water lubricating you. Im going to assume that thise CO2 is still subliming on mars since liquid CO2 requires atleast 5atm of pressure. Therefore no lubrication even if liquid CO2 acts as a lubricant (does it?). At very low temperatures snow actually becomes incredibly hard to ski on because that thin layer no longer melts

  23. Hang on a minuite on A Hacked WiFi Router, an API, and a Toy Bus: It's the Ambient Bus Arrival Monito · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean it can run linux?

  24. ill have double on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 0

    with eggs and bacon

  25. Re:Not really nanoscale on Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser · · Score: 1

    as said in the OP, details in TFA suggests resolution is hundreds of nanometers. If NASA/ESA came up with a picture of the moons surface with half kilometer resolution, you wouldn't call it meter scale