Comment my last (Score -1) 393
my last nvidia card 4 sure!
i hope intel's larabee is going to kick nvidia to pulp :P
Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year 1073
N!NJA sends in a proposal that is sure to cause some discussion, especially among students and teachers. Obama and his education secretary say that American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage in comparison to other students around the globe. "'Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,' the president said earlier this year. 'Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.' 'Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. ... 'Young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here,' Duncan told the AP. 'I want to just level the playing field.' ... Kids in the US spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the US on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days)."
Retrievable iPhone Numbers Raise Privacy Issue 146
TechnologyResource writes "When a couple of voicemails didn't show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if I'd gotten his message — people just don't call me that often. But the iPhone is indeed a phone, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app they've downloaded from the App Store. The application in question, mogoRoad, is a real-time traffic monitoring application. As invasive and despicable as that sounds, it raises another question: how did the company get hold of the contact information for those users? Mogo claims the details were provided by Apple, but Apple doesn't disclose that information to App Store vendors. French site Mac 4 Ever did some digging (scroll down for the English version) and determined it was possible — even easy — for an app to retrieve the phone number of a unit on which it was installed."
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute 150
pickens writes "In a victory for Fair Use, Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project has announced that the estate of 20th century literary giant James Joyce, author of the landmark novel Ulysses, has agreed to pay $240,000 in attorneys' fees to Stanford University Consulting Professor Carol Shloss and her counsel in connection with Shloss's lawsuit to establish her right to use copyrighted material in her scholarship on the literary work of James Joyce. When Shloss used copyrighted materials in her biography of Joyce's daughter Lucia, titled Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, she had to excise a substantial amount of source material from the book in response to threats from the Joyce Estate. However following publication of the book, Shloss sued the Estate to establish her right to publish the excised material. The parties reached a settlement regarding the issue in 2007, permitting the publication of the copyrighted material in the US. Following the settlement, Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay attorneys' fees of more than $400,000. She has now agreed to accept an immediate payment of $240,000 in return for the dismissal of the Estate's appeal. 'This case shows there are solutions to the problem Carol Shloss faced other than simple capitulation,' says Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone, who led the litigation team."
Comment my nephew (Score -1) 358
my nephew spend a grand total of 500euro's in one year, he even snatched his dad's credit card on which he billed 200euro's!
i don't pay for down-loadable content and neither should anyone else, there should really be laws against trivial billing.
Comment sometimes make fun in stores (Score -1) 650
sometimes i make fun in stores of the sales people by getting other people to buy a better laptop for far less than the salesperson wants them to ship off with.
someone actually gave me 100euro's on the 200euro's i saved him :P
allot of stores have new laptops priced lower than older ones with better specs, sales people rather sell an overpriced outdated model than a new one with better specifications.
Comment Re:Someone is gonna open it. (Score 0) 501
u can cause the chipset to send false data.
on blackhat it will be cracked within seconds.
Comment Re:Not Quite. (Score 0) 253
the original use of the phrase, was applied to physical properties not intellectual.
Comment Re:Not Quite. (Score 0, Troll) 253
fittest is technically speaking physical fitness.
and in evolution survival of the fittest does not apply to intellect, as in other species the most intelligent one usually lose (why there are no talking lions (lol).
Comment Re:Not Quite. (Score -1) 253
in human evolution survival of the fittest hardly applies, as we aren't the fittest animal out there we simply outthink our enemies which defies survival of the fittest...
as the stronger lose when in equal numbers, against a intellectual superior.
Comment Re:Someone is gonna open it. (Score 1) 501
you don't even need to open it if it's got USB ports or any kind of ports ;)
Comment Re:so your boss? (Score 1) 164
not in my book ]:)
grab your torch and pitch forks!
héhé
Comment so your boss? (Score 1) 164
so your boss is guilty for your dementia, now that's fucked up (lol)
Comment every platform (Score 1) 1124
every platform should have their own native user interface, windows is no exception to linux/osx and possible others.
why people get their panties in a knot about something as insignificant as this, is beyond me.
Comment penmenship doesn't matter (Score 1) 857
penmenship doesn't matter here is 1 reason why:
it's worse on your hands than a mouse or keyboard.
why keyboards won't fade even with touch is simply because writing by hand, is bad for your hands and bad for your eyes as it requires far more strain on your eyes (looking at back-lit devices puts extra strain on your eyes)
math should be done in writing, only because it's faster but text is wholly unimportant and the movements for it are completely unnatural (unlike educated use of a keyboard. which due to the use of board games over several centuries have caused us to be far more naturally adept towards than writing by hand.)
and to nostalgia freaks: writing with a pen is about as new as modern as the computer (only the elite of europe used to write in the 17th trough the 18th century).
writing text is too inefficient to proceed doing it by hand, eventually keyboards will faid and our minds will be the input device until then keyboards are here to stay (especially on touchpad devices)
