Comment Re:Wake on LAN: Press any key to continue ... (Score 2) 308
Considering how things usually go, this will only be an option for a limited time. And will not apply to ARM machines as for these MS requires UEFI to be obligatory.
Comment Wake on LAN: Press any key to continue ... (Score 1) 308
Yeah, great. How are non-MS operating systems going to use this mechanism for remotely initiated booting, as in WOL? Does that mean non-MS shops will have night shift "specialists" on-site to press the Any Key whenever required?
Seems to me that MS has finally given Linux the boot
Comment Man, your sig is, well ... (Score 1) 249
holy shit!
(for bypassers who don't know their bible by heart: Ezekiel 23:20 on the web http://bible.cc/ezekiel/23-20.htm )
Comment Wrong conclusion (after my opinion): (Score 1) 1113
> If humans are mostly water, and beer is mostly water, then humans must be mostly beer.
Shouldn't that be:
If humans are mostly water (70%), and beer is mostly water (95%), then beer consists of diluted humans, or does it?
Comment Why the hell ... (Score 1) 51
would anyone want to jailbreak a paperweight?
Comment Your "Seppukuium" is the best suggestion yet! :-) (Score 1) 150
[ X ] Seppukuium - yeah!
Submission + - Diabetes May Be Reversed By Long-Used Vaccine, Drug-makers not interested (constantcontact.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "A tuberculosis vaccine in use for 90 years may help reverse Type 1 diabetes and eliminate the life- long need for insulin injections, say Harvard University researchers raising money to conduct large, human studies." "...they tried to interest every major drugmaker in developing the vaccine as a possible cure for diabetes. All told her there wasn’t enough money to be made in a cure that used an inexpensive, generically available vaccine."
Submission + - Alleged Apple sales manual revealed (gizmodo.com)
zapyon writes: If real, it shows how Apple store sales staff is trained to manipulate customers into handing over their cash for shiny gimmicks and feel good about it.
Submission + - Einstein proved correct again (bbc.co.uk)
Coisiche writes: Observation of a pair of white dwarfs in a tight orbit provide further supporting proof for Einstein's gravity waves. Given how well his theories have held up to tests you have to wonder how anyone could have thought that CERN's superluminal neutrinos would be anything other than experimental error.
Comment Wait, until they can print out ... (Score 1) 94
the driver as well. Which would basically mean they could print out a robot with a sufficiently strong computing unit inside. (Which would again mean I could print out my next laptop without UEFI built-in, yeah!).
Comment Just a lot of hot air? (Score 1) 398
Let's wait and see.
Comment Coincidentially, XKCD has a good one on this topic (Score 1) 121
Submission + - Incredible new photographs of live Coelacanths (spiegel.de)
zapyon writes: German magazine Spiegel Online has just put some incredible photographs of Coelacanths on their site. The article is pointing to the current German edition of National Geographic.
Comment Book on topic The Computer User's Survival Guide (Score 1) 262
Joan Stigliani: The Computer User's Survival Guide: Staying Healthy in a High Tech World
See it at the Female Warrior's Shop
It is 10+ years old but when I read it I thought it was pretty good. If there are newer books that are recommendable I would be interested, too.
Otherwise: keep moving. As others in this discussion have stated: we are not made to sit still for long periods (or stand still, come tho that). Just try to sit in a comfortable position for, let's say, 1 hour, without moving at all (breathing movements and heartbeat may be continued
Submission + - Mitt Romney Fails to Announce VP Pick Before Twitter (ibtimes.com)
redletterdave writes: "Mitt Romney needed to announce his VP decision by Aug. 11. His plan? Supporters of the campaign would download a free app for iPhone or Android called "Mitt's VP," which promised they would be the first to know now the official news of Romney's running mate. So on Friday night, who was the first to break the news of Mitt Romney's VP? Well, whoever it was, it wasn't the Romney campaign. In fact, Romney didn't send out its official text message until 7:07 a.m. EDT Saturday; by then, however, the news had already spread on Twitter — and everywhere else. NBC News scooped the news on Twitter at 12:04 a.m. EDT, citing three sources. Roughly an hour later, AP broke the "official" news at 1:06 a.m. By the time Romney's application alerted users to the news, Paul Ryan's name had already been mentioned more than 100,000 times on Twitter."
