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  1. Re:space station? Or moon base? on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 1

    Probably both actually, something orbiting the moon and a base on the moon. Though you are right, moon bases do often get called space stations.

  2. Re:Then & Now on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 1

    You didn't really think he was serious did you???

    In fact Saturn 5 wasn't very good at that either, by most engineering standards it should have failed. Thus is the basis behind much of the landing was faked retoric. It probably did happen, but technically it was a crap shot. We would never go back in such a hazardis way. If we wanted to go back NOW it would be safer to fill the current shuttles cargo bay with an extra fuel tank, and bunch of rocket pack to land on the moon with.

  3. Re:Great if applied to other things. on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 1

    We'll theoretically by then you will have a better job and the economy will be better. Thus affording you a better car.

    Or not...

  4. Re:I'm all for science/technology/astronomy but... on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the moon has lots of metal ores. If we can build refining plants and factories, space ships can be launched much cheaper. Sure you have to still get the people up there, but you save a lot when you don't have to lag tons of equipment into space. Hopefully we can even find some way to produce oxygen, unless we can find water in the moon, thats going to be the hardest part.

  5. Re:Looking forward to this: on Online Takeout Delivery is Back · · Score: 1

    And here I just thought they were yelling all this time....

  6. Re:Not suprising. on PlayStation 3 HDD to Ship With Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, but PC makers don't sell at a loss and make up on licensing for games. Obviously Sony is selling the machine for a profit, but they obviously can't compete with MS on price in the long run that way. Though they could compete with Dell if they can really make this a generally computer.

  7. Re:Not suprising. on PlayStation 3 HDD to Ship With Linux · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't region lock it that is.

  8. Re:I'm confused! on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call "Science" their religion. Generally they thrive on unproven scientific theories, or often simply notions.

  9. Re:The study used loaded questions on Many Scientists Admit Unethical Practices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hell I've tossed results because they contradiced what I expected. Generally to come back and see I made an error in my procedure. It like doing hard math, sometimes you mess up but generally you see it when you do. Sometimes you can fix it, othertimes you just have to write it off as a fluke.

  10. Re:Math on Kutaragi Thumbs Nose At Other Consoles · · Score: 1

    Well the sony guy was going on about pre-rendered versus real-time though he kept on talking about calculations.

  11. Re:I never did understand... on FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines · · Score: 1

    What's really amazing is how digital uses less bandwidth and are cheaper for the cable company. But yet, switching to digital cable is always more expensive.. Guess they figure the consumers want it more. Sad...

  12. Re:What kind of glasses are you wearing? on The Phantom...Lives? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but many people choose not to do this, and are perfectly happy with the buisness model of its there as long as you pay a monthly fee.

  13. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Wow, yep thats me. Marriage works but there are a lot of problems caused by my lack of attention. She understands and deals with the fact that I'm ADD. Though attention problems arn't exclusivly for nerds either.

  14. Re:What kind of glasses are you wearing? on The Phantom...Lives? · · Score: 1

    These are some of the biggest concerns which IL still hasn't addressed. To you, it may look fine. To everyone else, it looks like a more strict version of Steam with an extra box you have to buy, too.

    Yes but with Steam the games are still way expensive. If games are free with a subscription, it wouldn't matter if your games went when you stopped paying money. It would be like television, though you might have premium content or pay bands based on usage. But of course noone in their right mind should pay $50 for a game that might explode. This is where steam went wrong.

  15. Re:naturally... on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my experience, the 'geeky' drive to throw intense, unimaginable-to-non-geeks effort into a problem until it is 'solved' has been a great detriment to every relationship I have ever attempted. Yep, my wife hates it when I try to talk about our problems she'd much rather just be gloom about it and work it out herself (note we never have any serious problems so this is ok) I think this is a common thing, people want to complain but don't actually want solutions to emotional problems. Otherwise as long as your geek is willing to try to learn social skills, they are much better in a relationship than some guy who is an ass and will never change.

  16. Re:i think... on The Phantom...Lives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also Nintendo may beat them to this. I don't see how this can complete.

  17. Re:I refuse to use it! on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    It was a joke! Jeeez

  18. Re:Yay! on U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lexmark Case · · Score: 1

    Well it does create a standing the you cannot be successfully sued due to reverse engineering for interoperability to sell a competing product that does not break copyright.

  19. Re:fascinating on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 1

    There are plently of religiously neutral people out there that could translate it nonbiasly. Personally I would love to see any complete retranslation. But it has yet to happen. Many many mistakes that were introduced into the original KJV are still contained in the newest translations. There is a pretty good retranslation done of the old testimate its called the "English Hebrew Bible." Has a lot of interesting differences which from my limited study seem to be better translations.

  20. Re:If only... on First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes · · Score: 1

    Shrugs, it was funny laugh. Though stereotypes generally have reason. I'd bet london is foggier than most places.

  21. Re:If only... on First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cost of shipping both from Amazon.co.uk: 9.97
    Avoiding the London fog: Priceless

  22. Re:fascinating on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well the bible is hebrew, greek and latin. There are no outdated English phrases in the Bible. Now if your refering to the King James translation of the bible, obviously such would be good for teaching google Old English but not modern english. You would need a much newer translation that doesn't use old phrases. Such do exist btw.

  23. Re:Other languages. on 2-Year OpenOffice High School Case Study · · Score: 1

    Hell a copy of word 2000 in my office keeps on switching permanently to french if it sees any french word in any document I open. Have to switch language preferences to fix it. And I can find no way to correct this behaviour.

  24. Re:This one is priceless... on 2-Year OpenOffice High School Case Study · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, you can create data forms like access in excel. Its a sick and discusting habit, but its possible I once requested statistics from a government agency, and I got them in an excel file. I opened it, and was given a clickable map and then options about what statistics I wanted for the area that I clicked on. It was sick. Whats worse was I had to resort to importing the excel into another program to get to the raw data, it just wasnt' there.

  25. Re:Reality Check on iTunes 4.9 To Support Podcasting · · Score: 1

    Yea I kinda realized that, why does their page say podcast then? Just trying to catch the trend, or they moving in that direction?