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Comment: Re:Gaps between numbers... (Score -1, Offtopic) 246

by Barryke (#43729459) Attached to: Major Advance Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture

Traditionally, when you're joking you should write something that's funny.

Let me demonstrate.
  "You want me to fix your toaster? Hold it firmly and run hot water over it, while putting its plug in the power outlet."
This is only funny if you get it.

Humor is suggesting a (absurd yet understandable) relation between unlikely things.

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Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew 276

Posted by timothy
from the nohmul-is-no-more dept.
An anonymous reader writes "If an imposing 2300-year old Mayan temple situated at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was on your list of things to see before you die, you're too late. The monument was essentially destroyed by a construction crew in order to provide gravel for road construction. Archaeologists expressed shock, as Nohmul (the "great mound") was a major Mayan religious center in its day. While the pyramid was situated on private property, such historical sites are supposedly protected by ordinance, and officials may file criminal charges."

Comment: Nooo! :( Learning curve my ass, its great! (Score 1) 536

by Barryke (#43662623) Attached to: Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8

Microsoft has confirmed to be preparing to reverse course over elements of Windows 8. 'Key aspects' of how the software is used will be changed

Nooo! :(
I like Windows 8 the way it is and ought to evolve. Please do not handicap it to suit snails, i'll just revert to Linux desktop (again) once its touch UX rivals that of Windows 8.

If i had a say, i'd stop at optionally making the taskbar visible always, and somehow merge with left bar functionality (the touch alt-tab). The startscreen is fine, except that it could use some form of nested folders or (optional) vertical scrolling. The moment i descide to launch another app, i never ever need to see the other windows opened, except for a list that shows whats running but thats solved by making the taskbar visible anyway.

Comment: Re:The only version I've ever seen where... (Score 1) 786

by Barryke (#43641443) Attached to: Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment?

And notice the type of people that chime in. From real life experience, i can say that these are typically senior system administrators that are just to lazy to learn anything new. Online i only see populist (ad revenue) bloggers (and /. timothy), and flamers such as most /. comments here.

To me this is a beatifull thing. Finally the appliances market is opening up to innovation. We stalled for 10 years and had nothing but Moore's law, it was about time the peripherals got upgraded too! Now the display. Make it multitouch and add relief so i can drop the physical keyboard.

Then move to integrate this ultimate 2D display in Every Single Table, so i can read the newspaper on it after just positioning my "mobile" on that giant table display. Or play a 4 player board game with 2 players sitting in another city, resembling proper table telepresence. What is a smartfone now, is a token in the future where it injects/embeds useful commodity features in surfaces (hint) and appliances.

+ - Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments->

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes "According to anonymous sources, Microsoft's game director Adam Orth has left the company following a series of comments on Twitter about the rumoured always-on aspect of the next generation Xbox console. It is still unclear if Orth left voluntarily or was pushed out but either way it's not good news for Microsoft."
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+ - The Solar Industry Is Finally Making More Power Than It Uses->

Submitted by derekmead
derekmead writes "Last year was by all accounts a very good year for solar power, with the US market growing 76 percentaccording to the latest stats from the Solar Energy Industries Association, and global capacity doubling since 2010. Theres now roughly 282 gigawatts of solar power, in both its photovoltaic and concentrating forms, installed around the world. Thats a lot of theoretically carbon-free electricity.

But according to new research from Stanford University, published in Environmental Science & Technology, only now is the amount of energy produced by solar power around the world probably surpassing the energy required to make more solar power modules. Thats a big threshold to cross. Just five years ago, the solar power industry consumed 75 percent more energy than it produced.

Heres an even better thing: At the rate installations are going, the energy and carbon debt incurred in making all the solar photovoltaics made to date could be paid off as soon as 2015, and certainly by 2020."
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+ - World's Largest Quantum Network->

Submitted by kalalau_kane
kalalau_kane writes "A group of European researchers has proposed the largest quantum network yet: Between Earth and the International Space Station. Such a network would see entangled photons transmitted over a distance of 250 miles — two or three times greater than previous quantum communication experiments. Not only will this be the first quantum experiment in space, but it will allow the scientists to see if entanglement really is instantaneous over long distances, and whether it’s affected by gravity."
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