Comment Solomonic gold? (Score 1) 160
So Stephenson's "solomonic gold" may be based in fact?
Comment You need a football table! (Score 1) 421
Really, a football table. Like soccer. You may not like to watch it on TV but it's an excellent way to blow away some cobwebs and unlike most games you do it standing up.
Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.
Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Comment Re:Are you fucking serious. (Score 5, Insightful) 267
Idiocy. CSIRO is nothing like a patent troll. CSIRO developed the technology...
James Bond Gadgets 157
whencanistop writes "Given that the new James Bond film is just about to be released, this is quite a nice summary of James Bond gadgets from past films. Tomorrow Never Dies was on telly last night and I was commenting on how the mobile phone that controlled the BMW was awesome, why they haven't done it in real life is beyond me (although there would probably be a few accidents if they ever did). Ridiculous to think that in 1963 the gadget of choice for Bond was a pager though." Of course, the best gadget in the Bond universe wasn't even 007's ... Jaws' teeth were the envy of every kid with braces.
New MacBook Case Leak Rumors 243
Someone noted that there are more macbook case leaks which look to all but confirm a new MacBook and possibly a MacBook Pro expected to be announced for later this week. There seem to be fewer ports, and no leaks of a 17" aircraft carrier laptop.
Submission + - Build your own quad-core PC for less than $1,500
PizzaJoe writes: Want to build a powerful quad-core system for less than $1,500? Want a system that scores 5.3 on the Windows Experience Index without tweaks (with scope for hitting much closer to the magic 5.9)? Hardware 2.0 shows you how:
At the heart of this project is a Q6600 processor and an ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard. Complete parts list available here.
Four cores, each running at 2.4GHz, 8MB of L2 cache, blistering speed... what more is there to say?! Sure, I could have spent more money and got a faster processor, but it wouldn't have been all that cost effective.
At the heart of this project is a Q6600 processor and an ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard. Complete parts list available here.
