Comment: Windows ME? (Score 1) 763
Why not bring back the Death..*cough*..excuse me DeskStar HDD's at the same time.
Comment: Energy Drinks? (Score 1) 500
This ain't on the list?
Comment: Title Fail (Score 2, Funny) 109
Really? I'd like to know how many people actually knew what they were talking about when they saw the title.
Comment: Right... (Score 1) 699
Google is responsible for a persons stupidity now?
Comment: Re:Dare I say it? (Score 1) 799
Lol...As soon as I saw the word nuke I thought the exact same thing.
Comment: Discs are still cheaper though.. (Score 0) 277
Plain and simple, even though Solid State storage is getting much cheaper, a 4GB Flash drive still goes for about 15 bucks on NewEgg for a decent brand. Where DVD's with 4.7GB are about 50 cents each. Blu-Ray discs are much cheaper in comparison as well. So as awesome as it would be to see cartridges come back, it's unlikely.
Comment: Chinese Government wins. (Score 0) 232
Plain and simple. They want to control the information flow and cutting out Google is huge for that. Google loses out on alot of revenue. 35% of China is about 700 million people. Thats alot of money they will lose. The Chinese people will hurt the most though.
Comment: Very cool (Score 0) 57
Nicely done...could definitely be improved but that's a great start and a great hack.
+ - The $150 Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On B->
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beatle11 writes "Two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.
Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldnâ(TM)t find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148."
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Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldnâ(TM)t find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148."
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Comment: ROFL... (Score 0) 348
That's gotta be the best one all day...
Comment: It's not even April Fools Yet... (Score 0) 1246
After reading the police report, she basically got charged for lying to the teacher and to everyone one involved. I'd be surprised if the judge doesn't throw this out. What a joke.
Comment: Wow.... (Score 0) 623
You know the economy is bad when huge companies like these three actually have to lay people off.
Comment: It's a movie!!! (Score 0) 436
Its a movie under the genre science FICTION. The flux capacitor is a work of fiction. It was indeed an excellent trilogy but to me it sounds like the scientists are bored.
Comment: Re:It probably won't last another 4 years (Score 0) 277
Well at this point it doesn't matter anymore so I guess it is acceptable. It should never have happened in the first place though.
Comment: Re:Sony needs to... (Score 0) 302
They don't really make money on the console itself. They make money on the games. If they sell the console for $450, they can break even on the cost of the console and make money on the games.