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  1. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Polymer currency really is a good idea. You are correct concerning that.

  2. Re:I'm not sure if the US version is shit.. on Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered · · Score: 1

    Ang Lee isn't Chinese. He's Taiwanese, educated in the US, where I think he resides, and has pretty much worked exclusively in the US. According to IMDB all his movies are at least partially an American production.

  3. Re:All of them, huh? on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    People escape from Arkham, which is technically a hospital. There are very few escapes from Blackgate, which is the prison. Also, most Batman villains represent an attribute of Batman, which leads to a conflict. Riddler, for instance, is the Batman's intelligence, Two-Face is the Batman's sense of justice. Most of his villains is an equal-opposite which is what makes them significant. Also, the Penguin is awesome. Batman has few villains he can interact with as Batman AND Bruce Wayne. Penguin doesn't use trick umbrellas that often by the way.

  4. Re:Econ 101 on Fastest Growing US Export To China: Education · · Score: 1

    Have you not seen what passes for fast food in Japan?

  5. Re:"Socialization" on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    I would say that in general, the average will harass the extremes.

  6. Re:No one at Apple listens to that Steve anymore on Wozniak Calls For Open Apple · · Score: 1

    Didn't he buy Pixar from Lucas?

  7. Re:I really want this to come out on Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production · · Score: 1

    If you pay the $500US, you get one now, skipping ahead of the preorders.

  8. Re:digital rights on South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 · · Score: 1

    I think this is the flaw. Digital copies of books generally don't out weight the cost of owning a book and being able to sell it. Reselling a used book means you almost break even, selling a new one, you can get half your cost back. Digital Renting uses a poor model.

  9. Re:digital rights on South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Korean public schools don't reuse textbooks. They are purchased new every year by the students. They're ridiculously cheap, too. They get filled with study notes over the course of the year. (I'm an expat teacher.)

    That's interesting. What size are they. When I was in school, my text books where hundreds, approaching a thousand, pages.

  10. Re:I don't get it on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    You consider the lack of a built-in optical drive to be an advantage? Could you explain?

    Not everyone uses an internal disc drive. I've long preferred to have that space occupied with something else or just to have a lighter computer. On my current laptop, I've used it exactly once in the past year. Unless you watch DVDs, an external will do.

  11. Re:Responsible? on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 2

    Yep, give the breeders a "way out" of their grief and allow them to keep spawning children knowing that there are people who will take care of their "mistake" so they don't have to.



    Irregardless of the reproductive choices of some, all children have the right to love and a chance to thrive. No child is a mistake. Some are victims of circumstances, but never a mistake.

    We should be willing to care for children. They have right to be cared for.
  12. Re:Trailblazer? on Sony Continues To Lose Ground In Mobile Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative


    - Nintendo DS: first console with a touch screen
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    Tiger Game.com actually. It was better than it should have been, but mismanaged. It really could have been something. It also had internet access.

  13. Perhapss most CAN'T understand... on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    Video games gratify and glorify violence. Period. When headshots are rewarded with easier challenges and further progression, when there are no options to not kill, when killing gratuitously is a function required to progress a story or an experience, then it can not be argued that games provide positive reinforcement.

    In the past year, I've played three games: Gun, Billy Hatcher, and Shadow of the Colossus. In Gun, you can scalp innocents in town and they scream, BEGGING YOU not to do it. In Billy Hatcher, there in practically no violence as even the grunts get away. In Shadow of the Colossus, you have to proactively kill sixteen living creatures which do not bother you for absolutely no net benefit to you as a person, or your character. There are even a couple of instances where the creatures do not fight back.

    Needless to say, of the the Billy Hatcher was the most boring and less stimulating of the three, despite it being a great game..

    We, the players, have become desensitized to the point that there is no longer cognitive dissonance between the ingame logic which allows or compels me to kill innocents and benefit compared to the real world logic which doesn't allow me to. Instead of saying that it isn't bad, that it isn't real, shouldn't we be asking ourselves how is it that we are unable to recognize it as real in the moment we are doing it.

    We've become so far removed from it that games where one does not kill do not sell equally.

  14. Re:Tekkaman Blade on Human Exoskeletons Getting Closer · · Score: 1

    So close to Pegas...so close. Aside from this, its great, sole military usage is always short term, especially since there isn't likely to be any significant large scale wars for a long time. It will be great however, to see this trickle down to police or firemen.

  15. Re:They aren't in the same business on Microsoft Sees Linux As Bigger Competitor Than Apple · · Score: 1

    But Final Cut and Aperture require a Mac, thus selling Hardware. Their entire business structure is based on the selling of Hardware, making the software justify the hardware. The initiative to make Hardware is because of gaps in the market for Microsoft. Had the DC lived on, there'd be no 360, if the world used Zens, D2s, or Karmas more, there would probably be no Zune, and MS would not be significantly worse or better.

  16. Re:Makes sense... on Microsoft Sees Linux As Bigger Competitor Than Apple · · Score: 1

    Several. To my knowledge, most distributions will work with modern Mackintoshes as they are fundamentally the standard PCs you get when you by any other computer. The old PowerPC based Macs can run Debian, YellowDog, and a few others I believe. Great if you need to repurpose an old computer. And I think Debian runs on the Amiga, but I think Debian runs on anything that plugs into a wall so...