Comment Atlantis ? (Score 1) 224
So was Atlantis originally located in the Mediterranean Basin ?
Or did I watch too much Stargate ?
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."
Comment Re:Waiting for the Acer A1 phone (Score 1, Funny) 181
Read and weep, Apple geek : http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173601/symbian_and_android_to_lead_mobile_os_market_in_2012.html
And no, that's not an opinion story, it's a Gartner report.
The iPhones will end up in the bin as quickly as they were bought...
Comment Re:Waiting for the Acer A1 phone (Score 1) 181
Funny that the first citywide mobile phone was introduced in Japan (1979) and Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981. US followed 2 years later. And I'm not even talking about 2G, G3, G3+ and G4 standards, where the gap is even bigger.
Oh and you probably think Nokia is an American company... and T-Mobile probably is American in your mind too ?
Also noteworthy : the first American company on the list of largest mobile phone networks is at #13.
Wake up and look outside... there's more to see outside the US than inside !
Comment Re:American Show (Score 1) 190
Uh ? Where have you been living ? Pluto ?
Comment Re:Is this pronounced ... (Score 1) 190
Yup, Frank The Winner
Comment Re:We rule the ISS and IOC now :-) (Score 1) 190
Ah it's just teleportation
Comment We rule the ISS and IOC now :-) (Score 4, Funny) 190
A Belgian is now commander of the ISS and president of the IOC... and next year probably chairman of the UN Security Council
Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google 152
itwbennett writes "Google recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Steve Kondik, the creator of Cyanogen, a popular souped-up version of Android, asking him to stop distributing applications such as Gmail with his modified software. 'We make some of these apps available to users of any Android-powered device via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on some phones through business deals,' wrote Dan Morrill on the Android developer blog. 'Either way, these apps aren't open source, and that's why they aren't included in the Android source code repository.' Now, Kondik thinks he's found a workaround. He plans to release a 'bare bones' version of Cyanogen without the applications, leaving it to modders to make a backup copy of the Google applications that shipped with their phone for later reinstallation before hacking away at the Android software. 'The idea is that you'll be able to Google-ify your CyanogenMod installation with the applications and files that shipped on your device already,' Kondik wrote."
Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules 122
stry_cat writes "Over a year ago ICANN moved to clean up misbehaving registrars like GoDaddy. They released this scary sounding advisory. However, over a year later, problems remain. One company is now publicly complaining. Some of the biggest registrars are slammed for their actions. 'Register.com is one frustrating company. The ICANN policy clearly prohibits blocking a transfer of a domain name that has expired but not yet been deleted. Despite that, a customer trying to transfer a three-day-expired Register.com domain name told us last week that they refused to give him the necessary code to allow him to transfer — unless he pays them to renew it first. ... GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too. ... We see a similar problem with many transfers from Network Solutions.'"
Comment Worst idea ever ? (Score 2, Interesting) 106
So what happens if that small carrier gets 500.001 customers ? You can't use your iPhone on their network anymore ?
So small carriers will need to stay small... ofcourse Verizon loves that idea, because then they can keep the status quo in the market !
Comment no wonder (Score 1) 544
"he had spent the profound sum in one pop at a nearby Mobil gas station -- his regular stop for Camel cigarettes"
Smoking is bad for your health... and wallet
Comment Re:Where is this going? (Score 1) 114
Might want to think about encoding with lossless compression ? That brings it down a whole lot. You can get a 1080p movie down to 20-30GByte (sometimes even less).
What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You? 412
Anonymous Entrepreneur writes "I run a small technology startup company; so small that our offices are still located in a room in my home. We are just some young friends, fresh from college, and we haven't started having regular sales, as 99% of our time is invested in development. A large corporation has just approached us, trying to persuade us to sell our company. The money is fair enough, and the employment conditions would seem excellent, since they would enable us to manage good-sized motivated teams, but we are very emotionally attached to our development and we place great importance to being independent. We founded our company because we didn't want to follow rules. We wanted to be the ones who make the rules instead. Money really doesn't mean much to us as long as we can do whatever we want while excelling at our passions. We feel that by accepting the offer, we couldn't achieve the maximum of our potential, and one of us joked that if we get in contact with the corporate environment and accept their money, we risk becoming lazy. Another member is more pragmatic, saying that accepting some money now is better than waiting for the development to go gold, even though all of us agree that if we finished our thing, we'd earn more than what the corporation has offered us. We would be very interested to know your thoughts and viewpoints, especially if you have ever faced a similar dilemma."
Comment Re:I've always wondered... (Score 2, Informative) 503
Time to look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
You will notice that the Internet is actually based on ARPANET, Cyclades (French network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES), CERNET (Swiss network), SERCNET/Janet (British) and several other commercial and non-commercial networks.
So ARPANET might have existed first, but it certainly isn't the absolute base on which the Internet was built, since technology from other networks was used to link up... technologies which eventually controlled the Internet. In that respect, you could say that ARPANET was replaced by a network based on global technologies.
