Comment The Higgs Boson (Score 5, Funny) 210
The Higgs Boson is holding a press conference at midnight on Dec 24th.
He's giving Christmas mass.
Comment xkcd (Score 3, Informative) 75
Made me think of this xkcd http://www.xkcd.com/978/
Comment Undercover (Score 1) 485
Install Undercover http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/.
Assuming you buy another Mac :)
Awesome bit of software.
Comment Plain English (Score 1) 433
I'm very surprised The Guardian published this article as-is.
A non-geek won't have a clue what most of the article means! Maybe it shows how far removed from reality RMS really is.
A layman's not going to know what a binary blob or a firmware is, and they aren't explained.
Very strange for mainstream news in my opinion.
Comment Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi (Score 1) 1521
Heh, I fondly remember the Natalie Portman/Hot Grits spam.
Often made for an interesting read.
Whatever Happened to Oog The Caveman? (Or did I just make that up?)
Comment Re:Don't do it (Score 1) 838
It was then that I realized that if I treated a dog the way they were treating my grandpa, keeping a dog alive when you knew for a damn fact he was going to die within a week, but that week would be full of horrid pain, you'd be up on charges of animal cruelty
This was one of the arguments mentioned in the show.
I've yet to see a link to it, so here it is for those in the UK that want to catch it on iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120dxp/Terry_Pratchett_Choosing_to_Die/
I don't advocate piracy, but there's also a torrent out there if UK viewers somehow are unable to watch on iPlayer: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6470486/Terry_Pratchett_-_Choosing_to_Die
I found it quite upsetting. Haven't been quite right at work today after watching it on the commute to work
Comment Re:TV vs. computer (Score 1) 437
I don't think it's any of this. I imagine Steve Jobs hates the way the DRM and key revocation/update stuff works.
Comment Wired article (Score 3, Informative) 225
Here's a Wired article about the rumoured Higgs sighting: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/higgs-rumor/
Comment Re:Well of course (Score 5, Informative) 501
Having read the linked thread, it looks like it's an ATI graphics card driver problem.
You can still ssh into a machine that has "crashed under load".
Comment Re:The difference? (Score 1) 113
I imagine the SMSes will be free. I think they're USSD Requests.
Submission + - Duke Nukem Forever available for pre-order (amazon.com) 1
philj writes: Duke Nukem Forever is now available for preorder from Amazon with a release date of May 31st. I never thought I'd see the day!
Submission + - XBMC released for Apple TV2, iPhone 4, iPad (xbmc.org) 1
philj writes: The XBMC team is proud to present our first ARM-based release, and it’s a big one. Scott Davilla, with the help of several other developers and testers, is finally ready to pull the curtain off of his fun little secret.
You know that $99 tiny form-factor powerhouse that would be just perfect if it could only run XBMC? Now it can.
Or how about that iPad that is just begging to be used as a real portable media center? Now it can.
And while we’re at it, put your iPhone4 to work using XBMC as well. Why? Because we can.
These are not initial ports, and they are not early development snapshots. Here they are: full XBMC installs and source code, ready for consumption.
You know that $99 tiny form-factor powerhouse that would be just perfect if it could only run XBMC? Now it can.
Or how about that iPad that is just begging to be used as a real portable media center? Now it can.
And while we’re at it, put your iPhone4 to work using XBMC as well. Why? Because we can.
These are not initial ports, and they are not early development snapshots. Here they are: full XBMC installs and source code, ready for consumption.
Comment Dupe from a couple of days ago (Score 0) 345
Comment Reminds me of... (Score 1) 97
... the rebuilding of the rebuilding of the Mark 1: http://www.computer50.org/mark1/index.html
There's a simulator here if you want to do some old-school coding http://www.davidsharp.com/baby/ :)
There's a simulator here if you want to do some old-school coding http://www.davidsharp.com/baby/
Comment Open standards (Score 3, Insightful) 765
I love how they harp on about doing this because they support open standards - They bundle Flash with Chrome!
Double standards or what?
Double standards or what?
