Comment BASIC is a horrible language. (Score 1) 783
Hobbyist programmers don't write BASIC code these days, the question you should be asking is "why can't we put python/ruby on the phone?".
Comment ddg uses bing? (Score 1) 315
Proof?
Comment Re:Why I only do iOS (Score 1) 614
Care to elaborate on why Android is an awful platform?
Oh, and Android is NOT a cross platform API, Android apps only work on Android, unless you mean that the SDK and tools are cross platform.
Submission + - You really are what you know (bbc.co.uk)
jd writes: "There has been research for some time that shows that London cab driver brains differ from other people's, with considerable enlargement of those areas dealing with spacial relationships and navigation, with follow-up work showing that it wasn't simply a product of driving a lot.
However, up until now it has been disputed as to whether the brain structure led people to become London cabbies or whether the brain structure changed as a result of their intensive training (which requires rote memorization of essentially the entire street map of one of the largest and least-organized cities in the world). Well, this latest study answers that. MRI scans before and after the training show that the regions of the brain substantially grow as a result of the training, that they're quite normal beforehand.
The practical upshot of this research is that — even for adult brains, which aren't supposed to change much — what you learn structurally changes your brain. Significantly."
However, up until now it has been disputed as to whether the brain structure led people to become London cabbies or whether the brain structure changed as a result of their intensive training (which requires rote memorization of essentially the entire street map of one of the largest and least-organized cities in the world). Well, this latest study answers that. MRI scans before and after the training show that the regions of the brain substantially grow as a result of the training, that they're quite normal beforehand.
The practical upshot of this research is that — even for adult brains, which aren't supposed to change much — what you learn structurally changes your brain. Significantly."
Comment Really? (Score 1) 75
I'm waiting for Kinect 4
Comment Use nginx? (Score 5, Interesting) 99
Why would anyone use Apache as a reverse proxy anyway?
I mean, there's nginx, and it runs circles around Apache as far as I know.
Comment I tried this days ago. (Score 2) 257
It does work, but it's still alpha quality at best.
Page layout is messed up.
Comment Re:Now there's a threesome /. doesn't see every da (Score 1) 199
Sony Ericsson is known to put out quality hardware, Nokia is known for just putting out.
Comment Re:It's an investment. (Score 0) 217
The one good thing about Microsoft is that they tend to stick to what they started. It's not like Google who might just cancel the product you're using the next day.
Yeah, they really stuck to VB6 and silverlight.
Comment Re:Lol open sores (Score 2) 92
Even their closed-source driver sucks, it's not just the open source one.
Comment Sourceforge? (Score 1) 90
Why didn't you post this on Github?
At least it has syntax highlighting, I'm no expert at Bash, but I don't think anyone would appreciate reading it with no syntax highlighting.
Comment Larry Ellison? (Score 1) 6
What is this guy doing in this article?
Submission + - Google Buys Motorola for $12.5 Billion (mashable.com)
mhh91 writes: "Google announced Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
Motorola is one of 39 manufacturers of handsets that use Google’s Android operating system.
Buying a hardware company is an unusual move for Google. The acquisition, Google said in a statement, “will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem.”
Will this strengthen Google's position in the ongoing patent war with Apple and Microsoft?
Motorola is one of 39 manufacturers of handsets that use Google’s Android operating system.
Buying a hardware company is an unusual move for Google. The acquisition, Google said in a statement, “will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem.”
Will this strengthen Google's position in the ongoing patent war with Apple and Microsoft?
Comment I still turn my computer off (Score 2) 557
There's one good reason why I do that.
I live in a VERY hot country, if I leave my computer on for a long time, the components will just melt, or at least it'll affect performance sooner than it should.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but heat is bad for computer parts.
Suspend to RAM/Sleep keeps everything running, it does save some electricity, but I don't know if the savings are worth it.
Maybe I should try suspending to disk?
Comment There's a battle between M$ and Google? (Score 1) 141
And it's over web search?
That's odd, I thought it was just Google.
I'm sorry, but I Bing doesn't really count as a serious search engine, at least for me.
