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Submission + - Pascals Wager -- A technical gamble on God

Submitted by

angrysmurf56

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:52PM

angrysmurf56 writes: "Pascals Wager was referenced on the Imus show the other day... this site is taking a look at at the theory (If you don't know if there's a God, then it's safer to believe that there is). There's some mixed takes on this and interesting debate. http://angrysmurf.com/blog/2007/03/pascals-wager.h tml"

Submission + - Be a Developer not a Coder

Submitted by yavori on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:51PM

yavori writes: An interesting point of view where Developers are not Coders and programming languages are compared at level of job done and problems solved is discussed here. The author seems to make a comparison of Ruby on Rails and two of the most used programming languages PHP and Java.

Journal Journal: AppleTV hits the streets 474

Journal by jdray on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:29PM

Stories are starting to pop up all over the web about the AppleTV, which evidently means that Apple has set loose the hounds of marketing and the units are (or will be tomorrow) available in Apple stores. Still no word on whether

How Do You Re-Sell a Domain Name? 64

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:24PM from the not-as-easy-as-it-sounds dept.

dclayman wonders: " I've never sold a domain before. I just received a $400 offer for a domain I own (radicaltrust), but I don't know if I should sell it or auction it off. If I auction it, what site should I use? I could really use the extra cash, and I was hoping to get some ideas and advice from other readers. So, what's the best way to go about selling a domain?" Of course, selling your domain is only half of the issue. What's the best way to go about smoothly transferring the domain, once it is sold?

Submission + - Cyberlink's lucky patent leads to Blu-Ray profit

Submitted by on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: In a video interview with HEXUS.tv, Cyberlink CEO Alice Chang states, quite proudly, that the company is set to do well from Blu-Ray, thanks to one of its patents. From the interview: "We had tens of different patents, but one of the patents that luckily we got granted was an essential patent for Blu-Ray. So whenever devices using Blu-Ray are made, our patents are in there." It's interesting that she considers the granting of the patent lucky. Perhaps Cyberlink's attitude to patents is to file for it, hope it gets granted, then profit.

Submission + - Handy Caffeine Chart

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Energy drinks are everywhere but coffee gives the best buzz for your buck. Light Reading compiled caffeine data from medical journals and dozens of lunch breaks to show how coffee compares to Red Bull, Monster, SoBe No Fear, etc.

Submission + - God of War Franchise May Be Extended

Submitted by

njkid1

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @06:05PM

njkid1 writes: "In this exclusive interview, David Jaffe explains that it could take another 2 or 3 games to finish the story of Kratos. Beyond that, they could fill in "gaps" with other games, he said. Jaffe also questioned whether Sony did a good enough job in marketing the PS3's value, and he shares his love for Nintendo, his thoughts on rumble, storytelling and much more."

Submission + - Matsushita Leads Plasma Display Production

Submitted by HGiOG on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:59PM

HGiOG writes: Matsushita Electric Ind. (NYSE: MC), owner of the Panasonic brand, maintained its leadership position in Plasma Display Panel production for the fourth quarter of 2006, while other manufacturers lost share according to new research.

Journal Journal: Last night we asked them to investigate Pres/VP 2

Journal by WillAffleckUW on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:55PM

So, last night we started the go rounds on a resolution to ask our county and state D groups to ask for a formal investigation into impeachable offenses by the current appointed President and VP. Interesting - didn't know that states can ask for this to be done.

Amusingly, all the heat was over the Seattle School Board - and I asked some of the more difficult questions on that one.

PlayStation Home And Porn - No Problems 69

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:55PM from the match-made-in-dallas dept.

Via Eurogamer, a post on the 'semi-official' ThreeSpeech blog essentially saying that Sony doesn't see porn as an issue for the upcoming Home PS3 service. Sony's Phil Harrison was on the other end of the blog's questions, and after reminding us that avatars won't be able to interact, it will be easy to blacklist people, and they will have lots of filters in place: "Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions ... I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than [porn], but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be."

Feed Rebuilding the Better Dinosaur (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:52PM

Scientists will rebuild the skeleton of a 150-million-year-old Apatosaurus to reflect new research findings regarding the dinosaur. By the Associated Press.

Feed Tracking Carbon Dioxide (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:52PM

Researchers develop a new way of tracking carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which they believe will help plot the path of global warming. By the Associated Press.

Submission + - Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child'

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.

Submission + - Agility

Submitted by jamesrayge on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:48PM

jamesrayge writes: Companies require business agility to survive; software requires agile development procedures to respond to change; development requires agile business rules to allow change; and the enterprise requires agile business planning protocols to cultivate internal collaboration. Agility is Everywhere http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archi ve/2007/03/21/agility.aspx

World's First Polymorphic Computer 113

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:43PM from the good-kind-of-unstable dept.

tdelama writes to mention Raytheon Company has developed the first polymorphic computer named the Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture (MONARCH) for the US Department of Defense. "'Typically, a chip is optimally designed either for front-end signal processing or back-end control and data processing,' explained Nick Uros, vice president for the Advanced Concepts and Technology group of Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. 'The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it's fully programmable.'"

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