Comment Re:None (Score 1) 297
"On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Comment Re:There is one problem, though (Score 1) 293
Linux in Manga? It's more likely than you think...
http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/154/17/
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
Comment Re:The breakdown (Score 1) 576
Lord of the Rings is non-embarrassing fantasy reading material.
Lord of the Rings (or at least, the non-embarrassing part) is 3 books. Those 3 books are 1% of your collection, ergo you have 300 books, and therefore your average book length is 3.2 inches.
Those are some mighty heavy textbooks you've got.
The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest 93
At the Ohio LinuxFest yesterday, two Linux geeks were married — or had their projects merged into a single trunk, as the officiant, Lord Drachenblut, put it. The wedding of Randy Noseworthy (proprietor of the Juiced Penguin) and Janet Edmonson was announced last week and was live-tweeted by at least one attendee — here's his photo of the happy couple. There's also a video of the ceremony, at which Jon "Maddog" Hall offered a blessing via pre-recorded audio.
Update: 09/26 20:03 GMT by KD : In the comments, anyaristow notes that this wasn't the first such wedding; Rob Landly and Fade were married at Penguicon in 2007, with Steve Jackson officiating and Eric Raymond as best man.
Update: 09/26 20:03 GMT by KD : In the comments, anyaristow notes that this wasn't the first such wedding; Rob Landly and Fade were married at Penguicon in 2007, with Steve Jackson officiating and Eric Raymond as best man.
Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time Offers New Gameplay Mechanic 106
Ars Technica has a great look at the latest installment in the Ratchet and Clank series, "A Crack in Time." Along with the great looking graphics and same great gameplay, A Crack in Time offers a brand new game mechanic: "time pads." Time pads allow you to make a copy of yourself and move through a series of action, then shift back to "real time" and interact with your past self. "It's a game mechanic that's hard to describe in words, and wrapping your head around it inside the game isn't much easier when it's first described with an example or two. You have to play with it and bend time to your will before you see just how ingenious the whole thing is. The puzzles begin simply and grow harder as the game moves on. The use of time is done very well and elevates what we've played of the game from another platforming experience to something truly special."
Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet 475
DocVM writes "A Nova Scotia farmer is opposing the construction of a microwave tower for fear it will eventually mutate his organic garlic crop.
Lenny Levine, who has been planting and harvesting garlic by hand on his Annapolis Valley land since the 1970s, is afraid his organic crop could be irradiated if EastLink builds a microwave tower for wireless high-speed internet access a few hundred meters from his farm."
Comment Re:Something strange about this story... (Score 1) 177
You do know that Rock Band was made by the same people who made Guitar Hero 1 and 2, don't you?
What am I saying, that information was in the summary...
Comment Re:Ctrl-A S (Score 1) 303
Woah woah wait....
Somebody *uses* Ctrl-A S?
I thought that command was just a trap to make people read the documentation!
Comment Re:Too many (Score 1) 303
"Never memorize what you can look up in books."
-Albert Einstein
Comment Re:Hang on (Score 2, Informative) 454
Each one of these files is supposed to be protected with a special digital key, so that if anyone attempts to change it, the card would be identifiable as a fake to any official with a digital chip reader.
To get round this hurdle, we recruited the help of another technology expert, Jeroen van Beek, an Amsterdam-based computer consultant who advises many top companies on digital security.
Drawing on the work of renowned New Zealand computer scientist Peter Gutmann, our team was able to alter the contents of each datagroup and then 'relock' them, so that the card would be accepted as genuine.
We had created a perfect fake chip. The Government's 'fail-safe' security had failed.
In other words, yes the government did really screw up.
On a side note, does slashdot have to link to a link to the article?
Comment Re:OT: Why can't I see subject lines? (Score 1) 567
You don't need to sell it to this guy - he clearly stated in his subject line that he was already Operating Thetan.
Comment Re:Price..? (Score 1) 124
The thing that is still stunning me is that you'd think Sony, being the huge entertainment conglomerate that it is, would've been offering this already with the PS3.
RTFS much?
...rivals the BBC iPlayer, which is available on UK PlayStation consoles...
Comment Re:Simulcast? (Score 1) 124
Simultaneous broadcast? Seemed pretty intuitive to me...
Top 10 Disappointing Technologies 682
Slatterz writes "Every once in a while, a product comes along that everyone from the executives to the analysts to even the crusty old reporters thinks will change the IT world. Sadly, they are often misguided. This article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world, from the ludicrously priced Apple Lisa, to voice recognition, to Intel's ill-fated Itanium chip, and virtual reality, this article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world." But wait! Don't give up too quickly on the Itanium, says the Register.
