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Comment Re:Sharks (Score 1) 225

But the eye is more sensitive to blue light than to red (in dark conditions), so shouldn't blue tinted be better for seeing than red tinted?

Witness: My watch, with its blue "indiglo" backlight, will light up my bedroom at night, but in daylight the light from it is impossible to detect.

The red-illuminated alarm clock on my nightstand appears to be of equal brightness whether the room is completely dark or it is very bright.

Cones and rods don't have the same low light color sensitivity.

Comment Re:Who's next? (Score 1) 243

...they used to go after gun manufacturers all the time. The only thing that stopped them was a law passed under Bush, The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms act. (that is a rather crappy Wikipedia entry, but you get the idea)

Unfortunately, because Illinois is evil, they continue to bring lawsuits against gun companies, for the crime of...making guns.

Personal responsibility? You must be new here.

Comment Re:simulate 3d for those with only one eye? (Score 1) 261

Yes, we call it parallax.

I have two eyes, but no stereo depth perception because they focus on very different points (even with a prism in my glasses my brain refuses to let them form one image, see "horror fusionis").

Stereoscopic vision is not the most important part of perceiving distance, objects that are further away seem smaller, objects close to you pass in front of objects further away (observe birds with no overlap in field of vision bobbing their heads to get an idea of distance).

We already simulate single eye 3d pretty effectively, minus focusing.

Comment Re:I'm slightly astonished (Score 1) 384

Actually I am running Vista64 Home and Games For Windows worked just fine. And really I get pretty decent framerates on the game at 1650x10something. Must be the 6gb of RAM.

My favorite part is that you have to run it from the Rockstar Social Club launcher, but if you are logged IN to the social club it crashes with an MMA10 error. Or maybe my favorite part is that you have to be connected to Games For Windows to create SINGLE PLAYER SAVEGAME. Yeah, that makes sense.

Comment Re:More Fail (Score 1) 301

Oh, there are bugs in Far Cry 2 that I haven't seen yet?

I like how if you use a mounted gun, the only way you can stop is by pressing "E", the default key. It doesn't matter what you bind it to, you have to use "E". I loved it the first few times when in the middle of combat I had to frantically hit evry key on the keyboard trying to figure out how to leave the turret.

I also got stuck in Mike's Bar because it wouldn't let me open the door. I reloaded 3 saves before I could leave.

It has definite potential, but it needs patching.

It's funny.  Laugh.

EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301

sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. 'There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,' said a note on EA's customer support site. Yes, they're serious. 'To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.

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