Comment Re:"I'm so clever..." (Score 1) 243
Those are just the ones you hear about because they're the ones who gloat.
Compare to Whitey Bulger, who actually did keep a low profile, and it almost worked.
Comment Re:I have an idea... (Score 1) 363
Correction: 1 year old. Still, compare to Android on Verizon.
Comment Re:I have an idea... (Score 1) 363
Hell, if they made one that worked on Verizon I'd buy it and use the SIM in my Galaxy Nexus for a few days just to play with it.
If Microsoft were serious about Windows Phone, they'd push harder to get it on the largest US network. Right now the only WP on Verizon is the HTC Trophy, which is two years old and doesn't do LTE.
Submission + - Why Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest could have avoided downtime (benjaminkerensa.com)
bkerensa writes: If you were at staying at home last night trying to enjoy a wholesome show or movie on Netflix or perhaps you were out snapping photos with Instagram that you might later share on Pinterest then you would have quickly found out that all three services were down for a couple of hours due to an electrical storm
Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1) 137
It can do Java out of the box.
But in all seriousness, add the right plugins and wait for it to load and Eclipse will blow everyone out of the water.
Comment Re:Spoiler Alert! (Score 1) 132
Easy now, I meant I hope it doesn't happen in May.
Comment Re:Bad things Happen in 3's (Score 3, Insightful) 132
Tom Baker's getting up there in years...God I hope it doesn't happen
Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle 239
smellsofbikes writes "Wired has a short but pithy interview with Simon Singh about his defense against a libel suit brought by the British Chiropractic Association, in which he spent more than $200,000 and emerged victorious."
Comment Mr. Jones (Score 1) 1
I like it when I look up at the big screen and can see a part of me staring back at me.
<counting-crows>
When I look in the television
I wanna see me
Starin' right back at me
</counting-crows>
Submission + - How overseas box office saved Hollywood's summer (denofgeek.com)
brumgrunt writes: The summer of 2010 for the movies is supposedly one of disappointing films and box office flops, the one where movie stars and big franchises didn't perform. But, as Den Of Geek discovers, when you look a bit closer at the numbers, it seems like they actually did... http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/554744/the_myth_about_fading_hollywood_stars_and_franchises.html
How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? 288
An anonymous reader writes "Recently, video game developers have begun to make games about current conflicts the world over. Many veterans and current military personnel now take an active role in the video game community. Are game companies running the risk of walking into a public relations disaster when making games about current wars? More importantly, how will veterans react to playing games about a conflict in which they have participated? From the article: 'To portray conflict in a way that not only accurately depicts the acts of war, but does so in a manner that takes into account the sacrifices of soldiers within some sort of moral framing is a complicated matter. Now add to this the idea that such depictions are essentially created as entertainment and to make money. It is certainly mind numbing when looked at from a social perspective. ... Now try and apply this dynamic to a more recent conflict such as the Vietnam War or the current conflicts in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Considering that the latter wars are still in progress, the ability for a game developer to accurately gauge the morality of such a conflict is limited at best. To make a game that takes these factors into account while trying to create something that is both entertaining and capable of mass appeal among the gaming community is near impossible.'"
We caught a glimpse of this last year with the reactions to Six Days In Fallujah.
Submission + - As Predicted, Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "On Tuesday, the Earth was hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME), triggering a "moderate" geomagnetic storm, igniting aurorae at high latitudes. The CME in question was launched from the sun early on Sunday and space weather scientists predicted its arrival on Aug. 3 — the vast magnetic bubble of solar plasma arrived on schedule."
Submission + - Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put Up for Sale (guardian.co.uk) 1
suraj.sun writes: America's largest chain of high-street bookshops, Barnes & Noble, last night put itself up for sale in the latest sign of distress in the literary retailing world which has already seen the demise of the Borders book chain in Britain.
B&N, which owns 720 high-street shops in all 50 American states, announced it was calling in the investment bank Lazard to advise on strategic alternatives including "a possible sale of the company" after a 45% slump in share price in the last year.
In common with other booksellers, B&N has struggled with changes in customers' habits. Readers are buying more books online, while digital readers such as Amazon's Kindle are rapidly becoming popular alternatives to traditional books.
The chain's founder Leonard Riggio, who started the business with a bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village in 1965, immediately declared that he was a possible buyer, sending Barnes & Noble's share price up by 25% in unofficial after-hours trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/04/barnes-and-noble-for-sale
B&N, which owns 720 high-street shops in all 50 American states, announced it was calling in the investment bank Lazard to advise on strategic alternatives including "a possible sale of the company" after a 45% slump in share price in the last year.
In common with other booksellers, B&N has struggled with changes in customers' habits. Readers are buying more books online, while digital readers such as Amazon's Kindle are rapidly becoming popular alternatives to traditional books.
The chain's founder Leonard Riggio, who started the business with a bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village in 1965, immediately declared that he was a possible buyer, sending Barnes & Noble's share price up by 25% in unofficial after-hours trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/04/barnes-and-noble-for-sale
Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push 521
gollum123 passes along a piece from the NY Times on the building resistance to Hollywood's 3-D plans — from filmmakers. "A joke making the rounds online involves a pair of red and green glasses and some blurry letters that say, 'If you can’t make it good, make it 3-D.' While Hollywood rushes dozens of 3-D movies to the screen — nearly 60 are planned in the next two years, including 'Saw VII' and 'Mars Needs Moms!' — a rebellion among some filmmakers and viewers has been complicating the industry’s jump into the third dimension. Several influential directors took surprisingly public potshots at the 3-D boom during the recent Comic-Con... Behind the scenes..., filmmakers have begun to resist production executives eager for 3-D sales. For reasons both aesthetic and practical, some directors often do not want to convert a film to 3-D or go to the trouble and expense of shooting with 3-D cameras, which are still relatively untested on big movies with complex stunts and locations. Tickets for 3-D films carry a $3 to $5 premium, and industry executives roughly estimate that 3-D pictures average an extra 20 percent at the box office. Filmmakers like Mr. Whedon and Mr. Abrams argue that 3-D technology does little to enhance a cinematic story, while adding a lot of bother."
The Limits To Perpendicular Recording 222
peterkern writes "Samsung has a new hard drive and says it can now store 667 GB on one disk, which comes out to be about 739 Gb/sq. in. That is more than five times the density when perpendicular recording was introduced back in 2006, and it is getting close to the generally expected soft limit of 1 Tb/sq. in. It's great that we can now store 2 TB on one hard drive and that 3-TB hard drives are already feasible. But how far can it go? It appears that the hard drive industry may start talking about heat-assisted magnetic recording again, soon."
