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  1. Re:Briilliant on Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon · · Score: 1

    Cut the guy some slack. He probably has a lot of time on his hands and was feeling inspired after watching Moon.

  2. Like watching theSIMS! on Will Wright To Make Fan-Participation TV Show · · Score: 1

    oh wait. I forgot how boring that was. Pretty much why I stopped playing. Besides, (given that this is a gimmicky premise and will most likely not include great acting) half of the fun is not knowing what will happen in the next episode. It's a little hard to play up the suspense when people have been voting on the possible story-lines.

  3. Re:Who has the mine rights? The us? USSR? China? N on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    We better get on this. We must not allow a mineshaft gap!

  4. Re:Rotate on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    ...or the simplest solution: scroll. I guess I didn't realize this was an issue. Besides, I would feel bad for someone carrying around a laptop that comfortably display a vertical A4 page!

  5. Problems on iPads On American Campuses? Maybe Next Year · · Score: 1

    Along with being able to distribute digital handouts, I hope teachers also like the whole class being on facebook, too. At least with laptops a lot of times it's pretty obvious that you're not paying attention. But, if everyone is looking at their tablet, who knows. Besides, it's much better suited for writing a status update than trying to take notes with it. With a touch screen you would have to stare at it while you take notes, so hopefully the prof isn't writing on the board, or anything.

  6. It gets hard but... on Infinite Mario With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment · · Score: 1

    This adaptive mario could never think up a level as evil as Tubular. I pulled my hair out on that one many-a-time. This game is actually pretty hard to play, though; partly, because I don't have an SNES controller, and partly because there is no natural flow to the levels as there would be with manually created ones.

  7. Re:Greatest achievement on Willow Garage Robot Fetches Beer, Engineers Rejoice · · Score: 1

    taking 5 minutes to pull a beer bottle out of a refrigerator? (I assume the big X5 in the corner indicated the increase in playback speed) Well, at least we have 90 years to top that.

  8. Re:How about some metric figures? on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    but how many football fields would that be?

  9. Seeing as NASA's been under a tight budget... on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    James Cameron is the natural choice.

  10. Red Alert 2 on New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container · · Score: 1

    The commercial at 3:00 : Am I the only one who thought of Red Alert 2? Sadly, the answer is probably yes.

  11. I want music that sounds just like this on Triumph of the Cyborg Composer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First off, this is old news (he debuted it in '87). Second, it's not that surprising. The program analyzes patterns and reproduces them with some variance. You could not feed it your whole music library and have it come up with some brilliant new piece. I'm fairly confident that it would sound awful, because the number of available patterns would, in a sense, give the algorithm too much freedom. You feed it pieces of a certain style by a certain composer, and it gives you back something that resembles them. It's a cool project, but the music is inherently derivative.

    If, however, he can get it to start churning out pop music, he could make a millions.

  12. Re:Experience? on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 1

    I have Google Voice and an Android phone, but I haven't found it that useful. This is partly because I only use one phone in my day-to-day life, and GV would really come in handy if you were using it to manage multiple lines (home, work, cell, etc). It's been said already, but you cannot use it to get free minutes. However, you can use it for free texting. That could be a big deal for some people, but I rarely approach my limit, anyway.

  13. Re:A common annoyance, not just in gaming on Game Distribution Platforms Becoming Annoyingly Common · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just know that it'll all be worth it if I ever decide to get an iPhone. The Apple Mobile Device Manager has been warming up in the background for months!

  14. I would expect to see... on News Experiment To Rely Only On Facebook, Twitter · · Score: 1

    All play and no work makes Jacques a dull reporter.
    All play and no work makes Jacques a dull reporter.
    All play and no work makes Jacques a dull reporter.
    All play and no work makes Jacques a dull reporter.

  15. Re:Is there a reason for Google to shaft Mozilla? on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 1

    I agree. Google wouldn't have much incentive to cut off Firefox, aside from the ability to control people's online experience more closely. As it stands, Firefox directs tons of traffic to Google, and I doubt that they would be too quick to disturb that flow. That being said, if Firefox were to fall into disrepair, I suspect a large portion of its user base would end up using Chrome.