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  1. Re:phew on Valve Delays Portal 2, Squashes Duke Nukem Rumors · · Score: 1

    It is, actually. Steam is supplied with the retail CD's, ad is not required to be online to play.

    I don't know why its any different than a game coupled with Gamespy.

  2. Re:the first 3D games on Sony To Launch First 3D PS3 Games On Friday · · Score: 1

    They've been around for a while. LINK

  3. Re:Half-Life 3? on Valve Delays Portal 2, Squashes Duke Nukem Rumors · · Score: 1

    They did. I believe it aired May 23 at 9pm. There were some glitches, such as names and faces changing, but the ending was about what you'd expect.

  4. Re:phew on Valve Delays Portal 2, Squashes Duke Nukem Rumors · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it is that YOU purchase games, because if its online, or going down to a retailer, both those options are available for all Valve games.

    Or did you mean, "I tried teh torrentz but no 1 is seeding!"

  5. Re:Source Engine 2 on Valve Delays Portal 2, Squashes Duke Nukem Rumors · · Score: 1

    And given the art surrounding portal 2, that would make sense. I believe the supposed box cover had quite a bit of flora.

  6. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 1

    How do you tell it which flat open spaces are school yards, or mall parking lots, vs empty freeways or ploughed fields, or a busy freeway?

    How does a pilot know?

    If you rely on memory or visual cues, a computer can do just as well.

    And whats to say a computer would not have had similar successes in the case of Sully's, had it taken a different route entirely? It's a circular arguement.

  7. So... on Canonical Developing Ubuntu OS For Tablets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about getting it ON a Tablet? Anybody agreed to or even thinking about putting Ubuntu on their tablet?

    I don't see a lot of people wanting to buy a tablet only to replace the existing OS.

    Though it'd be nice to get some kind of slate for a cheap price - this should cut down the price by $100, if Ubuntu can get someone on board with it.

  8. Re:I like the idea on Restaurant Tells Diners To Eat Everything On Their Plate · · Score: 1

    We have a few Chinese Restaurants around town with Buffets that have a rule about finishing dishes. They can charge you extra if you don't finish whats on your plate.

  9. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 1

    Ah - so why then would a remote control not be sufficient in any of those cases?

    It seems you could have a small handful of pilots on staff to handle the difficult situations, while most of the system is automated.

  10. Re:Fuck the publishers. on Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher · · Score: 1

    He means the kind of research that gets paid for by government grants.

    Corporate R&D is a different kind, where they don't usually want to publish the results. They want to keep it proprietary. At least thats the impression I get.

  11. Re:Create an Open Source Alternative! on Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They should take advantage of the technology and displace the parasite.

    There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we (technology) are the cure.

  12. Re:Fuck the publishers. on Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher · · Score: 1

    Step 5. University library shells out nontrivial dead presidents so that scientists can read the papers they and their colleagues wrote.
     

    This also has been bothering me for a while. I never got why exactly my girlfriend, who is an undergrad in Ancient and Medieval History, and has been networking with Prof's all over North America, still insists on buying Archaeology Magazine, when she has heard most of the names in there and could probably get the un-editted articles if she sent an email. It's like 5 Degrees of Seperation max.

    It absolutely baffles me.

    Then again, how would she know there was a paper written if she didn't purchase the publicized journal? Perhaps Universities need to take a more open stance on its articles, put a GPL or something on their papers before submitting it to a journal.

  13. Re:Computer rendering required? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Actually, cartography is an excellent way to transmit electronic communications securely.

    You see you take the lattitude and longitude of a city. Take those numbers and convert them into their ASCII equivalents.

    However, day to day communication, doesn't work so well.

    Cost along the Peninsula Northeast of Vorkuta
    In the Laptev Sea directly North of Novvy-urengoy
    About the islands in the Kara Sea Directly North of Murmansk

    See what I mean?

  14. Re:You can use katakana on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or you could just, you know, use English to utterly butcher the representation of any foreign word

    I think the Scot's are worse for it. Have you ever heard them say Edinburgh?

  15. Re:Let me get this straight on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    I don't see whats Ironic about it. Whats your definition of irony?

  16. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Umm... Maybe YOU are.

    WE are talking about Kanji, where a combination of WORDS make another word, and only rarely can they be used to sound out the word. (Kind of like if I said sound-emitter for stereo)

    Don't be a noob.

  17. Re:Really Now, You Can't Even Make This Stuff Up on Stem Cell Tourists Take Costa Rica Off the Agenda · · Score: 1

    You know, they probably believe in "2012 end of the world" too.

    If you do some research on the Mayan Calendar myth, you'll find that it is also propogated by people who believe that extra-terrestrials started humans on Earth, and that it's founder also had some telepathic harmonic contact with the spirits of the past and aliens overhead.

    It's like these nuts are everywhere. I'm almost afraid I'm going to offend someone I know by bashing it.

  18. What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have Meriam and Webster added
    Noob
    Leet
    Haxxor
    Lolcat
    pwned

    yet?

  19. Re:First thoughts on FAA Adds a Study On Adding Drones To Commercial Aviation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, do you think Sully would have pulled off a perfect water landing if he had been miles away from the cockpit?

    I don't see why not. I don't know if I'd be under any more or less stress to handle an emergency if my life is on the line or if its hundreds of passengers.

    And essentially, some of the mistakes that might cause emergencies will be reduced by a drone that doesn't forget things. And for the record, no human has ever had faster REFLEXES than a modern computer, we've just had the gift of INSIGHT. The only reason we can outsmart a computer in various fields is being able to do what it does not expect. Usually a pilot in the sky is best for situations where your target is also human so you need to be able to have someone who can continue another person's train of thought based on one action (Like fighter pilots watching how enemy pilots fly, and Rescue teams saving victims). It's the unexpected elements of humans that require another human to assist.

    In the case of a commercial airliner needing to make an emergency landing, I don't see why a computer couldn't handle it, should proper emergency protocols be handled. The only problem I see arising is instrumentation error, which a few cameras in the cockpit could fix.

  20. Re:better than humans? on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well exactly. This isn't so much an "AI" as it is a script that has output depending on its input.

    Essentially, any "errors" the computer makes would be an issue with setting up a debugger and seeing why it chose that selection. Then it falls into two categories: It spotted things humans missed when classifying or it has faulty programming that is creating false positives or missing data.

    I'd hardly consider that "AI".

  21. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know! Can you believe someone rolled through and modded us all trolls? What's his beef?

  22. Re:It's not violence on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    You know, you joke, but his fans have spread death threats to Beiber haters or people suspected as having relationships with him.

    I think you might have something here. He engenders violence in both his fans and his haters...

  23. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ARGH I hate you for using that stupid pun.

    Really? I thought it was remarkably well done.

  24. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's rare to find a good pun like that.

  25. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And what about people who get sick at the smell or sight of meat?

    What about the people who get sick at the smell or sight vegatables?

    If it had been the smell of a fresh salad would you mind as much?

    Don't hold your breath, I don't think this idea will catch on.