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Entertainment & Gaming

Desktop Linux – Will It Ever Stick?

By Tom Conlon Posted on 4.2.2009 33 Comments
About seven years ago, I tried to free myself from the oppression and misery of running Windows ME by installing Linux on my PC. Ever installed the Linux operating system? It’s not for the faint of heart. So, when it was recently reported that Linux-based netbooks are being returned at a rate four-times higher than their Windows-based brethren, I can’t say I was surprised.

11.13.2008 at 12:57pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech I am a pc user. I've used Windows all my life. I tried to use Linux for about 10 days. HATED IT!!!! I couldn't install anything on it. sure I could play music, videos and download apps for it, but I couldn't play my video games on it. No STAR WARS! SO what good is a computer that can't play games. I tried to learn how to use it properly but I don't have time. I put my windows back on and was playing again. PS. The ups about Linux is that it's free. Well, so is windows XP! Genuiuses! There is a way to get windows XP for free on your machine. If you know what i mean. It's called hacking. which granted, is a lot easier to learn than Linux.
Entertainment & Gaming

Parlor Game

By Brett Zarda Posted on 4.2.2009 2 Comments
Not many men can convince their wives to sacrifice the coffee table in their shoebox-sized apartment and replace it with a foosball table. But what if the coffee table was the foosball table?

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10.30.2008 at 09:50am - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech That's so cool, to have a table and a foosball game in it. I don't know why we didn't think of this sooner. Too bad about the price. We might have to wait unitl something cheaper comes along. Or maybe someone should try and make one similar. How hard can it be?
Science

Bunk Beds Declared Dangerous!

By Posted on 6.4.2008 6 Comments
Clamber down a bunk bed ladder in the black of night at your own risk, says a large new study of the double-decker berths: falls, head entrapment, strangulation, and even ceiling fan entanglement may await.

6.11.2008 at 12:26pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech says Yeah! these beds are killer! I slept on a bunk and have been hurt many times. Mainly because I'm accident prone, but still, so is most of the human population. These beds were desinged from army cots and for budget costs. Those of us who can afford to buy real beds then lets skip the bunks, unless you like to pay hospital bills. Masocista!!!!
Entertainment & Gaming

Hi-Fi Home Flying

By Posted on 1.23.2008 1 Comments

6.11.2008 at 12:23pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech says It'd be hecka awsome to actually have this in my home. Of course, I wouldn't have a home if I bought all this stuff and I'd be broke, broke and happy!
Entertainment & Gaming

PopSci’s Guide to Summer Sci-Tech Movies

By Posted on 4.11.2008 1 Comments

6.11.2008 at 12:20pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech says These new movies are basicly remakes of books or other films. I liked the original Hulk 2003 film, it was good, though my family didn't undertsand why he turned into the Hulk. It's so hard to explain science from the movies, because it makes no sense!@!!!! I wish, ohh, just wish that one day filmakers will respect science as it is and maybe make a film with at least understandbly scientific jargon.
Entertainment & Gaming

The Extremely Electric Guitar

By Posted on 6.11.2008 5 Comments

6.11.2008 at 12:14pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech An interesting way to explain the public jhow a Tesle coil works. If you know a lot about guitars. See, I find it useless to mix a tesla coil and an electric guitar. So why explain the two in comparasin? I hope the "scientists" at popsci don't waste their time and try to do something like this.
Entertainment & Gaming

You Say You Want a Revolution?

By Posted on 5.29.2008 4 Comments
A console version of Civilization? For many PC gamers, that's as heretical as a Citizen Kane TV series–you just don't mess with the classics of popular culture. In this case, though, the man helming the project is the same guy who started it all, legendary designer Sid Meier. After struggling with the challenge for two years, Sid's found a way to streamline his turn-based strategy game without lobotomizing it.

6.3.2008 at 12:25pm - Comment by zerinsakech

I would actually like to play this game. The original Civilization game was awsome! Very fun and doing it's own thing on Pc. But through the years there has been a line between Console video games and Computer videogames. The Computer video games are more stretegic and more time consumning, therefore, fun in a different way than Console video games. Usually when the two are tried to be mixed together, the outcome is a terribly complicated game, with only a simple gamepad for direction of your city. How is it possible to control a city from a gamepad?! It's just not practical! I, however would like to try the Civilization on a Console to see it it would be just as fun as it would on a computer. Because, until gaming tech improves for the Consoles, Strategy games will stay in my PC.
Entertainment & Gaming

You Call the Shots

By Posted on 5.27.2008 5 Comments
If you're a PC game developer, the console market has to look pretty good right about now. In 2007, $910 million was spent on PC games versus $6.6 billion (with a “b”) for console titles. While most genres born on PCs have found success on consoles, strategy games have been left behind. It's not easy taking a gaming style that relies on a full keyboard, pinpoint-accurate mouse clicks and a high-res monitor and making it work with comparatively sloppy thumb-based controls and TV set that may still be standard-res. Recently, though, I've seen two breakthrough strategy games under development that have conquered the console conundrum. First up is Tom Clancy's EndWar, due before year's end, a real-time strategy game of warfare on a grand scale, with you as fun-loving commander of fearsome forces.

5.27.2008 at 10:59am - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech I'm liking the idea of voice activated controls. i hope soon in the future we can have conversation with the characters on the game to fully interact. That'd be totally wicked!
Technology

Put That On My NASA Account

By Posted on 5.6.2008 4 Comments
NASA has been catching some extra criticism in the past few days after The Houston Chronicle—Johnson Space Center's hometown paper—ran an expose on credit card abuses at the agency. The paper reportedly reviewed 451,000 transactions, and among plenty of apparently legitimate purchases, found that NASA employees had also bought iPods, video games and jewelry. The first two you might be able to slide past accounting, if you were, say, an astronaut doing isolation chamber testing, and needed a few gadgets and games to pass the time.

5.6.2008 at 11:00am - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech How could Nasa employee's do this to us! We trusted nasa with billion of dollars and they spend it on jewlry and gift cards?! I mean the iPods and video games are understandable, we're only human but come on, abusing our unlimited plastic cards comes only so far, cause then you gatta pay up.
Entertainment & Gaming

Do Brutal Video Games Desensitize Players to Violence?

By Posted on 4.25.2008 8 Comments
If you spend your free time killing and maiming people and/or aliens in a virtual world, does this have any effect on what you do in the real one? Psychologists have been trying to answer that question, or some form of it at least, for a while, and Cognitive Daily has an interesting review of one of the latest papers on the subject.

5.1.2008 at 12:35pm - Comment by zerinsakech

Zerin Sakech I say that it is a true fact of life that Violent video games does insensitize one to violence. Sure this will not be enough to encourage us to go out and kill anyone we see, but it will affect us greatly. It has been proven that the army uses these games to make immune their soldiers to heartfelt feeling and mercy. That is what observing and interacting with violence casues us to do. It's proven. Say a child who plays everyday such video games and one who doesn't are put to witness a quick murder. One would probally yell, or cry as the other simply observes. This is mentioned in the article but I felt it nessercary to mention again. I afdmit we live in a world that is dominated by violence, but that doesn't mean we should encourage it.