Comment Re:CSS sucks (Score 1) 256
Do you also argue that you shouldn't use font-weight:bold in CSS, because <b> is non-semantic?
Because that's the idiotic equivalence you're trying to make.
Comment Re: Glorious PC Master Race (Score 4, Informative) 377
Why do you say that? I play with KB+M from my couch perfectly fine, on a PC hooked up to a projector and 5.1 sound.
Takes a USB hub on my coffee table, and one of these things on a pillow beside me for a proper (ie, elbow supporting) mouse surface.
Comment Re:It's mere gas (Score 2) 94
Jupiter is not thought to be composed of any significant amount of rock. Last I heard it doesn't even have a solid surface.
Thought by whom? Heard from where? An Anonymous Coward on a random discussion board?
"The core is often described as rocky, but its detailed composition is unknown, as are the properties of materials at the temperatures and pressures of those depths (see below). In 1997, the existence of the core was suggested by gravitational measurements,[31] indicating a mass of from 12 to 45 times the Earth's mass or roughly 4%–14% of the total mass of Jupiter.[30][33] The presence of a core during at least part of Jupiter's history is suggested by models of planetary formation involving initial formation of a rocky or icy core that is massive enough to collect its bulk of hydrogen and helium from the protosolar nebula."
Comment Not in 3D, jackass (Score 1) 53
Being in a big round room with screens all around you is not at all the same thing as stereoscopic VR.
Comment Interesting if true (Score 1) 1
If this is true, that a small design flaw in the suit is enough to drop people from placing to a much lower place (over a second in some cases) that really seems like a bad thing. Why is it possible for different countries to use different tech in the first place? The ones with the best engineering team win? That's ridiculous. Level the playing field and have all the participants use the exact same equipment and have the contest settled by the individual's skill, not their equipment!
Submission + - Internet censorship back on Australian agenda (brisbanetimes.com.au)
aberglas writes: The conservative government's George Brandis wants to force ISPs to block sites that might infringe copyright. Brandis said he stood firmly on the side of content creators (a.k.a. Hollywood). Ban gross violators today, obscure ones tomorrow, porn sites, far left sites the day after...
Submission + - Under Armour-Lockheed Designed Suit Blamed for Poor US Speedskating Perfomance (wsj.com) 1
Koreantoast writes: The United States surprisingly poor performance in speedskating, despite strong performances in recent World Cup events, has been blamed in part on an untested speedskating suit. The Mach 39, designed through a joint venture between Under Armour and Lockheed Martin, was supposed to provide Team USA with a high tech advantage, using advanced fluid dynamic models and dimpled surface to disrupt air flow and improve comfort. Instead, performances have been disastrous thus far, with athletes going as far as modifying their suits at the Olympics to try and reverse their fortunes. The suits have caused enough concerns that US Speedskating is taking the unusual step of seeking special dispensation from International Skating Union to ditch the high tech suits and switch back to their old uniforms. Teams are normally required to keep the same equipment through the entire Games. Insert jokes and comparisons to Lockheed's more famous product, the JSF, here.
Submission + - The Tale of How an NVIDIA Engineer's Cube Became His Castle (nvidia.com)
jones_supa writes: Jonathon Evans — who leads the team that designs the host interface and context scheduling unit for NVIDIA GPUs — decided to play a prank on one of his colleagues, Alan Kaatz, while he was away. So, he wrapped Alan’s computer, keyboard and many of the objects in his cube in cellophane. Alan, a quick-witted engineer with a keen sense of the absurd, decided to hit back — hard. 'I wanted to do something so big that it would be impossible to retaliate,' Alan says. So Alan and a small group of other GPU designers — Eric Tyson, Steve Mueller and Rafal Zboinski — huddled around a whiteboard to sketch out what revenge might look like. They would turn Jonathon’s cube into a castle. For the project King's Quest they would need high-quality cardboard and about 200 hours. The result is quite monumental and unequaled office prank.
Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? 192
Nerval's Lobster writes "Earlier this week, news reports leaked that the NYPD is evaluating whether to give its officers Google Glass for investigations and patrols. Google, which is sensitive to accusations that it works hand-in-hand with governments or law-enforcement agencies to monitor civilians, suggested that the NYPD must have purchased the units on its own initiative, rather than partner with the company. Some pundits and many civil libertarians hate the idea of law enforcement wearing Google Glass or other electronics that can send a constant stream of video and audio to a government (or even third-party) server. But at the same time, wearing Google Glass could also compel cops (and other law-enforcement personnel) to be on their best behavior at all times, particularly when it comes to use of force; the prospect of instantly available video detailing every aspect of an officer's shift could prove a powerful incentive to behave in a courteous and professional manner. But that's a very broad assumption; the reality—if cops really do start wearing Google Glass and other video-equipped electronics in large numbers—will likely end up determined by lots and lots of lawsuits and court-actions, many of them stemming from real-world incidents. Do you think cops should have Google Glass and other wearable electronics? And if so, what sort of regulations could be put in place to ensure that such technology isn't abused by the powers that be?"
How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap 109
mspohr writes with this excerpt from The Register: "Spanish hackers have been showing off their latest car-hacking creation; a circuit board using untraceable, off-the-shelf parts worth $20 that can give wireless access to the car's controls while it's on the road. The device, which will be shown off at next month's Black Hat Asia hacking conference, uses the Controller Area Network (CAN) ports car manufacturers build into their engines for computer-system checks. Once assembled, the smartphone-sized device can be plugged in under some vehicles, or inside the bonnet of other models, and give the hackers remote access to control systems. 'A car is a mini network,' security researcher Alberto Garcia Illera told Forbes. 'And right now there's no security implemented.'"
UK Police Will Have Backdoor Access To Health Records 108
kc123 writes "David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, has told the Guardian that police would be able to access the new central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust. The database that will store all of England's health records has a series of 'backdoors' that will allow police and government bodies to access people's medical data. In the past police would need to track down the GP who held a suspect's records and go to court for a disclosure order. Now, they would be able to simply approach the new arms-length NHS information centre, which will hold the records. The idea that police will be able to request information from a central database without a warrant totally undermines a long-held belief in the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship."
Comment Re:Work on the basics (Score 1) 387
Well they do overlap for the first 128 characters... so all UTF-8, by definition, "uses ASCII".
I frequently see stuff that has been encoded to UTF-8 *twice*. This results in all special (ie, multibyte) characters turning to gibberish. Running UTF8->Latin1 will convert it back to proper UTF-8.
WTF-8 is a great name for this phenomenon though, totally going to use that.
Comment Re:Nintendo is the last company that understands c (Score 1) 559
Ah Red Fang... great band.
Comment Re:And? (Score 2, Interesting) 128
You're right that the headline overstates things, but on the flip side, this isn't a court of law. We are entitled to educated guesses as to where such a "positive endorsement clause" most likely originated from.
If YOUR guess is, "I bet Machinima did that by themselves", my opinion is that you're fucking naive. I could be wrong of course.
Have a nice day.
Comment Re:sscutchen (Score 1) 513
The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007, which was first released in Nov 2006.
Not even the original iPhone was out (or even announced) yet, much less tablets. Touchscreen devices at the time (PalmPilot, etc) used styluses, not "fat fingers".
So no, they most certainly did not introduce the ribbon as something optimized for touchscreens. The marketing hype at the time hailed it as "more discoverable" than the previous system of nested menus and unlabelled toolbar icons.
