Comment April 1 (Score 0) 516
They are a little early (or perhaps late)
Comment Piracy can help smaller bands (Score 0) 463
As a broke ass grad sudent my appetite for metal is significantly greater than my budget. I realize that it is very important to support smaller metal bands because most of them have to work an actual job in order to not starve. Whenever a band I like tours I always try to go see them. Which is rare because most of my favorite bands are european and don't tour canada often. Whenever I can afford it I spend a bunch of money on cds from smaller bands. I won't buy a cd from a big band (unless its blind guardian) because they don't need my money.
I am pretty sure smaller bands survive through piracy (either standard bit torrent downloads or youtube posts). Its like the mix tape trading in the eighties (only better). I would not have found many of my favorite bands if not for piracy.
Now that the conservative party is going full retard on its quest to make Canada like America. It its only a mater of time before they pass some retarded copyright legislation. Maybe I should relearn some french and move to Switzerland.
Comment How should sony compensate their customers? (Score 0) 386
a free xbox 360
Comment what happened to you Samsung (Score 0) 515
what the fuck samsung, you used to be cool
Comment They should've used John Petrucci instead (Score 0) 188
Nothing inspires technical innovation like a bitchin guitar solo
Comment My problem with SGU (Score 0) 762
Episode ending musical montages, they're just awful. You can use them once a season (at most!). Leave that garbage for shitty teenage girl dramas.
Comment adblock extension (Score -1, Troll) 142
its about fucking time
Comment Re:Needed one when watching The Wire (Score 1) 487
I didn't need the subtitles.... maybe i should apply
Comment Re:Major fixes (Score 1) 100
it was easy once I realized the prompts telling you which way to move the sticks were bullshit and just tried to keep the bitch straight with the nose pointed down a little
Comment Re:Still alive (Score 1) 763
"Taste the meat not the heat"
fuck charcoal
Comment Ass Pennies (Score 1) 594
You have to watch out for those ass pennies. Thats why I don't handle pennies anymore.
A Hyper-Velocity Impact In the Asteroid Belt? 114
astroengine writes "Astronomers have spotted something rather odd in the asteroid belt. It looks like a comet, but it's got a circular orbit, similar to an asteroid. Whether it's an asteroid or a comet, it has a long, comet-like tail, suggesting something is being vented into space. Some experts think it could be a very rare comet/asteroid hybrid being heated by the sun, but there's an even more exciting possibility: It could be the first ever observation of two asteroids colliding in the asteroid belt."
Comment Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. (Score 0, Offtopic) 457
Isn't that exactly what we used to criticize the Soviet Union for doing? We stared into the abyss all right, but the abyss stared right back into us.
The Shit Abyss?
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Comment Re:wrong (Score 1) 350
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots.
and as you leave here today, your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank You.
