Comment Battle School (Score 3, Interesting) 257
Anderson talking to Graff about his new job.
"Though after years of watching those children flying, football is like watching slugs bash into each other."
- Ender's Game
Comment Re:Obligatory turd in punchbowl (Score 3, Informative) 521
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-wipeout-gene&page=6
"Some people wonder if it is ethical—or safe—to eliminate an organism, even in just a small geographic area. Proponents argue that A. aegypti is an invasive species that has evolved to exploit a solely human niche. “Urban A. aegypti is not part of any significant food chain,” says Phil Lounibos, a mosquito ecologist at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory. Yet Lounibos doubts whether eliminating A. aegypti would stop dengue transmission permanently. “A previous campaign to eradicate this species from the Americas in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was the primary vector of urban yellow fever, failed miserably,” he says. The invasive Asian tiger mosquito—another good dengue vector—readily occupies niches vacated by A. aegypti. Moreover, both the Cayman and Tapachula mosquito strains, even if successful, are not permanent. Migration of mosquitoes from neighboring regions into Tapachula could foil eradication attempts and mandate frequent releases of the modified males to keep the population in check."
Comment Re:Some leaked memos (Score 1) 161
Comment The reviews are a bit mixed but... (Score 1) 277
http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM
Comment WipeoutHD.The Methadone For Speed And LSD Junkies! (Score 1) 386
I recommend WipeoutHD. It's a worthy successor to the older WO racing games. Single and Multiplayer game play feels solid and polished. Don't take my word for it, download the demo.
Comment Re:FrogPad (Score 1) 160
Frogpad is great! On a whim, I learned the right handed frogpad (left handed mouser), it takes some getting used to. I recommend practicing with any normal keyboard learning software. You won't get 40wpm but 30 is attainable. This was invaluable when I broke my wrist a few years later. None of that ping pong to each side of the keyboard.
There is a app for the iphone and I believe a new batch of these keyboards are on the way. If you are considering blue-tooth, be warned that although it uses USB to charge, only the USB version communicates over the wire.
New I/O Standard Bids To Replace Mini PCI Express 31
DeviceGuru writes "LinuxDevices reports that a group of companies today unveiled — and demonstrated products based on — a tiny new PCI Express expansion standard. Although it's somewhat larger than the PCI Express Mini Card, the tiny new 43mm x 65mm FeaturePak card's high density 230-pin edgecard connector provides twice the number of PCI Express and USB 2.0 channels to the host computer, plus 100 lines dedicated to general purpose I/O, of which 34 signal pairs are implemented with enhanced isolation for use in applications such as gigabit Ethernet or high-precision analog I/O. While FeaturePaks will certainly be used in all sorts of embedded devices (medical instruments, test equipment, etc.), the tiny cards could also be used for developing configurable consumer devices, for example to add an embedded firewall/router or security processor to laptop or notebook computers, or for modular functionality in TV set-top-boxes and Internet edge devices." The president of Diamond Systems, which invented the new card, said "Following the FeaturePak initiative's initial launch, we intend to turn the FeaturePak specification, trademark, and logo over to a suitable standards organization so it can become an industry-wide, open-architecture, embedded standard" (but to use the logo you have to join the organization).
Comment Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Score 1) 1252
"It turned out that the blank book had a rating by some of the other
members! They couldn't believe it was blank, because they had a rating. In
fact, the rating for the missing book was a little bit higher than for the
two others. The fact that there was nothing in the book had nothing to do
with the rating."
Comment The Gulag Archipelago (Score 1) 527
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Comment Re:Ninja party for the win (Score 1) 246
Careful now, you came _that_ close to invoking Godwin's Law. Ninjas, Pirates, Terminators, grammar aficionados...
Comment Re:Dead on.... wish I had mod-points... (Score 1) 260
its all part of Gods plan
Comment Re:Float it (Score 1) 679
Using a wind powered engine to keep them in the right place isn't a bad idea. My first thought after reading the description, sailboats?
Maybe have them pulling some rope, sail around in a big loop.
Comment Re:Price (Score 1) 128
"First Algae Biodiesel Plant Goes Online: April 1, 2008"
