Comment Re:Self-fulfilled research (Score 1) 136
Yes. He is getting paid in euros in Mexico. And Turkey.
Comment Re:I am the 1% (Score 1) 138
Comment Re:Whatever doesn't kill us, makes us stronger... (Score 1) 754
Until we're fitted with bio-mechanical replacements that give us near super-powers...
I'm choosing to believe that was a M.A.N.T.I.S. reference.
Comment Re:Silly. (Score 1) 401
IIRC, that's about the time arcade games went funny. (Maybe I'm missing it by a few years?) Games like Robotron 2084 or Sinistar or even Pac Man are sort of open-ended. You play until you die x times and you try to get on the high scores list. Whereas something like Golden Axe is a pure grind. If you have enough quarters, you can play to the end. What fun is that?
Comment Re:sex? (Score 1) 72
The marks left behind by the girls did not include stains reminiscent of a Monica Lewinski outfit.
Okay, first of all we're talking about 3 year olds. Second, that reference is 13 years old.
Comment Re:Embedded in the passport? (Score 1) 373
Sometimes I think the army is pointing their guns at the wrong would-be-oppressors.
Agreed. Obviously a military junta would be WAAAAY better at respecting our rights.
Comment Re:Science does require faith (Score 1) 1486
*rimshot*
*crickets chirping*
*crickets chirping*
Comment Re:Amazon lost (Score 1) 356
How far of a leap is it to say that application is just a longer form of app so it's also covered under trademark.
Surely Apple would object to other shortened forms of "application" as well. Can you imagine an "appl store"?
Comment Re:Erection (Score 1) 642
I know parent is joking, but according to the leaked TSA screening guidelines from last year, passengers do have the choice of a male or female screener for the pat-down, regardless of sexual orientation.
Comment Re:Um, Not? (Score 1) 124
...makes me wonder if his accident didn't involve a busted chariot wheel which was replaced after he died...presumably so Tut could use it in the afterlife.
The article definitely says the other tire is "newer," not "new." But that's still fun to imagine.
Comment Re:Deceiving. (Score 1) 208
...what are we doing putting them in control of a 3000lb killing machine?
That's just silly. No one controls the mighty Megalosaurus!
Comment Re:Front page news? (Score 2, Informative) 157
An inordinate amount of attention for simple game. In other headline news, Starcraft 2 can be played as anything, thanks to a gnarly editor.
One big reason for all the attention is that Valve has released the full source and SDK alongside it. Mods haven't started rolling in yet, but there are sure to be quite a few.
I'm sure SC2's editor is great, though.
Comment Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China (Score 2, Insightful) 536
When it comes to respecting civil rights, there is no such thing as shades of gray.
Whew! I guess we don't need the Supreme Court anymore.
Linux 2.6.34 Released 268
diegocg writes "Linux 2.6.34 has been released. This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware balloon driver, the 'kprobes jump' optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the 'perf lock' tool, cross-platform analysis support), several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements. See the full changelog here."
Comment Re:Among them are a tool for creating virtual hard (Score 1) 356
Article is referring to this tool: disk2vhd
