Comment Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... (Score 1, Insightful) 571
Seriosly, Indian industry will eventually come out with a tatabook, which might be the price that the negroponte thing was supposed to be.
Comment Re:Meanwhile, thw wii remain's in the lead (Score 3, Funny) 346
Maybe, but I can use my playstation to keep my coffee warm.
Comment Re:Best case consequences (Score 1, Insightful) 161
True. But now we are a little more experienced (I hope) about this. And we might not start a war with them if they had FTL drives. We'd just have to hope that "How to Serve Man" was not standard reading in their elementary schools.
Comment Re:Single digit drops followed by single-digit ris (Score 1) 328
Yes, but in a bad economy, people often go to school more. Apparently applications are way up for less expensive (state for example) universities.
Comment Re:Then again (Score 0, Interesting) 203
I agree. There need to be more "follow-up" journalism in general. I keep hearing about improvements in solar electric panels, but then never hear again about the "breakthrought".
Comment Re:G-ring? (Score 2, Interesting) 102
Seriously, I wonder if this is related to predictions from recent work in celestial mechanics, like by people like mathematicians Richard Montgomery. There is a revolution(no pun intended) in that area now.
New Moon Found In Saturn's G-Ring 102
caffiend666 writes "Scientists have announced a new moon has been found hidden in the G Ring of Saturn. The discovery was announced Tuesday in a notice by the International Astronomical Union. This is one of over five dozen moons, and is only a third of a mile wide. No word yet on a name for the new moon; I vote Cowboy Neal."
Comment Offensive (Score 0, Funny) 238
From the article:
"This thing is so simple to use that you're grandmother could patch it."
As a 49 yo grandmother, c programmer and feminist, I find this offensive.
"This thing is so simple to use that you're grandmother could patch it."
As a 49 yo grandmother, c programmer and feminist, I find this offensive.
Comment Re:Offended (Score -1, Troll) 195
The point is that the grandfather statement is a myth. I am much more technologically capable than my husband. Most women would be, if they hadn't been educated in a system that is so biased towards men being scientists and engineers.
