Comment Re:Agreed (Score 1) 968
Day I learnt this was the greatest day.
Comment Version Control (Score 5, Insightful) 590
Put everything in version control. Everything. EVERYTHING!
Well. You could skip
Remember that once code is deleted, you can't get it back. However, version control changes that. Version control is one of the most vital tools for anyone developing/working with a computer.
Oh and git rocks and stuff
Comment Re:How Deliciously Appropriate (Score 1) 258
And thoes soldiers are in a war that has killed 100,000~ civilians? So maybe exposing the abuses the soldiers commit makes me wish I could walk into their barracks and give them a massive slap round the face.
Comment Re: The elephant in the summary (Score 1) 155
I can live with the bias, everyone knows it's there. Its the lying that I don't like.
Comment The elephant in the summery (Score 1, Insightful) 155
Who shall be the first to say it. Rupert Murdoch?
Oh and of course, I do realise that the left has much bias aswell. But R.M. does take it to a new level.
Comment Re:not proportional voting, rather representation (Score 1) 375
Yes Great Britain does have members of parliment and linked constituencies. However, it's not massivly popular, so I personaly wouldn't use it as an example.
Comment Re:Wikileaks = Enemy (Score 1) 973
sooo 95,000-105,000 civilians dead, and 1034 US soldiers dead? It's probabaly not a bad thing to put thoes soldiers in danger, it'd even out the ratios a bit.
Comment Re:Iceweasle (Score 1) 65
I use archlinux, and I think it's called shireotoko by default. I've rebranded mine, using the firebrand script, but frankly... well I don't like to play up to trolls, but the point of my comment was that a lot of people find that particular clause rather annoying. If you wish to be a penickity git and tell me it's icecat, I couldn't care less
Comment Iceweasle (Score 2, Interesting) 65
I guess we'll still be stuck with iceweasle? As a corperation, I can't see them making that concession...
Comment Re:All of the above and Cowboy Neal (Score 1) 184
Apart from the fact I think you're wrong, you could very well be right.
Comment Uploaded (Score 1) 793
Upload me to the cloud, apparently it never stops...
And of course, if it does, we can have the first lawsuit over the death of an electronic inteligence.
Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos 428
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
Submission + - Goofle investigating Chinese employees (guardian.co.uk)
BluePeppers writes: The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating it's staff in lieu of The Incident. ""We're not commenting on rumour and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorised access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself."
Former Exec Says Electronic Arts "Is In the Wrong Business" 180
Mitch Lasky was the executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts until leaving the publisher to work at an investment firm. He now has some harsh things to say about how EA has been run over the past several years, in particular criticizing the decisions of CEO John Riccitiello. Quoting:
"EA is in the wrong business, with the wrong cost structure and the wrong team, but somehow they seem to think that it is going to be a smooth, two-year transition from packaged goods to digital. Think again. ... by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to 'grow their way through the transition' to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles. They honestly believed that they had a decade to make this transition (I think it's more like 2-3 years). Since the recurring-revenue sports titles were already 'booked' (i.e., fully accounted for in the Wall Street estimates) it fell to EA Games to make hits that could move the needle. It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt strategy."
Comment Impuse (Score 1) 596
Personaly, I always find impulse charity much more satisfying than impulse buying. So most of my total (50-200) comes from finding a cause while browsing the web, and giving them a fiver or so if I have any cash in my paypal account.
