Wow, I know a lot of AI researchers who are going to be pretty pissed off that these materials scientists scooped them.

Has it passed the Turing test yet?

Way to cherry-pick facts to back up your bias. Compare GCC with the Lisa and see who comes out on top.

But now that I re-read your post, perhaps you were being ironic. Emacs was plainly more innovative than any of Apple's "shiny toys". Less popular, of course, but why would we nerds care about that?

For all of you logic-challenged commenters out there: saying bad things about RMS does not turn Jobs into a saint, no matter how much you wish it would.

Slashdot's icon for a bug is a picture of a beetle? I thought this was news for NERDS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera

I'm so glad that other states are doing this kind of experiment on their children. Future generations will thank them for the empirical evidence.

What I can't figure out is how they got this past the IRB.

It isn't a robot, it's a waldo. It didn't wake, it was turned on.

I thought this was "news for nerds", not "puff for plebes".

This got +5 insightful?? I see nothing but opinions based on two fundamental misconceptions:

1) Editing C# in a GUI editor means you are "programming in a GUI"

2) CLI == vt100

Looking Glass's Terra Nova was a real diamond in the rough. Vast outdoor environments (in 1996!), weapon/armor/squadmate selections that actually mattered, jump jets, squadmate commands (that worked!), limited ammo, horrible acting. That game had it all. God, I still want to play it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova:_Strike_Force_Centauri

It's a Waldo, not a robot.

I'm just sitting here, waiting for this discussion to get sidetracked onto the question of "is AGW true?" like it did on the NPR site.