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Comment Re:Unicomp Keyboard (Score 1) 452

Unless you drop orange juice on it, like my kid did. The electronics of these cannot be cleaned by yourself, theses pieces of crap are glued together.
Premium prices, cheapass contruction... not like the Model M originals (I own both).
You should rather buy any other mechanical cherry MX based keyboard, mate, these are reliable on the long run.

Comment Money, not lives (Score 1) 335

The main issue that is well known in France, is that speed cameras, or whatever automated systems that detects car infractions, are almost never placed in notorious dangerous and killer spots.
These are placed in spots where many infractions happen, long and secure straight highways with a small slope, for instance. So while it probably does no direct harm (other than making people inject less money themselves into the economy), it could do much more good it the states or the cities building those chose the dangerous spots instead... but well, saving lives does not makes as much money.

Comment It's not about security itself (Score 2) 208

Security checks are not about security. It's meant to show off an impression of security and to make it feel risky to bring lethal when boarding a plane.
It's the same principle with police patrols. They spend a huge amount of time doing nothing, but it's useful. You see the policeman, you know you can get caught, you abide law.

Comment Re:Wii or a Kinect? (Score 1) 103

You know, most games have already only meaningless feedback. Sure it does not feel at all like the real thing, but did Guitar Hero need to feel realistic to be good? Does an arcade car racing game need a $300 Logitech force feedback wheel to be playable? Do I need to feel pain to play an FPS?
Sure, it feels awkward the first time you play the second Zelda on Wii and you move your vibrating wiimote around, but the game experience is not really affected. No feedback is not such an issue as you can think. You know, most martial artist do not strike anything, most time they practice. Having practiced Krav Maga for a while, the actual striking adjustments are an infinitesimal part of the training. Sword stuff, may be an exception, but still a video game does not need feedback to feel good.

No, the main issue with controllers, is that they need to be versatile enough to be used for several games or they end as a niche. That's why Clang rebuttal by investors totally make sense. Guitar Hero is quite the exception, and a rather short lived one. Even the Eye Toy and the Kinect are niche peripheral, while their makers tried to support and push them to game editors.

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