Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 1065
If velocity is the change in position over the change in time, and acceleration is the change in velocity over the change in time, then it becomes trivial to calculate acceleration from GPS
Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1, Flamebait) 243
$1000 plus? You paid too much man
Comment Re:Grow up. (Score 1) 448
What is up with all the Facebook hate? It's a tool people use to communicate passively. Not everybody wants to call everyone they know with their every thought. If somebody wants to know, they read their wall.
Comment Re:Confirmation Bias? (Score 1) 246
What about BSD with a MacOS GUI?
Comment Re:Interesting side-effect: (Score 0, Redundant) 187
Wow. The guy above you beat you to the same exact idea one minute ago.
Comment Good idea (Score 1) 240
Honestly I love this idea. I could print up a whole PDF at a time, and read it like a book or manual when I need it; all the things that are too straining to read on a monitor for any lengthy period.
Blizzard Authenticators May Become Mandatory 248
An anonymous reader writes "WoW.com is reporting that a trusted source has informed them that Blizzard is giving serious consideration to making authenticators mandatory on all World of Warcraft accounts. The authenticators function the same as ones provided by most banks — in order to log in, you must generate a number on the external device. Blizzard already provides a free iPhone app that functions as an authenticator. The source stated, 'it is a virtually forgone conclusion that it will happen.' This comes after large spates of compromised accounts left Bizzard game masters severely backlogged by restoration requests."
Comment Re:Stop with the drugs already (Score 1) 595
You're telling me you've never heard that buzzing whine coming from a TV or CRT monitor left on? It drives me nuts and my gf does it all the time.
Comment Re:China? (Score 1) 114
Hotline, ServU, and newsboards. Ah nostalgia...
Comment SimCity 2000 (Score 1) 247
I built one of these but the fusion reactors came out just a few years later and I didn't have worry about frying half of my city.
Comment Re:win-win (Score 2, Insightful) 88
Given a choice between making some profit by selling an unpatented product, and no profit by not selling an unpatented product, the choice is fairly clear.
Or more likely, losing money from R&D funds not being recouped from insufficient sales. Patents are a good idea by creating an incentive to innovate. It's the abuse of the patent system that's stalling creativity, not the system itself.
Comment Re:Slashdotted.. (Score 1) 83
You've not enough minerals.
Comment Re:And then it was proptly deleted (Score 2, Insightful) 192
Agreed. I like everything. I think what makes Wikipedia most useful is the trivia. It makes it a more useful information compendium than even Google.
Comment Re:Impossible (Score 2, Insightful) 272
It's a good thing for them that you're expendable then.
Comment Re:What will the control group be? (Score 1) 158
Sucrose is half fructose, and most sweeteners of any type are now high-fructose corn syrup... so I don't believe that sucrose vs. fructose thing for a second.
