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  1. Re:Nice video, there on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    Thats ok, I kind of am, Dyslexic and all... years of spell checker have worked wonders, but hey, it took about 6 months to get to, two and too down pat.

  2. Re:I love this game on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 2

    Maybe I dont play mine craft enough, ive only put in about hours sine the stats came in, I just hop on every now and then to put in an hour, i just dig off a main tunnel back and forth, and explore all parts of every cave system I come to, but with just having the main tunnel 60 long ( a tunnel that is 200 long splits off every 3 blocks, and I mine back tot he original tunnel from the end, so as to not waist walking backwards and forwards, so outside of digging my walking is limited to 60 blocks

    I have a portal at the far end of the 200 long tunnels, and I havent mined out in the other direction, or dropped down a few layers. So far the returns been pretty good, Ive gotten of about 1:2:14 Dimond:Gold:Iron (320:640:4200), more then enough that Ive started on digging out a 200x200x2 monster trap and replacing all the blocks with in with stone for a nice visual effect as I go - goto love the OCD that minecraft brings out.

    The only time I put in a decent rail road, was when I was getting stung no matter what I did with the bed bug, and teleporting 3,000 blocks away from my base when I died, I took time but I built a neitherworld rail road for that.

  3. Re:Not impressive on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    Stuff that, i want grifers, they should be trying to steal your stuff, and to protect their own!

  4. Re:Not impressive on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    Notch did say in that painfully to watch video that he is trying to keep "talking with the villagers" out of the official side of the release.

  5. Re:Nice video, there on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    You must be new here, if it was a dupe he would of posted it with out hesitation..

  6. Re:Thought through? on Faint Praise From WSJ For a Linux Touchscreen PC For Seniors · · Score: 1

    No, that would be Powerpoint displaying.

    Edit all you want, just dont inflict that on others!

  7. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Oh hell no! $2000 for more fuel then I could use in a life time!

  8. Re:Lay off the crack. on Can Minecraft Change the Gaming Industry? · · Score: 1

    "I was digging tunnels and building fortresses back in the mid-90's with the Worms series."

    Bleh, back in my day, if we wanted to blow up the terrain we played scorched earth.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

  9. Re:Un-enlightened Austrian authorities? No. on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    Forget the FSM, the IPU shall rule all.

    Bow down before her might, may her invisibility out shine her pinkness for ever!

  10. Re:What an ass on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    Gee, you need to keep up with the odd Atheistic cults, the IPU (Invisible pink unicorn) is for mocking the invisible man in the sky,
    the real question is do you believe her invisibly is surpassed by her pinkness, or is her pinkness surpassed by her invisibly.

  11. Re:Also known as "contrails" on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 2

    I do believe you did not look at the photos, so from another website, here is some text for you to read.

    As a note, because of what ever technical reason stooped you looking a the lint, these clouds can and do look at times look like massive eyes or holes in the clouds, nothing at all like contrails, and in some cases can look like a massive gouge taken out of the clouds, kinda like a revers contrail.

    http://www.weatherthings.com/HolePunch.html

    "A “Hole Punch” cloud is a non-technical name given to a cloud formed from an aircraft dissipation hole or trail. They are also called "Punch Hole" clouds. Rather than extending as a line, Hole Punch clouds appear as a circular or oval hole in a deck or thin layer of supercooled water clouds. They are not uncommon where jet flight paths intersect altocumulus layers. What is uncommon is when they form in a perfect circle that persists for a length of time to be widely observed."

  12. Re:This is bad because? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 1

    That might be true for older theories, once they have gone though a genration of acceptance, but anything new..

    it is much essayer to disprove and get credit for that, then to create your own new wiz bang headline achievement.

  13. Re:This is bad because? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 1

    It doesn't change the problem, but it dose show that quick, sudden and more excessive changes have happened.

    We do need to take action, but lets lay of the end of the world talk, and put in some balance and realism in it, hell I keep hearing 4 degrees C would kill of all life because fo reason X or Carbon level Y is deadly to all life, such statements are just not true.

    Note this graph is logarithmic, and most of the latter 3rd wouldn't even show as a blip on it if we mapped out under the first few sections time line.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png

  14. Re:What happened in the 18th century? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 1

    umm Whales eat Plankton, i dont believe we fish too much of that.

    In fact the revers is more likely, we are over fishing, leading to the reduction in other species that eat the plankton, thus more food for the Whales.

  15. Re:What happened in the 18th century? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Is that like all the Algae and Starfish, and Jelly fish that has magically appeared in Australian waters over the last few hundred years from ships traveling though Internationale waters and doping ballast. Surly that is a better reason, it only takes one ship to drop ballast with some life in it and BANG species
      form half way around the plant are introduced.

  16. Re:Electric clocks on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    All LED clocks I saw in the 80's where Quartz, they boated it in fact. A lot of the wall clocks where as well.

  17. Re:Good list... on PC Gaming's 10 Commandments · · Score: 1

    I hear you, Right click should be firmly bound to Backwards, and Left click to forwards, tis the only way!

    Thank goodness for the manufacturer's packages that allow you to remap the mouse when stupid ass developers decide such commands should only be performed by the keyboard.
     

  18. Re:Good list... on PC Gaming's 10 Commandments · · Score: 2

    I hate forced limitations on re-mappable keys,
    Damm it, I use my mouse for looking, as well as left and right click for forwards and backwards, but some games wont let you re-map the mouse to moment keys. Sure I can then remap other ways, but why not let us do what we want!

  19. Re:Cool! on FitBot Lets You Try Clothes Before You Buy · · Score: 2

    Not that amazing, seems its the same as manual ones, just added servos, I was hopping to see something that could adapt to different shapes at different sizes.

  20. Re:Kicking themselves yet? on Nokia Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 1

    Nokia's problem?

    The Communicator.

    Nokia 9000,
    Nokia 9500
    Nokia E90.

    Those where my last 3 Phones, and none of them could be bought outside of a small window, or at a decent price on a contract, at lest here in .AU When a customer wants to buy a phone, and they cant get the model they want though the stores, the partners or any shops what do they think will happen?

    Those phones where fantastic, and held a high resale vale for a long time due to demand, but would Nokia make more available? No, most of the shops I went looking for them in didn't even know of them at all, the ones that did would only offer company contracts, and I am still hesitant on paying over a grand for a phone though Ebay.

  21. Re:Kicking themselves yet? on Nokia Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 1

    would that be Nokias 30% market share that is still 6 times lager then Apples 5%?

  22. Re:Kicking themselves yet? on Nokia Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 1

    These are the same consumers who buy IPhones because they are made by Apple.

    And quite often with out really comparing with other alternatives.

    They buy what they are told, and most likely dont even know about this, or the ramifications for what they are buying or have just bought.

  23. Re:Kicking themselves yet? on Nokia Issues Profit Warning · · Score: 1

    These are the same consumers who buy IPhones because they are made by Apple.

    And quite often with out really comparing with other alternatives.

    They buy what they are told.

  24. Re:I'm tired of Matt Welsh on NASA Gravity Probe Confirms Two Einstein Predictions · · Score: 1

    no, but I can link to the related saturday morning breakfast cereal comic.

    This is why experimental scientists hare theoretical scientists

  25. Unrelated note.. on Electrical Problem Pushes Back Endeavour Launch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Off topic, but hey spread the word!
    House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body.
    http://politisite.com/2011/05/01/house-intelligence-committee-aide-confirms-that-osama-bin-laden-is-dead-u-s-has-the-body/