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Comment: How is this different? (Score 3, Insightful) 218

by daemonhunter (#41238185) Attached to: Ubisoft Ditches Always-Online DRM Requirement From PC Games

Can someone explain to me (because I don't own any Ubisoft PC games) how this is different than being forced to log into Battle.net even if I only want to play Diablo 3 single player?

If it's not any different, why is Ubisoft on the receiving end of such unbridled nerd rage, but not Blizzard?

Comment: Re:0 kWh net grid consumption over the last 12 mon (Score 1) 498

by daemonhunter (#38797737) Attached to: Where does your electricity come from?
First of all, you clearly have a better grasp of the science involved than I do! This is very much not my field, but I'd love to see the fruits of its labors.

Second:

They make no mention in the article about future efficiency increases.

Neither did Ford's initial news release for the Model A. The first computer announcements didn't say 'wi-fi coming soon.' But it happened eventually.

I agree, there are definitely hurdles to overcome, but the baseline concepts are here, and brilliant people working together can make it happen.

Comment: Re:Heresy (Score 2) 689

by daemonhunter (#36762506) Attached to: Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo

The trouble with most Christians is they don't read their bibles and completely ignore what Christ taught.

The REAL trouble with most Christians is that they aren't really Christians.

If you saw a man professing to follow the teachings of the Buddha sitting in Burger King, tapping out a quadruple cheeseburger, you'd say to yourself, "Hmm... I don't think he's really Buddhist." So similarly, if you see a 'Christian' spewing hate and not love, feel free to tell them "you're not really being a follower of Jesus Christ right now. You should fix that one way or the other."

With that said, we're all human. Everyone loses their temper from time to time, and everyone has to wade through the mental and emotional crap in which we were raised. Only the really nutty ones claim to be perfect. The rest of us are just trying to be better than we are right now.

Comment: Re:How to defeat a touchscreen fanboi (Score 0) 332

by daemonhunter (#34782788) Attached to: Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard?

It concerns me there's going to be a generation of kids coming that are not going to be able to keyboard, handwrite because they will be touchscreen, game controller and voice interface users.

It concerns me that there's going to be a generation of kids that can't ride a horse or lead a wagon because they will be automobile users.

Moon

Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission? 199

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the ok-probably-not dept.
Jamie found a somewhat amusing little essay on putting together a crowd-sourced mission to put a monolith on the moon. The author estimates it would cost half a billion dollars, which is a sum he thinks could be raised. Although personally, I think a half a billion dollars could be put to better use, it's a fun thought exercise.

Comment: Just a thought... roadways? (Score 3, Interesting) 71

by daemonhunter (#34517684) Attached to: Researchers Develop Self-Healing Plastic
I'm sure someone's already working on a patent for this, but what would stop us from replacing sections of road with textured, self-healing plastic?
We still have too little information on the plastic at hand, but it could hopefully reduce Transit Dept. maintenance costs worldwide.

+ - WHO Bit Tax on the Internet?->

Submitted by gsgriffin
gsgriffin writes "The World Health Organization has a novel idea. As a global organization in need of funding, why not be the first to tax everyone on the Internet with a "Bit" tax. Page #9 of a released Executive Summary from Dec, 2009 suggests that this is a brilliant way to distribute the burden of financing for their research and development. Who knows, if this somehow gets accepted and catches on, more and more global organizations may be able to jump on this bandwagon and find a novel way to generate funds. Their cause may be noble, but is there means of funding justified?"
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Hardware Hacking

+ - Open source Russian vacuum fluorescent tube clock->

Submitted by
ptorrone
ptorrone writes "Hacker hacker extraordinaire Ladyada has just published a complete how-to and design document on making your own open source Russian vacuum fluorescent clock. Unlike Nixie tubes the vacuum fluorescent aren't as dangerous (high voltage) and there seems to be more of them available in the world. If you're not interested in building a clock from scratch you can also pick up a kit version. All the schematics, source code and files are located on the project's page which you can also learn about onboard open-loop boost converters, using microcontroller PWM pins to generate 60VDC light VF tunes. Another is code for a microcontroller-only low-power RTC that runs at only 50uA without the need of an external RTC (real time clock) chip."
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Earth

+ - Threatened Languages Digitally Archived for Future

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that of the world's 6,000 natural languages, half will probably not survive for another generation so experts are encouraging native people and anthropologists to capture myths, folk songs chants and poems in their dying languages through a collected oral literature compiled into a digital archive that can be accessed on demand and will make the "nuts and bolts" of lost cultures readily available. "When a language becomes endangered so too does a cultural world view," says Dr Mark Turin of Cambridge University's Department of Social Anthropology. ""We want to engage with indigenous people trying to document their myths and folklore." The first batch of archives material includes a recording of folk music of the Lo Monthang region, Nepal, and ceremonial chanting in the Vaupés Region of Colombia. The World Oral Literature Project has already handed out around 10 grants to tribes from Mongolia to Nigeria — and the researchers admitted traditional British languages such as Cornish and Gaelic are also at risk. ""People often think it's often only tribal cultures that are under threat," says Turin. "But all over Europe there are pockets of traditional communities and speech forms that have become extinct.""
Power

+ - Discovery could lead to computer revolution 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that the electron can be divided into other particles.

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009073101

From the article published 31 July 2009;

"The electron is a fundamental building block of nature and is indivisible in isolation, yet a new experiment has shown that electrons, if crowded into narrow wires, are seen to split apart."

The new particles are called the Spinon and Holon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(physics)"

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