Comment Re:Reliability ratings aren't reliable anyway... (Score 1) 672
I don't suppose you have a citation for that? Every report I remember reading about either car in CR mentioned they were rebadged twins.
Comment Re:We should boycott only now? (Score 1) 507
Here's a hint: when you avoid buying something you don't like, it's called "being a rational actor." You have to actually want something to actively boycott it.
Comment Re:With almost universal knowledge (Score 1) 171
Never mind the fact that the Chicago Tribune has always been one of the flagship conservative newspapers in the nation.
Comment Re:Getting the shaft? (Score 1) 171
Not that I disagree with the overall sentiment, but it's funny that Chicagoans consider Kankakee to be "downstate".
Comment Re:Am I the only one? (Score 1) 510
If you didn't have the clock problem, then you also weren't using your PS3 on March 1st because that happened regardless of what changes you might have made to the system.
(Actually, it's possible you don't use PSN and were playing non-online games; you were still affected, you just didn't realize it.)
Comment Re:Abandoned the Fight (Score 1) 245
Honestly, if you're a traditional RPG fan, you probably want to be looking at the DS instead. You've got a ton of well-done remakes of classics like the Dragon Quests and Final Fantasy games, plus new games like The World Ends With You, ASH, and new entries to the Namco Tales series. Bioware's got a game forthcoming, too. (Most importantly for me, though, there's a Suikoden game headed to the DS.)
Plus, chances are that you missed out on a lot of the great GBA RPGs, like Golden Sun, Riviera, and Fire Emblem.
Feed Gay Men Have Higher Prevalence Of Eating Disorders (sciencedaily.com)
Gay and bisexual men may be at far higher risk for eating disorders than heterosexual men, according to a recent study. In the first population-based study of its kind, researchers found that gay and bisexual men have higher rates of eating disorders.
Feed New Primate Species Found In 42 Million-year-old Texas Fossils (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists have discovered a new genus and species of primate, one long vanished from the earth but preserved in the fossil record.
Feed BenQ's chairman and president charged in Taiwan, out on bail (engadget.com)
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It doesn't look like the BenQ saga is showing any sings of letting up anytime soon, with two of the company's top executives now running into trouble with the law over alleged insider trading. According to The Taipei Times, both Chairman K.Y. Lee (who recently offered to leave the company) and President Sheaffer Lee have been named as defendants in the insider trading case against BenQ, which stems mainly from the company's mangled acquisition of Siemen AG's mobile phone business. Both men reportedly faced a grilling form prosecutors for some eight hours on Wednesday before being released on bail, at a cost of a couple of hundred thousand dollars apiece. Of course, these aren't the first charges to be laid against the company in the insider trading probe, with BenQ's CFO and senior VP Eric Yu still locked up after the last sweep by prosecutors. As if BenQ needed any more bad news, the company's shares unsurprisingly took a bit of a tumble after this latest development, adding further to the 20% loss the company has seen over the past three months.[Via The Inquirer]
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Submission + - Reflectivity Reaches a New Low
sporkme writes: "A new nanocoating material developed by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has the lowest level of reflectivity ever seen, or not seen in this case. The amount of light reflected by the composite of silica nanorods and aluminum nitride is almost the same amount reflected by air. From the article:
Suggested applications include increased efficiency in solar cells, more energy-efficient lighting and advances in quantum mechanics. No word yet on invisibility cloaks."Schubert and his coworkers have created a material with a refractive index of 1.05, which is extremely close to the refractive index of air and the lowest ever reported. Window glass, for comparison, has a refractive index of about 1.45.
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Using a technique called oblique angle deposition, the researchers deposited silica nanorods at an angle of precisely 45 degrees on top of a thin film of aluminum nitride, which is a semiconducting material used in advanced light-emitting diodes (LEDs). From the side, the films look much like the cross section of a piece of lawn turf with the blades slightly flattened.
Journal Journal: What Laura Bush Should Have Said on Larry King Live
What Laura Bush Should Have Said on Larry King Live (Rude Version):
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-laura-bush-should-have-said-on.html
Journal Journal: So uhh, how did my 3 year old daughter make this? 9
The texture on this looks really cool; I think it is some kind of sponge/block print. I will see if I can bug her art teacher for more info, but hey maybe someone out there can tell me how it is done!
Journal Journal: Golf pro suing Florida company over Wikipedia article 16
As noted in this article in Linux Insider , Fuzzy Zoeller is suing a Florida Company because apparently an article containing allegedly libelous information about the golf professional was posted to Wikipedia from an IP address assigned to their company. Zoeller, under a John Doe pseudonym (which was discovered by the Miami Herald), was suing t
Journal Journal: Tool to sync up bookmarks/etc across multiple machines 6
This looks to be the best thing ever for tracking my bookmarks across multiple machines (firefox only, though I think there is an exploder version too):
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/
It can also sync cookies, history, passwords, etc. Pretty nifty.
Submission + - Has open-source lost its halo?
PetManimal writes: "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether "open source" has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:
"[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to "ride a trend," while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft "as a shill" to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles.
