Comment: Re:What's Next? (Score 1) 425
Le App Store. /goes back to the ragecomics
Comment: Re:Ideas are cheap... (Score 1) 735
What's the product? What does it do?
Comment: Too many changes? (Score 3, Interesting) 110
I find it a bit hard to keep up with rapid changes to Rails. But that's my problem anyway. I think the changes and additions in Rails 3 are wonderful and the team did a good job on this. Congratulations and thank you!
Comment: Re:Uh, what? (Score 2, Insightful) 503
If it ever succeeds in the market, I'm going to use your comment as the "Less space than a Nomad, lame" equivalent for the iPad.
Comment: Origami (Score -1, Offtopic) 596
Does anyone remember those awesome promo videos from the Origami Project? I wonder what went wrong.
Comment: The Origami Project (Score 4, Insightful) 175
Remember that? Wasn't it supposed to do this shit 3 years ago? Here we go again.
Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off 505
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from the invest-in-arizona-beaches dept.
from the invest-in-arizona-beaches dept.
GreennMann writes "An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to two islands in Antarctica has snapped. Scientists say the collapse could mean the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away, and provides further evidence of rapid change in the region. Sited on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Wilkins shelf has been retreating since the 1990s. Researchers regarded the ice bridge as an important barrier, holding the remnant shelf structure in place. Its removal will allow ice to move more freely between Charcot and Latady islands, into the open ocean."
Strange Glitches In Games 282
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Soulskill
from the where-did-the-walls-go dept.
from the where-did-the-walls-go dept.
Parz writes "Even the best of game developers can leave a big dirty glitch buried within its products that can turn a gameplay experience on its head (sometimes literally). Gameplayer has trawled through the web to locate video footage of some of the more amazing and hilarious examples of glitches in games. It acts as an interesting insight into the bugs that some games — especially today — ship with. What interesting bugs have you encountered?"
North Korea Missile Launch Fails 609
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timothy
from the one-of-the-strings-must-have-broken dept.
from the one-of-the-strings-must-have-broken dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch by the North Koreans last night? You know, the one that went over Japan and supposedly put a 'communications satellite' into orbit. Well, according to the US Northern Command and NORAD it has been a complete and utter failure, with the second stage and payload 'falling in the Pacific.'"
IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT 291
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timothy
from the what-color-is-your-trial-balloon? dept.
from the what-color-is-your-trial-balloon? dept.
suraj.sun points to a story in the New York Times indicating that the much-rumored merger (or purchase) that would have united Sun with IBM may have dissolved before it began. Excerpting: "I.B.M., after months of negotiations, withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun's board balked at a slightly reduced offer, according to a person close to the talks. The deal's collapse raises questions about Sun's next step, since the I.B.M. offer was far above the value of the Silicon Valley company's shares when news of the I.B.M. offer first surfaced last month. .. Since last year, Sun executives had been meeting with potential buyers. I.B.M. stepped up, seeing an opportunity to add to its large software business, acquire valuable researchers and consolidate the market for larger, so-called server computers that corporations use in their data centers. ... Now, Sun is free to pursue other suitors, including I.B.M. rivals like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. Cisco recently entered the market for server computers."
