Remember, all these include PC games too. If you haven't played SpaceChem and BIT.TRIP BEAT this is well worth grabbing. If you want to see 2 minute reviews of any of the games I have a playlist over here with 4 out of the 5: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2CA23F2EE37011DC

Wouldn't mind trying Spirits, but I all but one of these already and didn't want to spend an extra $5 for that alone. Maybe if they add another bonus later to sweeten the pot a bit. Normally don't mind dropping a dollar or two each game, though I can't justify much more than that because I generally only play each for a couple hours. (Steam says I own 428 games)

Seems like a pretty hypocritical message, considering all the civilians we've killed over there. In a place where we shouldn't even have military.

Well, Sister Miriam was the religious zealot faction in Alpha Centauri, so it makes sense that she'd be strongly opposed to non-God created sentient life.

Alpha Centauri was awesome, way better than the Civ series IMO. Wonder why he didn't go further with that one instead...

That's purely an American problem.

In Italy last year I found the line moved at about the same speed as the scanner, and occasionally they would wave people with laptops over to a table to do a 30 second explosives swab. They also had a conveyor belt above the machine to return the empty bins, rather than having a TSA drone hand stack the refills.

At the Adelaide airport in Sydney I had to hustle to get my laptop out of the bag and the change out of my pockets fast enough to prevent holding up the line. They also don't bother with silly things like taking off your shoes - and Australia doesn't seem to have a liquid limit either - I accidentally sent a nearly full 1.5 litre bottle of water through in my backpack and they didn't even stop to inspect it.

Other countries have much saner and faster screening procedures, akin to what I remember it being like when I flew as a kid/teen in the early 90's.

From the description it is probably more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoot_Tower - which is a SimTower sequel. You can apparently set what shops sell, etc - though I've never played it myself. I looked at buying it a while ago but couldn't find a decently priced digital copy.

Agreed. Based on the summary it sounded like a cool idea, but there's a lot of random trivial crap on that feed too. If they were basically tweeting biographies with interesting pictures of daily life from these normal people it would have interested me, but I don't need to know this:

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and that seems like most of the content on the feed.

Scratch that, they're back up to $145 on Amazon now. Either a flash sale or a glitch in the matrix. Still, $145 to $295 is a huge range for an identical product.

I was looking at WD1002FAEX 1TB drives on Amazon last night and they were $150, this morning i looked again and they were $100. I'm not sure what caused the massive discount - but now would be a good time to grab some if you actually need the storage. It's a reasonable price - they were selling for $90 a year ago.

There's a huge price disparity on these drives from different places - Newegg ($240), TigerDirect ($295), Buy.com still has them at $150 like Amazon did, and now Amazon is at $100. Seems silly that one product could be sold for that huge variation.

Red light cameras also record video of a few seconds before and after the incident. So if someone is checking the video and theres some way to make out your license plate before the flash (maybe a streetlight or daytime?) - then you'd probably get a ticket for the infraction PLUS I'm sure trying to obscure your plate is ticketable.

I don't know if they changed it, but back on Android 1.5 when I first got my phone it was a direct call to 911 - I know, I tried it. I figured there would be a few more steps - I mean no developer would be stupid enough to put a direct 911 button on a lock screen that is supposed to prevent you from accidentally pressing things...

Yeah, that 'feature' made the lock screen useless for me - and at the time the only way to remove it was to pay for a special lock screen app that did the same thing without the 911 button.

Your analogy might be more apt if the licensed electrician wired certain outlets to only be compatible with a particular name brand of appliance, and stole your 60" LCD television on the way out. Sure your house may be less likely to burn down, but now you can't fully use it, plus you just lost some of your stuff. If you knew this was going to happen you might be more inclined to hire a knowledgeable but unlicensed electrician instead.

If public voting ignorance started having clear detrimental effects you might see more people start to educate themselves on the issues. Humans are selfish creatures after all - they just need a bit of motivation to look after their own interests. Yes you would have majority rule, but as long as states rights stay in place each state will have a different majority - so if people felt disenfranchised by a particular states laws they could move to another one that was more accommodating to their beliefs.

It would be more interesting if they created a solution with eye tracking that lit up counter LEDs in front of the people in the board room, or one of the monitors. That seems like it would be far more high tech and efficient, and if done right would be pretty easy to understand/use. It would also work for the remote users - not just the boardroom participants - since they'd have their LEDs light up on remote location when people were focusing on them, giving a good indication that they had the floor to talk.

The deciding factor for me was that the nook was compatible with the library lending systems around here, and the kindle was not. If you pirate your ebooks that isn't an issue obviously, but if you want to check them out online from your local library it's a good thing to look into before purchasing.

Based on that video, I should just drive close enough to the car in front of me that half or less of my license plate is readable by the camera. Thanks for increasing road safety, automated ticket systems.

Although it would be resource intensive I think they still need to do driving tests that realistically assess driving skill and assign speed limits accordingly. That's the only way I would accept the new personal electronic vehicle speed monitoring systems that are starting to hit public use. Theoretically you could automate the testing by putting people in a simulator, and letting it judge their safe reaction speed.

I would appreciate having a higher ranked license than the person with the handicapped plates driving 10 mph under the speed limit in the left lane with their right turn signal on perpetually. (I only mention handicapped plates because with only one exception every single person with them I've seen has been a terrible driver in one way or another.)