I have a 3DS. I get headaches if the depth slider is at full power. 1/4 to 1/2 works best for me. I've seen alot of folks that complain forget that there is a slider switch for the 3d effect. But then again, every time a 3d movie comes out I see the statistic that 20% of people are physically incapable of seeing the 3d effect so you may just be one of those unlucky folks. Out of the launch titles the only one that really used the 3d for more than a gimmick (for at least part of the game) is Steel Divers. Periscope Strike mode is fun. I'm betting the sales will climb when the Zelda, Mario, Kid Icarus games come out. I can't believe Nintendo would launch without at least one of them available.

It is from a year ago. I wrote a story about it on my website. Even the .pdf of the decision says Jan 2010 on it. Fox has messed up.

http://www.the-games-blog.com/dd-banned-from-prisons-for-imitating-gang-behavior/Story from a year ago

I've been on Ubuntu for about a year. I've only had 2 issues.

1. I had never had to worry about file permissions before. Not a flaw of the OS, in fact that's part of what makes it safer than windows, but it was frustrating for a whole 10 minutes while I googled instructions.

2. Loading Skype on 64 bit Ubuntu when skype only made a 32 bit version. Gave me a wrong architecture error. But A few more minutes of googling, and one command line input later and I had skype.

It would take a lot more than 2 paragraphs to list the problems I've had with windows from 3.1 through Vista.

Reuters and AP are the only news organizations. All the Print (Newspapers), TV, and Web "news" are just reposts of Reuters and AP stories.

If the "News" media companies want to survive they have to start doing their own reporting instead.

What I predict will happen eventually is Reuters and the AP will start charging the public directly instead of reselling the stories to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc...

I'm from Baltimore. While I never had that problem as my mental direction is based of the position of the sun (in the daytime at least), I can see how some could get confused. Cause for the most part I-95 does go North/South so if your using that as a point of reference Baltimore would be "west" of I-95. Same with D.C.

I think it also has to do with the fact that most cities on the East coast were built before the grid system became popular (Where all the city blocks are Square shaped). So you tend to navigate by your position relative to some other landmark. And I-95 makes a great reference point.

If I can't see the Sun (too cloudy) or its just night time, this is how I navigate unfamiliar territory.

I think its an average calculation based on the beta testers.

Personally when playing a 40 hour RPG it usually becomes a 100+ game as I am one of those people that has to get 100% completion. But i know people who just rush through and beat the 40 hour game in 6-10.

But platformers, even if I'm going slow are usually no more than 6 hours. This game better be $20 or less with good replay value. I replayed Sonic 1,2,3 and S&K hundreds of times. But I know replay value is not big on programmers minds anymore.

A backup is no more "you" than your twin is. Does knowing your twin is alive make me feel any less dead?

"how WOULD society function if anyone could have every object they desire at the push of a button?"

Simple. Just watch Star Trek. (surprised all the nerds here didn't think of this yet) That fictional society is based on the premise that replicators allow the creation of anything with the press of a button. So society become a mass of explorers and scientists.

"To explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before."

The day a universal assembler is made is the day Star Trek changes from fiction to reality.

www.thecorporation.com

I think you are referring to this documentary that shows that corporations would be considered psychopaths if they were real people.

If you are too big to fail then you are too big to exist. I don't care how many people would be out of work.

And for each of the businesses listed there are several other competitors that will gladly and quickly take up the reins from them. And with all those new contracts they'll have to hire more help. So they can hire the people who were recently laid off.

Look at the banking failure. Before the govt. meddled with bail out money the surviving banks were buying up the assests of the failed and hiring some of the laid off employees. The "Free Market" is self correcting. Or have I been Lied to.

by that logic the inventors son/daughter/spouse has great motive to kill them to inherit the patent.

As a scientist I totally agree with this statement. We go into science because we are naturally curious. If I wanted to be a millionaire I would have gotten an MBA instead. Will there be exceptions to this. Of course. But go to any university and ask the students in the science building why they are studying science, and I doubt "Because I'll make so much money" will be heard. Then do the same in the Business department.

I work in the pharmaceutical industry. The Majority of the new drugs nowadays come from two sources. 1: IN-house micro-improvement. This is where you take (for example) Prilosec Make the S-enantiomer of it. This is enough change for a new patent. Call new product Nexium. 2: From Small bio-tech start ups that are mostly funded by government grants. If your product gets through Phase II you start to get casual calls from large Drug Makers (like Roche). If You make it through Phase 3 large companies (like Roche) then offer to buy your product. Its a perfect system for the large Drug makers. Micro-improvements are cheap to do in-house and you can let others do the hard work of researching a new drug while you simply scoop up the survivors. So Yes it is possible for the Acedemic/ govt funded research to hold up the entire pharmaceutical industry because it is doing that right now.

I also pulled out Diablo 2:LOD in the past month to play with friends. We're having a blast. We also started playing BOARD GAMES!!! How old school, right. Not monopoly style games, but Arkham Horror. We got this for about $20 on sale. We get so into it we lose track of the time. I can't remember the last Video game that did that to me.