Comment Re:Across the street from where I worked (Score 1) 267
Wind is great on a windy day... The problem is there are lots of days where it isn't windy.
Comment Big mistake in the long run (Score 1, Troll) 267
This situation is ridiculous. Just look at California to see what happens when you go all in on renewables and neglect other forms of generation. Blackouts at 6:30 pm when the sun goes down and there is no wind. Not to mention the insane cost increases of electricity over the past few years.
Renewables are great for supplemental power but not on their own. We also need some nuclear and natural gas to keep the lights on.
Comment Strange choice of software (Score 1, Insightful) 31
MS-DOS, Bitcoin, and React???? These are the important pieces of software that humanity will care about after a nuclear apocalypse? Yeah right...
Comment Why remove the headphone jack? (Score 5, Interesting) 188
I really don't understand why, especially on an enormous phone like the Note and Note Plus, there is any need to remove the headphone jack?
There is a huge amount of space...
Extremely thin headphone jacks are available...
In the past they recognized that consumers wanted this feature...
Why now have they changed their minds?
Comment Kill the notch and add a headphone jack (Score 5, Insightful) 191
I would buy one of the new flagships if they had a headphone jack and didn't have a stupid notch in the top of the screen.
Also I don't need seventeen cameras...
Comment Re:Remember when googles motto was do no evil? (Score 2) 95
Are you for real? Were you around that time a major corporation installed malware on all of their customers computers in the name of DRM?
Comment Re:Dear Canada.... (Score 1) 529
Not that Trudeau... The new one http://justin.ca/
Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63
mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."
Ship Anchor, Not Sabotaging Divers, Possibly Responsible For Outage 43
Nerval's Lobster writes "This week, Egypt caught three men in the process of severing an undersea fiber-optic cable. But Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the reason for the region's slowdowns was not the alleged saboteurs — it was damage previously caused by a ship. On March 22, cable provider Seacom reported a cut in its Mediterranean cable connecting Southern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East and Asia to Europe; it later suggested that the most likely cause of the incident was a ship anchor, and that traffic was being routed around the cut, through other providers. But repairs to the cable took longer than expected, with the Seacom CEO announcing March 23 that the physical capability to connect additional capacity to services in Europe was "neither adequate nor stable enough," and that it was competing with other providers. The repairs continued through March 27, after faults were found on the restoration system; that same day, Seacom denied that the outage could have been the work of the Egyptian divers, but said that the true cause won't be known for weeks. 'We think it is unlikely that the damage to our system was caused by sabotage,' the CEO wrote in a statement. 'The reasons for this are the specific location, distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage and other characteristics of the event.'"
United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."
GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267
Hot on the heels of the Gtk+ 3.8 release comes GNOME 3.8. There are a few general UI improvements, but the highlight for many is the new Classic mode that replaces fallback. Instead of using code based on the old GNOME panel, Classic emulates the feel of GNOME 2 through Shell extensions (just like Linux Mint's Cinnamon interface). From the release notes: "Classic mode is a new feature for those people who prefer a more traditional desktop experience. Built entirely from GNOME 3 technologies, it adds a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen. Each of these features can be used individually or in combination with other GNOME extensions."
Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124
MojoKid writes "There's no doubt that gaming on the Web has improved dramatically in recent years, but Mozilla believes it has developed new technology that will deliver a big leap in what browser-based gaming can become. The company developed a highly-optimized version of Javascript that's designed to 'supercharge' a game's code to deliver near-native performance. And now that innovation has enabled Mozilla to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the browser. As a sort of proof of concept, Mozilla debuted this BananaBread game demo that was built using WebGL, Emscripten, and the new JavaScript version called 'asm.js.' Mozilla says that it's working with the likes of EA, Disney, and ZeptoLab to optimize games for the mobile Web, as well."
Emscripten was previously used to port Doom to the browser.
Comment Re:Well That Was a Depressing Read (Score 1) 388
You have got to be kidding me...
Comment Re:I think I saw Halo? (Score 1) 82
If you look at the credits at the end of the video it clearly states:
In-game footage (order by appearance) Red Eclipse, Super Tux Cart, Halo Anniversary, Worldwide Telescope
In other words Microsoft's concept of the living room of the future includes Master Chief and two FOSS games... Not several, but two.
Comment Bucket brigade??? (Score 1) 231
Why on earth would you put generators on the 18th floor if you don't have a fuel line running up to them... That seems like quite a basic oversight???
