haha yeah i had seti@home installed on so many computers .. surprised that pretty visualization didn't get burned in to the monitors.

DirectTv offers a nice free app for the iPad that has all the functionality of the remote, plus a bunch of other great features. you can stream some content to the ipad itself, you can use the ipad to control the contents of your DVR and recording schedule, you can set it up to know your favorite teams and show scores and game times/channels, etc. the ipad is actually much faster for switching channels than the remote, since you can use your finger to fling through the guide, as opposed to using directtv's super slow on-screen ui.

first Black Mesa steals all his contracts, now NASA open-sources his IP.

as they should! Trek works best as a storytelling framework. none of the technology is really meant to stand up to scientific scrutiny. it's all just there to allow us to model and wrangle with various big questions (in the best of times) or at least enjoy a fun adventure (in the slightly less-good times).

I disagree that there's anything inherent to CGI that is less artistic than physical model building, and i also disagree that there is any practical effect that cannot be duplicated by a computer (given enough desire to do so).

i do agree wholeheartedly that the focus on special effects arms race comes at the expense of good storytelling and forward thinking, which is the true value of Sci-Fi. but how is vowing to use only practical effects not just another special effects gimmick?

these guys hearts seem to be in the right place. i wish them all the luck in the world. but i would implore them to make the best use of all the tools available to them in order to tell their story.

casually associating angels with unicorns and elves was one of my favorite parts of that record.

it's not like video games treat murder or money or physics or politics with reverence, respect, or precision either. why should a game be expected to treat sex as somehow immune from gamification? if it's included, it *should* be simplified in function and integrated into the gaming framework, just like every other complex human thing that gets reduced to either a goal, task, tool, or reward in a game.

i would imagine that his libertarian viewpoint informs him that while he has come to that conclusion, reasonable people may possibly disagree. since he acknowledges that his conclusion is a philosophical one, and his ideology values individuality and independence, then it is not necessarily logical to make abortion illegal even though the individual is opposed to abortions.

This is in fact one essential pillar of pro-choice that people forget. one can be opposed to abortion itself and still be pro-choice. for example, if one believes that the individual, and not the state, is most qualified to wrestle with such fundamental philosophical questions.

ITANIC processor
RAMBUS memory
Voodoo5 video card
i can't think of a hard drive crappy enough ... maybe you could have the OS installed on an external drive connected via USB1.0.

obviously the OS would be WindowsME.

someone's sarcasm scanners are apparently offline.

it wouldn't be effective though. "...they also laughed at Daniel McGinnis" who the hell is that?? (look him up if you're curious.) the point is, there are millions of crackpots who were wrong about stuff, but we don't particularly remember them.

here's the complete text of the third page:

"But with Windows you click over here and you're in the program. It definitely was a revolutionary change in terms of the experiences people had and the accessibility it brought to so many more people."

so glad they didn't try to cram that wall of text on to the second page. it might have bumped one of the 50 ads off the screen.

why does the picture in the article look like a still from a low rez video of a photograph of a badly-photoshopped computer rendering?

sorry.

yeah because mechanical hard drives never, ever crash...