Comment Drone, Hunt, Afghanistan, Terrorists, 911! (Score 0) 152
Do we really need to use those terms when referring to Space exploration? StoryAuthor.Lame++
Comment What is "Myanmar"? (Score 0) 149
Is that kind of like North Korean Kingdom of Heaven or the Saudi's Arabia?
Comment Just (don't) Do IT (Score 0) 172
Wrapping up game development into 50 hours is a recipe for a life long nightmare for someone. Imagine if some of your students actually will really LOVE making games. Are you going to be the one that tells them that being that they are "Fine Arts" major, there are not likely to ever get anywhere close to game authoring and at best can only find a job as a 3D graphic artists and only that after getting another degree! What you are doing is a SHAM.
Comment Re:Globalization - not understood (Score 0) 176
I have nothing against outsourcing. I my self have worked with outsourced groups many times. Very pleasant folk, if anything, they make me feel more confident in my market viability.
But in return, please, don't tell me that we should be adopting any habits like corruption, and monstrous bureaucracy of a regime such as India.
Comment Globalization - not understood (Score 0) 176
I think someone needs to teach these countries that Globalization doesn't mean you get to pick and choose those attributes of trade which fit your needs best. It's a model, get with it, or get off the train. Seriously, why are we sharing all our technology with these shady countries? Oh yeah capitalism, and slow as shit Pentagon. Don't complain the world is filling with despots when we aren't willing to regulate the chips supplied to North Korea, or the control over technology we give to shady governments like India and China.
Comment Re:And in other news... (Score 4, Funny) 341
What's jesus and what do you take it with?
Comment Bonus! (Score 0) 341
Does that mean I now qualify for hazard pay??
Comment Conspiracy (Score 0) 357
Obviously this bombing was staged to incite more fears amongst general public about the use of alternative energy methods. +1 Big Oil.
Comment Re:Star Wars v. Star Trek (Score 0) 495
Except problem solving skills.
Comment Re:Title failure (Score 0) 495
I fully agree, did the poster even read the article? I'd rather see someone just fail (because of budget constrains) then try and fail (with a gianormous budget). I personally did notice the ring and thought it was "whack". The original was awesome because the explosion mimicked Fireworks explosion and transitioned smoothly into the ending scenes with the firework celebration.
Submission + - Developer demands Pirate Bay not remove torrent (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This week TPB got a very different e-mail, though. It was a “Notice of Ridiculous Activity” from a software developer who had found one of its apps cracked and listed as a torrent on TPB.
The app in question is called Memories developed by Coding Robots. Memories is marketed as the easiest way to keep a journal on your Mac. It costs $29.99 to buy after you’ve enjoyed a 30-day free trial. That of course didn’t stop someone cracking the software and making it available for free as a torrent.
Dmitry Chestnykh, founder of Coding Robots, noticed the cracked torrent and decided to download it to see what had been done. After using it he was upset, not because the cracked version was available, but because the cracker (named Minamoto) had done such a bad job of cracking it.
The best section of the e-mail has to be this, though:
I demand that you don’t remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minamoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the[sic] better crack to be made, so that it doesn’t cripple the user experience of my beautiful program.
The app in question is called Memories developed by Coding Robots. Memories is marketed as the easiest way to keep a journal on your Mac. It costs $29.99 to buy after you’ve enjoyed a 30-day free trial. That of course didn’t stop someone cracking the software and making it available for free as a torrent.
Dmitry Chestnykh, founder of Coding Robots, noticed the cracked torrent and decided to download it to see what had been done. After using it he was upset, not because the cracked version was available, but because the cracker (named Minamoto) had done such a bad job of cracking it.
The best section of the e-mail has to be this, though:
I demand that you don’t remove this torrent, so that people can laugh at Minamoto and CORE skills. However, I also demand the[sic] better crack to be made, so that it doesn’t cripple the user experience of my beautiful program.
Fat Fingered Sumo Wrestlers Given iPads 69
The Japan Sumo Association is handing out about 60 iPads to training stables to help the wrestlers communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a regular mobile phone. From the article: "The iPad was chosen because the sumo association believed the device was big enough to cater to wrestler's fat fingers, unlike the smaller keys on mobile phones, according to reports."
Submission + - Navy drone goes rogue, heads for capital (geek.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: In what can only be classed as a “Skynet moment“, one of the U.S. Navy’s flying drones went rogue earlier this month.
The Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout is a 31-foot-long unmanned helicopter which was being flown on August 2nd out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River on the Chesapeake Bay. But something malfunctioned and operators lost control of it mid-flight. Did the drone just hover waiting for a command? Or even go to a fail-safe and land itself? No, it headed for the nation’s capital instead.
The Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout is a 31-foot-long unmanned helicopter which was being flown on August 2nd out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River on the Chesapeake Bay. But something malfunctioned and operators lost control of it mid-flight. Did the drone just hover waiting for a command? Or even go to a fail-safe and land itself? No, it headed for the nation’s capital instead.
Submission + - Is the Sun Emitting a Mystery Particle? (discovery.com) 2
suraj.sun writes: what if a well-known — and apparently constant — characteristic of matter starts behaving mysteriously? This is exactly what has been noticed in recent years; the decay rates of radioactive elements are changing.
This is the conclusion that researchers from Stanford and Purdue University have arrived at, but the only explanation they have is even weirder than the phenomenon itself: the sun might be emitting a previously unknown particle that is meddling with the decay rates of matter. Or, at the very least, we are seeing some new physics.
Interestingly, researchers at Purdue first noticed something awry when they were using radioactive samples for random number generation. However, when they compared their measurements with other scientists' work, the values of the published decay rates were not the same. Experimental error and environmental conditions have all been ruled out — the decay rates are changing throughout the year in a predictable pattern.
As the Earth is closer to the sun during the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere (our planet's orbit is slightly eccentric, or elongated), could the sun be influencing decay rates?
Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-emitting-a-mystery-particle.html
This is the conclusion that researchers from Stanford and Purdue University have arrived at, but the only explanation they have is even weirder than the phenomenon itself: the sun might be emitting a previously unknown particle that is meddling with the decay rates of matter. Or, at the very least, we are seeing some new physics.
Interestingly, researchers at Purdue first noticed something awry when they were using radioactive samples for random number generation. However, when they compared their measurements with other scientists' work, the values of the published decay rates were not the same. Experimental error and environmental conditions have all been ruled out — the decay rates are changing throughout the year in a predictable pattern.
As the Earth is closer to the sun during the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere (our planet's orbit is slightly eccentric, or elongated), could the sun be influencing decay rates?
Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-emitting-a-mystery-particle.html
Comment Gesture Wars (Score 0) 123
I feel the Gesture Wars are coming... This is a quite a bit simpler system, targeting broader market, then the one suggested by John Underkoffler, that was developed during the making of the "Minority Report" the movie. I have also noticed the demo for both systems did not tackle close-up gestures which is how the "Pad" will most likely be used. Plenty of space for more ideas, and competition.
