Comment Clothes dryer? (Score 2, Insightful) 330
My highly advanced clothes-line technology comes with an implicit display of its power consumption - zero.
Comment Re:Not the same race (Score 1) 85
I think it's a bit more complicated than that - Bloodhound *is* direct competition for Eagle, but not necessarily vice-versa. So whether or not they're in the same race depends on your perspective...
Comment A kick in the teeth... for whom? (Score 1) 197
Yes of course, it's the people who signed up for first-generation ID cards whom we should feel sorry for here. Poor dears.
Comment Re:Wrong question. (Score 1) 158
This is the DoE - how about Mushroom Cloud computing?
Comment Re:Whats the issue Apple have with Flash? (Score 1) 154
It seems to work fine for me.
Comment It's today? (Score 4, Insightful) 232
If
Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies 281
An anonymous reader writes "In a sign that patent trolls are getting desperate to keep their cases in East Texas — long known as the friendliest venue for their claims — some have taken to suing tiny, no-name companies that are run by East Texas residents. The hope is that, if at least one defendant is located in East Texas, the judge will keep the entire case there. Nate Neel, a Longview, Texas resident with a small open source software company called CitiWare, was sued by Bedrock Computer Technologies in June despite (he claims) having no customers or other meaningful operations of any kind. In response, Mr. Neel has posted a strongly worded letter to Bedrock's attorneys on his Web site. It will be interesting to see how East Texas judges respond to this abuse of process perpetrated against their own residents."
Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
TRNick writes "The old home-computing art of hacking elaborate graphics and camerawork into tiny amounts of memory has been lost, right? Not so. The demoscene is keeping ingenious coding skills alive, and TechRadar finds out the latest developments. Winner of the 4kb competition at 2009's Breakpoint party was RGBA's demo 'Elevated,' a gorgeous scrolling demo featuring photo realistic landscapes and music, which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons. This is really impressive stuff."
Comment Re:what kind of question is that? (Score 1) 526
Yeah, we couldn't stand the quality of the tea over there; secession was our only resort...
Comment Re:Really that bad of a thing? (Score 1) 501
So this is an economic stimulus plan?
Comment Re:Ahhh.... (Score 1) 252
As opposed to an imaginative solution, which would be (unimaginatively) criticised as a stealth tax.
Comment Re:Pointless (Score 2, Informative) 252
ADSL2+ (used by Be) can only offer the full 24Mbps if you're less than about 500m from the exchange, regardless of the quality of the cable BT installed.
Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 444
bowman9991 writes "Dan Aykroyd reveals that all the original cast have now signed on for Ghostbusters 3, including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Apparently Bill Murray, who holds a one-fifth controlling interest, was very reluctant at first, not even willing to read a third draft of Aykroyd's script. Aykroyd would like to see Ivan Reitman or Harold Ramis direct, wants to introduce a 'new generation' of Ghostbusters, and believes they could be filming the new Ghostbuster movie by winter."
Comment Re:Pedantry (Score 1) 346
I'm inclined to think that the logical conclusion of that argument would be to call them "Madoff schemes"...
Comment Pedantry (Score 4, Informative) 346
Surely these are pyramid schemes rather than Ponzi schemes?
