Comment Re:pdf (Score 1) 117
Works fine in Safari (on Mac) at maximum zoom, the smallest text appears like a 36pt font, with no jaggies...
Submission + - Web Sockets standard under fire (cnet.com)
Tobenisstinky writes: Due to recent security concerns (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg04744.html) major players are considering abandoning the web sockets until more robust security can be enabled.
Submission + - Informative shuttle Ascent Video (youtube.com)
minterbartolo writes: Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.
This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.
The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VygftZSCs
This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.
The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VygftZSCs
Submission + - Tobacco Virus To Power Li Batteries & Flash Me (itproportal.com)
siliconbits writes: One of the world's most destructive naturally-occuring scourges, the Tobacco mosaic virus (or TMV) could be used in a near future to boost the capacity of Lithium Ion batteries by 10 times and even power Flash memory.
Comment Re:Obligatory question (Score 1) 380
You're just a grunt...no offence...you can't make that kind of decision!
Comment Re:Industrial product design matters. (Score 1) 504
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design
"Industrial design is a combination of applied art and applied science, whereby the aesthetics, ergonomics and usability of products may be improved for marketability and production...."
Comment Well... (Score 3, Insightful) 68
Great, like the iPad but with the awkwardness of a laptop.
Comment Re:So that mean (Score 1) 164
Naw, just stop feeding it!
Comment Re:I wonder (Score 4, Funny) 371
Obviously it would be high as the user would be a risk taker!
Comment Re:It could also... (Score 1) 602
There was a second season? I stopped watching after S01E08... again they appear to blow their budget on effects rather than story...
Comment Re:Now he's sending out spam.. (Score 1) 379
Adam Guerbuez is that you? - Oh, must be it's posted as an anonymous coward.
Comment Re:But it's hard to remember... (Score 5, Interesting) 1155
But is it only 16 weeks, and that's it, or at the end of the 16 weeks do they ask again? If he refuses again do they just put him back for another 16 weeks (or more)?
Comment Re:What is he hiding? (Score 2, Informative) 1155
RTFA - "Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation."
Comment Re:Microsoft.. (Score 1) 175
Also Kodak is suing RIM.
Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness
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Gksksla writes "Scientists in Australia and Hong Kong have conducted a comprehensive study to discover how different body measurements correspond with ratings of female attractiveness. The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
