Comment Re:Love it! (Score 2) 81
That's because Mobile Internet is half-decent in most places in Japan. You don't bother with public WiFi.
Comment Re:Start a side business and sell it (Score 1) 848
This is also called 'conflict of interest' and is generally illegal and frowned upon when you are inevitably caught.
Comment Re:OK Here we go again. (Score 1) 333
I think you already did it.
Comment KDE on Windows? (Score 4, Informative) 244
Doesn't KDE run on Windows these days? You could probably just run KMail directly...
Comment Re:Unbundle "Skype" (Score 3, Informative) 63
So.... no different than before Microsoft bought it then.
Comment Re:BeOS (Score 1) 429
Very likely; one of BeOS' strengths was excellent multimedia support.
Comment Re:And "From Dust" (Score 1) 261
Awwww man, I really really wanted to play that.
Comment Re:Balls of steel (Score 0) 404
*whooosh*
Comment Re:Temperature under metrics (Score 1) 2288
Here you go, start from 0 (freezing) and go up by 5' and you have the same ranges:
Sub-zero: Freezing
0-5 Very cold
5-10 Cold
10-15 Very cool
15-20 Cool
20-25 Comfortable
25-30 Warm
30-35 Very warm
35+ Hot
Comment Re:They also review movies (Score 1) 192
Well, you might want to watch it; but you only should if you think you might like "David Lynch does a snuff film".
Comment Re:'limousine liberalism' (Score 1) 589
Hydro BOOM! ?
Comment Re:Google is hypocritical (Score 1) 562
They do.
The closest you get from a developer analogy is say Google AppEngine - which is a webapp hosting / development framework. Which you are free to use whichever ad network you choose on the resulting webapps.
Comment Re:OpenGL and the rant about marketing (Score 2, Insightful) 515
Misrepresenting the truth perhaps. Sure you have *vendor specific* extensions all over the place - but that means you have feature X implemented on card Y but not Z; and the same feature gets implemented twice by different vendors in different ways with different bugs.
Frankly OpenGL is a mess - and the fact they scrapped the planned overhaul to make it developer competitive again means its pretty much dead in my opinion as a reasonable competitor.
Submission + - Password management in distributed networks
thetinytoon writes: As many of the readers, I'm one admin in a team running a network of servers, switches and client computers, with each and every system having some username and password to access the administrative interfaces. For obvious reasons, you don't want to have one combination for them all, but for still being productive, you don't want to look up some obscure 16-digit password in a secure container anytime you need to do something. Password generation rules are mostly so obvious, that you could use one password anyways, and most hardware devices don't allow the use of Challenge/Response-algorithms like OPIE. So I'm asking: how do you solve this dilemma in your networks?
Submission + - Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory or Cognative Skills (cnn.com)
JumperCable writes: CNN reports
Ginkgo biloba has failed — again — to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the herb doesn't prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a new study from the same team of researchers has found no evidence that ginkgo reduces the normal cognitive decline that comes with aging.
In the new study, the largest of its kind to date, DeKosky and his colleagues followed more than 3,000 people between the ages of 72 and 96 for an average of six years. Half of the participants took two 120-milligram capsules of ginkgo a day during the study period, and the other half took a placebo. The people who took ginkgo showed no differences in attention, memory, and other cognitive measures compared to those who took the placebo, according to the study, which was published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
And of course, the link to the study.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/302/24/2663?home
