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  1. True, but that's even crazier on Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions · · Score: 1

    I mean you'd think since SoJ did loads of polygon titles in the arcade with top notch graphics that they'd do whatever they could to make transitioning them to the new home machine as easy as possible. Instead SoJ came up with the Saturn. (To be fair I still think VF2 and DoA look better than almost everything that ever came out on the PSX. Still, I heard it wasn't easy to get 3d games that looked that good on the system.)

  2. I should clarify the Sonic thing on Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions · · Score: 1

    Before some points it out. Sega never RELEASED a new Sonic game on the Saturn. The new Sonic game was Sonic X-treme and that was being done Sega Technical Institute in the US. At some point the game got into development hell and even got to the point where Yuji Naka threatened to quit because he thought Sega of Japan was helping STI by giving them some code from Yuji's game Nights. (Apparently it didn't actually happen but it's a WTF moment when one division is fighting with another because he doesn't want to help. Especially crazy since they had already done Yuji a favor when he didn't want to do Sonic on the Saturn and the palmed it off on another team.) Any more on that sonic thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_extreme#Development_history

  3. Sega died because they were batshit crazy on Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions · · Score: 1

    I liked Sega and all but seriously in the 90's they did crazy thing after crazy thing and it was their own fault. I mean lets just name a few. During the time the Saturn was out they never managed to make a new Sonic game. To make matters worse the only new Sonic game they had was being done by some US division who Japanese developers would openly fight with. (You'd think they'd have one of their major divisions in Japan working on it but nope.) Oh, that whole stealth release of the Saturn was a major cluster fuck that I don't need to re-iterate since there's plenty on it. Oh, and speaking of Japan did you know they once cancelled a game because they were worried it would compete too much with a Japanese game? It's true, they cancelled Eternal Champions for the Saturn because they were worried it would compete with the Virtua Fighter series. Why was this one amazingly stupid? At best EC would have come out 6-12 months after VF2, long after sales of VF2 died off and VF2 was the last VF game for the Saturn. EC couldn't have competed with it even if you don't count the fact EC was a 2d fighter and VF was 3d. (Which also means they're different games.) I mean seriously it's not hard to find more instances of Sega insanity seriously shooting themselves in the foot. (32x just to name another.)

  4. I know I've mentioned this before on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    But I had a printer from HP once. At one point when I tried to print the action failed and it gave me an error. Did the error give any hint of why the print failed? Of course not, it just told me "Print failed" which was obvious and useless. So now I'm supposed to believe a company that could even manage to generate a proper error message can handle something like preventing spam? Yeah, I'm not buying it. (Oh for what it's worth it was a network permission issue. I had to set up a guest account so printing over the network was "ok". Of course having an error indicating network security problem would have made that so much simpler.)

  5. Shouldn't they have warnings against on San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Light bulbs and sun light? I mean the photos in both of those have large numbers of photons in the visible range. Those are quite a bit more energetic than microwaves so logically you'd think they'd be more dangerous. (Oh I'm sorry, logic doesn't come into it.)

  6. Is it anything like C*? on Parallel Programming For the Arduino · · Score: 1

    Just curious. When I was an undergrad they had a parallel programming course and the language we used was C*. Basically it was C with this add on called a shape. Really it was just an array (Could be multi-dimentional) of virtual processors and associated data. (Basically a short, long, etc.) Then you'd just do a where statement on this array of processors. So in the where statement you'd just list the instructions you wanted done and each virtual processor would each run those instructions themselves. (Been a long time since I programmed in it.) It was actually pretty neat and worked pretty well. (They had us write a program to solve systems of linear equations. It was cool.)

  7. Hmm, maybe I should write my own AI doctor app on X Prize Foundation Wants AI Physician On Every Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Of course I wouldn't want to get sued so my app would just tell you to go see a real doctor you idiot no matter what happened.

  8. Didn't they also preview Sly Cooper in 3d? on PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, Portal 2 For the PS3 · · Score: 1

    At least I've read that somewhere. (There's going to be a Sly Cooper collection for the PS3 and it's going to support 3d TV.)

  9. They could rename in PeaceWalkers Texas Ranger on PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, Portal 2 For the PS3 · · Score: 0

    Of course featuring Chuck Norris. That brings up a whole different picture.

  10. That's ironic on $1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I mean the fact that a land that has seen loads of war and oppression across a good portion of history sits on an element that amongst other things is rather famously used in mood stabilizers.

