Comment Re:hmm... (Score 2, Informative) 105
Yes you can.
Costs From $2-7/1000.
Submission + - What will the browser look like in five years? (oreilly.com)
macslocum writes: Opera's Charles McCathieNevile examines the most significant web browser innovations of the last few years, and he looks ahead to the browser's near-term future.
Submission + - China waves ban hammer at IBM (techworld.com)
superapecommando writes: "A Chinese official appeared to take aim at IBM as he warned recently against "Smarter Planet" projects, or the use of technology like networks of sensors in cities to gather and analyse data.
IBM has used the "Smarter Planet" slogan for wide-ranging projects including a green city lab in northeastern China. The concept, along with others like "reindustrialization" and "low-carbon economy" also put forth by developed countries, could constrain China, Li Yizhong, China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said in a speech summarised on the ministry website."
Hmmm... not that I'm really IBM's greatest fan, but this just seems like some sabre rattling from a Party official. Anyone really believe Big Blue is a tool of US imperialism?
IBM has used the "Smarter Planet" slogan for wide-ranging projects including a green city lab in northeastern China. The concept, along with others like "reindustrialization" and "low-carbon economy" also put forth by developed countries, could constrain China, Li Yizhong, China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said in a speech summarised on the ministry website."
Hmmm... not that I'm really IBM's greatest fan, but this just seems like some sabre rattling from a Party official. Anyone really believe Big Blue is a tool of US imperialism?
Comment Re:Perish (reasons why flash is not supported) (Score 1) 329
OP is totally correct with this.
I went to newgrounds yesterday with my Nokia n97 (on wifi) to try and play vector TD. The site is way too heavy for my phone to handle, and I gave up after 10 minutes of click, wait, wait, chug chug.
I think that flash games on the mobile could definitely work, but in most cases it's going to require a change to the games, as they're just not made to work with low-end hardware and touch
Submission + - Android is forbidden in iPhone App Store (theregister.co.uk)
donberryman writes: Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. They just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/apple_slaps_iphone_app_for_mentioning_google_android/
Submission + - Cdn Digital Music Sales Beat US For 4 Consec Years (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Nielsen Soundscan has just released
the Canadian music sales figures for 2009. Notwithstanding the
regular claims that the Canadian digital music market cannot develop
without copyright reform, the Canadian market grew faster than the U.S.
market for the fourth
consecutive year. In fact, while the RIAA paints Canada as a
piracy haven, it ranks ahead of France, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Italy,
Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic,
Finland, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Australia, New
Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil,
Russia, and South Africa.
Submission + - Blizzard temporarily bans WoW's top guild (mmo-champion.com) 1
RogueyWon writes: "MMO Champion is reporting that Blizzard have temporarily banned the world's top World of Warcraft guild, for what appears to be the accidental exploitation of a bug that Blizzard themselves have introduced into the final encounter of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Details are somewhat sparse, and those that are available have mostly come from the guild involved, but it appears that a bug in the fight meant that normal tactics caused some of the boss's mechanics to fail to trigger, resulting in the boss being easier to defeat than intended. Blizzard's draconian response seems likely to raise eyebrows, given that their own testing cycle clearly shares at least part of the blame."
Submission + - Did you try out the gnome shell? (bad.li.nk) 2
gnalle writes: 1) Yes, and it works just fine 2) Yes, but it doesn't work fine 3) No, but I ought to 4) No I don't us Linux 5) Other (BTW: I pressed submit poll to get to this form, so I pressume I can use this form to submit polls. You probably have a bad link)
Submission + - Has Google Backed down? (sina.com) 1
hackingbear writes: When I tested search for "June 4" a few hours after Google's China announcement, the results are uncensored showing real information of the event. Today, the exact same query shows censored results with only government approved comments about the events and the same old footnote "some results are hidden in accordance with local laws". According to news reports, Google are negotiating with the government which so far has not taken any real action but just done some lip services on the matter. (I have not been able to find non-Chinese-language news article mentioning the negotiation; the above links are oversea/Hong Kong news sources. The web sites of your favorite news source only mention the investigation of Google China staff. Why?) It could be just Google's negotiation tactic, but it also casts a doubt on their stance and motive.
Submission + - Most Brits think phishing is what Eskimos do. (computerweekly.com)
bossanovalithium writes: The average British person has little idea on the most basic of IT knowledge. Nigerian scammers must love us..
Submission + - Modern day Galileo's 1
An anonymous reader writes: Ask Slashdot ?
Galileo Galilei found prove for the heliocentric model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus. His findings almost got him killed by the inquisition and it got him grounded for life. Sometimes anomaly findings or artifacts disturb the scientific community. Are there modern day Galileo's that may have idea's and theory's that are to far out for the established scientific community that might be our future wisdom and knowlege ?
