Comment: I get it (Score 1) 148
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Mantrid42
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Attached to: Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test
On the road, hell is other people.
Comment: Make something good (Score 1) 663
My friend pirated a copy before The Avengers came out. He watched it, then he went and saw it in a theater. Twice.
If you build it, they will come.
Comment: Qik, just in case (Score 1) 482
Whenever this topic comes up, I feel the need to link people to Qik: http://qik.com/
Its a video app for Android and iOS that will automatically upload your video once you take it. So even if your phone is confiscated, and the data deleted, the video is already out there.
Comment: Re:"Damage" (Score 1) 356
You have to pay people for the expense of figuring out what happened.
I can think of one person who knows exactly what happened...
Comment: Zat's not my department (Score 2) 43
Vunce ze rockets are up, who cares vhere zey come down?
Comment: Automatic uploading (Score 1) 666
I'm sure there are other services, but http://qik.com/ has a pretty good interface. Shoot the video on your phone, hit stop, video gets automatically uploaded to your account, YouTube, etc.
Comment: Re:I'm not sure why this is modded funny (Score 1) 297
Full disclosure: I have and love my iPhone.
Android may be a threat in some ways, but Apple has the advantage of their App Store, and it's parallels. Parallels are the key. Many people that have an iPhone are tech-savvy. 9 out of 10 people I know who have iPhones have jailbroken (jailbreaked?) their iPhones, and have Cydia and Installous. The iPhone is a solid platform, and people want something for nothing, and the third-party software for the iPhone let's them get that something-for-nothing, and in a really sleek way. The SDK may hurt legitimate developers, but it allows for fast, intuitive and seamless pirating of apps. That is where Apple has the advantage.
Comment: Re:"Cheating the Government" (Score 1) 190
I can't cheat the government, I can only cheat my fellow citizens and myself out of some worthy use of those potential tax dollars. Change your attitude before you start bitching about what people do and don't pay.
Setting aside purchases through services like iTunes and Steam, are the goods you buy online delivered via taxpayer funded public roads?
Comment: Re:Yeah, so bad (Score 0) 232
They won't say that maybe we wouldn't have these problems if we didn't keep meddling in the Middle East's affairs, often brutally.
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
Comment: Re:It's tokenary. (Score 3, Interesting) 183
The problem with this list is multi-faceted. Remember, first, that the list was selected by the public. This is not something that art institutes generally do (have you ever heard of popular vote picking any other art display? What about one meant to introduce a new topic?)
You're right about popular vote being an entirely wrong approach. That's the only explanation for Halo 2 beating Psychonauts. Psychonauts is one of the funniest, innovative, and visually interesting games, whereas Halo 2 is the middle of a trilogy (and not the strongest of the three), where you play another Space Marine shooting aliens.