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  1. Location Profile, and AVSForum on Best Terrestrial/OTA HDTV Setup For an Apartment? · · Score: 1

    Without knowing exactly how far you are away from your transmitters it's hard to recommend something. I suggest asking the folks over at avsforums
    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1037779

    That thread under "HDTV-HDTV Technical- EV's Best Top Rated HDTV Indoor Antenna Review Test Round-Up Guide" is FULL of very smart people who can help you if you give them a full profile. There are also sections of AVSforums that are specific to different marketplaces and the reception challenges that each location has.

    That being said, nothing worked for me until I got my DB2. I tried around 10 of the top-of-the-line models until I installed that (indoors). Everything now comes in crystal clear.

  2. KilloByte on When Virtual Worlds Collide · · Score: 1

    There is an old Piers Anthony book that explorers these issues. It's a VR type situation where there are hundreds of diffrent roles you can play in various VR lands. In any event you can then travel to a shared space at times. I don't remember the details but it was fun read back in 98 or so.

  3. Re:Can you still get a DUI? on Nissan and Microsoft Create Videogame Car · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine once got a DUI for sleeping in his vehicle with the keys in his pocket.

  4. Best idea behind sleep I've heard on 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've taken several classes on sleep, learning and how the brain works. It's really fascinating. However, the best reason I've heard for why sleep is necessary is to reprogram your brain. (It's not to recover the body at all; the body can function just fine, 24 hours a day, indefinitely.) If you think about it, a computer can run forever without needing to rest, but the brain is a lot different from a computer, it needs to process the activities of the day, needs to create new connections between memories and new pathways for various mental activities. Sleep allows the brain time to do this. Without periodic sleep the brain functions less and less effectively. (Think Windows with too many applications running.) If a person goes without sleep for too long the entire thing crashes. (Studies have shown that people can go without water longer than they can go without any type of sleep.)

    Perhaps we're not too different from computers after all.

  5. GPL your DNA on The Immortal Cell · · Score: 1

    The problem I have with this is the same problem I have with giving blood. Personally I would give blood every week as I think it would benefit people. However, the blood that I give ends up costing far too much for the people who receive it. If I'm going to give a part of my body I want the result (be it research or treatment) to be affordable. I don't want others to be fueling their greed off of my body parts. Perhaps we should look into licensing for cells. GPL your DNA.

  6. Re:Apples and oranges? on To the Moon, Alice · · Score: 1

    What defines intelligence? Having both tea and "no tea" at the same time.

  7. Getting sick of small minded (scared) people. on Send out the Clones? · · Score: 1

    Things like this make me wonder what the world would be like without legislation (or small minded people) holding back and banning new technologies.