Journal Journal: Not dead yet but soonish I guess 1
Oh, I nearly died in late March from a heart attack, nearly forgot.
Comment Re:Penmenship matters (Score 1) 857
If you want a real writing skill that is of some use, learn shorthand.
Hear. Hear. I really wish my school had taught shorthand instead of cursive. I'm 45 and I can say that cursive has been useless to me while shorthand would have been a very, very useful skill.
Though I think these days the time would be better served teaching touch typing while kids are young enough to absorb it thoroughly, maybe with shorthand as an option in high school.
Comment Re:I'm from Michigan. (Score 2, Funny) 451
here in Aus we also have two, football & cricket.
Comment Re:Or may not have (Score 5, Informative) 299
>An amateur astronomer puts up pictures on his blog and we're comparing it to Shoemaker-Levy?
Levy is an amateur, his degree is in english lit. He won an amateur astronomers award.
(what I tried to post last time, bloody web2 crap)
Comment Re:Or may not have (Score 0, Redundant) 299
An amateur astronomer puts up pictures on his blog and we're comparing it to Shoemaker-Levy?
Bad Astronomy says "it's jumping the gun to call it an impact event before we get more observations". I've got an idea for the next Slashdot article: "Asteroid heading towards earth - or maybe just spot on lense".
Comment Re:Australia is a little jumpy right now (Score 1) 247
That's just the kangaroos.
Comment Re:The US has limits on it too. Thankfully. (Score 2, Funny) 778
And if you try it in Australia the locals turn up with a bag of sausages and some paper plates.
Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU 548
CWmike writes "European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe. Some of the money Microsoft stands to make on the European editions of Windows 7 comes from the weak dollar. Last week, for instance, the dollar fell against the euro the most in a month, hitting $1.41 per euro. For example, Windows 7 Professional, the key retail edition for businesses, will sport a price tag of 285 euros, or $400.60, and £189.99, or $313.84, at Saturday's exchange rate. In other words, EU customers will pay twice the $199.99 U.S. price; U.K. buyers will pay 57% more. And depending on your view on bundling IE, Europe's customers will be paying more for less, with Microsoft's decision to yank IE8 from Windows 7 in an effort to head off EU antitrust regulators, who may still force the company to take more drastic measures."
Comment Re:Spambot (Score 1) 134
removing bad moderation
Submission + - WLAN patent battle closes with secret deals (itnews.com.au)
pnorth writes: A patent battle between Australia's Government-funded research organisation the CSIRO and 14 of the world's largest technology companies has settled out of court with a series of secret deals. The CSIRO claims to have patented core elements of the technology used in 802.11a and 802.11g wireless devices. In June 2007, the CSIRO won a case in the US Federal Court against Japanese manufacturer Buffalo Technologies, the basis of which the research organisation has used to demand royalties from a broader set of manufacturers that market Wi-Fi equipment. Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Asus, HP and Fujitsu all settled before today's outcome. Nintendo, Toshiba, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton and 3Com have now also settled.
Comment Re:updating third party software? (Score 3, Insightful) 803
A significant question here: If it wasn't Microsoft, would anyone be nearly as angry?
Apples & oranges, only MS has the desktop monopoly to make this work.
And the lack of an uninstall makes it malicious by my standards.
Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post 766
The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declan McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: "An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo," not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, "Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar."
Comment Re:little australia (Score 1) 449
Australia has a constitution, it's a Bill of Rights we are missing.
Lenovo To Bring Wii-Inspired Input To PCs 53
PCWorld reports on an upcoming Lenovo PC that includes a remote control with functionality similar to that of the Wii Remote. It will control games using the same motion-based method, and Lenovo appears to be coming out with sports games like tennis and bowling to demonstrate its capabilities — an unsurprising choice given the huge success of Wii Sports .
"Lenovo is trying to capitalize on the trend of entertainment options merging into the PC. Few are able to play motion-based games, which could make this motion-based game controller a pioneer. In addition to controlling TV functions and video recordings on the PC, the remote control can also be used as an air mouse that moves the mouse pointer when waved. It has some advantages over a conventional mouse — it can function without being on a surface and be used at a distance — when sitting on a couch, for example."
Comment He can wish.... (Score 4, Funny) 538
The sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
But RMS isn't going anywhere !
