If everything was open sourced, there would have been no need for it in the first place since the world would run on unicorn farts and love.

I was initially quite put off by the way they had the character out in front and off to one side, it drove me crazy. I put the game away after about 15 minutes of running into doorways and went off to other things. Then Ghostbusters came out, and forced me to get used to that style because I just couldn't put that game down until it was done. After that, I returned to Dead Space eagerly, and found it was easy to control and that I now actually like it that way. Dead Space 2 will find its way into my computer very easily when the time comes.

The thing about your iPhone is that you are always looking right at it when you use it. When using an actual computer, you are looking at the screen, not your hands. Unless you can't touch-type, in which case, yeah I guess you won't notice any difference. Something that works well on the iPhone is not going to work well on a desktop computer because with a real computer you're not holding the screen in your hands.

The closest iPhone/Computer analog would be MS Surface, but I don't see that working well for day-to-day computing, way too much reaching with the arms.

For the arms to be without strain during long periods of computer use, they must be resting at the desk surface and not up in your field of view. So they need to be able to do things by feel. That's about it.

Does it still work, just really slow? What would be the ideal mix of the other 3/4 of your nationality to get the best connection under those circumstances?

Agreed that the reality definitely doesn't match the ideal in those pictures. But the reality of the Big Mac is that it is laced with crack or something, because even the non-idealized picture makes me want one. Or it's a Pavlovian response to seeing the name, or something. Big Macs rock.

No, at different points *in time* the laptop is moving at different speeds. At the moment of impact, it won't be getting any faster after that, only slower.

When Microsoft decides it's time to get more money and releases a new version of Office, as they have done several times in the past, does Dell charge them for having to change their image again? What about major OS service packs? They re-image for those too. It's part of their business. How is this any different from what would happen if MS released Office 2010?

I think what Lumpy meant was, why would we do such experiments so close to a large source of interference? You say that gravity waves should follow the same path as light waves, and we do indeed get plenty of light here. But you can go inside a building and voila, no light unless you specifically choose to put some there. We don't have that same control over gravity. When we experiment with light, don't we do it under controlled conditions?

Yeah, it's called pot.

When you're looking through a telescope, particularly one that is portable, you are focusing on a very small part of the sky. Meteors fall wherever they fall. During a shower you don't know where the next one will show up, and through a telescope you have a very good chance of not pointing the right way at the right time to catch one, let alone get off a camera shot.

Where did the poll say they had to be on TV? Who failed at reading comprehension exactly?

When I was 12 they taught us how to make a moisture trap with a can and some cellophane. Granted we weren't in a desert, but I am surprised if this "new" development surprises anybody.

Bullshit. If that were true, you'd be arrested for holding a kid's hand because of the implied sexual connection. Even worse if it was your OWN kid, that would be even worse, right?