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  1. Re:6 foot power cables on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    If we cut off their vespene gas supply, they'll never be able to research it.

  2. Re:HANDgun on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    I read that as "Armed Assamite". I need to stop playing so much Vampire: The Eternal Struggle...

  3. Re:This solves ? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 0

    What problem does this solve?

    I don't think this is a good solution either, but you'd be surprised. It's not hard to find cases of cops who got shot with their own gun. It's a primary reason why prison guards who actually come in contact with the prisoners are not allowed guns. One actual practical use of this might be to arm such guards.

  4. Re:Great, but who's going to use it? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 2

    News for you, bunkie. When your life depends on it, you don't use a Taser.

  5. Re:Mexico! on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 2

    We have limitless illegal immigration from Mexico.

    Actually, no, we don't. Immigration (legal and illegal) from Mexico has fallen very sharply in the past five to seven years. It is thought that net immigration from Mexico to the US may already be in negative figures.

  6. Re:WTF is Mint on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    If you wish to make a Linux distro from scratch, you must first invent the Universe.

  7. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    You misparsed the sentence. Not "Yes, men tend to make...", but "Yes-men tend to make...".

    Remember kids, punctuation is important! It's the difference between "Let's eat, grandma!" and "Let's eat grandma!"

  8. Re:They need something to replace WOW on Blizzard's Unannounced 'Titan' MMO Rebooted, Development Team Reduced · · Score: 1

    I don't recall the classic Wacraft Pandaren being bouncy food-lovers.

    http://www.wowwiki.com/Pandaren_Xpress

    Three years before Kung-Fu Panda.

  9. Re:If I learned anything from Asheron's Call 2 on Blizzard's Unannounced 'Titan' MMO Rebooted, Development Team Reduced · · Score: 1

    I whole heartedly disagree with this statement. There is a sweet spot of time spent for game development. My guess on that is 18-36 months. Once game development hits 3 years, the graphics engine on which it is built is old enough to be noticeable compared to the newer content. Now, not everybody cares about that, but why does it matter so much? Because the original timeline was already within that time frame. That means the game is getting grossly overdue. Grossly overdue games are in that state because the devs cannot get it to a releasable state.

    So true. World of Warcraft was in development for five years, and we all remember what a flop *that* was!

  10. Re:er... come again? on Moore's Law Fails At NAND Flash Node · · Score: 1

    How does this have anything to do with Moore's law?
    Moores law doesn't refer to density in any way. Especially not that of storage.

    Yes, it does. It was not, however, referring to the lithography resolution that is cited in this article. Moore's law refers to the number of transistors per area unit, which applies to both storage and CPUs (and is actually the more relevant statistic, since the point of smaller resolutions is to cram more transistors in). That fact is mentioned in the article, but not what actually happened to the transistor density, which makes me suspect that the transistor density actually *did* go up and the article writer didn't want to own up to a fact that destroys his hypothesis.

  11. Re:Preserve Cultural Heritage on Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo · · Score: 1

    I don't know where your "here" is, but the Lord of the Rings films were dubbed into many, many languages. I have not been able to determine exactly how many, but a lot.

  12. Re:Preserve Cultural Heritage on Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo · · Score: 1

    All that said, watching dubbed movies is wrong. Watch them in their native tongue with subtitles.

    I like subtitles myself, but I don't think you can say dubbing is wrong. Subtitles themselves do violence to the original movie experience, because you have to take your eyes off the picture to read them.

  13. Re:Preserve Cultural Heritage on Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo · · Score: 1

    I think both "space" and "ship" are words from long before 100 years ago...

    But the word "space" as in "outer space" is fairly young. The word didn't have that meaning before the later 19th century.

  14. Re:World of Warcraft on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 2

    MMOs do it that way because they have to. Otherwise they'd be hacked to hell and gone--Diablo I all over again. And even then they have to be careful. A large part of the old Final Fantasy XIV's performance problems can be chalked up to trying to do too much on the server side. That's the main reason they had to do a relaunch; the problems required a complete redesign to solve.

  15. Re:Unanswered question on Richard III Suffered an Ignominious Burial, Researchers Find · · Score: 4, Funny

    But being buried in a parking garage would be wrong on so many *more* levels.

  16. Re:Well that sounds positive on Duracell's Powermat Ties the Knot With PowerKiss · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they should merge all at the same time, in parallel. That way we don't ramp up the voltage.

  17. Re:Yes but is this different on Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients · · Score: 1

    ...unless you use condoms?

    Condoms help. In some cases, such as AIDS, they help a lot. In other cases, like syphilis or HPV, they are far from foolproof, because some STDs do not require contact with infected semen to spread. They still help some, but if you're relying on condoms as your one line of defense while having lots of partners, you're in for a nasty surprise.

  18. Re:Yes but is this different on Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients · · Score: 1

    sex addicts with lots of partners, etc?

    I never got that, in what way is having lots of sex detrimental to the health or well being of a person?

    Nothing really unhealthy about having lots of sex. Having lots of different sex *partners*, on the other hand, will make it rather difficult to avoid STDs.

  19. Re:Ah well, no... on How the Smartphone Killed the Three-day Weekend · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not just go the whole hog and eliminate that nasty pay all together? That way they company can be super competitive.

    Why do you think they invented unpaid internships?

  20. Re:Sega did it on Can the Wii U Survive Against the PS4 and Xbox One? · · Score: 0

    And now, instead of three competing consoles, we have four.

  21. Re:used games on Can the Wii U Survive Against the PS4 and Xbox One? · · Score: 1

    Without a market, you have no place to sell your stuff.

    I'm not looking for a place to sell my stuff. I want to keep my stuff. I don't sell my games, because I enjoy having my rather large collection of them.

  22. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you don't go out side and think that it feels like it's 19 C, or 85 F

    Well, yes, I do. I go outside and shiver, and say "Feels like it's 50" and go back in and get a jacket. I go outside and sweat and say, "Feels like it's 90". I don't do it in Celsius because I don't have any feeling for those numbers; I have to convert into Fahrenheit to understand how hot or cold it is.

  23. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    but what is one quarter of 236 ml?

    59 ml. One quarter of 240 ml is 60 ml, one quarter of four less than 240 ml is one less than 60 ml.

  24. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 2

    Four teaspoons in a tablespoon.

    All my cookbooks say that there's three teaspoons in a tablespoon.

  25. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    I have seen some "half liter" bottles sold lately.

    Six packs of half liters are pretty common in grocery stores around here (I live in the Washington DC area), and you'll generally see 1 liter sodas at gas stations. Just yesterday, I saw 1.5 liter bottles for the first time, at a Target (they also had 2 liters, which is what I bought).