Comment I beg to differ! (Score 2, Funny) 229
Irrelevant????
I see someone skipped the last few minutes of the Battlestar Galactica Finale!
Comment Best Intentions (Score 5, Funny) 504
It all started out as innocent research on "Black Holes" and "Uranus"...
Former Interplay Dev Talks "Disastrous" Old Star Trek Games 124
In a podcast recorded at PAX, a former Interplay developer named Thom Robertson talks about the problems he encountered while working on the company's Star Trek titles. In particular, he was the lead designer of the canceled Star Trek: The Secret of Vulcan Fury, and mentioned how incredibly ambitious initial plans for the game were. "Just one of the many reasons why that project was doomed to failure was because the team and the management had really no concept of exactly how expensive a proposition they were imagining when they set out to do it. I saw the plans. They were looking at four to six hours of created video, and they were planning on doing it at maybe a 1/20th of the budget of a Toy Story movie. Something did not connect." He also discussed how Interplay was "too close to Hollywood," and the problems they ran into while filming for Starfleet Academy The full podcast (MP3) is available from 1Up; Robertson's interview begins 42 minutes in.
Comment Re:And Today is Reading Rainbow's Final Broadcast (Score 2, Funny) 431
Reading Rainbow has been in decline since Geordi ditched them for that Chief Engineer position.
Comment Average gamer OVER 19, is 35. (Score 1) 439
Nice headline. The MS in MSNBC is not for Math Skills.
From TFA:
analyzed survey data from 552 adults in the Seattle-Tacoma area.
The subjects ranged in age from 19 to 90,
And later on, points out that this is merely correlation, AKA scientific fact to a journalist.
it is not conclusive, its researchers say, but rather serves to "reveal important patterns in health-related correlates of video-game playing and highlights avenues for future research."
Comment A lock for "Most Naseauting Cinematography" (Score 5, Funny) 705
It's high time the Academy recognized Joe, the epileptic cameraman, and his trusty pogo stick named "Earthquake".
Seriously dude, it would still have that extra realism if the jerkimeter was at 5 instead of 11.
Comment Re:Tax & Tax (Score 2, Funny) 874
In 2008 Americans voted "Yes (we can!)" to all of the above.
Comment "insatiable appetite for cheap electricity." (Score 5, Funny) 874
The problem of too much cheap electricity is about to be solved.
Comment AT&T "backpeddling furiously" (Score 2, Funny) 326
And they didn't trip? They must be on sure footing.
I'm putting out a "buy" signal on AT&T shares.
Comment What does this mean for Rosie and her 5 sisters? (Score 1) 338
What does this mean for Rosie and her 5 sisters?
Comment Darn it (Score 1) 658
And I already replaced all my light bulbs with those dim, mercury-filled corkscrew kind!
Comment Re:Michael Crichton would be pleased (Score 0, Troll) 294
Michael Crichton was also a global warming skeptic and therefore has no credibility on any subject*.
*Bases on a consensus of environmentalist / grave dancers in this thread after he died of cancer.
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/06/0019253&art_pos=1
Comment Re:first post! (Score 2, Informative) 820
Wolverine had less of a fan base
Especially among critics.
Rottentomatoes average of Top Critics:
Star Trek: 91%(about as good as it gets)
Wolverine: 15% (about as not good as it gets)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_11/?critic=creamcrop
Comment Mother's Day (Score 1) 820
$75 million is very good. Mother's Day historically isn't a big movie going day.
On top of that, I'm speculating here, that most moms don't go for action/sci-fi fare.
Comment Waaaay more than Moore's Law (Score 2, Informative) 366
He's talking about genetic enhancement, nano technology, robotics, AI and more.
And you "only" need one of these to reach a critical level for the Singularity to occur.
For instance:
*Genetically enhance humans to be better at genetically enhancing humans, rinse and repeat.
*Make strong AI capable of creating stronger AI, etc
I recommend his book "The Singularity Is Near".
Free preview at google: http://books.google.com/books?id=88U6hdUi6D0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=kurzweil#PPA19,M1
His website has some interesting stuff, including opposing points of view.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/
