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I have had both old time and recent experience with ecollegepc. TLDR: I have been extremely happy with them, and this is over the course of about 20 years they've been in business. More fun to build your own, and cheaper too, but not by as much as many other SIs. Plus, their quality has always been ...

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I have both Roomba and two dogs. I have never had that problem. In case of dog accidents we have trained our dogs to go on pads (which we keep down for them, just in case). The Roomba virtual walls nicely block roomba from rolling into those pads if there were ever anything there to run into. Actual...

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Someone has constructed an LED that puts out 2.3 times as much energy as you put into it...it will be interesting to see if they find any way to scale this technology. It could at least, perhaps be adapted for use as a kind of heat sink. The LED produces 69 picowatts of light using 30 picowatts of p...

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Mine was "Alien" with my parents, at age 6. Because some parents care enough to give the gift of nightmares.

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I'm not a big anime fan at all - in fact, I'd say most of it just plain doesn't interest me. However, you mentioned Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In The Shell, which I consider excellent and amazing both, so I'd mention the third anime series that piqued my fascination: Fullmetal Alchemist. I haven't seen...

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I interpreted the question to be one of real life, not a video game, and that either outcome required some sort of action on my part. Interesting interpretations though. I can see why you took it that way, but if it's intended to ask how we'd act in real life, then why introduce the video game elem...

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emorgoch wrote:
Not sure what I missed on the train question. Kill 1 person, or kill 5. Seems like a pretty obvious answer...

It is, but depending on whether you are a Kantian or a non-Kantian, you get a different obvious answer.

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Happily, a pretty good suggested explanation has been found:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685

A description of the proposed solution:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27260/

Common Sensei

For those of you who are so inclined: Here's the preprint of their article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897v1 which I have yet to read. I certainly agree with everyone that we need to be skeptical. In fact, I had a decidedly negative emotional reaction when I first read the claim (even though emotion...

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I like Shakespeare's works, in general, and have always been interested in the theories of alternate authorship that have surrounded them. It's like the debate over who the "Dark Lady" might have been. I don't really see it as any nefarious conspiracy of the weak minded to turn him into a ...

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The speed of light may have been broken (and using neutrinos, which have mass, at that). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8782895/CERN-scientists-break-the-speed-of-light.html If this finding holds up, it really shakes up modern physics in a major way, since it means the theory of relativity is on...

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dashbarron wrote:
flip-mode wrote:
I thought Momento was creepy.

Weird. Someone just recommended that I watch this. I had never heard of it before.

Memento was not that creepy, imo. Great movie, and there's some creepy characters in it, but in the end it's a mystery.

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Fighthouse wrote:
roont wrote:
Human Centipede.

Saw this one a couple of weeks ago, and I wish I didn't.

I agree. Human Centipede was my first thought, since I don't think the video "two girls, one cup" qualifies as a "movie." Definitely something I wish I could unsee.

Common Sensei

I too once suffered from a case of SWG. I was in the beta, I unlocked my Jedi within about two months after the first Jedi started appearing (I managed to go through only about 20 professions thank heavens...but many of them were in the nature of the dreaded Image Designer (aka Hairstylist and make-...

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Just look for girls in the regular places. If you meet enough of them you'll eventually be able to figure out if they have the qualities for which you are looking. 'Geek Dating' is an oxymoron. Being a geek doesn't automatically make you introverted. And even if the odds say it does, being introver...

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In this case stephen hawking is a bit of a ninny. First off any speciies capable of making a giant space ship able to get to us would not come this way because unlike what many think our sun is a pile of crap. They would go to a much more useful solar system more likely to have life. Secondly what ...

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There's the disconnect. I don't go to auction sites to "get a deal". I go there to buy hard to find items. Auctions aren't about bargains for me, never have been. But I'm still not convinced that sniping gets you a deal, but whatever makes you guys feel good works for me. Again, it's beca...

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I don't understand sniping. Why not just bid the maximum you are willing to spend and leave it at that? There are a few reasons, I think. First, say you bid your maximum. Few people on eBay actually do that. Say that only you and one other guy are bidding (to simplify)The other bidder will typicall...

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Makes sense to me. I wanted to kill myself about halfway into the movie, when I asked my gf to leave and she said "no, I like it."

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Apocalypse Now. Not to say that it a bad film in every respect, just overrated. Since it starts with Heart of Darkness and makes marts of that dull, it clearly has issues. The clear winner of "most" overrated must be Star Wars. That is one I can only watch through memory-colored glasses. V...

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Dizik wrote:
I thought that the trailer for Iron Man 2 was worthy of a thread necro. If not, feel free to split it into it's own topic.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/

Now if you'll excuse me, I need a tissue.

Please, dear God, someone tell me he is just wiping away tears.

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Captain Ned wrote:
Arguing over the import of plot holes ...

We are all truly nerds.

And I thought Dark Knight was entertaining . Don't even get me started on the movies I really didn't care for.

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- Batman announces that he's going after Rachel, and Gordon goes after Harvey. Except batman goes after Harvey and Gordon after Rachel. Did they coorrdinate the change by cell phone off camera? Wouldn't that have been a bit aof a waste of time given that they'd have to reroute and head to the new l...

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- When the prisoners cross the River by ferry, though, it's a HUGE river. In fact, it is so huge that when they board the ferry as part of an emergency evacuation it is daylight out, yet they are still on the ferry and still croissing the river at midnight. That is either a very big river, a very s...

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dark knight > titanic I think the full relation is: titanic < dark knight < good Granted that I am a bit picky with movies, but whoever wrote Dark Knight really just phoned it in in places. The performances were great, but the holes and omissions in the plot were distracting to me. For example, Jok...

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JC looks to have pulled off another winner...can't wait to see it. 8) http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/11/avatar.cameron.critics/index.html Really? You're excited to see Dances with Wolves in Space ? I'd pay $50 to see Kevin Costner forced to perform Dances with Wolves in a near perfect va...

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steelcity_ballin wrote:
persnickety.

You mean pernickety, the "s" is an unusual corruption of the Scottish word.

I'd vote for blackguard if only for its especially odd pronunciation ("blaggerd" or "blaggard").

Common Sensei

When I first rose up the ranks enough to get my own private office, I bought a coat rack (as the office didn't come with one) and placed it in the corner. The next day I came to work and my coat rack was gone. I asked around and found that someone had put it in storage as they thought it was one of ...

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If you are willing to go to $60 a head, you can get them the Wow Putter:

http://nerdapproved.com/misc-gadgets/the-wow-putter/

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It's also similar to Lost in Space...and since the goal is to make it highly episodic, Lost in Space may indeed be the stringer reference. That would make semi-sinister, self-important Dr. Rush the less caricaturish, less homosexual analogue of Dr. Smith.

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