Comment Re:It's closed so it's perfect (Score 1) 137
You could probably get people to pay to have that removed. No one will pay to have it put on their device.
Swiss Experimenter Breeds Swarm Intelligence 144
destinyland writes "Researchers simulated evolution with multiple generations of food-seeking robots in a new study of artificial swarm intelligence. 'Under some conditions, sophisticated communication evolved,' says one researcher. And in a more recent study, the swarms of bots didn't just evolve cooperative strategies — they also evolved the ability to deceive. ('Forget zombies,' joked one commenter. 'This is the real threat.') 'The study of artificial swarm intelligence provides insight into the nature of intelligence in general, and offers an interesting perspective on the nature of Darwinian selection, competition, and cooperation.' And there's also some cool video of the bots in action."
Comment Re:How time flies (Score 1) 1124
That was my first thought too.
Comment Re:It's Not About Safety, It's About Macho (Score 1) 553
No, they're from 18 year olds that are too busy text messaging to look both ways when entering the street.
Comment Re:"dumb down?" (Score 1) 276
Tap with two fingers, or put two fingers on the trackpad and click.
Comment Re:Location, location, location (Score 2, Informative) 586
This may not make you hate Apple laptop keyboards any less, but you can use fn + delete to delete characters.
Comment Re:Only when registering (Score 2, Insightful) 849
This means we no longer need to confirm passwords twice when registering.
Yeah, just like we don't have to confirm email addresses right now.
Comment Re:The whole event was crap. (Score 1) 770
It makes more sense if Apple gets a cut of the 2-year contract revenue.
Comment Re:Cells are NEW but also STOLEN (Score 3, Informative) 235
Screwed up moderating, posting to fix.
Comment How to deal with opposing views (Score 1) 394
Release more versions of Windows 7, that way everyone can get exactly what they want.
Comment Re:I think it starts with lizards... (Score 1) 1032
How does that get modded informative?
Comment Re:Keyboard shortcuts and CLI (Score 1) 431
GMail has keyboard shortcuts (although I wish they were customizable, I'd like to add a few more).
There's an addon in Google Labs (Custom keyboard shortcuts) that will let you customize them.
Comment Re:The only answer is no browser at all (Score 1) 593
It's simple. Include a CD with 20 web browser installers on it. That will be simple enough for anyone to figure out.
Comment Re:Not a great 2.0 (Score 1) 326
Are they catching up with Firefox 3, IE8, or Opera 9?
Comment Re:easy (Score 2, Insightful) 450
Does flashblock do anything that noscript doesn't do?
