How could you not?

I guess it doesn't work for everyone and the attention focus is a problem in the first month, but after that you will adapt. I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks in the past 5 years and enjoyed every last one of them. I also haven't been run over by a car or missed my train station after the first month.

I wonder why no REAL country in this world wouldn't receive Wikileaks voluntarily. I mean... there has to be a real government out there who just loves trashing the other BIG countries with wikileaks. In the end it's information and information can be used to manipulate people.. somebody MUST love the idea, even if that somebody is a country low on human rights like North Korea or Burma. I'm not saying it's a good thing to have this data being used for manipulations.. I'm just wondering why is there that nobody actually uses it and welcomes it for that matter.

My calculations might be wrong here, but I've always wondered... If a high-school can launch a helium balloon to a height of 24km, and also launch a homemade rocket that can rise as hight as 30km, couldn't some high-school class launch a rocket from the top point of a helium balloon to reach geosynchronous orbit? Wouldn't that be a feat more worthy of commenting? What would be the problems with such a lauch?

The problem with getting precious metals/stones from outside of our planet is that the price of those metals would crumble as more of them hit the markets - aka no more "precious". What is needed is for us to find some valuable compound, in large quantities that we can consume or build stuff with, so that we would always require more. However, given our recent state of development, any technology using such a precious material will not probably be long lived (long = more than 100 years) and building a Mars base for that might still not be productive given the costs. Therefore, I think the only reason for us going to Mars is and will remain - "Because we can" (and do some research). If this research can provide us with further economical reasons, then great! If not, I'm afraid missions to Mars will have the same frequencies as the ones on the Moon. Colonization for the sake of colonization is probably not going to happen. We need a real reason to leave Earth in order for us to do that.

North Corea is making money by selling WoW items, right? Why not everybody? http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/2129237/North-Korea-Accused-of-Hacking-Online-Games-For-Profit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2FslashdotGames+(Slashdot%3A+Games)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Genius! You had me laughing for 10 minutes

Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) - Now this is the kind of game/movie that I would love to see more of. The idea was simple: a game that plays like a movie but in which you still continuously(almost) PLAY the game. It had great story, great feeling to the scenes, sound was appropriate and cinematics blended in so naturally. It all worked out. In my opinion I would give that game an Oscar. I think the story is the most important aspect of a game - as in any movie. Match it with good acting and keep the user playing (not as a spectator) and you will get a lot of success with it. In time, if enough of these are created, games will get their own Oscar award. P.S. I know Grammy's are just for sound.. but we're talking about entertainment in general here.

The thing abou boycott is that I am slowly but surely loosing trust in all the big corporations. If I stop buying Apple because they are evil with their tight control on what you do on your device (and I agree), Samsung because they install keyloggers, Sony because of the PS3 other OS crap (and GeoHot lawsuit), Microsoft, Google, Toshiba, Dell... Guys! I'm starting to run out of options here! Everybody pulls a lot of crap nowadays, and it seems that if they don't, they quickly loose market advantage and start pulling crappy products on the market. Can you help me name ONE big corporation that didn't try to screw their customers in one way or another?

Well, in my point of view, as long as they got their hands on the license (which I have no doubt they did) it's their license now. If you love the Ultima universe then you'll at least be glad there is somebody with enough resources to continue the series in a dignifying manner. At least they are obviously going to get out at least one more game (browser or not) as opposed to other licenses they got their hands on and just killed.