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  1. Re:A New 'Mass Effect' Every Year Until You Die! on EA/BioWare Deal Finalized, Nets EA Ten Franchises · · Score: 1

    "Gentlemen, you can't have a small worry in here! This is the Crysis room!"

  2. Re:Aspect Ratio is 4:3 on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 1

    Well, the reason widescreen is so nice to look at is because you have two eyes, set horizontally apart from each other. This display only uses one eye, so 4:3 is a better choice.

  3. Re:Old idea from Universty of Chicago on Use of Asphalt Paved Surfaces For Solar Heat · · Score: 1

    There is no one company holding a monopoly on the screwdriver industry due to patents, through. This has lead us to the situation we are in today, where competition between screwdriver companies has left us with many different kinds of efficient, innovative screwdrivers.

  4. Re:Mod parent up, +5 insightfull. on Linux And Unix Devices Popular On Amazon's 'Best of '07' List · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you this: they don't pay us very much.

  5. Re:Story. on Ken Levine's Acceptance Speech That Never Was · · Score: 1
    I saw the last level as kind of a celebration of the gaming tradition of The Final Boss. Bioshock knows that it's a game, like when you pick up the EMP bomb, it's ridiculous because it's huge, and it disappears, and you're walking normally! A commentary, if you will

    Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but that's how I saw it.

  6. Re:Data Integrity Over Time? on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 1

    The desktop disk stamper? :P

  7. Re:Every one of these formats are worth jack on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 1

    $30 for 700gb may be fairly good cost-per-gigabyte, but it's only write once. An external hard drive would probably be a batter backup method.

  8. Re:Remake Deus Ex 1 on Deus Ex 3 Announced · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's strange that games don't get remakes.

  9. Re:First post?? on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK, during the 2005 suicide attacks on the London Underground, neither texts nor calls could get through.

  10. Re:Why? on Comcast Targets Unlicensed Anime Torrenters · · Score: 1

    Some anime are never licensed in english, so the only way to watch them is by fansub.

  11. Re:Waste of Time on Game Journalists Go Head to Head in 'The Metagame' · · Score: 1
    Actually, it was Half Life 2 that didn't have a Gordon model. You could go into third person view with a cheat in Half Life 1 and you could see Gordon.

    His hair was ginger though.

  12. Re:It's SO Grey on Dutch Teen Arrested for Virtual Property Theft · · Score: 1

    A standard case of phishing, then?

  13. Re:Jurisdictional nightmare. on Dutch Teen Arrested for Virtual Property Theft · · Score: 0

    However, the "stolen" sofa can be immediately returned to the original owner at no cost to anybody, unlike an actual sofa.

  14. Re:one problem on A Giant Step in Cloning · · Score: 1

    But then we'll have hyperpigs. Think of the economic state of the Yellowstone system!

  15. Re:one problem on A Giant Step in Cloning · · Score: 1

    Presumably some people would say "but the body can biologically support itself, all it needs is a brain. The ears are just blobs of cartilage and flesh (and a very tiny bone)" Well, the ears could live by themselves, if only they had a body.

  16. Re:Never saw this coming on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 0

    Voyager 1 has 70kb of memory (or storage, I can never remember which) so the bandwidth of the data link must be less than or equal to that.

  17. Re:Semi-Old News, and 64bit Info on Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo Now Out · · Score: 1

    Presumably it is a more limited form of open beta. Open betas usually give you the full game to test.

  18. Re:Don't Bully: Government hates competition. on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1
    In UK schools, the word "gay" as an adjective is used as a synonym for "bad" by pupils. Most of the time it isn't specifically meant as a homophobic insult, but of course the association of "gay" with "bad" is indirectly negative. The figure is probably somewhere nearer 80%.

    Cyber-bullying never seemed like a real problem to me anyway, I have never met anyone who has experienced it (YMMV). Most social networking sites let you delete comments and the like from your profile, so the user already has the tools to remove annoying content. Profiles created by bullies to mock people can be reported to the social networking sites bu pupils and swiftly removed, because it's hardly in the sites interests to develop a reputation as a den of bullies.

    Extra laws aren't necessary, but it makes the politicians look as though they're fighting a perceived problem, and that's the real reason for this initiative.

  19. Re:The summary leaves only one question on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's a misconception. The photons still travel at the same speed, but there is a slight delay as they are absorbed and emitted from the molecules in the medium. The net results is that the light takes longer to reach the destination.

  20. Re:Just change the name on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that Nostradamus predicted that one already, too.

  21. Re:Ultimate gaming platform? on First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not called the "I WIN" button for nothing, you know...

  22. Re:You'd have to pass through the heliopause first on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Pioneer and Voyager probes weren't designed to specifically leave the solar system though, their primary mission was to probe the planets. If we made a probe dedicated to getting really far out of the solar system really fast (with no stops in between Earth and deep space, or indeed at all) then it would get there much faster.

  23. Re:Eh. on Second Life & WoW Terrorist Training Camps? · · Score: 1
    Well, the Violent Crime Reduction Act (VCRA) in the UK has really started to put the cramp on paintball and airsoft collectors, skirmishers, retailers and site operators, even though their "weapons" are next to harmless and never even moderately injured anyone playing sensibly.

    So, next up on the news: Terrorists are training for battles using paintball markers. "Paintball should be banned!" says Politician X.

  24. Re:Keep Erasers Away on Replacing Copper With Pencil Graphite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, these things will be impossible to sharpen.

  25. Re:Never been done on How FPS Storylines Are Written · · Score: 1
    Far Cry had an absurd (to the point of almost being self mocking) action film plot, which was certainly not deep or compelling. The mercs shouted such intellectual gems as "I'm gonna shoot you in the FACE!".

    As a game though, it was terrific fun. Even if the late-level enemies were stupidly tough.