Comment Re:Microsoft still provide support for Windows XP (Score 1) 650
Win 8? They'd have to pay me to use that.
If you think it is too much, then there is Linux.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'd never heard of it. *eyeroll*
Comment Re:Smart Cars = HiTech ??? (Score 0) 371
I drive a Prius
After Smarts, those are the worst driven cars on the road.
I nearly got run over by a woman in one - she ran a red light. I whacked the car as she went past and she stopped and yelled at me. She claimed the red light she'd jumped only applied to bikes. Now that might be technically true - it was a one-way street with a contraflow bike lane. But it's electric, see?
Comment Re:Rreachtions (Score 0) 371
Anyone know how much damage a Smart Car can be expected to suffer when tipped like this?
It's approximately nowhere near enough.
Comment Re:Try thinking. (Score -1, Troll) 371
People who drive Smarts are retards. They seem to think that because it's small the normal car rules don't apply so it doesn't matter if they block crosswalks, ignore lights, park on the sidewalk (at 90 degrees, so it doesn't count).
Or drive the wrong way down one-way streets.
Fuck the lot of 'em. The only thing wrong is that the owners aren't inside when they do it.
Comment Re:San Fran = the new Detroit (Score 1) 371
I can say this as a trained economist and historian. (armature status today, but still.)
You're an electrical engineer too?
Comment FTFY (Score 1) 641
I stopped the security updates in XP years ago after a bad update trashed my system, and yet I have never knowingly been infected
FTFY.
Comment Re:The double standard at work (Score 1) 824
You can have legal partnerships of more then 2 people.
Even UK graduates (whom you're apparently not impressed with) don't make that error, fatty.
European Court of Justice Strikes Down Data Retention Law 77
New submitter nachtkap (951646) writes with some good news, as reported by the BBC: "The EU's top court has declared 'invalid' an EU law requiring telecoms firms to store citizens' communications data for up to two years. The EU Data Retention Directive was adopted in 2006. The European Court of Justice says it violates two basic rights — respect for private life, and protection of personal data. Germany's supreme court did call on the ECJ to look into this issue as well."
Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain 224
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Michael S. Rosenwald reports in the Washington Post that, according to cognitive neuroscientists, humans seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online at the expense of traditional deep reading circuitry... Maryanne Wolf, one of the world's foremost experts on the study of reading, was startled last year to discover her brain was apparently adapting, too. After a day of scrolling through the Web and hundreds of e-mails, she sat down one evening to read Hermann Hesse's challenging novel The Glass Bead Game. 'I'm not kidding: I couldn't do it,' says Wolf. 'It was torture getting through the first page. I couldn't force myself to slow down so that I wasn't skimming, picking out key words, organizing my eye movements to generate the most information at the highest speed. I was so disgusted with myself.'
The brain was not designed for reading and there are no genes for reading like there are for language or vision. ... Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways — one page led to the next page, and so on. The Internet is different. With so much information, hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly. This is nonlinear reading, and it has been documented in academic studies. ... Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade our ability to deal with other mediums. 'We're spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling and jumping through text that when we sit down with a novel, your daily habits of jumping, clicking, linking is just ingrained in you,' says Andrew Dillon."
The brain was not designed for reading and there are no genes for reading like there are for language or vision. ... Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways — one page led to the next page, and so on. The Internet is different. With so much information, hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly. This is nonlinear reading, and it has been documented in academic studies. ... Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade our ability to deal with other mediums. 'We're spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling and jumping through text that when we sit down with a novel, your daily habits of jumping, clicking, linking is just ingrained in you,' says Andrew Dillon."
Comment Re:Oh, beautiful irony (Score 1) 37
At least he didn't say there was an exponential amount of them.
Comment Re:software (Score 3, Funny) 169
If only I could run MVS in a virtual machine I could brush up my JCL.
// DD fucking DASD=cond=only,8,-23phaseofmmoon
// iebgener=bugger.poo.poop.3456,disp=(keep,shit,piss)
As you can guess, I really miss it.
Comment Re:software (Score 2) 169
If SAP is progress, that can only mean that the prior process was done by filling out forms in Klingon using wax crayons writing on saran wrap in an iron foundry.
Beh. When I started out Rodenberry hadn't been born and iron was in beta so we stuck to tried and trusted bronze.
Comment Depertment of redundancy department (Score 1) 179
U.K.'s Lancaster University in the U.K.
Good you cleared that up.
Comment Re:Microsoft still provide support for Windows XP (Score 1) 650
A hundred bucks isn't what I'd call a nominal fee.
A Bid To Take 3D Printing Mainstream 143
Nerval's Lobster (2598977) writes "Can 3D printing go truly mainstream? Startup M3D is betting on it, having launched a Kickstarter campaign to create what it terms the first truly consumer 3D printer, built around proprietary auto-leveling and auto-calibration technology that (it claims) will allow the device to run in an efficient, easy-to-use way for quite some time. According to The Verge, the device is space-efficient, quiet, and sips power: 'One of the main obstacles between 3D printers and consumers has been clunky, unintuitive software. Here too, M3D promises improvements, having designed an app that's 'as interactive and enjoyable as a game' with a minimalist and touch-friendly interface.' Do you think 3D printing can capture a massive audience, or will it remain niche for the foreseeable future?"
