I bought the Celestron's FirstScope just a few days ago. Tough it's more expensive than Galileoscope, I would say it worth the extra.

Yes, but... does it runs Linux? Because it's official now, Linux is bloated, as Linus stated.

Still doesn't seem good enough for /. frontpage...

Yep! I forgot about forcefields and turbolifts!

That's totally unrealistic. You cannot point at Pluto, accelerate and wait a few years to get there. Pluto, like Earth, revolves around the Sun, you have to consider that to, in a realistic environment. Check the Orbiter space simulator, for instance, you'll get the idea.

The Quake 2 fan-made map of NCC-1701-D remains, by far, the best Star Trek game experience I've ever encounter. It had the bridge, captain's room, working transporter pads, a sickbay, Jeffries tubes and if you shot the warp core in engineering, the ship will blow up and game over.

#F4200NUM0001? How uninspired... I would have chosen #F4200NUM1701.

If I stare at the photo for more than 5 seconds, I swear I can see Jesus!

And it was overcomed by using Heisenberg compensators!

IMO, they should never fall back to rocket design, but advance in Shuttle-like spaceships, like X-33 for instance. It's far more cheaper and useful than a whole non-reusable rocket.

Thank you Google Translate for this, but you blew away the fun of it.
You see, the correct grammatical form would be "Fara poezie, viata e pustie" which in Romanian language is a rhyme. Now, if you are drunk and want to say something with a deep philosophical meaning, you can forget to put the correct form and say it like I did at the beginning. Actually, this is a line from a (famous) Romanian movie.
Damn, it's hard to explain humor.

I have an Asus P5B motherboard with the latest BIOS firmware installed. If I deactivate memory remapping in BIOS, when booting, only little above 3GB of RAM is displayed, although I have installed 4GB. Vista x64 or Windows 7 x64 can only see as much as BIOS sees, so not the full 4GB. On exactly the same hardware and settings, if I install Hackintosh, more precisely iDeneb, MacOS X can see the full 4GB of RAM. I think this is a little weird and I don't have an explanation for it. Also, /PAE on boot.ini on 32 bit Windows XP Pro doesn't work at all.

Fara poezie, viata e pustiu.

I'm sorry, it's hard to translate this in English.

Browser games, MMORPG, RPG, RTS, they are all the same these days: built your hero/nation/faction within limited resources then fight. Sure, it was fun when we had only WarCraft II, C&C Red Alert and StarCraft, but now it's getting boring (or I'm getting older).

The best gaming experience I had was running across Q2DM1-The Edge with various weapons and skins, chasing my friends in the arena. Imagine Homer Simpson, with a shotgun, chasing Elmer Fudd, being railgunned by a huge cow with Britney Spears face. Or Sailor Moon crouching in front of Grunt and shooting small Blaster shots, apparently giving him oral pleasure. No character build up, little strategy, hundreds of hours of fun. Even in small, 10-20 minutes doses. Those were the days...