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  1. Precise control of photons and force fields. The ground can be made to act like a tread mill and you don't even know it because all the other fields move like you would expect.

    A little bit different but there is a video floating around at a university experimenting with VR. They were working on giving the allusion that you are walking on a straight path but they play with your visuals just enough that they can get you to walk in circles, Was a fairly large room though.

  2. Re:Motives on Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools · · Score: 1

    I think in the future to be a well rounded person, coding will be part of that. I can forsee any ocupation as well as everday living benefiting from some programming skills.

  3. Re:No device necessary on Old Doesn't Have To Mean Ugly: Squeezing Better Graphics From Classic Consoles · · Score: 1

    Many TVs have a game mode, where they do less post processing and the lag will go away in this mode.

  4. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    In my city I've seen people looking at the pedestrian lights and just stopping when the count down is over even though the car signal was still green. It seems here not always do the pedestrian lights change at the same time as the car lights. There are some buffers.

  5. Re:Easy fix? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    How would rotating 90 degrees prevent you from putting something on the inner thigh leg or arm? They would need to make something that you straddle and scan between the legs and arms. I'd imagine there is actually some material you can use around the object to show as skin anyway.

  6. Re:$3k is 2 months income? on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wanted to go see a doctor to make sure my immunizations were up to date. I called about 10 offices and no one could see me within the next three months. Thats here in the midwest.

  7. Re:Just call it "Soma" ... on Mass Psychosis In the USA? · · Score: 1

    ...I actually know people who thought that the BNW looks actually quite nice...

    Only if you end up an alpha.

  8. Re:You mean that cell phone store? on RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't do that anymore, in fact when they changed their policy it was posted on slashdot.

    RadioShack stops being nosy

  9. Forbes is very biased. on Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies · · Score: 2

    Forbes has been pro-Microsoft, anti-Linux for years. Someone with some weight at Forbes has a conflict of interest I imagine.

  10. Re:Only one real reason on Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit · · Score: 1

    I used to live in Fresno. No snow you have to deal with, not much rainy days, an hour away from the mountains. If it wasn't a desirable place to live why has the population skyrocketed even compared to the rest of California as a whole?

  11. Re:They've already busted that twice now on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    What about people who read "Make Magazine", "Nut and Volts", "Sky and Telescope", "Linux Pro"? People who reads those are just wannabes?

  12. Re:For those who don't know European slang: on BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well considering the only people who identify themselves as 'Americans' (Pronounced: A-mur-i-cans) are United States citizens, I'm going to take a wild guess that he's talking about United States citizens.

    Except your wrong, I've talked with some Guatemalans who consider themselves Americans.

  13. Re:Sounds like people need to fix thier names on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    7 of 9

  14. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    Latinum can't be replicated. Which is used for currency.

    Also everything is not free, These replicators take energy which comes from somewhere. On the ships it comes from the warp core which takes dilithium to fuel which needs to be mined.

  15. Re:These are NOT big numbers. on 13 Open Source Hardware Companies Make $1+ Million · · Score: 1

    And FYI, SparkFun Electronics, one of the companies listed, makes more than $10 million in annual revenue, which is some serious growth for one company in a new field. Couple that with sheer awesome, and you get a powerful combination.

    I like SparkFun. I do buy stuff from them, but really they pretty much just a easier to use digikey or newark. Most of their designs that are "open" can be considered an unfavorable type of Open Source, since about all of them have the stipulation that they are not to be used for any commercial purposes. This seriously dampens what could be done with it. I can't take the design and code expand on it into a single board to use for my purposes and use it at work.. Nope unless I want to start from scratch I have to buy their breakout, and run wires. Doesn't quite seem like the open source spirit. Maybe the old unix open source spirit.

  16. Those socialist nazi satan worshiping beavers! on Beaver Dam Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    A family of beavers working together, and non of them got paid either I sure. How much you want to bet there was a bunch of lazy leftist pot smoking elitist beavers that just watched while the hard working god fearing beavers similar to you and me worked and put the whole thing together. This is an example of what happens when you have a democrat in office as president even the beavers up north are being affected.

