Comment Re:Hmm. (Score 1) 277
What? We can play this game in 'god mode'?
Comment Re:because it's a distraction and dangerous? (Score 1) 709
My point was that a law could never be drafted that would fix the issue, because no law could fix peoples hearts.
Comment Re:because it's a distraction and dangerous? (Score 2, Insightful) 709
As a punishment the idea works, but a punishment and a deterrent only work if some one gets caught. However, if the first thing on the mind of the driver is respect for the lives of others, them selves, and a desire not to cause harm, than people would not text or phone to start with. The only laws that are work are self enforced because the person enforcing them thinks they are important.
Comment Re:because it's a distraction and dangerous? (Score 3, Insightful) 709
The only fix for this is if people started caring more about the lives of others and there own life. Love thy neighbor is the only long lasting fix that will work. Too bad most people don't do it.
Comment Re:Galaxy |= LCARS (Score 1) 210
As long as we are having this fight, I want a Miranda-class science vessel.
Comment Re:Good Stories = Good Viewing (Score 1) 366
Dr Who and Star Trek are fun. They are still fun if you compress them onto a small screen because most nerds want a sonic screwdriver and a tricorder.. Star Wars was cool in a flash-boom kind of way, but not what I would call Nerdy.
Now Star Trek, Scotty could fix anything, he got to clime around the under belly of the ship, and he had armor in his cabin, but no one thought of him as weird. How many of us dream of being able to talk about what we like without people glazing over.
The Doctor can fix anything with the little buzzey thing. Phone needs jalebroken? zzzzz done. Car needs started? zzzzz done. It's like a tool box in your pocket! Letherman has nothing that good...yet.
Comment Re:Good Stories = Good Viewing (Score 1) 366
Ep 1 through 3 without special effects aren't worth watching. However I view episodes 4 through 6 as John Williams music videos.
Comment Good Stories = Good Viewing (Score 4, Insightful) 366
I could have told them that. My new yard stick for good TV is if it is still worth watching in low res and cut up into 10 min chunks on youtube it's good tv.
Old episodes of Dr Who and Star Trek have held up very well, however Star Wars and Enterprise don't do all that well. The best example I have found of this is Primer, I saw it first on google video and bought it within a week of viewing.
Comment Re:Prius (Score 1) 1141
I have a Fit, and I love it. But you make a good point. A good friend of mine saw my brand new car about a year ago and started raving about how cool the Fit is, he loves how it looks, he loves how the back seat folds up and down, he loves the MPG, he loves the way it handles. What didn't he love? He was well over six feet tall. Me? I'm Five feet six inches (and of Asian decent) the small design fits me very well. The back seat on the other hand fits tall people quite well.
Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany 165
Germans who go out in the woods today are sure of a big surprise, radioactive boars. A portion of the wild boar population in Germany was irradiated after the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and the boars are thriving. In the last two years government payments to compensate hunters for radioactive boar have quadrupled. From the article: "According to the Environment Ministry in Berlin, almost €425,000 ($555,000) was paid out to hunters in 2009 in compensation for wild boar meat that was too contaminated by radiation to be sold for consumption. That total is more than four times higher than compensation payments made in 2007." I think the Germans are overlooking just how much money there is to be made from regenerating bacon.
Comment Re:Sign Language (Score 2, Interesting) 674
Interpreters use the phrase "cultural equivalence" to describe how certain phrases are translated from the original language to the target language, not with word for word meaning, but by taking the statement as a whole. One of my personal favorite examples of this is the Mexican phrase "Go eat peas," and, from what I've bean told means "Buzz off, brat."
So, if to sign something is to attempt to communicate an idea to another individual or group with the use of a signed language, then the word "Signed" can be rendered spoken, said, or communicated if you are using a spoken language.
Comment Re:Good Riddance... (Score 1) 423
Not so fast, The Doctor has been getting younger, and more manic from the first very first regeneration. Also, other time lords seem to get older with each regeneration. I think the 12 regeneration cap, and the tendency to get older with each regeneration would be more about your life stile and mind than your body.
Comment Re:Will be a hard pill to swallow... (Score 1) 324
That made me chuckel
Comment Re:Will be a hard pill to swallow... (Score 1) 324
No I'm just dyslexic.
Comment Re:Will be a hard pill to swallow... (Score 4, Interesting) 324
Sounds like a house that was built in my home town (on the rich end). The home was over 5,000 square feet and had huge vaulting rooms. The structure was made of steal tubing, and the inside of the house had all the structural elements exposed (think 80's industrial, I think they were trying to build Doogie Howser loft). The designer decided that AC ducts were ugly so he would just run HVAC inside the steal tubes that made the house.
Well to make a long story short hot and cold air make steal expand and contract. Also, steal is a pour insulator. Not only did this house pop, creak, and groan when ever the heat or AC was turned on, the house needed them all the time because it got full sun in summer and high wind exposure in winter and the whole structure was built like a giant heat sink.
The lesson of this story? Design for functionality first, and if your design is highly functional it will have a cool all it's own.