  11. I suppose they could just integrate it into a gps on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 1

    And it would give suggestions on which way to go while recording data.(While the human actually controls the car the whole time.) I can see a few problems though. First off in this scheme alot of people would ignore the advice to go the way they want to go. However the big reason why people might ignore it is they might not trust it if they get bad advice a few times. I live in the Boston area and our "smart traffic" service has this problem. It often doesn't get updated for close to an hour. Since they don't put a real timestamp on the info it's always in your head that this data could be something like over an hour old, at which point it's useless. (Their web page theoretically has a time stamp. However it seems like much of the time the stamp automatically updates ever few minutes even if the report hasn't actually been updated for awhile.)

  12. So basically on Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought · · Score: 0

    Porn sites are like porn stars, both are heavily infected.

  13. Makes me wish they did a Shen Mue movie on Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? · · Score: 1

    Then they could have had a 10 minute section where Ryo runs around town looking for sailors.

  14. Well lets see on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I've had a HP printer that instead of giving me a useful error when things didn't work just failed with a "Nope, that didn't work" error.(Oops, I turned off the guest account when printing over the network.) My brother had an HP printer with scanning functionality but the scanning software had a bug where it would always crash on a scan of the last page. (This was apparently a common issue and last I heard it still hasn't been fixed.) So now they're going to have a printer that uses software so you can e-mail it? So they can't get the basic shit to work, why would anybody trust them with anything even slightly advanced?

  15. To expand on that on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Right, so the one problem with xenografts is that the animal genetics are so different that they produce a massive immune response. But suppose we take say pigs and introduce human genes through genetic modification. Theoretically you could create a pig with genetics close enough to a human to not produce as much of an immune response. (Closer to a human-human transplant.) Why we would want to completely ban this idea when we would hopefully be able to use it to grow organs for everybody who needs one is beyond me. (Especially since you'd basically grow the organs on a farm by raising pigs instead of some hi tech organ generate or some nonsense.)

  16. They explained this on NOVA a while ago on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Basically oscillations are repeated changes with respect to time. According to general relativity massless particles move at light speed and as a consequence do not experience the passage of time. So if neutrino's were massless they'd move at light speed and wouldn't experience time and therefore wouldn't be able to oscillate into different forms.

  17. Of course there's still the big ethical concern on Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With stems cells down the road. Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, aka therapeutic cloning. (If you thought people had moral problems with using embryonic stem cells man they're going to flip out over that one.)

  18. That's nice and all on New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But when are they going to be able to make 40" TV's that are affordable with OLED? (Hell, I thought a few years ago the shtick was that they could print them out so cheaply you would just make a new OLED every so often if anything went wrong with the screen.)

  19. Because it lets me get back in touch on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    With my high school classmates but unlike classmates doesn't charge to use it. Also since it's the most popular one of these sites people I fell out of touch with in high school are more likely to use it than anything else.

  20. They have video of the grad students' work on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  21. Re:Apple "It Just Works" well except on Why Apple Is So Sticky · · Score: 1

    When my IPod Nano locked up. (Figures it happened when I was on a trip and I had to wait until I got home before I could get the stupid thing workign again. It's the only time I've seen an MP3 actually crash.)

  22. Question or 2 who's answers I'd like to know on New Ebola Drug 100% Effective In Monkeys · · Score: 1

    How soon after you get infected would this treatment have to start? Also how soon into an ebola infection can you figure out it's ebola? Basically I'm wondering that because the scientists doing these tests know what the Monkeys are infected and can start anytime they want. I'd think delaying the treatment because of the diagnosis process would probably change the results.

  23. That must be that other kind of cutting funding on Senators Question Removal of NASA Program Manager · · Score: 1

    You know, the kind of cutting that ends up with increased funding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget

  24. I'd consider switching to FIOS except on Revenge of the Cable Customer · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to use Verizon's web page to tell you if FIOS TV is in your area? Everytime I do it tells me the page isn't working and that I need to call a rep to find out. (It's actually more annoying because they actually have a store for FIOS TV in my town but I don't think they have it as a service. Of course I can't be sure since they won't let me check. Yes, I know there are other web sites that have lists but those can be a bit out of date.)

  25. You think they accepted those results because on Critics Say US Antimissile Defense Flawed, Dangerous · · Score: 1

    They thought Dr Postol might get mad and go postal?