Comment Use JungleDisk instead. (Score 1) 307
Older, stabler, supports all those platforms, and it's cheaper.
Basically, it presents an Amazon S3 bucket as a network drive on your local PC.
Comment A brilliant investment (Score 2) 296
Lucas is a smart, smart man. Right now, the Uncanny Valley makes these depictions and representations of actors cheap. Nobody wants to buy them. But it's a damn fine bet to assume that the tech for making them look much more real will improve vastly over the next ten or twenty years. It's a smarter business plan than a lot of valley startups I've seen. You can't have Brando in your movie right now, but someday soon you will. Buy the rights now while you can.
Sex Drugs and Texting 287
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Comment Re:Psychoacoustic Simulation (Score 1) 358
Okay, I get it. "Psychoacoustic Simulation" means he compressed it with MP3. See? It's not the same anymore.
One might call this the "lame" defense.
Or Ogg Vorbis, or any modern mdct-based audio codec. All of the newer ones have psychoacoustic models built in that reject frequencies that you probably can't hear, in favor of ones that you can.
"Psychoacoustic simulations are my synthetic creation of that series of sounds which best expresses the way I believe a particular melody should be heard as a live performance." Total audio engineering bullsht, but entertaining bullsht nonetheless.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/bluebeat-claims-to-own-new-copyrights-to-old-beatles-songs/
Comment IBM and PR (Score 1) 154
IBM has a history of inadvertently making terrible PR for themselves with these man-vs-machine stunts. Everyone here should remember Kasparov vs. Deep Blue. Expect IBM to win Jeopardy, and expect there to be a hailstorm of "IBM cheats" controversy after the game.
