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  1. Re:Easy answers on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't always work. Suppose you have a hotel room level or something. The hotel corridor will be lots of rooms that you don't need to open and wouldn't make sense from an immersion point of view if you could. So what's the solution here?

  2. Re:um on 'The Door Problem' of Game Design · · Score: 2

    Not really. Not unless your application has hundreds of save buttons, some of which are purely there for decorative purposes. And most applications don't have multiple users sharing a UI.

    For app design, all these are solved problems. The typical answers are "yes, usually, yes, unclickable buttons are faded, the first user has a lock on the file, no because that would be stupid, your UI is too complex, yes, ???, we need the save button in phase 1".

    With a game, I've seen different answers for all of these.

  3. "forced them to raise the rates" is a lie. on Scammers Lower Comcast Bills, Get Jail Time · · Score: 1

    If they could make more money raising rates, then they would. It's not like a business tries to make the minimumn possible profit. They price at what they think the customers will pay. Someone else taking away their customers does not affect this value.

    But they're not going to get a lot of sympathy if they complain that it's slightly cutting into their billions of dollars of revenue, so they try to get everyone on their side by suggesting the scammers were stealing from the customers.

  4. Re:Yeah, sure. on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 1

    I guess that could be the case. Although based on the quote, it seems more likely that he's needed to mediate between the teachers and the administrators.

  5. Re:Tape drives on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    It could conceivably happen. We'll need a breakthough of some sort but these do happen a lot in the tech industry. A factor that will keep HDD prices high is precision mechanical parts are expensive to manufacture.

  6. Re:This confirms my point of view on Mt. Gox Ordered Into Liquidation · · Score: 1

    :)

    To be fair this doesn't really prove or disprove anything except that MtGox's specific business model doesn't work.

  7. Re:No. on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Defending the constitution does not mean preventing any change to it at all. It means making sure that any attempt to violate it by act of congress is reversed. If the constitution is changed such that clauses are added or removed, then his job is to defend the changed constitution.

    Surely you agree that the citizens of the US still have the right to amend the constitution as long as they follow the amendment procedure specified in it.

  8. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I think the US military won in Iraq. Against opponents that had military equipment.

    So, you think that if the citizens of the US decided to stage an uprising, for whatever reason, and if this was opposed by the majority of the US armed forces, they'd need to invade the US!? They're already there. They just need to defend essential infrastructure.

    But at that point it will be too late anyway. The people will have effective control of the country without firing a shot.

  9. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    They don't need to. They just need to prevent the citizens from taking control of essential government infrastructure.

  10. Re:ACLU on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    The ACLU is about protecting civil liberties, and not the constitution. The constitution is one of the means they fequently use since the Bill Of Rights ostensibly has the same purpose so it's a good tool for the purpose. Whether gun ownership is a civil liberty or not is hotly disputed in the US, but in the rest of the world is considered to not be one. The rest of the rights protected by the Bill of Rights are less contentious. No doubt is the 18th amendment was still in force, the ACLU would not make any effort to defend that either.

  11. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    It's not likely to be very effective. Have you seen the weapons the government has? The only way to succeed in a revolution is be to make sure the majority of the army is on your side or at least neutral, in which case, weapons are irrelevant.

  12. Re:But what is a militia? on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I think the amendment is intended delegate responsibility for gun control to the states. If a state wanted to they could simply pass no law, or if the populace felt strongly enough, add a second amendment style clause to their state constitution.

  13. Cool! What was the evidence, and what defence was offered? The only articles I can find was a statement that the transcript was obtained. The failure of any of the reporters to go into detail about what was said makes me suspicious of bias here.

  14. Re:Effectiveness of a space elevator. on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 1

    You'll not get close to orbital speeds until you're close to the centre of mass. At 200km, you're barely going faster than an object on the ground.

  15. Do you have some information about theevidence that was presented to the magistrate, what witnesses actually said, or what the magistrate said?

    If you were a magistrate, based on this information alone, would you have found him guilty? If not, then do you think it's possible that there is some other information that the magistrate was aware of, and we are not?

  16. He got charged for disorderly conduct. But we don't know the details of why or what he was actually alleged to have done.

    As for wiretapping, he shouldn't have been threatened with it, but he was never charged.

  17. Re:Effectiveness of a space elevator. on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 1

    LEO isn't about height though. We can get there pretty easily. X-15s managed to get half way there in the 1960's. You need to get to about 15,000mph to actually do anything useful at that altitude.

  18. Woudln't carbon nanotubes themselves be worthwhile on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 2

    The things have more uses than space elevators. A thinner stronger cable is always going to have uses even if it's only a few metres.

  19. Re:We might be. on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    People want the government to spend money more than they want the government to not take it.

    The reason both major parties are so similar is that they target their platform to what most voters want.

  20. Re:Duh on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    The elected portion has very little power and lacks the cohesion to actually agree to much.

  21. Re:Heading off the Republic Pedants on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 2

    It is indeed a constitutional republic. It is also a representative democracy. Apparently you can be both.

  22. Re:Consumers pay on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    (where else would they get the money from?)

    Presumably from Comcast customers who previously found the service inadequate but will now subscribe.

  23. Re:I came up with a great idea on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    How do you get from the strip of asphalt to where you want to end up? Taxis aren't really the most economical means to get from A to B, or the most convenient, apparently, for a lot of smaller airports.

  24. Re:They do have a point on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 5, Informative

    They stopped using Thimerosol because of public pressure; not because of any scientific reason. The mercury level in a dose of a vaccine is less than the amount you might get from eating a tuna steak.

  25. Re:eight hours isn't very long on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 2

    That isn't what I said or even something that I remotely implied. Of course they do. So how will not having illuminated roads in the morning make this any worse for them than not having illuminated roads at all at any time?

    And how would these not working in the morning make them less useful to those who drive late at night?