Comment: Re:Entertainment vs. Chores (Score 1) 523
Yeah really. When I came home the day after I quit WoW, I was like, "Whew! I don't have to play WoW any more!"
That's how I knew I made the right decision
Comment: Re:People are spoiled (Score 1) 375
I was like this too once but when Eclipse tripled my productivity due to the various real-time compilation, code inspection, code browsing, or code refactoring mechanisms built into the IDE, I simply couldn't justify not using it.
Comment: Re:Simple: (Score 1) 550
That's fascinating, my wife is the same way. In fact she turned me onto HOMM3, but won't touch any other game. As far as I can tell she likes the mechanic of going around the map and picking up glittery things, and also likes the fact that it's basically a computer-managed board game, without the twitch factor.
Comment: Re:I'm not sure if the US version is shit.. (Score 1) 361
Point is, the only Chinese creative he could come up with is not from mainland China, and went to college in the United States.
Comment: Re:I'm not sure if the US version is shit.. (Score 1) 361
He's Taiwanese
Comment: Yahoo employees rejoice (Score 0) 302
Office hours from now on shall be 9-5!
Thin Film Transforms Any Surface Into Touchscreen 81
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samzenpus
from the peel-and-stick dept.
from the peel-and-stick dept.
kkleiner writes "Open up a cardboard tube, roll out a transparent film just millimeters thick, apply it on a flat object and *tada* you've got an interactive touch surface. Cambridge-based Visual Planet just launched its new massive-sized multitouch thin film drivers so you can create touchscreens from 30 to 167 inches in size! Their touchfoil is a transparent nanowire embedded polymer capable of sensing the touch of a finger, or even pressure from wind and translating that to a computer interface. It works on glass, wood, and other non-conductive surfaces."
Comment: Bill Gates (Score 2) 141
If you thought Bill G was done, think again!
Comment: Re:They are missing a big point. (Score 1) 330
It mostly is already, but it's hard to enforce and people do it in droves.
BMW Working On Laser Headlamps
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samzenpus
from the hot-high-beams dept.
from the hot-high-beams dept.
MrSeb writes "LED headlamps are only just trickling onto the market — mostly on high-end cars — but now it seems a certain German automaker has plans for laser headlamps. 'Laser light is the next logical step in car light development ... for series production within a few years in the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid,' says BMW. Lasers have the potential to be simultaneously more powerful, more efficient, and smaller than other headlamp types. Before you get too excited, though: the output of laser headlights will be modulated for safety."
Comment: Re:Inception? (Score 1) 162
Not to mention Tesla was played by David Bowie. David Bowie!
Comment: Re:Pointless (Score 1) 198
Hopefully they still accept T-bonds
Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption 185
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timothy
from the shh-don't-tell-the-other-countries dept.
from the shh-don't-tell-the-other-countries dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Pakistan has a new Telecoms Law going into effect, which requires widespread monitoring of internet usage. In response, new reports are saying that the country is banning encryption, including VPNs, because it would interfere with the ability of ISPs to monitor internet usage."
Comment: Re:in other news (Score 1) 674
If you want pure, just buy undenatured ethanol. No gimmicks, just add water!
Comment: Re:And this obsession with bass (Score 1) 674
You hear it on the CD but not on the other 2 lossless formats? How???