Comment Re:Any good free alternatives? (Score 1) 87
hmm, not sure why that's posting as AC
Comment Re:The only absurd part of this... (Score 3, Insightful) 260
That's actually a relatively fair price, however I once spent $80 for a text book that was maybe 200 pages and we opened I think 4 times in the entire semester (10 years ago so memory has a few faults
Comment Re:Easy Answer (Score -1, Offtopic) 220
If I had mod points, you'd get 1.
Comment multiplayer with only humans? (Score 0, Troll) 220
Perhaps someone in the beta can enlighten me. Till they get the other expansions out, isn't terran vs terran multiplayer gonna be rather boring?
Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126
Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."
Bark Beetles Hate Rush Limbaugh and Heavy Metal 220
Aryabhata writes "According to scientists, climate change and human activity have allowed bark beetle populations to soar. They decided to fight the beetles by using the 'nastiest, most offensive sounds' that they could think of. These sounds included recordings of Guns & Roses, Queen, Rush Limbaugh and manipulated versions of the insects' own sounds. The research project titled 'Beetle Mania' has concluded that acoustic stress can disrupt their feeding and even cause the beetles to kill each other."
Comment Re:Lol (Score 1, Insightful) 124
screw keeping it on their own continent, i say keep it in their own borders, i'm 100% positive that Mexico and Canada would prefer the US kept its nose out of our business. I'm from Canada, so i know i'm at least 50% accurate there
Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game 287
An anonymous reader writes "A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was also ordered to allow access, including passwords, to his social networking sites, email accounts and websites."
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."
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Comment Re:Another shocker (Score 1) 305
Who did Bill Gates screw over/ Just ask Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products. Bill purchased MSDOS (was originally called QDOS) from them for a meager $50000. Tim later went on to work for Microsoft, but I bet he'd much rather have made the deal with IBM himself and kept Bill completely out of the loop.
Comment Re:Potential (Score 4, Interesting) 829
Blame fan support for Danial Jacksons repeated reincarnations, if I remember correctly they originally didn't plan to bring him back after his first "death" but a large percentage of fans kinda freaked out.
Comment Re:How about a garbage collector appreciation day? (Score 1) 232
The fact that we have to deal with idiots on a minute by minute basis and we're not really in a position to tell them to take a hike when they claim that their problem is more important than the 30 other problems we're already working on at the same time.
Comment Sounds like a rehash of the SJ Games incident (Score 1) 77
Hmm, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it?
Comment Re:Only because of stupid people. (Score 1) 631
the other problem is that it's in so many different products, that it's very easy to slip up. The recommended daily maximum dose of acetaminophen is 4000mg. Extra Strength Tylenol contains 500mg / pill and the recommended dose is 1-2 pills every 4 hours. Nyquil liquicaps contain 325mg and the dosage of 1-2 pills every 6 hours. Nyquil liquid contains 500mg / 15ml with a recommended dosage of 30ml every 6 hours. Add in the fact that most people are stupid and don't realize that the maximum dosage listed on a box is mainly because of the acetaminophen and I can easily see an accidental overdose of acetaminophen occurring.
Wake up feeling like crap cause of the flu, pop a couple tylenol and a couple nyquil liquicaps, start to feel better (1650mg 8am)
4 hours later, still feeling crappy, pop a couple more tylenol (2650mg 12pm)
2 hours later, oh, good, I can take a couple more liquicaps (3300mg 2pm)
2 hours later, is my headache coming back? Better take some more tylenol (4300mg 4pm)
8 hours into the day, and someone has already taken more than the recommended amount and there's still around 6-7 hours till they'll probably go to bed, easily providing enough time to ingest at least 2000mg more acetaminophen
People are stupid, and the advertising says take this, it'll make you feel better, not take this it'll make you but be careful what else your taking or it could kill you. Most people don't read warning labels on medications that don't require a prescription to buy, hell, they generally don't read the warning on prescription medications either.
