User: brendotroy

Re:Awful Idea

On: Kiro, the Foosball Robot

This will be fun for about ten minutes, until the machine is either impossible, or laughably easy (more likely) to beat.

(sarcasm)
Right, that's why Golden Tee and a host of other bar - arcade games have been such a failure. (/sarcasm)

Golden Tee type games offer 2-player/1-at-a-time gameplay and are still hugely popular. This would let you and your mate (the only one who came out to the pub with you that night) to play a rousing game of foosball together against the "computer" at a skill level you chose.

I'm not saying we're going to see coin-op Kiros anytime soon, but the idea is not so preposterous.

My $.02

technological fault

On: Is Untrasonic Electronic Pest Control, Effective?

This system won't work unless you have a fan blowing the rats against the electrostatic pl -- oh wait, wrong (similar) 'ask slashdot'. My bad.

Re:Easy

On: What Website has the Cleanest Site Design?

Or, if you use the toolbar (I know, it's only available to a few OS/browser combos) just type your search terms in and click the "search this site" button while you're on a /. page. Also potentially helpful (and obvious).

http://toolbar.google.com/

Re:Freevo and linux

On: Home-Grown TiVo Stories?

I think this guy hears from a lot of people who are confused, too:
http://www.googol.com/goog_def.htm ;)

Those pics remind me of...

On: Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved

Good Will Hunting...

"The faculty have answered (a long-since-dead guy), and answered with vigor"