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Comment Everyone loves Mr. Potato Head (Score 2) 277

by forgot_my_username (#37481956) Attached to: Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO
According to Wikipedia:
As Hasbro's Playskool Division General Manager, she oversaw global management and marketing of two children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head starting in January 1997. She also imported the UK's children's television show Teletubbies into the U.S.[17]

NOT ONLY Mr. Potato Head, BUT teletubbies too!!

I can not think of someone better qualified to bring HP out of it's nose dive... than the manager of Mr. Potato Head's manager.
Clear sailing for HP

Man, I really hope HP can pull it out... it was always one of my favorite companies, oh well...

Comment Re:Well damn (Score 4, Funny) 47

by forgot_my_username (#37148128) Attached to: Alaskan Village's Orange Goo Was Fungal Spores
But you can't cause you just posted... damn... now, I can't as well.
Ok, so Sarah Palin, a polar bear, and a cup of orange fungus spores walk into a bar...
They all saddle up to the bar for a drink.
The polar bear looks at Palin and then says to the orange fungus spores... I guess they will serve anyone here
Sarah Palin then blurts out "I'm a frayed knot!"



you didn't say it had to be a good joke.

Comment Re:I've got only one question: (Score 2) 722

by forgot_my_username (#36809292) Attached to: Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White'

I've got only one question:

What are the colors of the roofs on Clinton's various properties?

eh? Who cares...
How many doctor's smoke or are alcoholics?
That doesn't mean that smoking is good for you.
It also doesn't mean that alcohol is good for you.
(heh... btw there are exceptions to both of the above sentences)

Look past whatever is blinding you to good advice.
Geeze.

Submission + - Brazil Doesn't Blow off Earth Day (allvoices.com) 1

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: Even though it's an annual event, People have a tendency to just blow it off the day after. In Brazil though, the tendencies are different. The emerging country has some good going on with programs abound and other things that warrant the attention of James Cameron and Sigorney Weaver (who I still can't get over). In any event, as the day has come and gone the people of Brazil still wants the planet to survive.
Piracy

Submission + - Secret 'Text' of ACTA to be Released (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: After a meeting in New Zealand last week, 10 participant countries and the European Union have announced that they will release for the first time confidential 'bracketed text' of their deliberations in crafting the language for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The ACTA may impact the transportation, distribution or delivery of digital property.

Submission + - Consoles Last Gasp: Kojima Predits (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: Konami founder and developer Hideo Kojima predicts gaming console is a dying breed. Anticipates gaming on demand via Internet. "It's a bold prediction," Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Hiroshi Kawano told reporters nervously. "We hope he continues to develop for platforms, but we deeply respect his sense of taking on a challenge." Kojima launches his follow-up game Heavy Metal Solid Gear: Peace Walker in late April designed for the PSP.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 changed to Google (digitizor.com)

Submitted by kai_hiwatari
kai_hiwatari writes: Sometime back Canonical decided to change the default search in Firefox that comes Ubuntu 10.04 to Yahoo! from Google. In a surprising turn-around, Canonical have decided to ditch Yahoo! for Google. Rick Spencer from Canonical announced that Google will now be the default Firefox search in Ubuntu 10.04, not Yahoo! as was previously decided.
This flip-flop by Canonical between Yahoo! and Google raises the question if there is some sort of bidding going on behind the scene or if it has anything to do with the partnership that Yahoo! entered into with Microsoft earlier.
Medicine

Submission + - A New "Medical Lab on a Chip" For Every Home? (hplusmagazine.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: NWU professor Chad Mirkin discusses his company's new "lab-on-a-chip" technology — the ability to automatically treat a blood sample with chemicals on a microchip, quickly detecting markers for diseases and other anomalies. The quick "bio-barcode" test creates the possibility of a medical diagnostic system in every home, since it offers greater sensitivity than current tests with simpler instruments and at lower costs. "And that means you no longer have to rely on these remote labs with this big bulky instrumentation... People 100 years from now will say, ''These guys were in the Stone Age.'" This is not a futuristic technology; four tests already have received FDA clearances, so "They're here... It's in hospitals around the country. Really, what we are waiting for is just an increasing menu [of tests]... It will scale rapidly."
Graphics

Submission + - Nvidia Admits Fermi GPU Supply Problems (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou
Stoobalou writes: Nvidia CEO Jen-hsun Huang has admitted that the firm's Fermi architecture is struggling to get out the blocks, as it is having trouble making the 40nm chips.

At an Nvidian analysts' day yesterday, Huang was forced to admit what has been well known for ages: Fermi is such a big, cumbersome, transistor-heavy piece of silicon, that Nvidia's fab partner TSMC is struggling to get it out the door in any volume.

"From a supply perspective, we wish we had more 40nm capacity," Huang confessed. "We are working with TSMC really closely. They are doing a fab [sic] job. Yields are improving. Capacities are improving. But we are finding it hard to keep up. Everyone is clamoring to have Fermis out the door. We are working really hard to get Fermis out the door."

Submission + - The End of Beginning: 'Little Boy' Armer Dies (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: Morris 'Dick' Jeppson died March 30 at 87 in Las Vegas. Big Dick was responsible for attaching the live plugs necessary for 'Little Boy' to be the first live atomic bomb released on humanity on Hiroshima, Japan. As one of the 12-member crew aboard the B-29 Enola Gay, Jeppson waited 50 years before speaking about his involvement. Beside becoming a physicist via UC Berkerly, he founded several corporations including Applied Radiation, Inc., which constructed electron-beam accelerators for nuclear physics research, and Cryodry, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial microwave ovens.

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