Galileo Galilei found prove for the heliocentric model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus. His findings almost got him killed by the inquisition and it got him grounded for life. Sometimes anomaly findings or artifacts disturb the scientific community. Are there modern day Galileo's that may have idea's and theory's that are to far out for the established scientific community that might be our future wisdom and knowlege ?
Submission + - When open source developers refuse to fix a bug (google.com) 1
xrayted_za writes: There has been an issue raised in Chromium in September 2008 (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147). It is that if you have multiple tabs open and you close down the browser it just shuts down with no warning. The issue has been marked as won't fix as the team does not want to interrupt the workflow with modal dialog boxes and anyway when you reopen Chromium it allows you to reopen the closed tabs. As has been pointed out multiple times it is not always possible to recover where you are by reopening the pages and that it also does not work in incognito mode. The problem is that the keyboard shortcuts for close tab (ctrl-w) and close window (ctrl-q) are right next to each other and can easily be mis-pressed.
Now the team has implemented a warning dialog when closing the browser when there are downloads pending so they have seen the need to interrupt the workflow at certain points. Also as has been pointed out, it could be implemented with an opt out option that is opted out by default and only if people want to be warned about closing multiple tabs then they will need to enable this feature.
One gets the feeling that the team do not want to add this feature, not because there is no need for it, but because if they do implement it they would be admitting they made an incorrect decision in the first place. How can you change the minds of these people?
Now the team has implemented a warning dialog when closing the browser when there are downloads pending so they have seen the need to interrupt the workflow at certain points. Also as has been pointed out, it could be implemented with an opt out option that is opted out by default and only if people want to be warned about closing multiple tabs then they will need to enable this feature.
One gets the feeling that the team do not want to add this feature, not because there is no need for it, but because if they do implement it they would be admitting they made an incorrect decision in the first place. How can you change the minds of these people?
Submission + - Aussie quantum experiment challenges Einstein (computerworld.com.au)
mask.of.sanity writes: Australian scientists have completed ground-breaking research using quantum computing that will challenge, among scientific principles, the theory of quantum mechanics.
A joint experiment between the University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University, the first of its kind to apply quantum mechanics to chemistry to predict molecular reactions, could have huge implications for science. It used a 2 qubit (quantum bit), "toy" experiment that is expected to form the basis of experiments using hundreds of qubits — more than the entire computational capacity of the planet — inside of 50 years.
UQ physics professor Andrew White, a co-author of the project, said the existence of quantum computing means that either quantum mechanics is wrong, or the Church Turing Thesis, which underpins computer science, is flawed.
“If the Church Turing Thesis is wrong, that’s really big news; or it means that quantum computing will turn out to be impossible for a fundamental reason, or that a fast classical factoring algorithm exists,” White said, referring to a theory by MIT assistant professor Scott Aaronson that the only way to prove the probability of quantum mechanics is to build a quantum computer.
“If you asked [the inventors of the diode] what good they have done, they might have said they can shrink a computer to the size of a living room, but they would never have guessed what computers would become – this is where we are at."
Due to the nature of science, the ramifications of the experiment are essentially unknown, however, White postulates that it could be used to predict the outcome of chemical reactions, albeit without the inherent randomness that is absent in controlled computer simulations. White said a 300 qubit register can store more information than the number of particles in the universe.
A joint experiment between the University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University, the first of its kind to apply quantum mechanics to chemistry to predict molecular reactions, could have huge implications for science. It used a 2 qubit (quantum bit), "toy" experiment that is expected to form the basis of experiments using hundreds of qubits — more than the entire computational capacity of the planet — inside of 50 years.
UQ physics professor Andrew White, a co-author of the project, said the existence of quantum computing means that either quantum mechanics is wrong, or the Church Turing Thesis, which underpins computer science, is flawed.
“If the Church Turing Thesis is wrong, that’s really big news; or it means that quantum computing will turn out to be impossible for a fundamental reason, or that a fast classical factoring algorithm exists,” White said, referring to a theory by MIT assistant professor Scott Aaronson that the only way to prove the probability of quantum mechanics is to build a quantum computer.
“If you asked [the inventors of the diode] what good they have done, they might have said they can shrink a computer to the size of a living room, but they would never have guessed what computers would become – this is where we are at."
Due to the nature of science, the ramifications of the experiment are essentially unknown, however, White postulates that it could be used to predict the outcome of chemical reactions, albeit without the inherent randomness that is absent in controlled computer simulations. White said a 300 qubit register can store more information than the number of particles in the universe.
Comment Re:So before I (Score 1) 316
He smashes the screen against the edge of a water tank.
Comment Re:O RLY? (Score 2, Insightful) 602
I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?
I don't see you "calling anyone out" on anything, however you do seem touchy about gender issues. Moreover, I don't see what relevance your sexual preference has to the discussion.
