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Comment Re:Poll of opinions of iPad owers by general publi (Score 1) 780

I don't think they surveyed to see what people thought iPad owners were like, but I do think they asked people a few questions about their personality, what they thought about the iPad, and if they owned an iPad. If they just asked what people thought about iPad owners, they wouldn't know that most "Independant Geeks" are critical of, and don't own, the iPad.

Unfortunately, it's impossible for us to know much about the validity of the study as they didn't adequate cover its methodology.

Comment Re:Just go to a religious school already (Score 0) 989

You send YOUR kids to a religious school that caters to YOUR atheistic beliefs. Problem solved.

Just thought I would point out that athiesm is not a religion. Its a lack of religion.

Just thought I would point out that atheism is the "rejection of the belief in the existence of deities". Under some definitions of religion, atheism certainly qualifies.

Submission + - Geoneutrinos Could Help Predict Earthquakes (discovery.com)

astroengine writes: "Using underground 'telescopes' more commonly associated with detecting solar neutrinos, Italian scientists are proposing they use a network of global neutrino detectors, not to detect solar neutrinos, but to detect neutrinos generated by the Earth itself. Could these recently discovered 'geoneutrinos' generated by radioisotope decay in the Earth's crust be used to predict earthquakes? Possibly."
Space

Submission + - Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled in Space (inhabitat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has already successfully deployed the first solar sail in space, but today it made the only first that really matters: it successfully captured the sun’s rays with its 3,000 square-foot sail and used the energy to speed its way through space. Each photon of light exerts 0.0002 pounds of pressure on the 3,000-square-foot sail, and the steady stream of solar exposure has succeeded in propelling the nearly 700-pound drone.
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Repair Program for Faulty Time Capsules

TwiztidK writes: Apple recently issued a support document outlining a repair/replacement program for those affected by the power issues on Time Capsules manufactured between February and June of 2008. The repair program will even take measures to preserve data on the hard drives by transfering it to new drives. Those who have already paid for a repair may contact Apple for a refund.
Science

Submission + - The Creativity Crisis (newsweek.com)

An anonymous reader writes: For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.

Like intelligence tests, Torrance’s test—a 90-minute series of discrete tasks, administered by a psychologist—has been taken by millions worldwide in 50 languages. Yet there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.

Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” Kim says. It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “most serious.”

Advertising

Submission + - Apple’s iAd: What Developers Think (wsj.com) 1

Nemilar writes: "It’s been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is “a high number when you get it, but you don’t get it very often,” said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob. What's Apple up to?"
Businesses

Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money 447

An anonymous reader writes "Techdirt has the details on how it was possible for the last Harry Potter movie to lose $167 million while taking in nearly $1 billion in revenue. If you ever wanted to see 'Hollywood Accounting' in action, take a look. The article also notes two recent court decisions that may raise questions about Hollywood's ability to continue with these kinds of tricks. For example, the producers of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' now have to pay $270 million for its attempt to get around paying a partner through similar tricks."

Comment For the record (Score 5, Interesting) 320

I held a computer and electronics recycling day in my town. We were able to collect over 50 used computers and many other things. Several of them were refurbished and given to people who could use them, but the majority had to be recycled. We didn't ship them to China or Africa either. I'm sure that there will always be people out there trying to game the system to make a quick buck, but there are a lot of people who are just trying to help out (by reducing "ewaste" in my case).

Comment Re:This is great, but... (Score 1) 85

"It's fantastic that air travel can now be powered using solar enery alone," No it can't. This is a UAV and can not carry people so next.

Where are you getting this information? The original story referred to its last flight as the "first ever manned night flight on a plane propelled exclusively by the power it collects from the sun." It is an ultralight, but it is not a UAV.

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