@MrFluffyThing: true. true.

@vinod1978: I don't think you understand the central idea. God made the world. He makes the rules. You obey, you win. You disobey you loose. That's pretty normal. Heck if your computer had a program that wasn't doing what you wanted, you'd delete it right?

@thedarkerside.to: secrets are needed. it's important to elect people that we can trust to be secret yet have integrity.

@Ninja Nemo: good point. that probably played a huge factor. Kinda like the 12 issues of obama last year

@thedarkerside.to: really? Gutenberg invented letters? that's funny. No. What he did was engineer a machine capable of sliding in letters, and was smart enough to commercialize it.

@vinod1978: have you read it? it's THE most popular book ever. you should give it a try.

@xhedgehogx: 7

@kaffenated: I think you might have stopped when Obama made the cover like 12 times las year, only to basically do nothing as president. (so far, of course. but it's getting late)

sure facebook took 7 years, but 2010 was the year Mark Zuckerberg became a household name everybody knows. Not so in 2009. So, the article is just rambling filler in my mind.

@NeoTechni: I agree. I'm all for conversational, casual etc, but as an opening line that was just lame. I felt like a jr high kid with no literary creativity was speaking. I'm ok with it when it is clever or funny or just plain the best way to say it, but in this case, it really was out of place and kinda lame.

wow, actually the forward flip was the most efficient and safe way to do that. He knew what he's doing.

@zer0sh1k1: I used to have that gif as my computers background heheh

@Tokae: if they killed the guy to take his stem cells, wouldn't that be a problem for you? wouldn't it be??? yeah, I thought so, so shut up.

@2 replies: a guy gets cured of HIV and all you can think about is trying to start a fight with like 50 people in the whole world who like HIV? or maybe you mean the stem cells? well, they were adult stem cells, so no conflict there at all.

@Cribbage Left: first of all, films were always 24, not twenty five, and cartoons were always about 15, and they seemed like motion. That's not the rate of capture though. If you make a movie at 75 fps, and insert red dots for just one frame every now and then, a 25 fps camera would catch them about a third of the…

@Lunarll: I sure hope they have sense enough to make it robotic. it's almost 2011!! we shouldn't have to get out of our cars to refuel.

10000 /400 = 25 fps that the human eye can capture? wrong. I can easily see the difference between 50 and 100 fps. I imagine the eye's "frame rate" is a function of the time it takes to register a difference on a rod or cone, and the time it takes the signal to propagate through the neurons. However, with the eye…

@The Lab: just curious, are you talking about 0 * 3 = 0 ??

I think if they teamed with boston dynamics they'd come up with something. It's no so much learning patterns of muscle activation, it's more about having a general goal and then dynamically adapting to whatever variations you encounter.

@QLAB: The fact that I don't keep on arguing with you means NOTHING, except that this is GIZMODO, not some political forum. Did you see the new cat-directed movie? latest kinect hack? cheers, and Merry Christmas