Comment Re:The original thread (Score 1) 94
wow. mike nelson posted to the that thread. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3450845&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=4#post398052361
"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234
It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."
36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist 268
Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured 36-hour port of the original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone and Palm Pre in the near future.' The text of the cease and desist letter is available from the developer's website."
WD, Intel, Corsair, Kingston, Plextor SSDs Collide 56
J. Dzhugashvili writes "New SSDs just keep coming out from all corners of the market, and keeping track of all of them isn't the easiest job in the world. Good thing SSD roundups pop up every once in a while. This time, Western Digital's recently launched SiliconEdge Blue solid-state drive has been compared against new entrants from Corsair, Kingston, and Plextor. The newcomers faced off against not just each other, but also Intel's famous X25-M G2, WD's new VelociRaptor VR200M mechanical hard drive, and a plain-old WD Caviar Black 2TB thrown in for good measure. Who came out on top? Priced at about the same level, the WD and Plextor drives each seem to have deal-breaking performance weaknesses. The Kingston drive is more affordable than the rest, but it yielded poor IOMeter results. In the end, the winner appeared to be Corsair's Nova V128, which had similar all-around performance as Intel's 160GB X25-M G2 but with a slightly lower capacity and a more attractive price." Thanks to that summary, you might not need to wade through all 10 of the pages into which the linked article's been split.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 2, Interesting) 528
dexpot is free (though not open source) and very customizable. It has a few idiosyncracies (e.g. can't drag a window by a title bar to a different desktop), but even with them, it's better than the many other solutions I've tried.
Comment Re:Components specifying version compatibility ... (Score 2, Informative) 265
The addon Mr. Tech Toolkit has this option. Under its options Misc -> XPI install options -> Enable Addons Compatibility checking
Comment Re:Slashdotted link (Score 5, Interesting) 600
It's not another link to the original site, but in the NYT recently Errol Morris was researching an unrelated Civil War story, and one of the sources was David H. Kelly, who did major work deciphering the Mayan script. In passing Errol asked about the 2012 thing: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/whose-father-was-he-part-four/
Comment Re:Which is it? Mass or area? (Score 1) 255
area. the mass is minimal. from a bbc article "Indeed, so feeble is the ring that scientists have calculated that if all the material were gathered up, it would fill a crater on Phoebe no more than a kilometre across."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8291905.stm
Comment Re:And how far we have not come (Score 1) 222
To help with the window management required to do this (and if you run windows), look into the freeware app Gridmove. You can divide up your screen real estate into many different chunks, and have all sorts of handy ways of resizing your windows.
Submission + - Happy 10th anniversary, Sega Dreamcast! (cnet.com) 2
traycerb writes: It's been 10 years since 9/9/1999, when the Dreamcast launched on American shores. The hardware was ahead of its time: online capability, web browser, a visual memory unit, a controller that anticipated the much-loved xbox 360 controller. The games were amazing: Jet Set Radio (the first popular 3d cell-shaded game on a console), Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (still the apotheosis of 2-d fighting; just try finding a copy on ebay), Soul Calibur (still looks good compared to the recent Xbox/Ps3 versions), NFL 2K (came out of nowhere and was so good that it shook EA into spending tens of millions of dollars to seal up exclusivity for NFL rights. Boo monopoly!), Ikaruga (the amazing shooter from the amazing Treasure), and just plain quirky hits (Seaman, if you preferred talking to creepy mutant fish, or perhaps Shenmue, if you were looking for some hot forklift action).
No doubt some of the reasons for the Dreamcast's demise lay with Sega, whose dubious hardware decisions (ahem, 32x) finally caught up to them, in the form of ambivalence from both developers and gamers, just as the console-making world was shifting to the multinationals with big pockets who were willing to spend it on pricey hardware design (or could absorb the cost of faulty hardware design *cough*RROD*cough*)
No matter. The DC still holds pride of place in my entertainment center. The Dreamcast is dead! Long live the Dreamcast! I'm off to play some Sonic...
No doubt some of the reasons for the Dreamcast's demise lay with Sega, whose dubious hardware decisions (ahem, 32x) finally caught up to them, in the form of ambivalence from both developers and gamers, just as the console-making world was shifting to the multinationals with big pockets who were willing to spend it on pricey hardware design (or could absorb the cost of faulty hardware design *cough*RROD*cough*)
No matter. The DC still holds pride of place in my entertainment center. The Dreamcast is dead! Long live the Dreamcast! I'm off to play some Sonic...
Comment Re:Crayon Physics was new in 2007 (Score 5, Insightful) 78
But the upgraded/final release came out just now and Penny Arcade covered that as well (just 6 days ago).
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/1/9/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/9/
also you find what a rhombus is.
Submission + - Portugese company to auction off "Microsoft (theregister.co.uk)
traycerb writes: A Portuguese company, named Microsoft Lda, and unrelated to the Balmer/Gates/et al institution,
is selling the Portugese rights to the Microsoft name on ebay. As the article says:
"The company registered its title locally in back in 1981, long before Microsoft Corp penetrated the Portuguese market. Since the Beast of Redmond is accordingly not allowed to call itself Microsoft in the land of fado and pasteis de nata, it lurks behind the MSFT moniker."
"MSFT?" How is that even pronounced?
