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  1. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Steam Sales took me away from WoW bigtime. There are just so many single and co-op games out there to keep me busy, and they cost much less in the sales than a monthly sub to WoW does.

  2. Re:Youtube streaming sucks. on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 1

    Can you give advice on how i'd manage this on my mobile phone Data connection? I regularly watch netflix on my phone, but whenever I try to watch something on youtube, it takes forever for the video to load and I get repeated buffering issues.

    for info, I am using a Galaxy S4 on the 3 Network (Ireland) Running Jellybean.

  3. I don't want to be a scaremonger... on USAF Strips 17 Officers of Nuclear Launch Authority · · Score: 1

    If they removed the ability to control and launch nukes from 17 people, my mind imagines this to still only be a portion of the overall number. Just how many people CAN launch nukes?

  4. Re:Major problem here on Tesla's Elon Musk Talks With Google About Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    But humans also love the convenience of the Microwave Dinner, or Take-Out. If a great majority of humans wanted to be in control so much, we'd be in control of cooking all our own meals and the Fast Food industry would be dead.

    Autonomous cars are all about 2 things

    1) Like going to a Michelin (pardon the pun) Star Restaurant you get someone in control of driving that's better than you. Who's job in life is being a better driver than you are.

    2) Convenience. While the Take-Out is on the way (delivered by drone likely) you get to do other things. Same with driving. When the car is commuting you somewhere, you get to do something else.

    People do still like to cook for themselves on occasion, and there are ample cooking enthusiasts out there, but there's more than enough people who prefer a meal prepared by someone else to allow that business to thrive. The same will be for Autonomous cars, there's more than enough people who would rather not drive themselves. There will still be opportunity for people to drive themselves, hopefully in the safe designated area of a race track (perhaps they can even simulate gridlock if they are feeling nostalgic!)

  5. Re:Lens flare ^ 2 on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    Yet people still complain that 3D movies are too dark because of having to wear the Polaroids!

  6. Re:lame on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Alien Teacher: And now we come to the planet known to its inhabitants as "Earth". Interesting fact about this planet, the 'dominant' life form actually developed atomic power BEFORE space travel (powered by fossil fuels)
    Alien Student: Wait, if they had yet to leave the planet, how did they test their atomics?
    Alien Teacher: Well .... *adjusts gel sac* we can only surmise, as all life became extinct within a short time after, 1-2 centuries (their time), but it appears they tested it on themselves.
    Alien Student: Oh, that's probably for the best, they probably wouldn't fit in with the rest of us too well, in that case.

  7. Re:Wow, this is stupid. on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    Exactly, who's to say that dumb people aren't a rare commodity in the greater galactic economic system. This would make Earth VERY valuable!

  8. Re:Why is this here? on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    It's a different kind of smart. Instead of remembering all the information in my own head, I instead train myself to better perform the process of finding out this information with the tools I have available to me.

  9. Re:Headline FAIL. on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1

    One isolated study, perhaps, but where else can you get a large enough sample group for mental health issues, other than in a group that believes in God?

  10. Re:Or a PC these days on New Console Always-Online Requirements and You · · Score: 1

    Castle Crashers and Magica are just 2 examples (off the top of my head because I'm playing both right now) that work in multiplayer mode on controllers through the XBOX wireless controller. The Steam Big Screen option has been going good for a while now and there's more than a few games that run fine with multiple USB controllers.

  11. Re:Europe again on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    ESA! ESA! ESA!

  12. Re:Sounds like the pirated version's more "realist on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    Not really, since piracy doesn't seem to have made the games industry collapse.

  13. Re:Slashvertisement on EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations · · Score: 1

    And you forgot to mention that the product doesn't really exist yet. Are they even in production? Can we still contribute? Now this is very much relevant to my interests.

  14. Re:Major source of privacy loss on Google Releases Glass Kernel Source Code · · Score: 2

    AC has been posting here for YEARS.

  15. Re:Sadly it is not available any more. on Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell · · Score: 1

    Not this joke again ... you're beginning to sound like a broken record!

