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  1. Re:Just Get a PSP on Nintendo Announces $99 Wii Mini For US Release · · Score: 1

    Do I have to pre-order?

  2. Re:phillip K dick on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 1

    Why not one of those eye blinding green laser pointers? I wonder how much power one of those needs to fry the camera sensor.

  3. Re:not a fan on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    Hmm, yes.... If only there was something he could with his spaceship, with Spock's captured ship and load of red matter (unless the plot has already thankfully begun to fade from my mind), from his now current position in the past. If only there was something he could do like... show up in his huge fucking ship and warn that the star was going to nova or, since Spock was thrown into the past as well, team up with that Spock to make sure there's no fuck ups this time around.

    Gosh, if only....

  4. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Job fair? Sounds like a bunch of sales twats and HR robots.

  5. Re:Better answer on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    That's what I did with Wii and later consoles.... PC's should have gotten all the benefits of consoles instead of consoles getting all the downsides of PC's.

  6. What fucker(s) keeps making these bullshit acronym on NASA Planes Fly Over Bay Area To Measure Air Pollution Levels · · Score: 0

    I ran out of characters for the subject but seriously, who the fuck comes up with this shit? When did acronyms HAVE to be almost like a pun?

  7. Re:Star Trek, Star Wars... on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Was there anything decent about SGU other than the budget for set and special effects? All I remember from albeit a very limited time trying to watch it is shakey documentary cam and dramadramadrama.

  8. Re:Unintended Consequences on Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Companies HAVE to outsource because their tax burden would just be waaaaaaay too high! They'd go out of business and then what? We be buying from Chinese and Indian companies!

    Oh wait. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/top-tax-dodging-companies-politicians

    Companies with billions in profit are getting negative tax rates.

    ...inhibiting consumption and wealth accumulation...

    Not subsidizing would help with the former and taxes on investments and estates (the so-called "death taxes") would help with the latter.

  9. Re:My prediction on Facebook Testing $100 Fee To Mail Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's one idea. There were others such as a fee that, if the recipient allows, is reimbursed back because it wasn't spam. Another was to put a delay on emails from anywhere of seconds to tens of seconds to a minute (to the non-mass emailer, the delay is completely insignificant but at 1k, 10k, a 1M, it's a roadblock).

    Anyway, no, a straight up fee to mail would not be supported here. Hey, let's make a poll about it!

  10. Re:"3D" has it's uses as does high FPS and resolut on Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? · · Score: 2

    What I mean with drama is that the kind of subtleties, the emotional responses, the dialogue, those things are not enhanced with greater FPS, resolutions, or stereoscopic "3D". It's a seriously flat plateau as far bang for buck when it comes to quality in genre. Yeah, you probably don't want to watch an old realmedia video with massive blocking artifacts and muffled sound but once you hit SD resolution and stereo sound, that's enough. Minor jump in enjoyability for DVD quality but then after that is just a waste of storage space, bandwidth, and/or CPU use.

    Also, I would say that for any sound, when given quality source files, higher quality sound systems is always better for for anything. You (a rhetorical you) could say that modern, overcompressed and low dynamic range music wouldn't benefit as much and that's probably true. ...but then I'd also say that anything over stereo would be a waste since I only have two ears anyway but whatevs.

    Anyway, I feel you're missing the important distinction between emotional connection with viewer and visually immersing the viewer. Just as I don't need to be 1080p with 7.1 surround sound to mourn the death of a character, I don't even need it to be real. It could be CGI, a handdrawn comic, or just a combination of letters on a surface. It's not the number of pixels or how many are flashed at me in a second that regulates the impact it has on me.

  11. "3D" has it's uses as does high FPS and resolution on Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The use of such high visual fidelity should be for things where visuals trump all. Sports (god I hate sports) benefit because you're watching the action. Nature shows (various National Geographic things or the Planet Earth series) benefit because... it's fucking nature and the only sensory experience you can get from a TV is sight and sound. Action flicks or CGI wankfests (Transformers, blah), again, because you're watching the spectacles, not the shitpoor Bruckheimer dialogue & acting.

    But now what's the point of high FPS in a drama? Would Downton Abbey be that much better in 3D? Is a comedy going to be more hilarious in 1080p?

  12. Re:"Troll"? EXCUSE ME? on Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console · · Score: 1

    There is one thing about Steam that pisses me off to no end: 3rd party DRM and accounts. The last thing I want or expect from Steam is to have to deal with additional accounts or bullshit installation (I'm looking at you Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet).

  13. Re:1664 on Brainstorming Ways To Protect NYC From Real Storms · · Score: 1

    Oh, be kind. He's probably just a boob that bought that 3 digit account and has no real logical or critical thinking skills.

    Anyway, if they put their cars on stilts, the problem would be solved!

  14. Re:razer synapse on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 2

    Really? I realize you're a shill but really? That's the best you have?

    Is the market for this mouse so anal retentive they'd sooner bring an $80 mouse with them to school or a friend's house lest they suffer from another mouse?

  15. Re:The text on these takedowns on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 2

    That's for corporations and rich people so they can lawyer bomb any peons who dare to use the system against them to highlight the ease of abuse of the DMCA.

  16. Re:They have no intention of really doing anything on FTC To Revisit Robocall Menace · · Score: 1

    This is getting complicated. Can't we just kill them?

  17. Re:I had my wireless router hacked on No, You Can't Claim 'Negligence' In a Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    They were STEALING bandwidth and you didn't report them?!

  18. Re:Too Bad on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    We'll solve this the same way we solved criminals possessing guns: Everyone drives drunk!

  19. Re:TSA misses stuff all the time! on The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners - Now With Surveillance Camera Footage · · Score: 1

    Much like our public school teachers, airport security obviously is something done by the Joe Schmoe off the street with minimum training and for minimum wage. GO MURICA!

  20. Re:Pepper-spraying sitting protesters on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that force could (should) have been cuffing the protesters and hauling them away. What do you think should happen after "these people get arrested"? They should be abused because of that?

  21. Re:Great Idea on Social Networking: The New Workplace Smoke Break · · Score: 1

    You get sent outside so you don't fucking stink up the place.

    If you want to "network", whatever. Just don't whip out the phone and start yakking into it in the office.

  22. Re:And here you are... on Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards · · Score: 1

    Let's give them some more publicity. Who funds them? Who are they representing?

  23. Re:Power? on Seagate Hits 1 Terabit Per Square Inch · · Score: 1

    Power? I'm guessing a little over nil if it is focusing on 1nm or smaller areas.

  24. Re:This is bad.... on Seagate Hits 1 Terabit Per Square Inch · · Score: 1

    The result of this is trillions upon trillions stolen from children*!

    (*After all, we are somebody's child.)

  25. Re:Brilliant! on Gamers Outdo Computers At DNA Sequence Alignments · · Score: 2

    Makes the original premise of The Matrix that much better than the "lol we're batteries!"