  17. Re:Know what... on Yale Delays Move To Gmail · · Score: 1

    That works for your group because your a non profit and probably less than 3000 users. If you aren't a non-profit, $100k is only 2000 gmail accounts. gmail isn't free beyond a point. Free isn't available to Yale, they have a need of more than 3000 users.

  18. Re:LOL on RPG Heroes Are Jerks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I used to think this, however when you are playing you only see from your perspective, how do you know there aren't a bunch of others who claim they are trying to help, to just fail or abuse people's charity. If the world was about to end I would imagine there would be lots of people claiming they would go and save the day. If I gave all my stuff to every one who claimed that, I would just be starving for the remaining time I had left. This is why I wouldn't want you going into my house taking stuff, and I would still sell you weapons at my weapon shop instead of giving it to you for free. If I gave weapons away for free, there would be no weapons for the "real" heroes to buy, whoever they might end up being. I would have ran out of my stock and been unable to refill my inventory.

  19. Re:Install a linux of some sort on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    >>>Install a linux of some sort

    Yep. And then I won't be able to run:

    - My Dialup ISP (the dialup is okay but the web accelerator refuses to run)

    web accelerator is an image compressor and is lame, so is dialup. If you really must, you can use a cache proxy instead.

    - Games

    You can get many games to run on Linux.

    - Atari or Nintendo emulators

    There are a lot of emulators for Linux

    - Flash

    There is flash for linux

    - Opera 10 (refuses to install)

    Never had a problem installing opera.

    - RealPlayer

    There is real player for linux

    - Ipod-encoded (MP4) video

    You can use ffmpeg with kino.

  20. Re:Final Fantasy 7 on PC on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I loved it that at one point in the game to go on, you had to edit the registry to tell the game to look for the game data in a directory on your drive drive and not on the CD, then replace one of the video files so you were able to continue on with the game. This was the solution listed on the Eidos support site.

    It is also great that the minigames were cpu cycle timed instead of actual time. Trying to replay it a few years later on a faster computer, it is impossible to play any of the minigames because the minigame is done right when in starts.

    Battles at high resolution were cool though, to bad about all the other problems.

  21. Re:Really? on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 1

    XP is not an option since he wants to use the full memory instead of being limited to 3.5Gig.

    There is a 64 bit version of Windows XP that supports up to 128 Gig of RAM.

  22. Re:All the focus on 3d was for the wrong reason on New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is that really true? What about Castlevania Symphony of the Night? Or did it eak by because of the 3D save points?

    Of course it isn't true.

    List of 2d playstation games:
    http://www.digitpress.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-54374.html

  23. Extra "security" makes people feel safe? on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I find it odd that there are people who feel more safe when they take off their shoes. Whenever I've gone somewhere where they pat me down and check me with a metal detector wand, it makes me feel like someone is going to shoot me inside there. I feel more vulnerable.

    I recently went to a rollerskating rink where I was wanded and patted down by a police officer. Of course he didn't even check my skates which has more than enough room for a hand gun. Metal detector and pat down at a skate rink, perhaps I shouldn't be here. Did I feel safe there? Not at all, it did the opposite.

  24. Re:new to me on Soy-Based Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    Ink is not toner. Your ink jet will lose it's ink it evaporates or something. If you got a laser printer instead of a ink jet, your toner will last a long time, toner is not liquid ink.

  25. Re:A reasonable idea on Publishers Detail Specific In-Game Ad Plans For Future Games · · Score: 1

    I to had once thought of that. This idea is the same for TV shows. They have been putting product placement in TV shows. The main character is holding a can of coke for example, or there are some donuts in the background. It isn't that much of a distraction.

    If advertising starts being required for games and TV shows this limits the types of shows and games you can have.

    For example, it would very wrong to have the captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek to hold a can of coke. Since that is the case, what might happen is simply we would never get any shows/games were it wouldn't be appropriate to have ads.

    Developer: "Here is a good idea for a game..."
    Business dude: "Does the setting allow for good ad placement?"
    Developer: "No"
    Business dude: "Then come up with a different idea."