That's amazing!

Sign me up, I'll just start using firefox

So why do publishers constantly treat their customers like a piece of shit and why does the average consumer accept it? Publishers treat consumers like crap because they really only care about the consumer's wallet, not the consumer. They will push the consumer's pocketbook until the consumer starts complaining, then back off ever so slightly. The average consumer accepts it because it requires (in their mind) too much effort to attempt to change the way things are going. It's easier to just shell out $50 and play the game you want to play, even if it uses DRM.

$99 annual developer's fee later *cough*xcode*cough*

Right, like you said, and insignificant amount.

From what I understand, ice cubes floating in a glass of water will not change the level of water when they melt. Call me when the ice on Antarctica will start melting at an accelerated rate.

Wait, Myspace still exists?!?

How do we know it isn't possible to store a bit in fewer than 12 atoms? I'm not seeing how that "solved" anything, only that they proved it was possible to store a bit with as few as 12 atoms.

I want to develop a board game with a rule set that is simple but allows for unique gameplay and complex strategies to be developed (think chess). In your opinion, at what point does a game become too complex for casual play and start to be for dedicated gamers only (i.e at what point does chess become starcraft)?

You could always buy a laptop lock and tether it to a fixed piece of metal in the car. The thief would then either have to break the laptop or bring along bolt cutters. Why bring along your laptop, though, if you're just going to leave it in the car?

This could have a deep impact on our current understanding of ice.

All this tractor beam talk I've been hearing about? Seems as though trapping comet particles with lasers isn't going to cut it for NASA...

Predator's aren't nearly as expensive as, say, B2's, but I still think Iran will find that its pockets aren't deep enough to start "mass producing" the drones.

Funny how little details like that can make a story seem more sensational: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/mythbusters-cannonball.html