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But... but... HP and Dell scored top marks from Greenpeace. Clearly the packaging was needed to protect the license papers which means you'd kill more tree for more paper if they are damaged.

[This also show that Greenpeace ranking is irrelevant]

C++ compiler licences

lol... paying for a C++ compiler. You're funny, I like you.

Much more importantly, you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent. It's all this nonsense about per-device licensing, except in some sort of insane micromanagement level (which I suppose is to be expected from a company that's developed as many RTS games as Blizzard). This could very well outdo the RIAA in their quest to banish everyone from listening to music while simultaneously charging everyone for every song a dozen times.

This kind of bullshit really makes me want to avoid D3 (as if not losing four years of my life wasn't reason enough).

Every time there's news of earth or super-earth sized planets, we always find that they're orbital period is like 5 days, which would mean the planet is completely scorched and incapable of supporting life or bearing liquid water. Such a downer....it doesn't matter what sized planet you have if its orbit places it so close to the star. Is this because the whole eclipse-detection method requires the planet to be close to its star so we can't actually detect planets further out from the star? I'm actually kind of tired hearing about "exciting" new of another planet being discover 5-30 million km from its star...that is not even close to being in the habitable zone people.

Space race just found a new meaning for its life, its universe, and everything.

I would have summarised like this:

- IE7 not standards compliant
- Slashdot posts article complaining
- IE8 standards compliant but not by default
- Slashdot posts article complaining
- IE8 standards compliant by default
- Slashdot... posts article complaining

I can only echo your sighing...

Before anyone starts bitching about how much IE sucks and how it's lack of standards is nothing but a burden on anyone, understand that this is a decent move by Microsoft in the right direction.
I know, I know, it's almost too little, too late, but it's better than nothing and as long as this trend continues, at least we might have a decent amount of cross-browser standards in a few years time, as opposed to none if Microsoft simply hadn't bothered.

Jarjarthejedi writes "Looks like a new Reboot movie is in the works, and the creators are planning an online comic series to go with it. They also seem to be asking for fan involvement to help make the movie a success. The site is still relatively new as of this posting (having just opened up) but it's certainly good news for those of us who enjoyed reboot."
http://reboot.com/

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faq.jsp

What does Nintendo do to help protect the environment?

Nintendo is very concerned with doing our part to help preserve the environment. We're always researching new products and procedures to make our products and operations as environmental-friendly as possible.

Some things Nintendo is already doing:

• In Nintendo of America offices:

• We recycle the paper we use company-wide.
• We limit our use of colored paper, since it's not easily recycled.
• We purchase recycled paper towels, report covers, message pads, and writing pads.
• We currently recycle more than 70% of the waste that is generated at our headquarters.
• We actively promote the recycling of aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass in our corporate cafeterias.
• We re-use or recycle over 99% of any returned product that we receive from retailers and customers

• In our products:

• We use at least 80% recycled paper in all of our shipping packaging.
• We don't use Styrofoam in any of our packaging.
• Many of our instruction manuals are printed on recycled paper.
• Our clamshell packaging is recyclable and most recycling centers accept it.
• As is stated in the manuals of the Wii console and DS Lite, neither product contains latex, lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). Additionally, we have been phasing out the use of PVC in our packaging, using a safer, recyclable plastic instead.
• We take great care to comply with all relevant regulations on avoiding the use of dangerous materials. All Nintendo products supplied worldwide are designed to comply with relevant global standards. In order to certify that Nintendo products comply with standards for hazardous chemical substances, Nintendo has established the Green Procurement Standards, which require our component suppliers to certify that any parts they deliver do not include hazardous chemical substances, and ensure that Nintendo fully controls its products internally.

WheezyJoe writes "The Washington Post reports that a little old lady took a hammer to Comcast. Apparently fed up with the lousy service she received from a botched Comcast installation of "triple-play", and a completely humiliating experience at a customer service center, 75-year-old Mona "The Hammer" Shaw took her claw hammer back to the customer service center and bludgeoned the office equipment into tiny plastic pieces."

I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my Ph.D. I have come to find out that 90% of my department is from India and many others are from China. All the students come here to study and there are only 7 US citizens in the engineering program this year. Why is this like this? I have heard that many of the smarter Americans go into the medical or law professions and that is why there are no Americans. Is this true?

An anonymous reader writes "Recently I had *more* trouble with cell phone companies. After years of bad experiences with a couple of the larger cell phone providers, I recently switched to one of the smaller cell phone providers which still has a good national presence. Things had been going well, relatively speaking, I still received my occasional over-billing, but a quick phone call with no arguing resolved the issue. There were no promises like "Okay, sir, I've removed the 14.95 service from your account and credited you the payment fee" only to find the same thing next month. Then my phone started acting a bit weird — it's alarm clock function has 3 alarms. One of the alarms suddenly was unable to save changes anymore and therefore became unusable. A few weeks later, the second alarm quit functioning. Now, down to one alarm(a valuable feature to me), I take my phone into a retail outlet store, only to be told the only thing I can do it buy another phone/insurance as my phone as been in contact with liquid.

Well, about the only way I could be more sure my phone was *never* in contact with liquid is if I set it on a counter-top and stared at it for 9 months. Actually, that's a fairly close approximation of what did happen since I'm not the most adventurous of persons. What are my recourses for getting the cell phone company/manufacturer to fix this issue. What is the tolerance of these "water detection strips"? Can mere humidity trip these and if so why do I have to prove it was humidity, and not the manufacturer prove it was liquid?"

Starteck81 writes "Looking to recruit more women, and perhaps date some sorority girls, the largest computer club at Washington State University hopes to hold a "nerd auction."The idea is to trade their computer skills to sorority girls in exchange for a makeover and, possibly, a date.

"You can buy a nerd and he'll fix your computer, help you with stats homework, or if you're really adventurous, take you to dinner!" Ben Ford, president of the Linux Users Group, said on its Web site recently."

netbuzz writes "A French company making its American debut at DEMOfall07 this week claims that its "Shoot & Proof" software plus a service will let customers take and store digital photos that are protected against manipulation by a combination of a watermark, time-stamp, location information and signature. A single pixel out of place is all it takes to prove a copy is a fake, says CodaSystem, which claims it has passed legal muster in France and expects the same in the U.S. Target customers include law enforcement, lawyers, real estate professionals, package delivery companies ... and cleaning services.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19902"

An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has just posted an article comparing 1080p DVD upscaling performance of the PlayStation, ATI Radeon, NVIDIA GeForce, and Silicon Optix HQV technologies (with high-quality screenshots). The $4000 HQV scaler does the best, but the second-best results comes from the PlayStation 3."