Comment Re:So what is this... (Score 2, Insightful) 120
Too much effort, just bookmark http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Comment Re:Very affordable (Score 2, Funny) 269
Wait, we're allowed to post after we RTFA?
Comment Re:Who buys a computer from best buy? (Score 1) 504
I refuse to purchase from TigerDirect because of crap customer service. I ordered a few things and the computer case was caved in; not dented, not dinged, *caved-in*. Since I ordered through Google (the excuse they gave) they couldn't RMA it, they could only refund the purchase amount. I went back and forth with customer service because I feel they should have refunded my S&H as well. Once they made it clear the S&H was not being refunded I said "You can keep the $12, it will be the last of my money you will ever get." The other items I purchased were a great price and were not damaged, but I'd rather deal with companies that get the whole order right or are willing to do the right thing. It would have taken them 15 minutes to deal with UPS and make things right, but instead they lost my business and I steer any of my friends away.
Submission + - Yahoo! apologizes for Hiring Strippers (yahoo.net)
endikos writes: Yahoo! has apologized for hiring strippers to perform at its Taiwan Open Hack Day, where Yahoo! APIs and technologies are explored.
Comment Re:This happens a lot (Score 1) 174
"He could give a lickin' to a chicken' or a razzin' to a rat, nobody messes with Fat Freddie's cat!"
Comment Re:A-stable multivibrator (Score 1) 364
Damn you, you're the first AC I've felt the need to reply to!
You, sir, have just described a project that visited me on 3 occasions in high school. Freshman year we assembled it without being told what the end result would be, then filled out a chart noting the results of all of the possible permutations. The part numbers were covered with epoxy and not everyone's schematics were the same, so 1010 on your board could be 0001 on mine. Next semester the little beast came back to bite us. We had to design a schematic using relays and lamps to make a "low tech" solution. Senior year we dealt with practical aspects such as costs, availability, etc, and did a price comparison between the relay based and IC based.
You, sir, have just described a project that visited me on 3 occasions in high school. Freshman year we assembled it without being told what the end result would be, then filled out a chart noting the results of all of the possible permutations. The part numbers were covered with epoxy and not everyone's schematics were the same, so 1010 on your board could be 0001 on mine. Next semester the little beast came back to bite us. We had to design a schematic using relays and lamps to make a "low tech" solution. Senior year we dealt with practical aspects such as costs, availability, etc, and did a price comparison between the relay based and IC based.
Comment Re:Obvious joke is obvious. (Score 0, Redundant) 348
Un-original joke is un-original; isohunt made the same claim last year.
Comment Re:Uh, no. (Score 3, Funny) 239
...or at least a super-Gopher.
I, for one, welcome our new underground overlords.
Sorry, the thought of super-Gophers scares me more than cloned dogs, or Africanized bees, or cloned dogs with Africanized bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you.
Robot Love Goes Bad 101
hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."
Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, But Not Dribble 73
Gre7g writes "Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt. 'We got lucky with this one [sitting] on a slope,' which brought its hands closer to the ground, said study author Andrew Milner of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. Full disclosure: My wife did the artistic reconstruction."
New Success For Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm 81
An anonymous reader writes "A number of amputees are now using a prosthetic arm that moves intuitively, when they think about moving their missing limb. Todd Kuiken and colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago surgically rearrange the nerves that normally connect to the lost limb and embed them in muscles in the chest. The muscles are then connected to sensors that translate muscle movements into movement in a robotic arm. The researchers first reported the technique in a single patient in 2007, and have now tested it in several more. The patients could all successfully move the arm in space, mimic hand motions, and pick up a variety of objects, including a water glass, a delicate cracker, and a checker rolling across a table. (Three patients are shown using the arm in the related video.) The findings are reported today in Journal of the American Medical Association."
The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems 187
RazvanM writes "Do the OSes really shrink? Perhaps the user space (MySQL, CUPS) is getting slimmer, but how about the internals? Using as a metric the number of external calls between the filesystem modules and the rest of the Linux kernel I argue that this is not the case. The evidence is a graph that shows the evolution of 15 filesystems from 2.6.11 to 2.6.28 along with the current state (2.6.28) for 24 filesystems. Some filesystems that stand out are: nfs for leading in both number of calls and speed of growth; ext4 and fuse for their above-average speed of growth and 9p for its roller coaster path."
Comment Re:Just think about ENFORCEMENT. (Score 1) 1235
Comment Re:Just think about ENFORCEMENT. (Score 1) 1235
Slashdot's search failed me but google didn't, here's the article.
Comment Re:Actually they are right (Score 1) 412
PayPal is free for the buyer, they take their slice of the pie from the seller.
