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  1. Re:Hours per dollar is good on How Do You Measure a Game's Worth? · · Score: 1

    I don't think a game's worth measurement is quite that simple.. I hadn't come up with the exact formula yet, but I guess it envolves a little bit of nice graphics, multiplayer capabillity, difficulty, game's control, expansibility ...
    if we take into account only time spent per dollar PAC MAN and TETRIS are the best games ever developed !

  2. Re:Counseling gets the school off the hook on Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project · · Score: 1

    nah , I think the kid was up to something! I mean it is a kid, after all .. Maybe he switched his project to a motion detector because he couldn't find all the plutoniun he needed...
    1. Motion detector
    2. ??
    3. Boom!

  3. hysteria bandwagon and the reality on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    The hysteria bandwagon was overwhelming ! There was no chance for those with a little more than 2 neurons in their head to get panicked - in this subset you can surely include politicians.

    Just as an example ..I live in a South America tropical country where every year hundreds of thousands of people get infected with mosquito transmited diseases which result in hundreds of deaths. Last year there was almost no mention whatsoever of these "regular" cases, since the television air time was already filled with news related to the swine flu. News like " Today a man in China passed away because of the swine flu.."

  4. not surprised.. on Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots · · Score: 1

    It is kind of sad , but this is what we, humans, are good at....making every effort to create or build things to either get us recognition or to kill those who don't recognize us...

  5. No feedback? Not as much fun... on Checking In On Project Natal · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it is just me, but I'm not sure if it'll be that much fun.. The first thing that comes to my mind when I see the preview movies on how the Natal will be controlled with no joysticks is: Great, but no feedback from the controller as well... I think the "feel" of the game is an important part that was left out of the project...

  6. Re:Two days? on 2010 AL30, Asteroid Or Space Junk, To Pay a Close Visit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not much of a sodding warning. Can you stock up & get to high ground/underground in two days?

    ...humm you could get high...

  7. director's conception vs studio greed on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Sorry if I'm trolling, but Spider-man 3 was already kind of sucky... The idea of cramming as much villans and action in a comic book's movie, believe it or not, is not a great idea. At least to the fans, who are expecting a little bit more than a 2 minute appearence of Venon....
    Not quite sure if I made my point...

  8. Re:Rat-Brained overlords on Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps · · Score: 1

    Right. We try to develop something in a few years that took a hundred million years to evolve and expect that if we manage to duplicate it somehow it will be totally benign?

    Hundred Million years? What if the Intelligent Design theory is right? =)

  9. Re:Hey! on How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit · · Score: 1

    "...[Phishers] basically are lazy"

    I'm lazy, maybe I could be a phisher king...

    "...all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script..."

    Shit, I instrinsically fail.

    Well ..That's the easier part, since the poster of TFA already figured out the much harder "..." part of the sequence:
    1 - Think
    2 - ....
    3 - Profits

  10. Re:HUH??? on Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems · · Score: 1

    Some of the pictures are over 6 YEARS old...

    You can say that again...My etire neighboorhood seen through Google Earth is nothing but a huge construction site...

  11. Nerdlympics you say? on Get Ready For the Nerdlympics · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would say Computerlympics at most...
    Even though I'm a computer graduate, I feel kind of bad for all the geeks from the other areas that got neglected by this so called nerdlympics ...
    What about the math geeks? physics majors? chemistry? grammar-nazis? biology? star trek?

  12. Re:Then we'd need to train a bunch of people... on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    and replace them as they 'fail' ... that way we've always got a batman.

    I guess this qualifies as a Batsquad instead of a Batman!
    ..in this case isn't it better to train the already existing police force?

  13. Re:Common carrier on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why are people hanging onto this myth? ISPs do not, and have never had, common carrier status.

    humm...I'm gonna write it as sugestion to the mythbusters...
    Do ISPS have common carrier status?
    I hope there's explosions envolved .... =)

  14. Re:Picture quality on Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice Shavings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How do we get excellent color pics of the eguipment and surroundings and everytime there's some interesting stuff like the ice it's in black and white?

    How many colors one expects to see on a martian ice rasping ?

  15. 50 years ?! on The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there were any thoughts at the time relating the tsunami with the russians?

    I mean it was during the cold war and people back then didn't have access to much information as we do now...

  16. Re:Heh... on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    At least I know I'm safe because I run... Oh, crap.

    I'm sure AMD fans will make a point that they are protected in this case.

    Well I'm an AMD fan I'm sure feel protected against his code, on the other hand I guess you are not as afraid as me from having a CPU meltdown in case the fan over my heatsink stops working....=)

  17. Re:Huh? on New Particle Found, the Bottom-Most Bottomonium · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark annihilate one another? How do they manage to avoid doing so in this 'bottomonium' state?

    I guess in the bottom in the bottom they all get along just fine! =)

  18. Re:Bunch of useless speculation on Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think · · Score: 5, Funny
  19. Great software! on The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does it run on linux?

  20. Re:An opinionated an biased review on Google Lively Review · · Score: 2, Funny

    too funny. Google censoring porn? Google is the gateway to internet porno.

    Well, Internet is for Porn isn't it?

  21. New Overlord? on Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia Ivan Drago Kasparov will checkmate you...and "if you die, you die!"

  22. Canadian menace? on 550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq · · Score: 1

    The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp.

    OMGWTFBBQ! Canada has bought iraqi Yellowcake??
    I guess we can't blame them anymore...

  23. Re:Seriously - the box on New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you're saying there's nothing in the box? Absolutely nothing?!?!

    Stupid!!! You're so STUPID!!!!!!

    Maybe there's a cat alive and dead in it...

  24. Re:Discoveries for the taking on First Results From Messenger's Mercury Flyby · · Score: 2, Funny

    We haven't paid much attention to Mercury,

    Or it is harder to get to Mercury than to LEO, Moon or Mars.

    go at night! =)

  25. Re:I don't know about you all... on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    The "proof" is that of Theorem 7.3 page 29 in Li's paper, but I stopped reading it when I saw that he is extending the test function h from ideles to adeles by 0 outside ideles and then using Fourier transform (see page 31). This cannot work and ideles form a set of measure 0 inside adeles (unlike what happens when one only deals with finitely many places).

    ...but this certainly cleared things up for me!

    ...this brings me back so many memories from my old grad days... the books usually brought a demonstration of a simple theorem , and the exercises were to demonstrate theorems WAY harder, stuff like " Using the theorem that states that 0+1=1, prove that if God exists he doesn't want you to finish College." =)