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Comment Re:Mobile devices (Score 1) 328

iPads are just a teardrop on the ocean. What about phone browsers? My guess is that browsing from a phone is becoming a bigger part of the pie, and IE just isn't in that game. Note that the browsers that are growing are the ones available for phones.

Comment Re:Never, at least for most people.... (Score 1) 606

Though fuel efficiency is a good candidate, the number ONE issue will be liability for the manufacturers of said flying cars. Consensus here seems to be that they would have to be computer controlled. All it takes is one bug, and they're on the losing side of a multi-[mb]illion dollar lawsuit. The second suit will cost even more.
Image

Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke Screenshot-sm 799

An anonymous reader writes "The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be stopped with an underground nuclear blast, a Russian newspaper reports. Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear blasts underground. The idea is simple, KP writes: 'The underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well's channel.' It's so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities, and it only didn't work once."
NASA

New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared 95

Hynee writes "Just in time for Christmas, HubbleSite has released a Hubble Ultra Deep Field redux. The original was in visible light; this version, five years on, is in infrared (1.05, 1.25 and 1.6 um). The observation is in support of the upcoming JWST, which will observe exclusively in infrared, but the newly installed WFC3 does seem to provide some extra resolution over the 2004 visible observations with WFC2."
Games

Pirates as a Marketplace 214

John Riccitiello, the CEO of Electronic Arts, made some revealing comments in an interview with Kotaku about how the company's attitudes are shifting with regard to software piracy. Quoting: "Some of the people buying this DLC are not people who bought the game in a new shrink-wrapped box. That could be seen as a dark cloud, a mass of gamers who play a game without contributing a penny to EA. But around that cloud Riccitiello identified a silver lining: 'There's a sizable pirate market and a sizable second sale market and we want to try to generate revenue in that marketplace,' he said, pointing to DLC as a way to do it. The EA boss would prefer people bought their games, of course. 'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that. And when you steal from us, you steal from them. Having said that, there's a lot of people who do.' So encourage those pirates to pay for something, he figures. Riccitiello explained that EA's download services aren't perfect at distinguishing between used copies of games and pirated copies. As a result, he suggested, EA sells DLC to both communities of gamers. And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer."
Windows

Submission + - Poll suggestion

jomegat writes: What do you do with the "Designed for Windows" sticker on your PC?
  • Leave it there in disgust.
  • Leave it there to admire.
  • Peal off and discard.
  • Put it on something else, such as a file cabinet.
  • Put it on a Linux/Mac user's computer when he's not looking
  • Send it to Cowboy Neal

Comment Re:Exercise while you work. (Score 1) 865

This is an idea I have been toying with for a couple of months now, but I think a recumbant exercise bike might be a better than a treadmill. My hair-brained scheme is to use the bike to drive a car's alternator (cheap and used), and use that to drive a power inverter & battery. Then use that whole Rube Goldberg contraption to power my laptop. If I get too tired to keep the laptop running, I could switch to AC power. If I find I can't generate enough power to keep the lappy running all day, I could always power the uh... iPod instead? No exercise = no music. I would HOPE I could generate enough power to keep an iPod running.

Green and lean, but mostly... geek.

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