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  1. Re:More developed specialized area of the brain... on Correlation Found Between Brain Structure and Video Game Success · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes but knowing which specialised area does what is why this is so interesting, there's vast portions of the brain that we can look at and say "Basically responsible for this general area" and have to leave it at that. To be able to point right at a relatively small chunk and say "This does THAT" is a pretty big deal.

  2. Did we just break heisenberg's principle? on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it can move and place particles with 100% accuracy then at least at some point we know both where it is and how fast it's moving...

  3. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unicycling clowns, a greased yoda up someone's ass, and linux.

    Only on the internet would I not question finding these things on the same page.

  4. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH no on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A one word AC first that's also pretty much exactly what I wanted to say? I need to mark this on the calendar.

  5. Re:Now all we need... on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    See this is what I don't get. Find some place where the horizon's blank and just build the fucker on it's side. Shoot hard enough and it'll still get into space.

  6. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    As much as I'd like to think you're just being a smartass AC the viability of hemp as a competitor to natural fibers for textile use is actually a suprise to most people.

  7. Re:The general problem Intel has on Intel Fires Back At FTC In Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1

    They can, and they should since there are plenty of legitimate problems they could have with intel in the anti-trust sense.

    personally though it doesn't bother me too much since AMD is for the most part a legitimate competitor to intel while my ISP on the other hand has been a (quite abusive) monopoly in my area since always.

  8. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 4, Informative

    Personally I'm in it if only for hemp jeans, those things are freakin indestructible compared to cotton.

  9. I can see it all now... on New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of six to eight people standing around staring at each other waiting to do a counter...

  10. How fking hard is the dark side? on BioWare Targeting Spring 2011 For Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lightning, choking, beating shit up. The light side wants to either get past without a fight, talk about your feelings, or avoid hurting people as much as possible. The dark side wants to fuck your wife, take your lunchmoney, and key your car.

  11. Re:Rabbits and contacts.... on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    I hear they're good with the right sauce too.

  12. Re:Motion blur and bloom effects on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1

    A 24fps film works because it's film, which is utterly different from an interactive media with an unstable framerate. You may as well try to claim that 60hz on an LCD is the same as 60hz on a CRT. Sure they're both "60hz" in name but they're pretty much incomparable outside that.

    Make a 24fps game blurry and all you'll have is a difficult to play laggy slideshow that's also blurry on top of everything else.

  13. Re:Motion blur and bloom effects on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not. If someone shoots past me at Mach Fuck in Tribes I don't see a perfectly sharp player slide across my screen, I see a slightly blurred SOMETHING shoot past because it was displayed moving at a speed I can't see clearly.

    An image on a screen moving and a real object moving will still blur for you if they're moving fast enough because as far as your body cares it's pretty much the same input.

  14. Re:Motion blur and bloom effects on Framerates Matter · · Score: 2, Informative

    That just means we should strive for a higher framerate until our eyes blur things on their own. Reality is not inherently blurry (unless you need glasses...), our eyes and brain do that internally.

    Making movement in a game inherently blurry when your head is already going to blur it for you internally is just a shortcut to motion sickness for a whole lot of people.

  15. Yes. on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now we plug them into X Interactivodular superintermodular digital box and have them staring at a generic "FUN!!1" learning program that teaches them to rotely memorize whatever miniscule number of factoids it can hold in it's tiny memory. Then we pick them up and shuttle them around all day on a million and one "Structured play-time" events before taking them home and expecting them to go to sleep on command after a hard day of sitting and doing what grownups tell them to.

    We used to give them a stack of comic books, a box of legos, and enough kool-aid for them and whatever other kids in the neighborhood weren't grounded at the moment and tell them to figure it out for themselves.

    Homework isn't (by default) fun, and "Structured play-time" is not good for kids. Learning is what you do so they're able to have options as an adult, and fun is anything they do voluntarily after they do the things they need to do but don't want to.

    Let the little shiats skin their knees, scream their heads off, run around with their pants on their head, dig in the mud, and punch someone in their new best friend in the nose now and then. They'll thank you for it later.

  16. Re:More vendor/carrier lock-in on Google Nexus One Hands-On, Video, and Impressions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I need to go inside a steel and cement storage building to lose a signal here in Orlando while my friend with his iphone can't even get one less than 4 miles from one of the largest universities in the entire state.

    I can cherry pick anecdotes too.

  17. Re:Only the view of a theist. on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a tip jim, red herrings like that don't work very well in an argument where all someone needs to do is scroll up to read the older posts.

    Whether or not the vatican writes the laws of christianity is utterly irrelevant to you getting called out by me for being an ass about someone referring to the vatican's recent public statements regarding alien life which was even featured on this very site just last november.

    Just accept that your attempt at being a living XKCD strip made you look like a lazy arrogant prick with the memory of a goldfish and a need to be spoonfed everything in the world and move on.

  18. Re:Only the view of a theist. on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 2, Informative
  19. Re:Ridiculous on The Neuroscience of Screwing Up · · Score: 1

    And then eventually they'll have a child and that child, born of science and engineering, will be our new god.

  20. Re:Ridiculous on The Neuroscience of Screwing Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not always, sometimes your data doesn't make sense because you made a mistake somewhere that wound up turning your results into garbage.

  21. Re:No thanks on Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My whole family gets unlimited messages, data, and 700 minutes with myfaves (two blackberries and a generic nokia) for a little less than twice that.

    Then again they are targeting the young male "I have less sense than money" demographic.

  22. Re:This ain't MTV! on Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a difference between turning NASA broadcasts into Spike TV with Space Capsules and actually trying to be a little less boring than going through airport security.

  23. Re:Easy solution on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    You're an anti-nanite aren't you? Bastard.

  24. Wait, let me see if I got this right on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you make a product people like and don't piss off people while making them want to use something else... they'll use your product?

    STOP THE PRESSES!

  25. Re:Another reason not to go Verizon! on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally I'd try to argue my way up the manager food chain that this change is significant enough that I should be allowed to renegotiate or get out of the contract with no penalties.

    No idea how well that would work with verizon, every company is different, but I've done the same in similar situations with other companies/services.