Comment He’s also barred from opening a Facebook acc (Score 1) 379
That will teach him!
Comment Re:Dual mode screens (Score 1) 165
Samsung Galaxy S (i9000), has such a screen (4inch) and I often use it for e-reading. Clear, sharp, black is black, crisp and all that.
Works great.
Morphing Metals 121
aarondubrow writes "Imagine a metal that 'remembers' its original, cold-forged shape, and can return to that shape when exposed to heat or a magnetic pulse. Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel, such a metal could contract on command, or swing back and forth like a pendulum. Believe it or not, such metals already exist. First discovered in 1931, they belong to a class of materials called 'shape memory alloys (SMA),' whose unique atomic make-up allows them to return to their initial form, or alternate between forms through a phase change."
Comment A sheet of glass that runs windows... (Score 1) 352
I'm so confused now...
Comment Just throw a few bibles in there also... (Score 1) 1695
Now the fanatics of both faiths will be in an uproar. Maybe they will find some common ground and join hands to hunt down the herectic.
World peace and one book burner less.
You're welcome world, now to solve world hunger.
Comment Re:Not a mistake? (Score 1) 454
What happend then... did they put it on wikileaks?
What Went Wrong At Yahoo 162
kjh1 writes "Paul Graham writes about what he felt went wrong at Yahoo. He has first-hand experience — his company, Viaweb, was bought by Yahoo and he worked there for a while. In a nutshell, he felt that Yahoo was too conflicted about whether they were a technology company or a media company. 'If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them.' This in part led to hiring bad programmers, or at least not going single-mindedly after the very best ones. They also lacked the 'hacker' culture that Google and Facebook still seem to have, and that is found in many startup tech companies. 'As long as customers were writing big checks for banner ads, it was hard to take search seriously. Google didn't have that to distract them.'"
Comment Personel/Crew (Score 5, Funny) 62
BP might also end up flooding (oops pun) the market with rugged drillers looking for a job. So the crew should be easy to put together.
Comment Did they show em the... (Score 1) 125
...waterboard/torture room where they jog the memory of people who lose or misplace their prototypes?
Comment Excuse me officer... (Score 1) 373
... but the car in front of me was also speeding. Also, didn't you notice that the car I passed back there had a broken tail light.
Comment Human Rights vs IP (Score 1) 99
Every kind of human rights group complain about human rights being thrown out of the window... nah, can't have stop building our iphones! (or whatever)
So we look the other way when it comes to human rights, but when the IPAA mentions 3.5 billion dollars... stuff needs to be done!
Comment Found another site with sensitive info.... (Score 1) 330
"The current standard composition for the black powders that are manufactured by pyrotechnicians was adopted as long ago as 1780. Proportions by weight are 75% potassium nitrate (known as saltpeter or saltpetre), 15% softwood charcoal, and 10% sulfur." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpowder#Black_powder )
Wikipedia is next I guess...
MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum 175
gbooch writes "The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is not only a museum of hardware but also a museum of software. Today, with the permission of Apple, the Museum has made available the original source code of MacPaint.
MacPaint was written by Bill Atkinson, a member of the original Macintosh development team. Originally called MacSketch, he based it on his earlier LisaSketch (also called SketchPad) for the Apple Lisa computer. Bill started work on the Macintosh version in early 1983. "
Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base 164
baronvoncarson tips news that today Valve released an updated version of Alien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod. The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine. Valve is also releasing the code base for Alien Swarm and an SDK. The game is available for free on Steam.
StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop 414
UgLyPuNk writes with news of a report that Blizzard has spent over $100 million developing StarCraft II. Initial development on the game began in 2003, and it's due to be released on July 27th. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick "described StarCraft as one of the company’s seven 'pillars of opportunity' (where each pillar has the potential to deliver operating profit between $500 million and $1 billion over its life span)." The finalized system requirements for the game have been released, and players planning to buy the digitally distributed version can download it now, though it won't be playable until the 27th.
