Comment Re: the contenders (Score 1) 81
âoeMultiple retina monitors that fit in your backpackâ is a killer app.
Comment Per linked article, the domain had not expired (Score 1) 35
> According to the Open Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was unable to explain what had happened or why.
Comment Re: I wish (Score 1) 186
You earn a dollar. You pay tax on the earnings. You buy a medium potato with the remaining 70Â.
You want a big potato. You use your credit card. The bank pays the grocer a dollar and tells you âoeYou owe me a dollar.â
Then the bank develops an allergy to maple and runs away south, shouting âoeNever mind.â
You got $1.70 worth of potatoes for $1.00 work.
US legislators say âoethat makes no sense. You owe tax on the forgiven debt.â
Canada legislators say different.
Comment Re:Well this is odd (Score 1) 46
Do you think you can get a forty-year loan from a bank?
Comment Alexa tie-in (Score 1) 109
"Alexa, add Beyond Burgers to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, add Fabainaise Classic 32 ounce to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, add Field Roast Herb Chao slices to my Whole Foods pickup box. Alexa, schedule my Whole Foods pickup for Saturday morning."
Comment Spam filtering, unlimited aliases, search, rules (Score 3, Informative) 65
My top priorities for email service are quality of spam filtering, support for unlimited aliases, search, and rules. I think labels work better than folders for categorization. I have not found any Amazon documentation which addresses these issues.
Comment I've been on data roaming since last Monday... (Score 1) 610
Consider switching carriers to TMobile, where there are no data overage fees.
Comment RFP: Exercise bands (Score 1) 635
I have a couple of exercise bands at my desk which I use when my hands are free.
More information about desk-friendly exercise bands, please.
Comment Add distance (Score 1) 635
Park your car not at the office park, but in some other office park 15 minutes' walk distant.
Comment Re:how else are you suppused to check the weather? (Score 2) 180
Open your curtains?
Hello curtains, is rain forecast for twelve hours from now?
Comment Re:Innocence? (Score 1) 301
Thanks for this.
Submission + - First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture
Anonymous Coward writes: "Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the
successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT's first step toward a commercially viable air capture device."
Submission + - MySQL + AmazonS3??
Venotar writes: While perusing the MySQL conference website, I noticed that Mark Atwood will be discussing a plugin storage engine for Amazon's S3 with MySQL. Further googling only turned up Pete Freitag's interesting observation that combining such a plug-in with Amazon's EC2 could be very useful. Does anyone know where a copy of this plug-in could be found, or if it's just vaporware? It seems like the sort of tool that could shift the economics behind quite a few ways businesses use their technology, so I was curious to hear what sort of ideas the slashdot crowd would come up with.
Submission + - Amiga OS 4.0 Final Update released
An anonymous reader writes: Hyperion-Entertainment is very pleased to announce the immediate availability (for registered AmigaOne customers) of Amiga OS 4.0, The Final Update.
Originally released in May of 2004, Amiga OS 4.0 is the most stable, modern and feature-rich incarnation to date of the multi-media centric operating system launched by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1985 with which it still retains a high degree of compatibility.
Amiga OS 4.0, The Final Update is the culmination of 5 years of development and takes the form of a stand-alone ISO image which contains a full installation of all Amiga OS 4.0 components.
A list of new features can be found here.
Submission + - Automatically Convert .docx Files to .txt
aloser writes: "When Microsoft released Office 2007, they replaced the new Microsoft Word default format with the Microsoft Open Office XML Format (.docx). Unfortunately, this format is far from open and far from accessible. Mac and Linux users have (at least for the moment) been shut out. I whipped up a quick script that will extract the text (albeit minus the formatting) from a .docx file for viewing on any Operating System; no software needed. Enjoy!"
