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You guys talking throughput are missing the point. If the cost per person is $20 it can and will scale once it's been a proven technology.

Yep. Half of my friends organize any group events on facebook and it's so easy. All the douchefags who can't get the date/location right are the ones who aren't able to work a facebook account.

I think Szilia just jumped the gun and picked a bad horse to ride before thinking about it but he'll be damned if he gets off it. Bottom line is if people can pay $20 for a 30minute 600 mile journey with reasonable safety assurances they will. And that doesn't even get into the potential...

Yes. She looks like a talentless Tarantino.

I think your assertion is false. People would ride this shit all day long.

All the cool shit that would enable a WallE like scenario would enable a whole bunch of other cool shit that would counteract the laziness. Regarding the user experience of being in an aluminum tube being shot around at 700mph, who cares as long as it's for 30m and it has wifi.

shut up take my money

My friend wants an Xbone because his kids like his kinect and he thinks the kinect2 will be a huge improvement. So there's that.

Getting increasingly excited about this game but still a little tentative about it. It seems ambitious to try and mix a character as powerful as you were in prototype with a GTA style game. In prototype every mission was 'fly around to here and basically explode everything', but you need more in...

Good catch. when he was looking into the mirror I figured there was some symbolism there but I didn't catch onto the ozymandius poem.

hahaha AAAAAAAAA was good too

Ever take a train or a plane? Or a boat for that matter. Or a car.

Yeah I don't get the motivation to argue that virtually every poll on this subject is illegitimate for one reason or another. They probably aren't representative of first month sales projections for reasons that Khalid and Vaclav mentioned, but the polls all agree that Xbone is very undesirable...

To me the exciting thing is that if they can make a usable first version of this it's possible to iterate on it and make continuously faster versions. With air travel you can make it faster until you're flying around in an SR71, but if you can control the air density things open up. Like...

One time I was mowing the law and a jumping spider parachuted on my foot, bit me then leapt off to safety. It was one of these little guys: Regarding the blow dryer on the bug bites, a hot spoon works well too and is probably easier/less painful. Just heat up a cup of water and let the...

Feel free to make your own poll. A multiple choice poll for the three next-gen gaming machines was the correct choice.

Great episode. Really glad they progressed the walt vs hank story this far in this episode. Walt is still an idiot for having that book and I think it's uncharacteristic for him to have it. But I think Walt played his hand well by confronting Hank about it and provoking Hank into threatening to...

At the moment a good comparison would be flying cars. Not saying it won't work, just that it hasn't revolutionized or evolved anything yet.

It's mostly elevated on concrete pylons (to reduce footprint).

There goes my hyperloop bumper car game idea =( Anyone spend the time or see an article picking apart the numbers and assumptions made in the paper? It's hard to care that much until it's peer reviewed to some degree.

Depending on the air pressure inside the tube + the clearance between the capsule and the tube I wonder how much air pressure would build up if a high speed capsule were to approach a stopped capsule. Either way I don't see how braking would be a big problem here.

Isn't it basically the same as the xbox360 controller with just a few modifications?

The idea probably works, but I'm skeptical on it being inexpensive enough to be feasible.

In addition to a bunch of other stuff I feel like the movie needed a few scenes showing the incredible capacity the citizens of Elysium had to improve life on Earth but didn't because 'fuck those guys'. In addition to the bacta tanks they could've demonstrated food generation tech, air/water...

I can't think of any polls where XBone was > 20%. I'm betting that'll change as we get closer to release and the groups polled gets bigger.

Look at that epic peanut bag throw.

She looked better with the stars!

Despising symbolism in film is pretty crippling to most great films.

Here I was thinking that there was some kind of fucked up masculinity test that men did in France where they stole a woman's shoe!

Would be interesting to see the equations for how many lumens they think a small plant can sustain every night.

Both were about class wars but Elysium was much more focused in a variety of ways. Most prominent was that it was humans vs humans instead of humans vs prawns.

yeah what test is being passed here?

Sentinel looks terrible. You couldn't design a dumber looking bipedal robot.

startedplaying X3:Albion last night. Not sure about it yet. I felt pretty inconsequential in the only big fight I was in so I tried making money in the stock market. 12mill later I wanted to set up some sector/universal traders. So I fly to PTNI HQ and go to buy a transport ship so I can give it...

SR2 on PC was fine. I actually enjoyed it more than SR3.

bullshit yes/no ? http://www.science20.com/news_articl...tective-118120