Comment Re:I wonder how many (Score 1) 184
I actually had a friend who lived in a town named Street (Street, MD).
I used to live on "Avenue Road". That always brought a chuckle whenever someone asked my address.
Comment Re:decent touch screen keyboard? (Score 1) 112
Not much good for an ATM though if you have someone waiting in line.
"Please enter your PIN."
*user types PIN...*
"1...5...7...9"
"You have $500,000 in your account."
*user gets mugged*
Not saying that it would be stupid enough to speak your PIN as you type it, but I wouldn't like random strangers knowing how much money I have in my account.
Comment Daggerfall (Score 2, Insightful) 518
Seriously. First Person RPG, but a decent remake would be epic.
That world was HUGE. Not Minecraft huge, but it'd take you many hours to walk from one side of the country to the other. That's not even including the convoluted procedural dungeons.
Comment Re:Rise of the triad (Score 1) 518
I LOVED the God mode in that...
"HRRMMMMM!!!!" *shoots ball of light*
Dog mode was cool too. :)
"HRRMMMMM!!!!" *shoots ball of light*
Dog mode was cool too.
Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? 510
eldavojohn writes "So I noted that there was better support for my processor in the latest BIOS for my mainboard. After downloading the update, there was a .doc file containing flashing instructions. No matter, I have OpenOffice.org installed on this machine and just opened it up. And, as should be no surprise, there was an Oracle logo splash screen while OpenOffice.org 3.2 started up. At my job, I've had a less than favorable history with Oracle that I'm not going to get into — rather let's just say I never want anything to do with them again. Including installing any of their software on my machine. So I'm facing a dilemma. I've looked into the forked LIbreOffice but that's still in beta and I'm a little wary of depending on that. Has anyone used LibreOffice (it's installing as I type this) extensively? Does it handle complex Powerpoint files okay? Is there some alternative out there that I'm completely overlooking for open source? Can anyone convince me that there's no reason to fear the Oracle OpenOffice.org? Will it remain the de facto standard? Will it eventually lock me into a commitment with Oracle? If you get by without one of these heavyweight monster editors, what do you use and how do you handle doc, ppt, (etc.) extensions?"
Comment Re:Sid you mean Java or Java-VM or Java-SE or Java (Score 1) 641
Yes, Scala has full access to Java APIs including Swing.
And if you wanted to remove one of the javax dependencies, you could use SWT instead of Swing.
Comment Re:Um, isn't java code GPL? (Score 1) 675
Lua! :D
Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 738
An anonymous reader writes "A recent report warns that humans are overusing the resources of the planet and will need two Earths by the year 2030. The Living Planet Report tells that the demands on natural resources have doubled in the past 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half."
Robot Controlled By Rat Brain 170
kkleiner writes "Kevin Warwick, once a cyborg and still a researcher in cybernetics at the University of Reading, has been working on creating biological neural networks that can control machines. He and his team have taken the brain cells from rats, cultured them, and used them as the guidance control circuit for simple wheeled robots. Electrical impulses from the bot enter the batch of neurons, and responses from the cells are turned into commands for the device. The cells can form new connections, making the system a true learning machine."
Comment Re:So what's it gonna be? (Score 1) 101
Should the Australian government lift a finger to protect children from the evils that lurk online?
Stephen Conroy seems to think they should...
Ah but wait, the filter only actually blocks spams and scams.
Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag
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Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.
Comment Re:Graviton Diode? (Score 1) 129
I lost you at "could".
2011, Year of the Tablet? 324
frontwave writes "After the huge success of the iPad, with over 4 million units sold since its introduction, all major hardware vendors of PCs and mobile devices are coming out with new tablets in the next few months, including Apple with a smaller version of the popular product. Analysts estimate the market for tablet devices (over 6" screen size) to be around 25 million units for 2011."
Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable 429
KwahAG writes "Colin Watson, one of the Ubuntu developers, published in his blog information about Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable. Users of dual-boot Windows/Linux installations may face the problem, which boils down to particular Windows applications (Colin does not name them, but users point at least to HP ProtectTools, PC Angel, Adobe Flexnet) blindly overwriting hard disk content between the MBR and the first partition destroying information already stored there, in this particular case — the 'core image' of GRUB 2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) making the system unbootable."
Comment Re:GFWL, no thanks (Score 1) 275
I bought BioShock 2 without realising it used GFWL. It was my first experience with GFWL, and hopefully my last.
I will never buy another GFWL game.
I will never buy another GFWL game.
