Wanky voice over, but pretty awesome tech *promote.

Not just snuff, but pretty appalling snuff.

Most of those made perfect sense to me... but pretty funny, regardless.

>> ^chilaxe:

@Yogi "Person shoves you against a car...you don't push back?"
I believe all humans, even the person in this video, are able to understand that the state has a monopoly on the use of force.
Disputes with an arresting officer can be taken up after the fact. Resisting arrest often results in personal injury --even if you claim you're not resisting, or that the officer doesn't the right to arrest you, etc.
Something that could never happen to a thinking person isn't a tragedy.


In my experience a thinking person turns into a complete idiot when stressed enough. Actually not just my experience but pretty much every experiment that's dealt with people people under a stressful situation to see how they react.

Looks like half of those he just set up some balls and put a ton of spin on the ball to see what happens. It's cool when he uses sticks and triangles as obstacles, but pretty lame when he uses them to funnel balls into a pocket.

>> ^Skeeve:

Not Jim Carrey, but pretty good


Well whoever this nutjob is, he's good.

Not Jim Carrey, but pretty good

I'm not usually a fan of his stuff either, he usually plays it like the GOP are the bad guys and overlooks the fact that while Democrats say better things, they continue (and escalate) the wars, the lobbying, the wealth extraction, the environmental destruction etc. He occasionally picks up on this, but pretty rarely it seems, which leads me to believe there's some agenda there. Also I'm against this 'fair and balanced' type of news/media, where for some reason, every debate must involve someone with their head buried so far in the corporate think tank they may as well just be a Frank Luntz manikin that repeats talking points on request.

Also, I don't really know why people feel the need to debate the motives of the Tea Party, they only came out with their signs because they were organised and funded by think tank GOP groups (tax exempt 501(c)(4)'s)/billionaire individuals/Fox News. So their motivations are irrelevant as they were literally coached and coerced into doing what they did.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Steampunk-Pumpkins/

Not a carved pumpkin, but pretty dang cool.

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It's only been about 6 months for me, but I'm still using my iPad 2 heavily - can't see that changing in a year. Definitely not a perfect device but pretty damn useful for Kindle, movies, web browsing and games. I'm typing on it now.>> ^spoco2:

As far as I'm concerned (And I have three tablets in my desk at work, an iPad1, and iPad2 and a Xoom, and I write apps for them), they're all useless lumps really. I have zero desire to have one. My thoughts are pretty much exactly as per this Engadget article
The sad thing is that Microsoft had the design and functionality damn spot on with their Courier device. THAT, with the stylus and interface/note taking etc. etc. really WOULD have been a useful device. Something that would have replaced the stack of notepads I have at work.
But no, they scrapped it
I don't care how huge this tablet market currently is, what I'd like to know is how many people are regularly using theirs a year after getting it...

*lies, but pretty accent.

Not scary but pretty sure my allergies started acting up watching this.

Not really a fan of the commentary, but pretty much anything Starcraft related is an upvote from me.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Yeah, I figured it'd be a key sitting outside someone's house rather than a massive collection. But if they're this quick to dismiss the people's concerns with the FD, it's only a matter of time before they claim they're acting for the "citizen's safety" and give it to the PD.

But they didn't actually quickly dismiss them. I'm guessing you skipped a lot of the comments (which I can't blame you for doing), but obviously the video up top was essentially a political ad put forth by the opposition to the law.

If you want to see the whole thing (and unless you're nuts like me, you really don't), there's the full meeting of the final vote:

http://agenda.cedarfalls.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=105&doctype=AGENDA

Note, that's a meeting that took place weeks after the meeting this video contains excerpts of, which was the 2nd reading of the bill (apparently they have to read & vote bills 3 times before it becomes law). In that 2nd reading meeting, the opposition makes themselves look like total morons. In the one I just linked, they put a pretty good face forward, but pretty much still wind up defeated (IMO) by the counterarguments.

And yes, Hitler was indeed invoked at one point.

What I mean is, the renderer, the part of the engine that powers all the visuals is not the native unreal engine renderer. It was rewritten by 3D Realms, so the "unreal ugliness" isn't there, it's "DNF ugliness" . The "plasticy" or "plastic wrap" look that was coined during the Doom 3 era, has little to do with the engine but the artists.

Just because Epic is endorsed by nvidia, doesn't mean they purposefully ruin the experience for ATI cards. That's like saying since ATI endorsed Half Life 2, Source has been purposefully made to not work with nvidia cards properly.

I believe they've fixed the AA issue on new versions. Batman has AA, DNF has AA and the new DX11 AA looks great. Keep in mind, a lot of games take years to develop and by the time it releases, the engine can be a bit dated. Homefront for instance? That version of unreal is 3 years old.

The engine is not without it's flaws (IE: without serious modification, the default player movement code for a first person game, imo, feels awful. Not Metro 2033 awful, but pretty bad) but it's constantly being updated and improved. The reason why developers use it is because it's tool set is fantastically good. It makes development so much easier, unless you're a programmer unfamiliar with Unreal's way of wanting to be written. And developing on PS3... which I hear might've also been improved.