• Entertainment & Gaming

    Gaming Addiction a Growing Concern

    By Posted on 8.11.2008 19 Comments

    In a famous scene in the first Matrix movie, a character takes a bite out of a juicy steak. He knows it's not real, but enjoys it anyway. In some ways, a video game -- just moving pixels on the screen -- is a similar virtual reality experience. No, the aliens in Halo 3 are not real, but we pretend they are. That is how a game can pull you from a living-room couch into a foreign realm.

    8.9.2008 at 07:44am - Comment by allimar

    You don’t seem to speak from experience. D&D was the first game I stepped into and saw first hand people addicted to it. A number of factors played into the addiction. In real life, they were kind of a loser, didn’t do well in sports, looked down upon by others, never did well in class. But online, they could be great. They could achieve accomplishments and seek rewards. Games are a cheap getaway, but online games go far deeper. Friends are made, real people, that you get along with and enjoy the game together. You go to work, to make money, to buy stuff you want and be with the people you care about. Well people here see things about the same, except rather then going clubbing or hanging around bars, they do it on a video game. It’s a social getaway.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Apple & Google: Backlash Ahoy!

    By Posted on 7.28.2008 9 Comments

    If you subject yourself to as many RSS feeds as I do every morning, then you might be wise to the fact that there’s a bit of mutiny percolating in parts of the blogosphere—a mutiny against tech darlings Apple and Google. Yes, Microsoft is, has always been and will for the foreseeable future continue to be the big bad wolf of the tech world. But as each new version of Windows comes out antiquated or broken before it ever goes on sale, and the company comes up short in the search, advertising and online services sectors, it seems as though the wolf may be losing its bite.

    7.30.2008 at 12:24am - Comment by allimar

    When an Apple fan sees someone using Microsoft they say, "boo boo! EVIL Microsoft" When a Microsoft or Linux user sees an apple fan we say, "Aww" *pats them on the head and walks off* I never understood how apple says there stuff is open sourced, when everything is proprietary. Or how they could be considered good, when they wanted to charge people money for connecting house hold goods with fire wire per connection. Or say Microsoft cant stand competition when they bought huge NON voting shares from Apple to keep it afloat. If you look at the amount of users per viruses, apple gets the same % of viruses as Linux and Windows. If you look at the hardware of Apple vs Windows OS companies, apple skips out on quality, every time and they are still more expensive. Microsoft is consistent and are in the standards business. As unreliable there reputation, they are actually pretty reliable. Vista tried to implement similar Mac limitations and people cried foul, but paid no heed to Apple. Apple users say they don’t like the extra BS that Micrsoft has running in the backround (you know the ones you don’t know are running in the back round of apple but they wont show you unless you hack it) but admire the little stuff apple comes with. There so nice ^_^ The list goes on, Apple is the one that would love to charge you for every change you make on your system. Prevent you from using any other programs if they don’t like it. And nearly every commercial Apple has come out with was a blatant lie if you researched into it. If I’m wrong, tell me please. Prove me wrong.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Double Amputee Sprinter Cleared For Olympic Competition

    By Posted on 5.16.2008 30 Comments

    Its about time. After an excruciating and absurd debate, double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete in the Olympics. Pistorius won his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport today which immediately overturned an asinine ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federations which stated Pistorius gained an unfair advantage from his prosthetics.

    5.17.2008 at 02:26am - Comment by allimar

    his new ankle may be 20-30% more efficent, but he dosnt have calf muscle to give that extra push, only spring. Regardless he may have an advantage. But if the use of mechanical ligiments is allowed, even passive then I have a link for everyone. http://www.jumpusa.com/poweriser.html If he can use those, I'll use these.

  • Science

    The Commercials Commerce

    By Posted on 5.15.2008 15 Comments

    Im going to be straight with you—if you dont click one of the ads on this page, were all doomed. Maybe not today or tomorrow or next week; but if all those banners and pop-ups and pop-unders and interstitials and nagging floating ads continue to be ignored, or worse, blocked outright, were every one of us in a mess of trouble. Im talking the entire high-flying media world dropping from the sky like flaming meteors. Like it or not, were all in an economic cold war. However, in this one, were fighting against ourselves.

    5.17.2008 at 01:08am - Comment by allimar

    Remember we are still stuck in a greedy and primitive state of economic turmoil. Until we as a society can over-come short minded selfishness we will always have to deal with petty issues such as this.

  • Science

    HP Discovers Potential "God Particle" of Electronics

    By Posted on 4.30.2008 16 Comments

    Silicon Valley is mostly a world of practical technology—applying principles from pure science to create handy gadgets. But today, Hewlett Packard announced a new electrical component born of theoretical physics. The device, a nanoscale component called a "memristor," requires no power to retain data, which it can store more densely than a hard drive and access about as fast as a computers RAM memory—potentially allowing it to replace both components in the future.

    5.10.2008 at 07:04am - Comment by allimar

    Think one day well try and meld our minds with this? and if so... how can you apply to try it out?

  • Science

    Edible Antifreeze

    By Posted on 5.9.2008 3 Comments

    Putting food back in the freezer after it thaws causes ice crystals to grow, imparting the unwelcome crunchy texture and mildew-like taste of freezer burn. Now food chemist Srinivasan Damodaran of the University of WisconsinMadison has derived an edible antifreeze from papaya enzymes and gelatin. His concoction, which stunts ice-crystal growth, promises always-creamy ice cream and juicier T-bones, even after their third trip between icebox and table.

    5.10.2008 at 06:54am - Comment by allimar

    So is this going to be used to freeze humans for long durations?



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