Comment Re:government privatized (Score 1) 284
A free market allows for competition. You're not allowed to compete with the government.
Comment Black Hornet is White (Score 2) 97
If they're going to call it a Black Hornet why not make it black?
Comment Re:Here's an idea ... (Score 1) 196
It's interesting that you point out the views on capitalism. Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation remarked on this same sentiment. That was back in 1733, and it seems that has never changed.
Comment Re:Gift books (Score 1) 230
I prefer this method. The book isn't helping anyone by sitting on a shelf.
Comment Re:Neither new nor interesting (Score 1) 414
There used to be a day when you could even smoke on the plane. Ever watch Pan Am?!
Comment Too many Coronas (Score 1) 66
I sometimes have mass ejections as well if I drink too many Coronas. :D
Comment $60 million a year business (Score 1) 668
So what you're saying is that stealing copper is a $60 million a year business.
Comment Ace Hardware (Score 1) 376
Ace is the place!
Comment Center (Score 2) 106
I know people like to be culturally diverse and all, but if it is in American English, it's spelled CENTER!
Comment MIDI foot controllers (Score 1) 123
I've done this with MIDI foot controllers before. If you count the fact that many MIDI devices also have USB interfaces, then this has been done before.
Comment Re:Given how specialized the use case scenarios ar (Score 4, Interesting) 181
As can Postgresql using pgopencl.
Comment Antihumor (Score 1) 94
'After antihelium the next stable antimatter nucleus would be antilithium'
Then we can have deep voices and even worse mood swings.
Then we can have deep voices and even worse mood swings.
Comment Re:Not the same thing (Score 1) 771
I strongly suspect the real issue is there aren't enough people with taste similar to yours to make the types of movies you want to see financially viable.
Sadly, the other part of this issue is that it costs so much to produce these films that they have to get funding from major studios who care about demographics.
OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming 87
donniebaseball23 writes "Cloud gaming provider OnLive has secured a patent for an 'apparatus and method for wireless video gaming.' The patent gives substantial leverage for OnLive over competing brands in the cloud-based gaming market. 'Hundreds of people have worked incredibly hard for more than eight years to bring OnLive technology from the lab to the mass market, not just overcoming technical and business challenges, but overcoming immense skepticism,' said OnLive CEO Steve Perlman. 'It is gratifying to not only see people throughout the world enjoying OnLive technology in the wake of so many doubters, but also receive recognition for such a key invention.'"
Comment Costs (Score 3, Insightful) 374
Stop charging $40 for your shitty porno and maybe people will care.
New Hollywood movies don't even cost that much on blu-ray.
New Hollywood movies don't even cost that much on blu-ray.
