Comment Can be much less (Score 3, Funny) 192
You can get awesome at anything in much less than 10,000 hrs if you have a montage.
Comment Re:Seems to be fixed for me(?) (Score 1) 318
Not quite - the 'X=
Comment Re:You said something above... (Score 1) 106
Perhaps he was dictating.
Comment Re:Too expensive (Score 2) 275
Now, all this said, if there was an EASY way for me to have Dropbox-like functionality against an S3 endpoint where *I*/AWS runs the box, I'd be game
Have a look at owncloud.
Submission + - Soccer Superstar Plays With Very Low Brain Activity
jones_supa writes: Brazilian superstar Neymar's (Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior) brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 per cent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on "auto-pilot", according to Japanese neurologists Eiichi Naito and Satoshi Hirose. The findings were published in the Swiss journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience following a series of motor skills tests carried out on the 22-year-old Neymar and several other athletes in Barcelona in February this year. Three Spanish second-division footballers and two top-level swimmers were also subjected to the same tests. Researcher Naito told Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper: "Reduced brain activity means less burden which allows [the player] to perform many complex movements at once. We believe this gives him the ability to execute his various shimmies." In the research paper Naito concluded that the test results "provide valuable evidence that the football brain of Neymar recruits very limited neural resources in the motor-cortical foot regions during foot movements".
Comment We had a band powerful enough ... (Score 1) 83
This has been done before. In the 70s there was a blues band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Comment Re:Tread carefully with your comparisons (Score 1) 253
Indeed. It's almost like it's two other words mixed together.
Comment Re:Still Waiting (Score 1) 247
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
Comment Re:I think (Score 1) 188
Nazis.
Your welcome
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Comment Re:Psychology (Score 1) 138
You forgot 'Politics'. Not sure where that fits in the ordering though.
Comment Re:Genuinely curious (Score 1) 783
Are there signs at every intersection saying which road has right-of-way?
Yes - At every 4-way intersection not controlled by lights there will be 'Stop' or 'Give Way' on one of the roads.
Comment Re:Booze Bus (Score 2) 783
We're not even considering the terrible road designs like all way stops. Yep, all roads have a stop sign. In theory you give way to your right, in reality it's whoever has the balls to go first
I've been to South Africa a few times, they have 4-way stop signs too. The way it works there is when you get to the line, everyone who is already stopped on the other entries goes before you, then you go. All-in-all it works quite well. In fact, when they have one of their frequent power outages and the traffic lights go out, the drivers just treat the intersection as a 4-way stop and get on with it.
Comment Re:bribery (Score 3, Interesting) 294
I had dealings with the LHM back then and I do fully believe they haven't saved a single cent on the transition
Maybe they didn't save anything on the transition, but do they expect to save overall costs/expenses in the longer term?
Comment Re:Can the connection to amazon be turned off? (Score 1) 88
Yes, you can turn the Wifi and Bluetooth on/off (independently) whenever you like. There is also an aeroplane mode, I guess this stops you turning on Wifi accidentally (??).
For your purposes, I suppose you might potentially leave the Wifi off all the time, and just load files on through the USB cable.
Comment Re:A split S? (Score 1) 239
Gutsiest move I ever saw, man.
