It's just a wood mockup. They get a A for effort, but when nothing works (some of the controls are cardboard?!?) and it just looks like it's made out of what they found in the trash it loses a lot of it's luster. I did the same thing when I was like five with leftover washing machine boxes and a sharpie. This is getting a huge amount of publicity for what it is too. Some of the models don't even look like they're the right scale either (like the back of the cockpit).

The way these devices are made they make hand over fist back in money. I'm guessing these also have the ads on them.

They could give these away for free to everyone and they'd still make plenty of money back on them simply through sales and ads on the device. Consumers seem to feel the need to still pay for them though.

I'm surprised in this day and age there isn't online voting. Pretty much everyone has a computer and those that don't can still go and vote normally. All the results being fed into a giant database is a good way to verify information (dead voters) and would get all the people that are too lazy to actually go vote. I don't think it could be worse then diebold machines. It would provide instant results too and allow people to analyze the data.

Of course there are ways it could be misused and there are opportunities to hack it, but people do that already in real life since you can't verify anyone or compare them against other districts. I've heard of people voting in multiple districts already.

So... if you sleep for six-eight hours, you actually only spend six-four hours with your family? Not actually counting cooldown between waking up and going to bed or any other chores in life that may side track you (most people burn about a hour waking up, hour for dinner, 30 minutes for bed). Apparently once a month you are unable to spend time with them or you only sleep for three hours.

That astrix is incredibly deceiving unless you read it.

It's actually quite amazing how many people don't add up hours in their life and instead just continue the day in and out grind. We all have a finite amount of time, you are no different.

Science only indicates that which it can measure. Any time something falls outside that measure science can't justify it's existence. Like science nowdays would be seen as miracles, when it's clearly not. In the same way prayer could be some supernatural form of science that involves 'willing' things better. Not understood and seems completely like hog wash to the scientific community, yet somehow could still be possible. Perhaps even more so because we don't fully understand how prayer works.

The lag, oh god the lag. Once the server receives data (if you’re playing online) it has to then forward it to you, which then you respond to and forward it back to the server, which then forwards it to wherever you’re playing. You’re talking about a quadruple jump in latency. Double simply to respond. If you’re cruising along at 20ms that is a lot less noticeable, but chances are people aren’t. Basic input just to move your character is very noticeable.

Video quality.

Number one reason it was stillborn is bandwidth caps. Getting a 1080p experience you’re streaming every time you play a game (for some people 8 hours a day), that’ll eat your bandwidth cap in a few days. This is something no amount of technology will get around as it’s a fixed part of the market. Unless Onlive builds their own infrastructure, a-lah google, no amount of cash injection will fix this.

The best thing Onlive could’ve done was build a bunch of micro-datacenters instead of one big data center in TX or where ever it’s cheap. Pretty much one per state, so the games have low latencies to onlive, onlive lowers it’s bandwidth costs, and possibly even link onlive centers for extremely fast play. Of course they would’ve done this if they were smart. Possibly even rolling out a ‘extreme’ package to local gamers in the form of fiber lines bring latency down below 10ms for even online gaming.

Honestly though, the disconnect between when you push a button and when the screen reacts is huge. I personally would never want to play cloud gaming unless we’re talking about 1ms response time.

I actually read the article too... Nothing to see there besides the headline. The author makes it seem like this happens today and his extremely hazy memory is representative of walking straight into a active nuclear reactor (think of the kids! they're so unsafe). There are a lot of other explanation that people are leaving on the page that are more likely. How did this even make it on slashdot?

So let me get this straight, people are afraid of a dig site in the middle of no where that MAY have a earthquake in the next two thousand years, which MAY cause a catastrophe that would cause barrels of nuclear waste to seep into the ground water in the middle of no where, which could be easily detected and the closest town which is like 100 miles away could be evacuated...

But people don't care when we're actually causing earthquakes, pumping said 'waste' directly into the ground in various locations around the US that more then likely will not be taken care of properly in the future or watched with such a diligent eye? WTF is wrong with people? This is supposed to be a better option then nuclear?

The spice must flow...

People shouldn't be turning away from nuclear, they should be embracing it. One of the greatest discoveries in the last 100 years and people are shying away from it because of teething issues. Of course the teething issues left huge marks, but so do a lot of things of tremendous amounts of potential and power. Leaps and bounds have been made in the field too. Everyone wants to get back to the basics, but harnessing the atom still remains an extremely viable option, let alone what would happen if it went mainstream.

Stuff like this really makes me sad. It's made me sad ever since I learned about nuclear power and found out it was never widely used... It made me ask why. And so far, after all these years, the only reason I can come up with is fear.

I'm going to disagree with the quarter system and any variants that have a shorter 'break' duration then that. I agree that a loooong summer break is a bad idea. I personally know I'm losing a lot of information during this (in college and during high school this was pretty evident). But people need time to recuperate after putting in their all so giving them a standized couple weeks off in which all families around the country need to schedule their family time isn't necessarily a good idea.

A good month off is about what you need to recuperate and both in the fall and in the spring time I've found myself suffering fatigue towards the end of the semester. Moreso in spring during that lethargic period before may (mainly due to Christmas brightening things up).

A trimester would fit this perfectly and still give kids a chance to have a life outside of school and do fun things/family things. Japan does this and it works out very well for them. They do a lot of things over there that are quite a bit different from the US (like job fairs and cultural festivals that everyone is required to participate in), but that's one I agree with the most. I know as a kid I would hate the idea of this, but it really is a better system and it's not as invasive as a quarterly system or one that simply doesn't offer a break.

In this example I would say that marijuana lowers motivation and drive of these teenagers. Motivation and drive are very important facets in learning. Essentially if you don't give a crap about anything, you wont take time to learn it or be interested in it. So essentially you have a bunch of people who aren't interested in anything and therefore don't learn anything and as such they appear to have lower IQs, even though it's entirely possible for them to still be smart...

A flaw of the IQ test not being a absolute measure of intelligence and pot smoking casing a change in personality rather then physiology.

Soo... what happens if they just knock up the release date by two months and then finish the rest of the game and release it as a DLC to speed the process?

I don't think the problem is with day 1 DLC, but the fact that it almost always appears as a integral part of the game they cut out. So even if they do work on it after the game 'goes gold', it should still be a part of the original game. They just planned around working on it while shipping the game. I'm sure you're smart enough to realize they could just ship the game earlier with part of the content missing and add it as soon as it's read as a DLC.

I would really question how these cars function in rush hour in a big city. Driving there is sketchy at best and in order to merge into another lane you sometimes literally need to start heading into the other lane even with traffic that isn't helping you merge. How would a car like this function bumper to bumper?

In the future a bunch of these could eliminate traffic jams, but that isn't going to be a case for a long time.

Those conflicts all involved fighting technologically outdated countries operating with tech based around the same time period as those aircraft. Wars we never need to fight and shouldn't have started.

When we fight a war we NEED to, then it will become apparently flying a giant blimp over the target and dropping craptons of bombs wont work cause it'll get shot down.