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The problem here is scripted destructability; it’s world breaking when you can blow a hole in one wall or knock down a support for one building but that ability doesn’t transfer to other seemingly equivalent walls and structures. I get not being able to completely level every building in the game but make it so that the building supports are too rigid or something and still allow walls/floors to be taken down.

6 days ago on Playing 'Battlefield 4': no, you can't blow everything up 1 reply 1 recommend

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I am utterly unconvinced of the reductionist approach he’s taking to the brain and body. Consciousness manifest is still pretty much a total mystery and I just don’t see that changing in the next 50 years. I’m all for innovation and think everything we can do to advance the human race is great; however I am far more interested in life extension research than “singularity” research. I think with the pace of biotech advancements I do believe that we’ll see some pretty amazing ways to extend youth in the next 50 years. Hopefully fast enough so I can enjoy it and live much much longer. And warp drives, of course.

7 days ago on Dmitry Itskov wants to help you live forever by swapping your body for an android avatar 1 recommend

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Lol. Bing. I guess worse is new

8 days ago on Siri gets design overhaul in iOS 7, uses Bing search by default 4 recommends

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This is exactly what I’m doing. I think the Xbone looks pretty good, but so far I haven’t seen anything revolutionary that would instantly sell me on launch day. With cheaper PC games that have a long tail due to open modding and the huge potential of the Rift. I’ll be going PC for a good while until MS really gets something going. That could change between now and launch but I’d think they’d give it all they can at these big events

9 days ago on Xbox One launching in November for $499 in 21 countries, pre-orders start now

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First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Martin Niemöller

11 days ago on The NSA surveillance problem is Obama's transparency problem 14 recommends

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Can we all just agree to hate on the government please; stop making about TEAM RED and TEAM BLUE. There was plenty of outcry when someone leaked about that AT&T/NSA hub room in California in the early 2000s.

12 days ago on UK government is allegedly involved in US internet spying program PRISM 1 reply 17 recommends

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Americans who fear harm from small folding knives, sports equipment, or novelty bats will never rest easy. Pantswetting for the rest of their lives.

13 days ago on TSA drops plans to allow small knives on planes 1 recommend

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I can’t wait for Google/Microsoft to really bring a smartwatch platform! I love my pebble, but I agree it’s kinda cheap looking and mine got the garbled screen of death recently so i have to RMA it; which is a shame, I keep looking down to see the time and it’s gone! I have a Wimm as well but something that only lasts 12 hours is absolutely a non-starter for a watch. I wore it for a few weeks until I got sick of it dying on me. 4 days is a minimum! I think google could really come out swinging if they use what they learned with the glass UI; though how they solve the battery life issue with such a rich interface is anyone’s guess.

18 days ago on Nexus movement: what smartwatches can learn from Seiko 1 reply

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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience.” -C.S. Lewis

19 days ago on The Microsoft of marijuana: one man aims for global pot dominance

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not out of the box. some enterprising xda dev could get it working i’d guess though.

19 days ago on HTC One with stock Android hands-on 1 reply 1 recommend

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sadly, that’s not the whole truth. android police simply asked HTC if the IR blaster would work if android supported it in the future. no speculation on if android will ever actually support it in stock and HTC declined to comment

19 days ago on HTC One with stock Android hands-on

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like a samsung feature: neat, and nobody will use it.

29 days ago on Microsoft debuts Skype for Xbox with group video calling 4 replies

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can we please stop using such bombastic language to describe the actions of congresscritters, the only thing most of them ever “blast” ends in the toilet. Slink, squirm, slither, cower, pantswet; these are the adjectives that are more appropriate

also, i usually don’t like apple’s corporate policies or designs for controlling the user, but (legal) tax avoidance i’m all for.

29 days ago on Senators blast Apple in hearing for keeping most profits overseas

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wow there are a lot of bootlickers commenting on this website.

29 days ago on Senate committee votes in favor of fingerprinting foreign travelers at US airports