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    Roomba Patent Solves Pesky Corner-Cleaning Problem With Simple Geometry

    Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba

    Roomba Monkey - The Missing Link in your Living Room
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/26/09

    In reply to Roomba Patent Solves Pesky Corner-Cleaning Problem With Simple Geometry
    with as many third world countries and their starving orphans -- i don't see how people all still don't have their own housekeeper. c'mon guys. do your part. just like madonna.
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    Image of Atriel Atriel
    05/26/09

    In reply to Roomba Patent Solves Pesky Corner-Cleaning Problem With Simple Geometry
    I was thinking of getting a roomba at one point, 'cause the dyson i really want to replace my old beat up vacuum with is so expensive (Plus, screw my housemates, I want my room vacuumed). Now though it just doesn't seem worth it.
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    05/26/09

    @Atriel: You could have picked up a 530 on Woot! the other day for $129...


    Totally worth it, I don't care if they come out with a newer better one TOMORROW...

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    Image of Troy Foster Troy Foster
    05/26/09

    In reply to Roomba Patent Solves Pesky Corner-Cleaning Problem With Simple Geometry
    why not just make a roomba in the shape of a Reuleaux triangle. Put the little sweeper thing in a corner of the triangle and work out some algorithms to have it be able to track its way through, cleaning out square corners perfectly.
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    05/26/09

    @Troy Foster: quit being so obtuse...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    05/26/09

    In reply to Roomba Patent Solves Pesky Corner-Cleaning Problem With Simple Geometry
    Well, it does provide a larger more comfortable area for your cats to sleep on.
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    Image of Trevor The Great Trevor The Great
    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    I torrented it yesterday, watched it, loved it, and bought it.
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    03/05/09

    @TrevorTheGreat:

    Lol, and that is a point the TPB were trying to make.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    03/05/09

    @TheCrudMan:


    But it's a broken point. So music, movies and books are "okay" to sample before buying in their eyes ... so what's to be said about food, houses, vehicles, and vacation packages?

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    Image of cardboredbox cardboredbox
    03/05/09

    @dead_red_eyes: You don't visit houses or take a car for a test drive before you buy it? try harder next time
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    03/05/09

    @cardboredbox:


    It's people like you that are fucking it up for the rest of us. Congratulations.


    As far as test driving a car goes, do I get to keep said car for as long as I want to before I buy?


    No.


    As far as visiting houses goes, do I get to move all my shit in and test out the showers, hot water heater, water softener, sinks, toilets, oven, stove, washer, dryer for as long as I want to before I pay?


    No.


    Try harder next time.

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    Image of everfade everfade
    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    C'mon Fox, bring Futurama back. There is a severe shortage of alcoholic, foul-mouthed robots on the television nowadays.
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    03/05/09

    @everfade: One more thing, they should release a set with all four movies.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba

    we need to go out and buy the DVD and Blu-ray if we want to bring Futurama back

    Thats the reasons I get more pissed then normal when there is a comment made about just "getting the torrent" for the Futurama movies. They obviously care enough about the show to bother downloading the torrent and watch it in the first place so go buy the damn DVD so that you might actually get more.

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    Image of huginn huginn
    03/05/09

    @tande04: went out and just bought the dvd on that comment alone. And I hope I'm not the only one who did.
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    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    It either that or "Catbane"
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    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    Calypso - after Jean-Luc Picard's captain's yacht.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/05/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: On the D. The Captain's Gig on the E was the "Costeau". That one was actually seen in the third TNG movie.
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    David Cohen afraid of robots? Never! Bender is about entertainment baby!
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/05/09

    @admoseremic:


    As a die-hard FARTer, I disagree.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/05/09

    In reply to Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba
    I call mine "The Cat Magnet", as it both attracts them, and repels them.


    I'm surprised Groening owns one after the one Simpsons episode where Bart turned a whole room of them evil after discovering them in the gift bags Lenny had gotten for everyone after winning the lottery, which Homer should have one if he wasn't distracted by Bart.

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    Image of CaptMoose CaptMoose
    03/05/09

    @uɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ_GitEmSteveDave:Mine is named Roomberto.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    03/05/09

    @CaptMoose:
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    03/05/09

    @Scotland: I sewed a cloth "bumper" for mine so it wouldn't scratch itself on things.
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