Comment Last I heard.... (Score 1) 265
there were at least 2 or 3 other banks out there who offer these things called "checking accounts" to all kinds of businesses.
Comment Guy (Score 1) 289
Funny how in that video of the John Knoll interview, you realize that one of the people filming is actually Guy Kawasaki. Well, at least that's funny to me anyway.
Comment Re:Well, in fairness (Score 1) 400
...or at least switch the phone off for god's sake.
"Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way 142
astroengine writes "Assuming you had an interstellar spaceship, how would you navigate around the galaxy? For starters, you'd probably need a map. But there's billions of stars out there — how complex would that map need to be? Actually, Samuel Arbesman, a research fellow from Harvard, has come up with a fun solution. He created the 'Milky Way Transit Authority (MWTA),' a simple transit system in the style of the iconic London Underground 'Tube Map.' (Travel Tip: Don't spend too much time loitering around the station at Carina, there's some demolition work underway.)"
Comment Didn't they stop serving peanuts years ago? (Score 1) 643
If I recall correctly, they haven't served peanuts on Air Canada flights for at least 4 or 5 years. I wonder if they could actually stop me from eating peanuts that I brought myself.
Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Music By Natural Selection 164
maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
Comment Re:Buying boxes (Score 0, Offtopic) 181
If you read the article, you will see that one doesn't really *own* it, as it locks you into a lease agreement, with early termination fees etc etc...
Comment Re:Way to make me feel tiny Hubble (Score 1) 95
So how many of these 11 arc-minutes squares are there in the sky? And while you're at it, can you count the number of galaxies and multiply by.....
thx.
Comment Can they not use... (Score 5, Insightful) 379
compression to shorten the URL's?
Comment Terrorist's Handbook v.1.1 Addendum (Score 1) 204
Step 1)
Recruit my fellow co-conspirators (in person).
Step 2)
Establish a set of strict protocols for communication. This might include drafting up a cypher system for anything written.
- never use the phone
- if you need to communicate long distances, only use ciphered craigslist ads - ***DO NOT USE FACEBOOK***
Step 3)
Plan
Step 4)
Procurement
Step 5)
Execute
Recruit my fellow co-conspirators (in person).
Step 2)
Establish a set of strict protocols for communication. This might include drafting up a cypher system for anything written.
- never use the phone
- if you need to communicate long distances, only use ciphered craigslist ads - ***DO NOT USE FACEBOOK***
Step 3)
Plan
Step 4)
Procurement
Step 5)
Execute
Comment Re:Two camps on this movie (Score 1) 277
I enjoyed the previous movie very much. I was hoping to enjoy the sequel as well.
I'm not quite sure about your comment about 'pre-judging a file based on another is extremely short-sighted.' If I don't like the work of a certain actor/director/whatever then why should I continue to see movies with them, hoping that one of them will appeal to me?
So if you liked the first Hellboy, why didn't you go see Pan's Labyrinth when it came out?
I am very picky as well with films and I usually read a multitude of published reviews to get meaningful insights and analysis. Film makers can be wildly inconsistent from project to project. You can't just look at someone's previous films to decide to see the next one, there are many variables which come into play that will affect the end product (budget, studio, script writer, director, actors, market).
An author writing a book and a director doing a film is very different. An author has almost complete control of what the end product will be, a director has much less as there are many more factors and stake holders to answer to. Many times, a director might not have the final say.
Submission + - System-wide Air Canada computer glitch (theglobeandmail.com)
teeloo writes: "This morning, Air Canada experienced what they called "a communications error between the airline's central reservation system and computer systems at airports across Canada". This forced them to manually check in passengers (taking s long as 20 minutes per). Does anyone know exactly what happens technically when this communications breakdown occurs? I mean, don't they have redundancies in place?"
