Some recent examples. Just cause 1 and saints row 2: Driving, specifically steering is EXTREMELY difficult just using the mouse and the WASD keys. Fallout 3 and divinity 2: only 8 hotkeys? We need MORE!!! I assume the limit at 8 is due to a console controller. the 4 cardinal directions and the 4 diagonals make 8 Lost planet: very unusual control scheme for some of the functions and even the menus Dead space 1: cannot skip EA logo at game start. Cannot save anywhere, only at save points. Very slow to turn the view/turn your character around, bad if being attacked from behind Modern warfare 2: very linear level design

Its really simple. People are stupid in analyzing risk. They tend to underplay risk that is common or that they control and exagerrate risk that is out of their control or is unusual. If eating say garlic hamburgers gave you a 10% risk of death by heart attack, they wont bat an eye. But if there was a 1% chance of death from vampires, then they would gladly eat garlic hamburgers. Death by vampiric attack is more attention getting than heart attack. Is nuclear power risky? yes but the consequences are arguably less severe than global warming + peak oil. However people still irrationally fear nuclear power more since the dangers of nuclear power are more attention getting and unusual This is thinking irraitonally.

I'm an Asian and in some parts of Asia it is traditional (why doubt the wisdom of the ancients?) for meat to be used not as a meal, but as flavoring and added nutrition. Plant matter like rice makes up the majority of calories. A common meal in poorer areas would be a plateful of rice and a few native sausages or a few small fish and maybe a few vegetables. An analogy would be instead of a steak with a side of mashed potatoes like western diets, you would have an equivalent caloric amount of mashed potatoes flavored with bits of chopped up steak (although I think bacon bits would be tastier). Microcarnivorism seems to be a reasonable compromise. I think more people would be willing to adopt a microcarnivore diet rather than go full vegetarian. If you properly choose the formulation of the diet, it gives you most of the health benefits of a vegetarian diet and the addition of small amounts of meat solves the flavor/meat craving problem as well as avoiding most of the nutritional deficiencies which a vegetarian diet puts you in danger of (unless you are careful). Microcarnivorism has most of the environmental benefits of vegetarianism like more calories per square kilometer of agricultural land. Even if the environmental benefits are less than full vegetarianism, the larger number of adoptees makes the impact bigger. BTW, i dont think "microcarnivorism" is an accepted term, but i'll accept the credit for inventing it.

try software like netpersec or dumeter. although this will only work if every PC on the network uses it religiously. also works if you have no router

this could be a boon for laparoscopic surgery in the third world. if the camera is small enough and the resolution high enough, you could add cheap LED lights and slip it into an incision. That way you would have a laparoscopic camera without expensive fiber optics since the light source and the camera are within the body. This compounds the lower cost of the camera, making lap surgery cheaper for poor people

amen. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. or else just submit it to the mythbusters

Doesnt this sound familiar? Its very similar to the panic over the japanese nuclear power plants

Aw crap! I was hoping the anomaly might point to a new physical effect that could be used to make warp drive or something

If you can't import cheap labor to act as caregivers, then send the elderly to a country with cheap labor. The philippines has set up retirement villages for english, japanese and korean speaking old folks. The lower cost of living is a plus so even modest retirement benefits can easily pay for a nice house, a caregiver, a maid, a gardener and a driver. Relatives are just a call away with broadband internet and a webcam equipped PC. google japanese retirement philippines

wouldn't it be nice if this would be more powerful than standard liquid hydrogen + liquid oxygen for rocket fuel? It probably isnt but one can dream.

It would have been cool if it were transparent. but it looks like it isnt necessarilty transparent. Oh well, if its tough maybe we can make lighter armor and tougher cellphonecases

I chose none of the above. Wikileaks should leak more stuff about the stuff conspiracy nuts talk about. The illuminati, aliens, ufo's, HAARP, chemtrails, etc etc. If there's no evidence of those fringe subjects in wikileaks then either they really dont exist or wikileaks is merely a patsy of the new world order, leaking what they want you to see, giving them plausible deniability Lolz

IMHO If it means climate change due to CO2 emissions is reduced in intensity and Peak oil is delayed, then ethanol is well worth the disadvantages of higher food prices, a few broken engines and a little less mileage. But I have to agree, there are better alternatives. If you want to stick with ethanol, then buy from the most efficient or cheapest source. If Importing sugarcane ethanol from tropical countries in SE asia or S america is cheaper, then do it and dont be afraid to give the finger to american corn farmers. If they can't compete then let them starve Butanol seems to be a promising alternative since you can sometimes use non-food plant products, its not hygroscopic and AFAIK you can use it in unmodified diesel and gasoline engines Dont put politics and emotions into this decision. Use hard math.

The reason I still keep my 10 year old walkman is because aside from my car radio, its the only device I have that has AM radio and works during a power interruption, and I'm too cheap to buy a newer AM radio when I have one that works perfectly. AM radio is perfect for news reports during typhoons