Comment Subject of a hostile takeover... (Score 1) 214
by CmdrTaco.
Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound 118
An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who's ever taken a programming course or tried to learn how to code out of a book will have come across sorting algorithms. Bubble, heap, merge — there's a long list of methods for sorting data. The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully, someone has found a way to not only make sorting more interesting, but easier to remember and understand, too."
Comment Re:ok i'll say it (Score 1) 620
The goons give out free frigates, cruisers,and even, IIRC, HACs to anyone that asks, so yeah, you couldn't be more wrong.
Submission + - Angry players lash out at CCP over bugs (eveonline.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A straight forward request from the creators of Eve Online (CCP) to their players to support a bid for best online game at the European Games Award quickly turned embarassing when an angry player base almost universally refused, often throwing support behind other games instead. Players of the beleagered game have been angered by the lack of progress made in squashing bugs that snuck into the last few expansions as well as a recent development blog saying that no developers will be free to work on reviewing existing content for at least 18 months.
Comment Re:I recommend ... (Score 1) 687
This is why I like that, in Pennsylvania, institutions are billed for the cost of a false alarm. A minimum of $500 per incident.
It's amazing how common sense prevails when there's money involved.
Comment Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware (Score 1) 397
You're full of shit, sorry. Cat5 is well within tolerance for i2c data transmission over any reasonable length... the signal would degrade well before the clock and data lines go out of sync.
Comment Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware (Score 5, Interesting) 397
I'm laughing my ass off. You don't seriously think the jitter caused by that miniscule difference in cable length will fool with anything designed to use twisted pair as an interconnect, do you?
We're not talking about memory busses running at several GHz, we're talking about relatively low-bandwidth interconnects between devices. And this is assuming that you're not encapsulating everything and just using ethernet signaling like everyone else in the pro audio world does.
Comment If this were the real thing... (Score 1) 289
We'd have a caption like this: No CLI. Less space than a harddrive. Lame.
Submission + - EMI to go DRM-free tomorrow
FreeBits writes: EMI is planning to announce that it will begin selling much of its music catalog without DRM. Apple has reportedly signed on to sell DRM-free music through the iTunes Store, with Steve Jobs making an appearance at the announcement in London. The news comes less than two months after the first reports that EMI was seriously considering dropping DRM.
Submission + - Digg.com Accounts Compromised
An anonymous reader writes: There is a cross-site scripting vulnerbility on the registration page of popular social networking site Digg.com. The hole allows cookies and sessions of logged-in users to be hijacked, compromising the account. The exploit can be triggered simply by a user clicking a maliciously-crafted link. A full explanation and sample exploit code is available here
Submission + - World's most expensive train ticket?
BeerCat writes: The UK National Rail site can search for journeys between different destinations, and will also display the likely fare. Unless, the journey is from Oxford to Hawarden (about 170 miles by road, according to Google Maps), travelling tomorrow from 08:00, in which case the fare will be £179,769,313,486,231,570,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000.00
The site even notes "We are sorry, but we couldn't find any First Class tickets available. You can try searching in different times or dates for available First Class tickets". Which is probably just as well.
The site even notes "We are sorry, but we couldn't find any First Class tickets available. You can try searching in different times or dates for available First Class tickets". Which is probably just as well.
Submission + - How to Crack a Combination Lock
aacool writes: "This video tutorial shows how to low down the chances of breaking the code from 64.000 to only 100."
Submission + - The mystery of vitamin B12 finally solved
Roland Piquepaille writes: "You probably think that scientists know everything about the common and essential vitamin B12, the only vitamin synthesized by soil microbes. In fact, one part of this biosynthesis has puzzled researchers for at least 50 years. But now, MIT and Harvard biologists have solved this vitamin puzzle by discovering that a single enzyme known as BluB synthesizes the vitamin. So what is the next challenge for the researchers? It's to discover why the soil microorganisms synthesize the vitamin B12 at all, because neither them — nor the plants they're attached to — need it to live. Read more for additional references and a picture of BluB."
Submission + - Scientists solved huge theoretical problem
BoredStiff writes: The Weekend Edition of NPR Scientists have solved one of the toughest problems in mathematics, performing a calculation to figure out the symmetry of a 248-dimensional object known as the Lie group E8. The solution is so large that it would take days to download over a standard Internet connection. Lie groups were invented in the 19th century by the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie [pronounced LEE], to express the symmetry of three-dimensional objects like spheres, cones and cylinders.
Submission + - FORTRAN is officially dead
slowbad writes: John W. Backus, who
died last week at 82, led the team at IBM that created the programming language Fortran in the early '50s.
The story has received wide coverage in the general press for FORTRAN being the first widely used higher level computer language — which is commendable since the media usually covers more well-known biographies like the voice of Thurston Howell III and Mr. Magoo
The story has received wide coverage in the general press for FORTRAN being the first widely used higher level computer language — which is commendable since the media usually covers more well-known biographies like the voice of Thurston Howell III and Mr. Magoo
