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Comment Re:Brussels, Switzerland? (Score 1) 211

Oh, and where exactly is Brussels Airport (BRU) located numbnuts? In Zaventem, which - last time I checked - still is in Flanders, not Brussels, not Wallonia. The corridor proposed by the French imperialists doesn't include Zaventem either (Sint-Genesius-Rode will do), so selling it off to Switzerland is out of the question, next try :p.

Comment Re:Brussels, Switzerland? (Score 1) 211

The Dutch (Netherlands) speak the same language as the Belgians with slightly different grammar and pronunciation (although it's the exact same language).

Now that would be a novelty, and we'd already have a government if that were the case :p. But sadly, only about 60% of the Belgians speaks Dutch (or Flemish), and the other 40% speak French (Walloon).

Comment Re:Package management (Score 1) 831

Not only does he have to understand Linux package systems better, he should also try to cover the basics when it comes to Mac development and more specifically package management on OS X. Mac OS X ships with it's own package format (pkg, http://developer.apple.com/tools/installerpolicy.html), so you don't need 3rd party package managers. Rolling your own packages for it is a breeze compared to having to roll your own RPM/DEB, BUT there's one caveat : dependency resolution (as in : it doesn't do that - afaik anyway, I just touched the surface though :p)...
Input Devices

Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World 124

kkleiner writes "A student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group is going to put Microsoft's Kinect to a good use: controlling robots. Philipp Robbel has hacked together the Kinect 3D sensor with an iRobot Create platform and assembled a battery-powered bot that can see its environment and obey your gestured commands. Tentatively named KinectBot, Robbel's creation can generate some beautifully detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements to understand where they want it to go." In related but less agreeable news, "Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes."
Robotics

Robot Drawn Caricatures 29

ptresset writes "From Singularity Hub: 'Artists and programmers in the UK have decided to improve upon the male and female symbols outside many toilet facilities. They’ve developed a set of robotic arms that take pictures of people entering into a bathroom and then use that image to create a unique drawing to place outside the door. It then wipes away this art to make room for the next person’s caricature.'"

Comment Re:This is really tiresome (Score 1) 289

If the biggest software houses can't even write a PDF viewer that's failsafe, then perhaps we should stop using PDF and work with a really simple bitmap format. Thing is, I have a hunch that they would screw that up too.

Well, actually they already screwed that up in the past, or don't you remember MS with its JPEG vulnerabilities (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-028.mspx)?

PC Games (Games)

King's Quest Fan Project The Silver Lining Is Back 61

LoTonah writes "After eight years of development and a Cease & Desist from Vivendi, King's Quest fan project The Silver Lining is back in action. From the website: 'We are extremely happy to announce that our project, The Silver Lining, will definitely see the light of day! In a wonderful turn of events, Activision reached out to the Phoenix Online team a few months ago with a desire to revisit their decision regarding The Silver Lining. After negotiations, the C&D has been officially rescinded, and Phoenix Online has been granted a non-commercial license to release The Silver Lining! Our team is ecstatic about this, and as hard as we've worked for eight years, it's the tireless belief and support of you, our fans, that has made this possible.' The first episode of the project is due to be released on July 10."

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