Comment IIRC (Score 1) 207
Wasn't his plan to recruit willing travelers (ne: victims) for a one-way trip?
Comment but.. but...but... (Score 1) 246
Are we absolutely sure that SCSI buses aren't coming back?
Comment I could swear you needed an overthruster for this (Score 1) 212
'Because remember, wherever you go, there you are.'
Comment Form follows function? (Score 1) 64
Why would they make it look like GLaDOS from Portal?
Comment Thumbs Up! (Score 2) 115
So now a whole new generation will know the pain that comes from mashing that disc (especially on Lock-n-Chase).
-Better yet, a new after market opportunity for the peel-&-stick joystick to avoid the pain.
Jump those alligators kids!
Comment Standard Bearer (Score 1) 99
At one time, Opera lead the way on web standards compliance.
Less compliant browsers like IE seemed to have websites catering to their flaws.
Then, somewhere along the way, it seems that browser development started wagging the dog (and driving standard development all the more).
I was an early Opera adopter... then I floundered for a bit until Vivaldi came out (Thank you Jon!)
The current Opera's VPN does interest me... but yada-yada chinese trojans
Comment Re:Blue Voice of Death? (Score 1) 101
Yes, but it wouldn't be as cool; trade-offs I guess.
I suppose my android phone could be considered a potential open mic even if I don't have "OK Google" enabled.
Comment Blue Voice of Death? (Score 1) 101
Seriously though, I've always wanted the Star Trek experience of being able to ask "Computer" a question or to perform a task but the reality of having an open mic in my house gives me pause.
Comment Current Events (Score 1) 74
The lion's share of this data is WAY out of date. Many of those stars don't even exist anymore. Where's the Echelon when you need them?
Submission + - Graphene Optical Lens a Billionth of a Meter Thick Breaks the Diffraction Limit (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: With the development of photonic chips and nano-optics, the old ground glass lenses can't keep up in the race toward miniaturization. In the search for a suitable replacement, a team from the Swinburne University of Technology has developed a graphene microlens one billionth of a meter thick that can take sharper images of objects the size of a single bacterium and opens the door to improved mobile phones, nanosatellites, and computers.
Comment Re:Kerbal Space Program! (Score 2) 669
Can't recommend KSP enough!
I had never played a sandbox game (although now playing in career mode).
This game takes game/simulation into the realm of hobbyist/enthusiast. I've now had a crash-course (pardon pun) in astro-navigation in Newtonian physics.
You will want to install the Scott Manley list of mods to get the full effect- which is beautiful btw.
The community is active, the developers commited and it looks like the push is for deep space.
I also still play Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein, a game now over ten years old(!) still great FPS fun.
I had never played a sandbox game (although now playing in career mode).
This game takes game/simulation into the realm of hobbyist/enthusiast. I've now had a crash-course (pardon pun) in astro-navigation in Newtonian physics.
You will want to install the Scott Manley list of mods to get the full effect- which is beautiful btw.
The community is active, the developers commited and it looks like the push is for deep space.
I also still play Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein, a game now over ten years old(!) still great FPS fun.
Comment Those damn Sleestaks from the the future... (Score 1) 153
...they're gonna take all of our jobs!
Submission + - Has LHC seen a hint of the Higgs? (nature.com)
gbrumfiel writes: "Researchers at two detectors at the Large Hadron Collider are seeing something unusual. The signal is faint, but it could be from the long-sought Higgs particle. The Higgs is part of the mechanism that gives other particles mass, and it also unifies the electromagnetic and electroweak forces. No one is willing to declare it found just yet, but the new data from the CMS and ATLAS detectors are an independent, "tantalizing" hint of what's to come. The results were presented today at HEP-2011 in Grenoble, France."
Comment What they aren't mentioning... (Score 1) 322
...is the high frequency signal being aimed at Jupiter.
...and now back to Am-a-zon-Wo-men...on, -the moon.
Submission + - State Rep honors local volunteers (patgeorge.org)
riverrunner10 writes: Rep Pat George honors KC volunteers for the contribution to the community — including KC businessman Dan Tasset who started the Integral Life Foundation to develop young leaders.
