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  1. Re:MMO the way it should be on EVE Online's Next Frontier · · Score: 1

    It isn't a money sink. This is how it works. Person A buys time code with real cash, and puts up a WTS (want to sell) post in the trading forum, and person B pays in game cash for it. Person A is basicaly buying in game money with real money, but its sanctioned and CCP gets the cash, not 'gold farmers'.

    EVE already has lots of money sinks. Stuff gets blown up, gotta buy more. Its not like WOW, die and run back to your corpse and there it all is. Crafting in WOW is a joke, no one needs to ever replace anything, except as they level up, and nearly everyone is a crafter of some sort.

  2. Re:What Evokes These Comments? on Katamari Creator Critical of Revolution · · Score: 1

    The Power Glove was made by Mattel, not Nintendo.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove

  3. Re:It seems to me... on Prof Denied Funds Over Evolution Evidence · · Score: 1

    Theory doesn't apply to unobservable things. So God is not a theory, it is just something you believe. Of course there is no reason someone can't reconcile them, by simply saying that the universe works the way it does because God made it to work exactly that way. But, fundamentalists don't like to change their way of thinking at all, so you still have the wackos out there clinging to ancient dogma.

  4. Re:How long do plastic bags and bottles last anywa on Bacteria Eat Styrofoam · · Score: 1

    You can't just launch something into space and have it fall into the sun. You need to blow a ton of energy getting rid of 30km per SECOND of sideways momentum or else it will completely miss the sun and orbit it instead.

  5. Re:Go where? on Come the Revolution · · Score: 1

    Well, there's the fact that Nintendo is actualy making money. Sony and MS are dumping money out of their bottomless coffers in order to push their consoles on the public.

  6. Re:Nostalgia alert on Come the Revolution · · Score: 1

    They've said it would be very cheap or free. And I think they also said they wanted to offer everything in one package.

  7. Re:The alternative? on 'Used' A Dirty Word in Gaming · · Score: 1

    With somewhat recent games worth buying its more like paying $45 instead of $50 from what I've seen. Offbeat, non mainstream games can be great deals used though.

  8. Re:Next up: the ATI Super-Mega-Ultra-X2000XTSTX on ATI Launches Radeon X1900 XT and XTX · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of that old photoshopped ad for a video card with ati, nvidia, 3dfx, matrox, and etc chips on it. The thing was like 3 feet long and hilarious. Google image search isn't helping, i'm not really sure what to search for.

  9. Re:Wind energy is great, but ... on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It will practicaly never run out. The waste can be reprocessed, and newer designs can actualy run on the waste of normal reactors. And there is all sorts of fissionable stuff in the ground(thorium) and sea water(more uranium). Hell, most coal has enough trace amounts of uranium in it to produce more power in a nuclear plant than being burnt in a coal plant(and guess where it goes when it IS burnt?). Right now its just too expensive to bother getting fuel from these other sources when you can just dig it out of the ground. Though, when crunch time comes it won't be too expensive anymore.

    Unless you want to cover an entire state in solar cells or wind turbines. Solar cells require alot of energy just to make. It takes 10-20-ish years of continuous operation to 'pay back' the energy required to manufacture it, and only then are you actualy making any 'new' energy. Up untill that point they are just really expensive batteries. And wind turbines are complex machines, a whole state filled with then is never going to have them all operational at the same time. How much energy will be spent even just driving around and maintaining them all?

  10. Re:Three Mile Island on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    Definitly! The government needs to start a CRTs for Plasma program.

  11. Re:I hate to say this.... on Studying the Plague in WoW · · Score: 1

    Gemstone had up to 4k players logged in at prime time back when it was on AOL. These days its only about 1-1.5k IIRC.

  12. Re:End of the World on Lightning Fusion And Other Hot News · · Score: 1

    Actualy, the heavy elements (uranium and plutonium are way over on the heavy end of the periodic table) weren't 'decayed out of something else' they were fused inside stars from lighter elements. Inside fission reactors they 'decay' into lighter elements.

  13. Re:There's more than four phases of matter on Technology Behind Plasma Displays · · Score: 1

    Humans have been making plasma since they started lighting things on fire.

  14. Re:not all true on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    Thats basicaly what he said, in alot fewer words.

  15. Re:Next To Go: '+' Sign on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that worse than finding out it was wrong when you get the test back a few days later and probably never getting a chance to do it again correctly? Besides, you have to actualy know the formulas and stuff. Like the saying goes: Garbage in, garbage out.

  16. Re:Overlords!! on Google Never Forgets · · Score: 1

    <voice character="Stewie Griffin">I, for one, want to kill you.</voice>

  17. Re:Battery powered cars are getting 300 miles now. on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    You could always take a plane, train, or bus. Heck with trains you can bring your car with you.

  18. Re:the oil and car industry will band together on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    I beleive with no permanent magnets this motor should turn freely when there is no power applied to it.

  19. Re:Survey says, on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    All those specially licensed car operators are selfishly hogging the roads from the general public too.

  20. Re:I can understand on Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    General Greivous had some pretty sweet fight scenes in the Clone Wars cartoon. IMO the cartoon was way better than all 3 of the new movies put together.

  21. Re:Hmmm... on Google CEO Talks Business · · Score: 1

    I like "tripe" better.

  22. Re:Yup - secure... on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 1

    Would a diff style patch work even if firefox was compiled with different options or something?

  23. Re:It's their web server on HP Deletes Negative Corporate Blogger Comments · · Score: 1

    No legal obligation. Moral obligation? Possibly and probably.

  24. Re:Actually often not their fault on Online Shoppers Aren't Impulsive · · Score: 1

    I got a ~15USD check from that settlement :)

  25. Re:Duh.. on Online Shoppers Aren't Impulsive · · Score: 1

    http://www.sneakemail.com/ does the same thing for free. I've been using it for a long time, works really well.