Comment Re:Thanks to popup ads (Score 2) 25
You must be hitting beta.x-10.com
Comment Re:all i really want from IE (Score 1) 173
You don't need it. FTP is your friend.
Comment Slashdown confirmed (Score 4, Informative) 56
Splashdown. Status below -
Comment How many accidents could he have caused (Score 5, Interesting) 427
I hate when people talk, text and drive. You jam somebody, they are going to take the phone from their head and try to call again, or at least figure out what is going on. This is probably more distracting than just talking to somebody.
Comment Woot! (Score 1) 653
Destroyed? Hello No...
These will be on Woot in a few weeks, re branded of course.
Comment Amazon... (Score 1) 304
Comment Re:I just have to say... (Score 1) 223
"Is Oracle really this inept at making stuff secure?"
Aside from their database, Oracle is inept at pretty much everything.
Comment Re:Big news to our family (Score 1) 183
Thanks for the well wishes. It is difficult, if not impossible to feed our son things like you mention. That being said, we are doing the best we can do and are working the diet piece.
Comment Big news to our family (Score 1) 183
We had a son that was born at 23 weeks/0 days. Yea, that is 4 months premature. At this time (he turns 4 in December) the biggest problem he has is chronic issues with his gut. The odds are that he never got the correct mix of bacteria in his gut early on, because he was in a sterile environment when his body should have been getting mama milk and the crap that goes along with it.
This is good.
Comment Re:Water? On the moon? (Score 1) 55
Hate to reply to my own - but can't miss this opportunity....
"The moon does not look like earth at all.
There are no trees!
No Lakes, no water at all!
There is just deep, grey dust.
Dust, dust, dust."
"You Will Go To The Moon" -Mae and Ira Freeman, 1959
Comment Water? On the moon? (Score 1) 55
Man, I'm feeling my age. When I went to school we were taught that it was made of cheese.
Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed 288
stupid_is writes with news that Duke Nukem Forever has now gotten a firm US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later. The game was resurrected last fall by Gearbox Software and 2K Games after 3D Realms' 12-year attempt at development came to an end in 2009 when the company closed its doors.
Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184
An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."
The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127
Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."
Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef 108
JoshuaInNippon writes "Might we one day be able to use our cell phone cameras to pick out the best piece of meat on display at the market? Some Japanese researchers seem to hope so. A team of scientists is using infrared camera technology to try and determine the tastiest slices of high-grade Japanese beef. The researchers believe that the levels of Oleic acid found within the beef strongly affect the beef's tenderness, smell, and overall taste. The infrared camera can be tuned to pick out the Oleic acid levels through a whole slab, a process that would be impossible to do with the human eye. While the accuracy is still relatively low — a taste test this month resulted in only 60% of participants preferring beef that was believed to have had a higher level of Oleic acid — the researchers hope to fine tune the process for market testing by next year."