  16. Re:So... on Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    American company? I'm not so sure about that. Every apple product I have has "Made in China" on it.

  17. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 2

    I got that, it was quite obvious when he said also "Historically, this long-suffering and oft derided nation has been responsible for a lot of freedom beyond its borders, thank you very much you fnck!ng ingrates."

    The problem with this statement is that the US has only gotten involved when it suited their interests. They only joined WW2 after Pearl Harbour. They only get involved with "freedom beyond it's borders" in Iraq when the Oil supply was at risk. How many events can we say the US helped preserve freedom, for the sake of freedom and not for its own motives? How often have we heard that the current round of dictators were all put there by the US? Some argue that we'd be better off without the US imposing freedom on people.

  18. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    I wonder what it would be like in Ireland if the British never imposed their language on us. It has certain advantages that we share a language with the UK and US. If large swaths of Europe all spoke German, would that be such a bad thing? I know people are going to be up in arms about how language is a reflection of your culture and is so super important, but we haven't been speaking Irish on a regular basis in quite a few decades, but out national identity seems intact. The benefits of speaking English, otoh, have been enormous.

    I also learned German in school, and don't see why you think it would have been such a bad thing if more countries spoke it. Do you still equate speaking German with being a Nazi?

  19. Re:Since my comment is in the other less-popular p on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    I think you're on to something there. An improved Cathode might help the flow of electrons to the n-side. We just need a more attractive Cat.

  20. Precise? on 'Green' Galaxy Recycles Gas, Supercharges Star Birth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just how precise are we talking here, 6 billion sounds like a really round number.

  21. Re:Intelligence a man made idea. on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1

    We had a little thought experiment in our science class in school, the question was, "What species, if any, would spell the end of the world if it went extinct?"

    A lot of people though they were being smart (me included, we were only 14 at the time) by saying "Well Humans of course!, We'd be all gone!" to which the teacher asked (smart guy when I reflect back on it now) "We'd be gone, but the world would likely get on just fine without us"

    Anyways, after much discussion we concluded that as we (and many other mammals) require bacteria to digest food properly and such, if all bacteria was suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, then enough of the fauna (we excluded flora form the list of things that could go extinct) would probably go with it and the resultant crash in the ecosystem would probably kill off anything not directly reliant on bacteria.

    We might think we're so smart, but we are definitely not very important in the grand scheme of things.

  22. Re:Intelligence a man made idea. on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I'll see your cat and raise you a wheat.

    No other life form has got some of the world highest paid scientists trying to improve its genetic structure to make it more robust and resilient to infection. It doesn't have an entire industry devoted to ensuring that its offspring are carefully tended for ensuring that only the best are allowed to reproduce and pass on the best genes for the next generation. All weaker strains are almost religiously culled. Its survival as a species is guaranteed forevermore, any predators are mercilessly slaughtered enmasse to ensure that it thrives competition-free.

    No, the domesticated cat is only in the little league compared even the most basic of common foodstuffs.

  23. Re:Gravity? on Bigelow Aerospace Investigating Feasibility of Moon Base for NASA · · Score: 1

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2008/11/mushrooms-in-sp/
    (accidental mushrooms)

    http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/2139421
    (deliberately grown mushrooms)

    Sorry for my poor google-fu, but the information is somewhat scant on the topic. The original PDF appears to be gone (someone with better skills than me might find it) but they did grow Mushrooms on the SpaceLab D2, and they grew fine.

  24. Re:Harrier? on Hybrid RotorWing Design Transitions From Fixed To Rotary Wing Mid-Flight · · Score: 1

    When a harrier does this so well, why would you want to make a rotor equivalent? Is there a problem, or do they want a plane that can operate like a helicopter (be nimble, hover at will, move sideways) for one occasion, but then change to a fighter for another occasion?

    Is the goal just a new form of VTOL, or is it expected to operate in both settings?

  25. Re:Good news everyone! on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    I didn't like when it went HD. It suffered the same problem that many other shows do. It starts to look too realistic, and you can see if someone's make-up is done wrong.