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  1. Re:Starquake? We need a more... extreme name on 'Starquake' Cracks Star · · Score: 0

    I think you mean r^2, but I'm just barely a grad, and have recently joined the military. That automatically makes me an idiot, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought inverse square was r^2.

  2. Re:I already saw this in ALIENS on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 0

    You are aware that anyone that knows what you are talking about should know that Aliens was the second one already. Alien was the first one, notice the lack of the "s" in the first one.

  3. Re:So? on Overhauled Telecommunications Law Draft · · Score: 0

    Shut up.

  4. Re:More fraud? on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 0

    I have no idea where in the US you live, but I'm always asked to show them my card. Even when I use my debit card they ask to see it, and some ID.

  5. Multimedia OS? on BeOS Lives on in the Form of Zeta · · Score: 0

    I've never had the luck of touching it in any form. Not sure if that's good luck, or bad luck. I have read that the original BeOS was a great multimedia OS, in that it was great for creation, and editing media. If this is so, then why would they not continue along this same path? I mean something lacking is a great OS dedicated to Media. Sure OS X works pretty good, and so does some of the Windows stuff, but an operating system that was designed from the ground up around the Linux Kernel to do nothing but media work would sell me. I do mainly CAD work, and design work, so something that could do that as well as 3D animations, and the such would fill the niche that needs filling. Especially if they kept that price under $500 USD of course... Please, if anyone knows of an OS that already does this, I'm looking for something like that.

  6. Gaming fun again? on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed · · Score: 0

    Could this be? Games that are actually entertaining again, not the same old drawn out point and shoot, or point click affairs. I wonder if this will open the market for other third-party controlers in other shapes. Imagine playing something like SOCOM holding a mocked MP5K with the directional control on the thumb rest to control your 'walking', and whatnot. RTS game would be great with huge maps you can scroll with the thumb stick, and select units be pointing, and hold the button. Think if it has internet capability, and the educational stuff that would be possible. Forget sitting in musty rooms falling asleep. You could have virtual dry eraser boards, and chalk boards for internet classes. You could have a virtual teacher with real instruction, and the ability to actually answer questions in realitive real time. We're not just talking games if this thing is capable of these things. If Nintendo followed the route of the GP32, and the soon to be released GP2K, I could see more amazing potential behind such an innovative control concept. I doubt they would do such a things, but magine if they did. I'll definately be buying one. Wonder how much a dev-kit, and license would be as well.

  7. Re:Government, absolutely on Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor · · Score: 0

    It is not always 100% the job of the parent. The community must be held responsible to the extent that they have offered moral corruption from beyond the purview of the child's parents Last time I looked we lived in a nuclear family based society, not a tribal family society.

  8. Re:I like the nano but... on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 0

    Demented little toad, huh? I kow not of what you speak. *Flicks tongue to catch fly*

  9. Re:Uh? on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 0

    Although you left out the fact, that N. Korea has not been "economically contained". You seem to lack a severe interest in the culturally closed society, in which N. Korea has become. The leaders have chosen to not accept aid from other countries. The only time they have broken this trend was to receive aid after they lost their supply lines from the USSR when it collapsed. I'm afraid I don't have the time to further delve, but you are sorely mis-informed.

  10. Re:Conditions on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 0

    When will humans learn that modifying the environment to fit "his" standards is always going to alter something negatively. "his" - I don't hear any females making these sort of suggestions, they tend to know better.

  11. Hot air... on Old Airlift Vehicle Concept Made New · · Score: 0

    I've heard of governmental waste, but filling the ballons with the hot air is a great idea. Perhaps then the stench of DC will go away, if even temporary.

  12. Re:Where's my bittorrent:// ? on Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux · · Score: 0

    Be patient, someone is working on it.

  13. Re:Personal Responsibility on Some Rights May Have To Be 'Eroded' For Safety · · Score: 0

    You realize you just turned tourself into a hypocrite, right? You claimed the problem is do to everyone else, but said the problem lies in personal responsibility. In the end you are just doing the same you fault others for. Lead by example.

  14. Telemarketing nightmare. on Ebay Rumored to be Buying Skype · · Score: 0

    With how much junk, and spam i get from eBay sponsors, and everything, just imagine the telemarketers trying to help "pay" for what is already the free end of Skype's service.

  15. Re:Labeling in science circles annoys the most on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 0

    Please tell me when gravity no longer has any effect, can you calculate the distance, and what would be the units. Yes, it's a trick question. ;P

  16. Re:He's partially right on Everyone Is A Hacker In Training · · Score: 0

    I agree, a true hacker isn't someone that just knows about computers. It's aperson that has an inate curiousity about everything he or she sees in their daily lives. I like to hack cars, and also like to hack embedded machines to do stuff other than what they are normally suposed to. How many people have tried building turbine engines with a turbo?

  17. Re:Two reasons: on Japan Plans Test of 'New Concorde' · · Score: 0

    You bring a thought for this problem of SST over the US. There's this huge area known as the artic, where no one really gives a damn about traveling over it. Why not fly it over that.

  18. Can I call, on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 0

    BULLSHIT on that one? Seriously when will they start thinking a little more realistic in their approaches.

  19. Re:America has a choice.. on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 0

    I agree with you on that Roman comment, and Nietzsche was pretty much right on from my perspective.

  20. Re:America has a choice.. on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 0

    The vast majority of medical equipment the USA Army uses is made by Israeli, or contracted to US companies through Israeli patents.

  21. Re:Gold Standard on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 0

    That was the politician's explanation. They alwasy make everything sound so heroic, don't they.

  22. Re:Something's amiss here... on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 0

    Yes, forbid that. What would we ever do if the very theory we based very little of our technologies on would turn out to be inaccurate, or even worse, wrong.

  23. Re:Domino block analogy on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1, Informative

    What you just described would explain a slower than (c) speed, not a faster than (c) speed.

  24. Re:It's was "done" 3 episodes ago on Original Lightsaber Goes For 3x Expectations · · Score: 0

    No one ever forced you to watch those maeketing commercials. No one made you look into all of the gimmicks that caused you to shun it. You did all of that to yourself, if you didn't like all of that, you could have simply turned the TV off. Better yet, sell your TV, and quit complaining about useless crap. BTW I saw the movie, and I liked it.

  25. Are you guys just that daft? on Tapwave Closes its Doors · · Score: 0

    Everyone that says they never heard of the Zodiacs. I've got like 20 or so different magazine articles, all from game mags all the way to some consumer business mags. They all reviewed this thing, and it's predecessor. Where the fuck were you guys at? The closet mayhaps.