Comment this is... (Score 1) 351
racist ! (in a black coffee kind of sense)
sue the bastards!
Comment oblig (Score 4, Funny) 245
I for one welcome the retina-porn overlords
Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? 245
Engadget is one of many reporting that Brother and NEC both seem to have retina display technology in the works for release next year. Brother, at least, seems to have a fully functional prototype, while so far NEC is mostly talk. "Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone."
White House Website Switches To Open Source 219
Falc0n writes "WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"
Submission + - Microsoft Invents Making You Hate Your Fat Self
theodp writes: Perhaps it's easiest to just let Microsoft's newly-disclosed patent application for What You Will Look Like in 10 Years speak for itself: 'Many people out of sheer laziness refrain from partaking in physical activity and consume unhealthy food. This avoidance is borne out by the soaring demographic of persons who can be classified as being obese and who continually and incessantly eat fast foods (e.g., hamburgers, french fries, pizza, hot dogs, etc.) and then proceed to 'supersize' the order for a marginal increase in price, for example. In most instances, if people were pictorially or visually made aware of the consequences of their choices and actions, many, if not most, would modify their behavior and life style selections to comport with a healthier body image.' Can we count on seeing this negative body image feature in Microsoft HealthVault anytime soon?
Comment Re:Management (Score 1) 246
you probably mean economy of scale... a veeeery old concept indeed.
Comment DAMPVM? (Score 1) 80
http://fox.eti.pg.gda.pl/~pczarnul/DAMPVM.html
(Dynamic Allocation and Migration Parallel Virtual Machine ?
Comment Re:This Sounds Like a Great Idea (Score 1) 160
Did you mean bluetooth? (see p.3)
Comment It's always like that... (Score 1) 364
Exceptional entity requires support of other individuals in order to be elevated to glory. Be it science, presidential election or showbusiness. It is not a new thing, in fact it is older than ancient Rome and Greece. Nothing to see here, move along.
Comment Re:Will it really matter ? (Score 1) 290
Heavily biased since all search results come from manufacturer of their competitor - google.
Comment Moonedit? (Score 1) 157
have you tried Moonedit? http://moonedit.com/indexen.htm
