Comment Just a plot (Score 1, Funny) 614
It is just a plot to get Assange to the US, probably. "Yeah, we got a nice room booked for you. All meals covered!"
John Carmack Not Enthused About Android Marketplace 163
An anonymous reader writes "During an in-depth and informative interview, Doom creator and id Software co-founder John Carmack opines on iOS game development, the economics of mobile development vs. console development, why mobile games lend themselves to more risk-taking and greater creativity, and finally, why he's not too keen on the Android Marketplace as a money-making machine. '...I'm honestly still a little scared of the support burden and the effort that it's going to take for our products, which are very graphics-intensive.'"
Comment Re:2 billion... (Score 1) 270
Or they used the same sequence to generate IDs for multiple tables. (Yargh.)
Comment Re:Come on guys (Score 1) 315
* I really tried to avoid a car analogy but I fear slashdot demands it.
Ahem, allow me:
Some people like to mix and match, and others just want the default stuff, trusting the chef, so to say.
Imagine it to be like a pizza place. Some restaurants based on this fantastic Italian dish got so much on the menu that you don't need to customize your order (except for an extra hot sauce or two!), and others don't trust the chef to make the correct choices from the great number of delicious toppings available.
Do you trust the chef? Are you happy to let an experienced chef guide you to what is the proper ingredients?
Comment Re:Good for everyone (Score 1) 186
You forgot the more popular option #3: Bomb them back to the stone age.
Comment Re:Yeah nothing works anymore (Score 5, Insightful) 622
So what the heck is wrong with making a phone or pad that supports HTML, and not plugins?
This is Slashdot, right, not the Flash Programmers Welfare Foundation?
Comment About fucking time (Score 1) 319
Kraftwerk has been inspiring to this since the seventies.
Interview With the Founder of a Video Game Rehab Clinic 59
Ten Ton Hammer has posted the transcript from an interview with Dr. Hilarie Cash, co-founder of the "reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program," a relatively new clinic that deals with adults who feel that they are addicted to video games. The interview contains some.. interesting nuggets of wisdom. If you want to avoid addiction, you'd better spend less than two hours per day on online entertainment! The good news is that she doesn't recommend beating people.
"When people come, they come for 45 days. It is only for adults; patients must be 18 or older. When they first come, they come for a minimum 2 days to be interviewed and to interview us, because we don't want anyone there who doesn't want to be there. So if they decide they want to be there then they stay for 45 days or longer if they choose. During that time they don't have access to the internet. The idea is that it takes at least 30 days for the brain to make some adjustments it needs to make to get over this addiction, so the brain can begin to rewire back to normal. During that time we are helping them look at why they got addicted, what motivated their addiction and we're assessing to see what skills they are lacking so they can be successful in their adult lives. We try to make a good start at helping to build those skills."
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment Clearly, all iPhone (Score 1) 137
users long for McAfee32.exe eating up 10-15% of CPU time, while intercepting network traffic and checking your mails. Clearly.
Comment Re:ROFL (Score 1) 135
Well, that's a fairly good code compared to the launch codes of the Minute Man nuclear missiles during the cold war:
Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel. SAC remained far less concerned about unauthorized launches than about the potential of these safeguards to interfere with the implementation of wartime launch orders. And so the "secret unlock code" during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War remained constant at OOOOOOOO.
Comment Utterly spineless (Score 1) 214
This is really disgraceful:
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=Tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.com/images?hl=no&source=hp&q=Tiananmen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
So much for "Don't be evil"
But interestingly enough, add a typo to the name and "square massacre":
World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found 108
jage2 writes "Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly 'cultivated for psychoactive purposes,' rather than as fibre for clothing, or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China."
