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  1. Re:Pretty cool on GBA Game Development Competition · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, the fine print...


    * real as in the color gold, not the element AU ** "Video games collector" is defined by the fact that this person owned at least 5 video games**** *** Estimation was done by a random video games collector and should not be considered to be the real value for this game **** "Video games" may be imaginary

    Poor programers :(

  2. Pretty cool on GBA Game Development Competition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its awesome how they are giving the programmers in the competition the opportunity for their game to be sold in a real market...However, 500 cartridges when you think about it isn't a whole lot. If more than 500 people buy them will they make more?

  3. Yes, flimsy paper masks! on Halloween Fun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can just picture swarms of kids running around with printer generated masks. Ink running off the page because its raining.

    Rubber is definately the way to go.

  4. The Monkey Wrench Conspiracy on The Role of Video Games for Children · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had to play a game for a grade in an intro to engineering class. I dont think it worked very well. The "game" aspect of it was not fun. The FPS feel just wasn't right for an engineering game. Certain parts of the game required shooting things that were far away, but I had no crosshairs. It was clearly made for educational purposes and it was a sub-par game. Most of my class switched the game over to task mode, which just gave you the actual 3D modeling asignments. Much like a sylabus.

    Unless they start making the gameplay of educational games not just educational but also fun and addicting, I see no future in it. "Educational Games Suck" Can often be heard comming from my younger brother after a mathblasters session.

    Bottom Line
    *The point of a GAME is fun.
    *The point of an educational game is learning.
    **How about "educational software" rather than "educational games".

  5. functionality on Yahoo Follows Google on Mobile Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that the yahoo additions could give them the advantage. You are correct that If someone is searching for information then the Google may be better. But on a mobile device I could see someone pulling a picture of a celebrity because they are arguing with thier friends wheather a stranger looks familiar. The social aspect of a mobile devise does better with pictures. If I want Information, I'll use a laptop, not a phone.

  6. Whats Red Vs. Blue?? on Internet Televison Content Coming of Age · · Score: 1

    Please dont call me an idiot haha. I'm curious what Red vs. Blue is. I am aware of Homestarrunner, but I've never heard of Red v. Blue, If someone could let me know what it is, how I can check it out, I'd appreciate it.

  7. Network on Geek Olympics Code for Gold · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which Lucky TV network gets to have continous coverage of these events?

  8. Wisdom from My professors on Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do your homework as soon as possible, the longer you wait the more homework will be stacked up with it.

    Grades are determined on Friday Nights:
    A students take notes from class and notes from chapter reading and combine them
    B students take their notes and file them away
    C students watch the D students start to drink.


    College is about adapting

  9. Who wants my key? on World of Warcraft Stress Test Beta Signups Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have one of the keys for getting in the game for free but wont be using it. Anyone who wants it can have it. Email me at hckymanr@yahoo.com and I will send it to you :)

  10. Battery Vs Air on Scuba-Doo Underwater Scooter · · Score: 1

    the battery lasts 1.5 hours, and the air only lasts 1 hour. I think I would like the air to last longer than the battery, you know, just in case something catastrophic happens.

    Good idea, instead of having a hard time breathing for the minute or so to surface, you can breathe for half an hour at the bottom of the ocean with no way to get up.

  11. Its called.. on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    if you quit, you don't receive severance and are ineligible for unemployment.

    quiting would only hurt more...but oh well.

  12. Decible Drag Racing on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of these vans. They made it into a sport called decible drag racing...

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/02/popsci.st ereo.kill/

  13. Breaking up? on Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time · · Score: 1

    I dont know about you but breaking a webpage into sentances could get quite annoying.

    It would also take twice the space to read anything.

    Considering the size of most articles submitted here at /. that would be too frequent scrolling.

    It also seems that it would break up ideas as well as sentences since most ideas overflow into more than one sentance.

    would it interperate the period in /. as the start of a new sentance?? That might create some problems here.

  14. Re:English? on Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its not just you I was thoroughly confused as well! Maybe something that broke the article into sentences would help us to understand?

  15. Is it just me? on Browsing the Web, One Sentence at a Time · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or do 90% of the icons not even load up. I am on cable internet right now and a huge majority of the boxes have the little red x in the corner.

  16. China! on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1

    be careful...or you might dig through to china!

  17. My computer... on Grand Challenge Videos Posted · · Score: 2, Funny

    doesn't even have 1.4 GB of memory. Isn't that sad? Guess i'm goona have to sit out this one!

  18. safe place? on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, the world is not a safe place these days

    Was the world ever a safe place?

  19. Or they could let it keep living on Simpsons Actors on Strike · · Score: 1

    Why let it die? They have the ability to keep it going. It would be stupid to end it now just because they dont want to pay the actors more. There doesn't always need to be new ideas, just putting a twist on the old episode ideas can do the same thing. If FOX were to make a new show "mirroring" the simpons like you suggested they would most certainly have to use some of the ideas that the simpsons have already used. Why not stick with a show and cast that is already hugely popular? If not they would be back at square one and might not see "Simpsons" size profits for quite a while into the "new" series.

  20. where do you normally park your car? on Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage · · Score: 1

    This is a guarnateed ruinded paint job at best and a trip to the body shop to replace some crushed in fenders and quarter panels..

    I doubt it, do you think people would pay $25,000 for a parking space that ruined their car every time that they parked in it? Do you think that there would be any of these garages anywhere if that were the case? I would feel safer leaving my car in one of these walled parking spots than letting someone park next to me and open their door into mine.

  21. Re:How would you feel flying on a hijacked airline on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    And lets say these highjackers were fingerprinted and mug shots were taken of them when the entered the country...sweet now we have pictures and fingerprints of the guys that killed themselves along with many others...lets punish them, oh wait thier dead. If they want to start making inconviences they should at least make sense.

  22. Re:How would you feel flying on a hijacked airline on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 2

    its better for a guilty man to go free than an innocent man be punnished.

  23. how would you feel? on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    this is something that should have been done long ago
    and how would you feel going to a foreign country and being treated like its criminals?

  24. what do you want? on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 5, Insightful

    freedom or safety? Why are we so willing to comprimise our rights? Where does it stop?

    Just some questions...

  25. Nintendo TV! on Sony Hints on PS3, PSP, and PS2 Plans · · Score: 1

    Nintendo also released its NES system/tv in Japan. The unit sold for $800. It was featured in an issue of Popular Science in 1992.