I remember buying an S3 Virge DX with Decent as a pack-in. I do believe this was the only game that ever got 3d acceleration on the Virge. Yes, it was a blast to play. I would really really really like to see the original Quake remade with a modern 3d engine, but otherwise completely the same down to the physics. The ecosystem that sprung up around that game was marvelous.

I have always wondered why this is not standard practice. If you want to extinguish a candle, the established method is to blow it out. After all, we used explosives to put out the Iraqi oil fires. Carpet bomb it, massively. If the fire is already to big for that to be practical, carpet bomb as wide and as much of a perimeter as you can and let it burn itself out.

I have Time Warner and about an hour ago I woke up to an outage. Needless to say it has been cleared up, but outages are routine and expected with their "service". I learned a long time ago that calling their customer service\tech support is futile. Also, I barely break five-megabits down. Unfortunately there has been no alternative and I have been stuck with them for fifteen-years. I guess you can suck that bad and not care if you are a monopoly. Two-days ago I received an email from Google letting me know that Google Fiber will be available to me pretty soon. Yesterday large spools of fiber optic cables showed up on my street. There is one right next to my house. Despite my misgivings about letting Google provide me with internet access, I am absolutely going with them. Time Warner has been flipping out since the roll out started in my city last year, yet no aspect of their service has improved. I am convinced that they have been a monopoly for so long that they literally don't know how to compete. Good riddance to them.

Okay, so I accept that the expansive worsening of fire season may be at least in part caused by global warming, climate change, or whatever we are calling it this week. But I squarely point my finger at the logging industry and decades of mismanaging re-forestation as a substantial contributor that is just now catching up with us.

When making an insightful comment that represents a minority opinion bound to get modded down, always start your post with something along the lines of, "I know I am going to get modded down for this." or "Mod me down all you want, but..." I have been here for a very long time and recognize that as a genuinely working strategy. I picked up on it a very long time ago. Not only have I seen it work hundreds of times, I have used it myself. That is some psychology I would like explained.

So mod me down all you want...

Yeah. When I was typing it out, I honestly wasn't sure if I was going for tongue-in-cheek insightful or just dark funny. We'll see how the moderation goes. Although I suspect my "sorry I just woke up" typo will come in to play here.

I always thought it was the Federal Government that was made up of zombies. After all, the do desperately need brains.

For those not reading the article, this is not a serious defense plan. The document is for training, zombies could be replaced with another scenerio and the students would still have to think there way through the same logic and set of problems. The zombie spin is a matter of cultural relevancy and thinking out of the box for a scenario.

"The document is identified as a training tool used in an in-house training exercise where students learn about the basic concepts of military plans and order development through a fictional training scenario," Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze, a spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command, told CNN. "This document is not a U.S. Strategic Command plan."

"Officials familiar with the planning of it say zombies were chosen precisely because of the outlandish nature of the attack premise."

Awhile back the CDC led a zombie awareness campaign involving the public. The objective was not to prepare for actual zombies, but instead to teach basic principles disaster preparedness in a format that would actually get attention.

No. A TENS units uses AC power, a tDCS device used DC. You don't want to hook that up to your brain.

tDCS (transcracial direct-current stimulation) devices are remarkable in many ways, and a good - albeit basic - unit can be built with relatively few parts for less then $20, plus a good multimeter. However, if you know little to nothing about electronics - learn electronics first. If you screw it up, you can severely burn your scalp, cause blood vessels in your eyes to explode, and I am sure worse. To be safe, you can purchase a fairly sophisticated device from http://www.foc.us/ they sell it to boost reaction time in gaming, but it is all the same. Depending on where you place the electrodes you really can boost your brain power in many different ways, and the effects can be dramatic. You can also take better control of brain functioning, I have had severe, clinical (really really bad) anxiety disorder since I was just a kid. Strategic use of my device has nearly eliminated my anxiety and I rarely need a benzo anymore. As a self-described (slightly reckless) bio-hacker, I have been seriously considering shaving my head down to the scalp just to gain more convenient access to my brain without sponge electrodes.

Don't know why you got scored funny, it's actually true:

He's a billionaire straight outta Compton -- or so Dr. Dre says, anyway.

I am equally in doubt. I do understand the body of science that says things are as they are and it's pretty much indisputable. I was merely musing. It would be quite a surprise after all. I'm surprised I got a single mod point out of that. I sometimes ponder how humanity would react if we discovered that we had only a few hundred years to evacuate the planet, even the solar system.

I have always wondered if we would find out we are wrong about star mechanics. If this is enough of a problem that the process of star birth ends up being heavily revised, I am left wondering if we will also have to revise our theories on the properties of a main sequence star, and star death. It is said that the current estimate for the sun's ability to sustain life on Earth is around a billion years and that it will puff up and finally go nova in about five-billion years. It would be disappointing to find out that the life of our sun is overestimated by five-billion years.

Anyway, I am really not qualified to even have that thought, but at least it would probably make for a good science-fiction story.

I didn't define it. I got that out of a dictionary. I guess what you're not understanding is that to describe something physical as two-dimensional, we are referring to perception through our senses. It is a depth deficit, not a lack. Here are a couple more definitions:

Two Dimensional refers to objects or pictures that lack the expected range or depth.

Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth

So when you refer to something like a piece of paper as being three-dimensional, you are not being accurate so much as you are being a pedant because you completely fail to understand how the definition is applied to physical objects.

Yeah. I'll probably get modded down. (Score: -2, Reasonable)