Comment Gotcha! (Score -1) 33
Frosty neanderthal piss.
Comment 10,000 years old? (Score 2, Funny) 190
Looks like mammoths are able to breathe under water as well as be alive before the Christian god created the universe. Damn you Satan, quit tricking with us!
Comment Re:QT is a flawed implementation of cross platform (Score 1) 81
Apple uses their Windows port of the QuickTime framework for iTunes. In OS X, the QuickTime framework is taken advantage of in too many apps to count. So yeah, people are still stuck using what you refer to generically as QuickTime. You didn't say something specific, like "QuickTime Player".
QuickTime is gonna be around for a while.
Comment Re:OSX would be nice... (Score 0, Troll) 61
Which MAC are you talking about? It's an acronym for more things than you may know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac
If you're referring to the shortened nick for Macintosh, spell it as so. As for MAC, well you're just feeding the bad habit that people on the internet somehow created. I personally read it as Media Access Control initially (when people type MAC, referring to anything). Anyways. It's a simple name. Learn how to type it right.
Comment From my experience, banks don't understand (Score 1) 284
I find it upsetting that my online access to my bank account has a password limit of 10 characters which are also limited to letters and numbers. I've called and complained, but of course the silly stupid customer doesn't know anything about anything. Here's the exact limits according to their website:
Password must be between 7 and 10 alpha-numeric characters. Acceptable characters for passwords include combinations of any of the following characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, or )
I hate retarded security.
Comment Re:I'll be filing a bug report soon (Score 1) 182
You're whooshing a whoosh, yah douche.
Comment Re:Ain't that qute? (Score 3, Insightful) 141
can we please get back to arguing now?
Yeah, right after I finish beating Doom III by "I.D." software running on my "MAC".
I wouldn't be surprised if the poster pronounces daemon as "daymon" either. The geek ego sure seems to get in the way of learning how to pronounce things. It looks like devs these days will have to provide audio files to show how to pronounce their work.
*shakes his head at correct pronunciation deniers*
Comment Re:Homeopathic Medicine (Score 1) 430
The claim that most people are not dehydrated has never been proven in any credible manner, why do you believe it to be true.
This is "prove that God doesn't exist" all over again. You are making the claim that it does. You provide the evidence.
Comment Re:Control (Score 1) 417
The Darwin kernel is, the userland isn't.
You mean the xnu kernel? Look at the open source page http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1064/ and you'll find more than enough userspace software to show that you're wrong. Also, http://www.puredarwin.org/
What Scientists Really Think About Religion 1123
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post has a book review of Science and Religion: What Scientists Really Think by Rice University sociologist Elaine Ecklund, who spent four years doing a detailed survey of 1,646 scientists at elite American research universities. The study reveals that scientists often practice a closeted faith, worrying about how their peers would react to learning about their religious views. 'After four years of research, at least one thing became clear: Much of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. The '"insurmountable hostility" between science and religion is a caricature, a thought-cliche, perhaps useful as a satire on groupthink, but hardly representative of reality,' writes Ecklund. Unsurprisingly, Ecklund found that 64% of scientists are either atheists (34%) or agnostic (30%). But only five of the 275 in-depth interviewees actively oppose religion; and even among the third who are atheists, many consider themselves 'spiritual.' 'According to the scientists I interviewed, the academy seems to have a "strong culture" that suppresses discussion about religion in many areas,' says Ecklund. 'To remove the perceived stigma, we would need to have more scientists talking openly about issues of religion, where such issues are particularly relevant to their discipline.'"
Submission + - Why 3-D gaming might not be as cool as it sounds (thekartel.com)
almehdaaol writes: 3-D gaming could just be around the corner with the upcoming unveiling of the Nintendo 3DS, but there's still bound to be several complications. Here are several reasons why you should be wary of the inevitable revolution of 3-D gaming.
Journal Journal: [Music][Beloved] Heart and Shoulder
For this day...
Wanna cry for you
Would it do any good?
If I rained for you
It would just be water
And the night's with you
And the storm's in your head
And you're down and you're down
Submission + - Study: Playing videogames can help control dreams (thekartel.com)
almehdaaol writes: Psychologist Dr. Jayne Gackenbach is conducting a research study that suggests that playing more videogames and before bed can help gamers control their dreams. Studies also show that hardcore gamers might be protecting themselves from nightmares.
The Sun's Odd Behavior 285
gyrogeerloose writes "Most of us know about the sun's eleven-year activity cycle. However, relatively few other than scientists (and amateur radio operators) are aware that the current solar minimum has lasted much longer than expected. The last solar cycle, Cycle 24, bottomed out in 2008, and Cycle 25 should be well on its way towards maximum by now, but the sun has remained unusually quiescent with very few sunspots. While solar physicists agree that this is odd, the explanation remains elusive."
Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots 253
An anonymous reader writes "The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots — and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans for how humanoid and rover robots will begin surveying the moon by 2015, and then begin construction of a base near the south pole of the moon. The robots and the base will run on solar power, with total costs about $2.2 billion USD, according to the panel chaired by Waseda University President Katsuhiko Shirai. 'As currently envisioned, the robots that will land on the lunar surface in 2015 will be 660-pound behemoths equipped with rolling tank-like treads, solar panels, seismographs, high-def cameras, and a smattering of scientific instruments. They'll also have human-like arms for collecting rock samples that will be returned to Earth via rocket.'"
