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  1. Re:90 MPH???? on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    It's time to make a mint with "This car is equiped with Corbomite Devices" bumperstickers.

  2. Re:90 MPH???? on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    "They're also said to have excellent road-holding, although they are down on acceleration. From my experiance american-designed cars, you guys can't have too many corners, so this probably isn't a big deal."

    Spend a few weeks driving in the mountins here in America, we have lots of bendy little roads and whatnot.

  3. Re:TV piracy is next? on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    What if I watch the tape part way through and back it up some to see something I missed (sign or want to re-watch an FX bit).
    Is it different if I do it on VHS vs. a PVR?
    I can watch something several times over using a "approvded" PVR like Tivo or those S.A. boxes time warner gives out.

  4. Re:TV piracy is next? on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the cost of TV series boxsets.
    The problem is when you want to buy a TV series and either it is not available(and never will be like Earthworm Jim/Freakazoid) or the DVD release is just some best of compilation (SNL and Muppets). This leads to the "problem" of piracy, there is a want not being met by the marketplace.

  5. Re:Trackballs on Wireless Mouse with no Batteries · · Score: 1

    As someone who does CADD I use a 12"x12" Sumasketch III tablet with 15 button puck. Hard to digitize hand drawn drafting/art accurately with a trackball. Yes you can use a scanner but you are left with a lot of clean up work there.
    One nice feature of the tablet is it can be set to map 1:1 to your screen, meaning where ever on the tablet you have the puck/pen is where you are on the screen (this means pick up the puck and move to the other side and the pointer jumps), or you can have it act more like a normal mouse.

  6. Re:Cameron didn't do T3 on Titanic Director to Make Battle Angel Movie · · Score: 1

    The end to T3 bothered me because, supposedly skynet went and was "safe" out there on the internet.
    Um, how. The whole world ia about to be nuked into oblivion, after a few hours of now power or days of generator power even the most robust systems would have shutdown. Without humans to tend the computers, and the generators, and the comunication lines, skynet was committing suicide.

  7. Re:also on Best Tools for Machinima? · · Score: 1

    Try more like 12-17 hours. At least in the case of HL2, Doom3, and Halo (I have not played Halo 2 yet).
    These numbers reflect single player mode only.

  8. Re:Instead of making it cheaper on New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic · · Score: 1

    If SONY had the balls to cover all PS2/PSTwo, PSX/PSone machines with the same kind of warantee that my car comes with I'd be a happyer consumer.

  9. Re:So, I think that the question I need to ask is. on Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism · · Score: 1

    They listed it because they probably saw a list of upcoming game releases including Japan and saw it had "gun" in the title.

  10. Re:The list of games is silly on Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism · · Score: 1

    My guess would be...
    Gunslinger Girls 2: It has "gun" in it.
    Shadow Heart: must be some evil black hearted game.

    Amazing what comes from such simple minds. If I were evil I'd find a way to scam them out of every dime they have. Sucks having a sense of morality.

  11. Re:Marijuana is indeed addictive. on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    Can you point me to any published papers available on the net, as my budget for textbooks is rather limited to things directly related to my vocation?

    I'm sorry, when did I mention High Time? I don't subscribe to it or read it. It's shit like that that makes people react so negatively to your posts.

  12. Re:Top Ten most violent books of the Bible on Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism · · Score: 1

    When, exactly, did everyone reject God?

  13. Re:The article explains why she got better.. on 15-Year-Old Girl Survives Rabies Infection · · Score: 1

    I'm agnostic but given we are discussiong a Supreme Being.
    How can anything exist outside/apart from the Supreme Being?
    If you believe that the Supreme Being is the source of all things and all that goes with it, God is the supreem good and evil.

  14. Re:Actually.. on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    I think it is much less trouble to steal the game (one way or another) then it is to commit some other crime (or a string of crimes) to get money to buy a game.

    But maybe I'm more of a lazy criminal speculator. Maybe my guesses of criminal behavior need to be more proactive and leverage the synergies the marketplace for petty crime.

  15. Re:mature content on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    It had a database of questions about pop culture, events and people from the fifties and sixties. It asked random questions. You could gat past them 4 out of 5 times at age 14 (when LSL1 was released). I seem to remember you were asked 3 questions and you had to pass them all.

  16. Re:So what? on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1


    We (a group of gamers) found it to be an ok 4 player brawler on a platform that lacked many 4 player brawler type games.
    Your Mileage Obviously Varied.
    I'd much rather play Rakugaki Showtime with my peers but as SONY has deemed NA unworthy of game like that (region locking on the consoles).

  17. Re:ESRB? Holy Comics Code, Batman! on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    I'm sure GTA has always been 3rd person or top down.
    Maybe you need to check your perspective.

  18. Re:What a load of crap on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    "The effect of alcohol is the opposite, and the effect of alcohol and weed combined is apparently even worse. No sane person combines alcohol with any other drug or psychoactive medicin anyway. Alcohol very seriously impairs judgment, while weed impairs performance."

    Clearly the next big thing in the USA will be booze with THC additive.

  19. Re:Marijuana is indeed addictive. on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    You do realize that any substance taken into an organism is a "drug" by the fact that all substances (even food necessary for sustaining life) affect the function of said organism in some way.

    Last I check in any textbooks (I must admit they are about 10 years out of date), THC can only be psychologically addictive, has no physical withdrawal symptoms (as there is no physical addiction), and not everyone becomes psychologically addicted.

    If you are arguing from a standpoint of faith in something you heard or you think is right, try to educate yourself on the details of the issues (be it drugs, religion, or video game violence) instead of doggedly sticking to incorrect information.

    If there is some new scientific basis for your arguments I'd like to hear them as well as get some links so I can update my information about this subject.

  20. Re:Marijuana is indeed addictive. on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    I wish you could pay attention to your sig when posting this BS about people you dont even know.

  21. Re:Boy Scout Handbook described that still on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression tha tpulping the cactus (crushing it) will let you use it to get water in one of these contraptions.

  22. Re:Paper or not on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    To be accurate, Diebold wanted into the $$ making industry of E-vote so they bought a company that made voting machines. Diebold itself (the part that Makes ATM machines) has nothing at all to do with the engineering of the e-vote machines.

  23. Re:a.k.a. Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    "Turns out, this merging is something we as humans can do pretty well on the highway,"

    I dont know where you live/drive buddy, but nowhere in America have I seen people who can grasp the concept of merging in any significant number.

  24. Re:Is it me? on Trekkies Director Roger Nygard Answers · · Score: 1

    So far I'm liking S4 as they have decided to use multi episode story arcs. It may not be BAB5's 5 year fully realized blah blah blah (no offense to hardcore Bab5 fans, but I heard that line way too much from you) but I think the comprimise lets them tell some good stories and still go to left field now and then.

  25. Re:Aging Fanbase on Trekkies Director Roger Nygard Answers · · Score: 1

    I think the recent Enterprise episodes (the 3 part stories) have greately improved the quality of the show, since they can tell different stories but have more then just one episodes time to tell them.