Comment Re:Release the Kraken! (Score 2) 262
... the consumer is the loser...
Unless, of course, she is also a lawyer...
Comment Re:How about a mobile apps to notify the public? (Score 1) 100
The latest information I know of is listed here:
http://reentrynews.aero.org/1991063b.html
and it's usually about 12 hours out of date (at least that was the case few years ago).
Comment Re:Go (Score 1) 250
Exactly. I stopped reading right at that sentence.
Comment Re:Sueing others for being copycats... (Score 1) 345
Fine, what about this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html
Another good example of Apple "innovation".
Submission + - 17 year old tablet looks just like an iPAD (dailymail.co.uk) 2
cababunga writes:
They will weigh under 2lbs; they will be totally portable; they will have a clarity of screen display comparable to ink on paper; they will be able to blend text, video, audio and graphics all together; and they will be a part of our daily lives about the turn of the century.
... have rectangular screen, black frame and rounded corners.
Comment Re:Non-ionizing (Score 1) 212
Buggy Slashdot. You have to expand all ancestors to have clicks go to links.
Comment Re:Non-ionizing (Score 2) 212
That would be a very inefficient brain. Here, I found couple pictures for you:
http://www.strokecolorado.org/Graphics/brain-side.jpg
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/brain.gif
Comment Re:Non-ionizing (Score 1) 212
Not a good example. Nobody asking you to stick your head in a pot with boiling water to prove your point.
Comment Re:Non-ionizing (Score 1) 212
The scans showed a high concentration of glycose -- a blob in the image -- right next to where the antenna was, and only normal levels elsewhere in the head.
I wonder if the antenna was incidentally located close to the area of the brain responsible for processing of the audio signal, which might also be emitted by the phone.
Comment Re:Pretty but... (Score 1) 86
(Why the readme file is README.md, I can't guess.)
Comment Re:10 full time years? (Score 1) 249
The other interesting calculation is that about 10e6*1.6/25 = 640000 litters of fuel were burned on his behalf by aircraft.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/cC/page_277.shtml
Comment Re:When Is A Company.... (Score 1) 276
He often tells me: "Dad, you know, I remember my old days when all Nooks were B&W". :D
Comment Re:What are the burial plans? (Score 1) 90
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or
source
if using C-shell
Comment Re:Office 356? (Score 2) 137
That's because it was only half of the joke. The other half is that you get 635 days of up time on a two-year contract.
Comment Re:So, will he continue to use Opera? (Score 1) 222
Opera has more than 200 million users (on desktop and mobile combined), so I think they're doing pretty well as it is.
If that was true, then 2% market share of Opera would mean 10 billion web users total.
