Comment Re:Best is... (Score 1) 457
Yeah. Real chocolate is really what I like. I actually collect and rate ~70%s. :)
Comment Re:Best is... (Score 1) 457
Hahahah okay well I (original poster) happen to be Asian, and I happened to pick the first thing that popped into my head so I could get a quick first post and vote in. :)
Comment Re:Best is... (Score 1) 457
Any chocolate variety - the regular chocolate or the Men's. I don't like fruity, almondy...etc.
Comment Best is... (Score 5, Insightful) 457
Pocky.
Submission + - Is love just a chemical cocktail? (bbc.co.uk)
Hapless Hero writes: A professor of neuroscience at Emory University theorizes that romantic love, despite the myriad ways poets have been describing the most written-about emotion for centuries, is nothing more profound than a series of chemical reactions. From the BBC.co.uk article:
Professor Young argues that love can be explained by a series of neurochemical events that are happening in specific brain areas. If that is true then, he says, one would no longer have to rely on oysters or chocolates to create a loving mood. Instead, it will be possible for scientists to develop aphrodisiacs — chemicals that would make people fall in love with the first person they see. And for those who have fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have fallen in love with, an antidote to unrequited love. There is even the prospect of a genetic "love test" to assess whether two potential love birds are predisposed to a happy married life.
Are we headed towards our very own real-life love potions? Or is there something deeper going on in true love?
Why Does the US Have a Civil Space Program? 308
BDew writes "The Presidents of the National Academy of Science and the National Academy of Engineering have commissioned a study on the Rationale and Goals of the US Civil Space Program. In short, the Academies are asking why the nation has a civil space program (including human, robotic, commercial, and personal spaceflight). The study is intended to provide a strategic framework for the nation's activities in space that can provide consistent guidance in an increasingly interconnected world. The members of the study committee are interested in the views (positive or negative) of the general public, particularly those people with a scientific and/or technological interest."
The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown 465
An anonymous reader writes "The Zune 30 failure became national news when it happened just three days ago. The source code for the bad driver leaked soon after, and now, someone has come up with a very detailed explanation for where the code was bad as well as a number of solutions to deal with it. From a coding/QA standpoint, one has to wonder how this bug was missed if the quality assurance team wasn't slacking off. Worse yet: this bug affects every Windows CE device carrying this driver."
Comment Re:What do you want to program? (Score 1) 997
Okay, I didn't mean they were "fake." I just meant they were unwieldy, in my experience, for writing something like a web browser or some other major desktop app. I wholeheartedly support shell scripting! It's very important.
I still mean to say that you need to know what you are looking to write before you go choosing a language. Certain languages are suited to some things and not others.
Comment What do you want to program? (Score 4, Interesting) 997
That is the first question you should ask yourself, actually.
One thing you might learn, from a tinkering-with-Linux point-of-view, is shell scripts. Surprised no one mentioned them yet. They aren't really "programming" in the sense of creating apps, but they are fun and a cool part of Linux.
