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Comment Re:Story? (Score 1) 278

THAT's the part that bothers you?

How about: Humans fly half way across the galaxy, and encounter aliens roughly the same shape that also have a cultural hangup about exposed boobs.

(It's not just that they are essentially humans in furry suits, they are AMERICANS in furry suits. Boobs=bad, violence=OK)

Comment PAX != E3 (Score 4, Interesting) 101

The question is, after the attempts to scale it back to a much more exclusive event has E3 managed to escape obscurity and defeat at the hands of up-and-comers like PAX?

E3 is about games.
PAX is about gamers.

They're fundamentally different, and not really in competition with each other. I'm not sure where the submitter even got this question; E3 battling obscurity isn't mentioned in the article, nor is PAX, nor other expos at all.

Comment Re:Not anytime soon (Score 1) 393

Text to speech isn't anywhere near 100% yet.

Did you mean speech to text? I dunno, here's an actual Google Voice transcription I got recently:

well google voice driver back man on the day he how you're doing at all so lee the four on friday i'm at in the review and anyway gimme a call back i'll talk to you later bye

Seems pretty clear to me. /s

Comment Re:This wouldn't be a problem if... (Score 1) 282

Multiple small warheads can be more efficient than one large one. And ironically, small warheads are "cleaner", making less fallout.

I thought the opposite was true: the more powerful the blast, the greater percentage of radioactive particles sent into the upper atmosphere where they decay out of harm's way. Am I the only one that read the high energy weapons FAQ that came with Fallout 1?

Comment Re:responsiveness (Score 1) 300

[...] the developers will find a way to increase memory usage to compensate, perhaps by having to remember the entire memory state of each paused tab or some such.

As opposed to the current system where running tabs DON'T remember the entire memory state?

I'm not sure what variable types you're thinking of, but this seems to simply be the difference between executing the next instruction or waiting at the current position. Neither affects memory.

A possible way to implement something akin to this, if tabs did run in separate processes, would be to idle the processes that aren't the active tab. They'd still run, if necessary, but it would be at a lower priority than any normal process (including the active tab).

Comment Re:Save Vista! (Score 1) 821

I read your post with the Brawndo/PowerThirst voice in my head.

It's like shaving your chest with a lawnmower! That sounds dangerous, but it's not more dangerous than running VISTA because running VISTA is like riding a pony, which probably sounds not dangerous except that the pony is 300 feet tall and covered in chainsaws! And to get on the pony, you have to take an elevator filled with 16 live cougars, which is an actual sport in Latin America, which is extremely fun, but not as fun as VISTA because VISTA is like driving an ice cream truck full of angry bees through a petting zoo, which is a great way of becoming popular if you want to become popular with LAW ENFORCEMENT...

PC Games (Games)

Submission + - 3D Realms Shut Down

pcgabe writes: On 1up there is a disappointing story about 3D Realms. Both Shacknews and The Escapist are reporting that 3D Realms has shut down. Apogee Software and Deep Silver have issued a statement confirming that the situation at 3D Realms has not affected the development of the upcoming handheld Duke Nukem Trilogy. There has been no word on the fate of the infamously delayed Duke Nukem Forever.

Comment Re:Can I close the frame? (Score 2, Insightful) 210

Sure, until you browse away from the original framed page (by following links on it), and then decide that the frame is no longer relevant, so you close it and OH HAI You're back to the original page.

There are no buttons to "close the frame". There are only buttons that take you to the original page, sans frame, from whatever page you are currently on.

Comment Not a good time for newspapers (Score 1) 126

I feel for them. The print paper shuts down and their online offering falls flat.

Saw this recently:

"So how are things at the newspaper?"
"Really good. It's a boom industry right now. We actually drove here in a car made out of money. That's how good things are. Would you like some money? I have extra."

source

Comment Tango (Score 1) 394

I still prefer the Tango.

Yes, the V2V stuff is very interesting, and I see a lot of future potential there. But Tangos are being built right now today.

The prototype runs for 35 miles, at a top speed of 35 mph, on lithium-ion batteries.

The Tango runs for 150 miles and has a top speed of 135mph. That's around 4x the range/speed of the PUMA. Of course, the PUMA is projected to cost a lot less, assuming they come to production.

Let's look over the pros and cons again.

  • Tango
  • faster
  • safer
  • greater range
  • fully enclosed
  • actually exists right now
  • PUMA
  • cheaper

Just because the PUMA is cheap doesn't mean I'd want to buy one. YMMV

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