Comment Windows 2.1 (Score 1) 417
You insensitive clod!
Ah, I'm just messing with you, man! Why you so serious?
Comment Re:More than four seasons (Score 1) 454
We have a lot seasons here in New England, too: Winter, mud, black fly, mosquito, tourist, hunting. Winter is longer than all of the others combined, although not as long as your winter(s), I'm sure.
Is that
Submission + - HP To Make More TouchPads?! (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Hewlett-Packard said it will make more TouchPads in response to 'stunning' demand following the company's decision to discontinue the tablets. 'Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand,' Mark Budgell, an HP spokesman, wrote in a blog post. The site appears to be overloaded and is currently unavailable, but the post has been reposted elsewhere online. The newly manufactured tablets will go on sale in a few weeks. He said a limited number would be made but couldn't say exactly how many. We can't promise we'll have enough for everyone, he wrote. As Ron Miller notes, HP continues to send out mixed messages about its plans for TouchPad and webOS, making its very public announcement to ax them sound even more foolish."
Comment Only the oldest and newest survive (Score 1) 317
Most of them go to the recycler these days, but not my old IBM XT. That's tucked neatly away for posterity. Now if I could only find my old TI-99/4A in Dad's attic...
Submission + - NASA Developing Nuclear-Powered Stirling Engine
adeelarshad82 writes: Just a week after NASA announced its plans to feed HD video from Mars, the agency is now working on a way to power such unmanned devices. The solution involves fitting a nuclear power generator on planetary outposts to power a stirling engine. The reason why a stirling engine is suitable is because it is highly efficient, a closed system meaning the gas is reused for the life of the engine, and it can work with just about any heat source. The final unit is expected to be the same size as a typical suitcase and is capable of providing 40 kilowatts of electrical energy for eight years.
Comment Re:felt it in NYC (Score 1) 614
1440 Broadway? I'm on an upper floor.
Comment Hatua Likoni (Score 1) 229
Take a look at http://www.hatualikoni.org/hatua/volunteer/ In addition to the listed tasks, they may need some short-term help setting up the computers in their new library.
Comment Re:Can't it support both? (Score 1, Offtopic) 412
LKJGDSKLeiojgtqpltjwe4jt]90iejaasdfHippofucknuggets? I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Comment Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes (Score 2) 183
Oh great, now I have the Paul Simon song stuck in my head:
"People say I'm crazy
I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes
Well that's one way to lose
These walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of your shoes"
"People say I'm crazy
I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes
Well that's one way to lose
These walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of your shoes"
Comment Re:First thing they need to do (Score 1) 511
Exactly!
University of Maryland: Terrapins,
University of Delaware: Blue Hens,
MIT: TIM (the Beaver) ...
Comment Re:In my corporate environment.... (Score 2) 1307
Amen. And when you depart for another job, do you leave the hardware behind, or do you it with you, along with the data.
Comment Re:Oh, stuff it. (Score 1) 469
They had a reason: they didn't want to support it any more. This should have been obvious when Sony started to ship the PS3 Slim with no OtherOS support even before they removed it from older models.
By that logic:
- When Apple no longer wants to support Netflix in their Apple TV units, they can just push an update, and remove the reason why I bought it.
- Microsoft can decide that only OEM or MS keyboards should work with their OS's from now on, and push that in a service pack to my old XP box.
- etc., etc. (use your own imagination)
Comment Re:But smaller then the Saturn V from the 1960s (Score 1) 251
Now it's called cloud computing.
Comment Re:Tax junk food (Score 1) 978
It's mostly in developed countries that poor people are fat (poor being a relative term). In "third world" countries, rural people who are poor but not at starvation levels do not end up fat like people in cities. They are more likely to eat basic grains, fruits and vegetables.
When I was in college, and living on an extremely limited budget, I found that a big bag of rice was a lot more economical than Mac&Cheese, and beans and broccoli were a fraction of the cost of McDonalds or ramen noodles. Advertising, convenience, and lack of nutritional education contributes to the paradox of fat poor people.
Comment Re:Forgive me father, for iHave sinned. (Score 1) 323
THX 1138. Judging by the comment score, over the heads of, or before the time of most of this crowd.
