We have our own open source, Steve Jobs. And isn't it fitting that it's a committee?

CDNs are cheap?

I run an open source project that requires 1 TB of bandwidth monthly just to serve our downloads.

Can you show me a CDN that costs less than $100/mo for this kind of bandwidth? With our current rate of donations, we couldn't even cover that.

On a related note, we had our downloads server go down a few months ago, and I temporarily put up a torrent in place. Serving our downloads by BitTorrent was so easy and effective, I would gladly use it as our primary or only distribution method if A) there wasn't a perceived stigma against it being illegitimate in some way and B) it was bonehead easy to use and built into browsers, like someone mentioned earlier in the comments here.

Jamendo and Magnatune are great for finding popular music?

Seeing as I'm pressed to find any Top 40 tracks on either website, I would say that they're good for finding obscure music.

(And so we're staying on topic here: I can find tons of classical music on Magnatune. String Quartets aren't out-of-mainstream enough for Magnatune or what?)

Famous last words.

Not quite sure what the Casimir Effect has to do with magnetic dots, but I should mention that 6 nm is below the Superparamagnetic limit (which is typically tens of nanometers). That means you're magnetic nanodot probably isn't magnetic.

... Which brings me to my second point: This article says nothing about what this researcher actually did. It sounds like he just fabricated an array of nanodots, which is nothing particularly groundbreaking.

Does anyone have a link to the original abstract for the conference presentation? The dots must have been multilayer "stacks", otherwise there's a good chance they won't be ferromagnetic (there's a "superparamagnetic limit" that stops ferromagnetic particles from being ferromagnetic when they get around this size.)

Lastly, the article says they'll look at housing and using "laser technology" to read back from these nanodots. They mention that as a sidenote, but it's really the most important problem if you want to make something useful. The problem with most nanomagnetic memory techniques is that reading/writing is either impractical or not yet possible.

I'm not sure why this keeps coming up, since nobody that ever replies clearly has ever owned an Android phone. My HTC Hero, which supports Flash 7 out-of-the-box, has an option in its browser to disable plugins.

You have the option to disable Flash on your Android phone right now, and it's FUD to keep suggesting that you won't be able to disable it again in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_point http://devdaily.com/FunctionPoints/

The only way to control your name on the internet is to use assert control over it by using it actively. Make yourself known on the internet in a way you want to be known, so that this oddball reference to you gets buried into obscurity.

ChromeShell looks like something I made in VB in like Grade 8. OLE controls anyone? (ahhh the memories)

Google's really dropped the ball on spam blocking with Blogger too. I host a couple of random blogs on there, and they've all been hit with a ridiculous amount of spam in the last year. Blogger doesn't even give you something like Akismet... :(

I think it's time to retire that old worn out joke, since according to this New Scientest article, we get laid more often than normal guys.

Is smart sexy? Our knee-jerk reaction - reinforced by cultural stereotypes of Star Trek-convention attending geeks and a seeming obsession with ditzy, pretty starlets - would argue otherwise. Nerds are, well, nerds.

Increasing scientific evidence shows that brains count for a lot in mate choice. And now - for the first time - researchers have directly linked a male's cognitive performance to his luck with the ladies.

"Males that are better problem-solvers are mating with more females," says Jason Keagy, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Maryland in College Park, who studies not the mating rituals of the political elite in nearby Washington DC, but those of a bird native to the forests of eastern Australia.

I submitted this to slashdot last week, but unfortunately it was rejected. The article has a pretty funny picture of a skinny nerd with glasses (Not unlike what I used to look like before I ditched the specs and grew a goatee) and two hotties.

Unfortunately, it's not your definition of small that matters here - it's Bethesda, id, and EA's definition.

To put this in perspective, remember that there's 30 million Xbox 360 owners out there. If 1 in 20 Xbox owners buy Rage, that'll be ~60,000 copies sold. Show me an existing Linux game that's sold more than 30,000 copies, and you might have an argument. Linux is also a giant pain in the ass to support, and that's undoubtedly factored into their cost/benefit analysis too.