Comment Re:Bah! (Score 4, Funny) 242
So the stupid outnumber the smart?
Comment Re:envy (Score 1) 375
My wife and some of her friends might disagree. For them it was practically encouraged to find a foreign husband and move out of Japan.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 156
I have, what's the problem with it?
Comment Re:So using GPL licensed code (Score 1) 228
Nope, you are the one distributing, they just provide a platform for you to distribute your code
Comment Re:This is why they hate us (Score 1) 228
You realize that there's loads of GPL software in your precious iphone?
Comment Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? (Score 3, Interesting) 278
Comment Re:samba - racist (Score 1) 162
it's also 9 points in scrabble!
Comment Re:More of them? (Score 1) 109
Who else read that as "multi-player star systems"?
Comment Re:Better battery life is always a year away (Score 1) 378
Roguelikes: the Misnamed Genre 201
ZorbaTHut writes "I've been playing a lot of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup lately. It's a great example of a roguelike (and open source, too). But I can't stop thinking that perhaps 'roguelike' is the wrong term for the genre. 'Roguelikes aren’t about dungeons. They’re not about text-based graphics, or random artifacts, or permadeath. ... Roguelikes are about using an unpredictable toolkit with complex interactions in order to overcome unpredictable challenges.'"
Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain 129
Zothecula writes "It's probably still going to be a while before autonomous, self-aware androids are wandering amongst us. That scenario has come a little closer to reality, however, with researchers from the University of Southern California having created a functioning synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. An artificial version of the connections that allow electrical impulses to pass between neurons in our brains, the circuit could someday be one component of a synthetic brain."
Comment Re:Cold weather (Score 1) 572
You know it's an electrical pump don't you? Keeps running just fine when the engine is off.
Another thing, you have perfect control over when the engine shuts down, you need to be in neutral and release the clutch before the engine shuts down, simply pressing the clutch again starts it up (faster then you can put it in first gear)
Comment Re:Erm (Score 1) 376
I'd love to have the script that generates this...
New Hungarian Government OMGs All Gov Sites 59
An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."
Microsoft Shows Full 3D XNA Games On Windows Phone 70
suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has shown off XNA games running on Windows Phone; full 3D is a go. From Engadget: 'Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 9. The two titles are The Harvest, a good looking touch-controlled dungeon crawler with destructible environments, being developed by Luma Arcade; and Battle Punks. Microsoft spoke to the ease of its Direct3D development platform, which was built by the same folks responsible for the first-gen Xbox. What we saw of The Harvest was built in "two or three weeks," mostly from scratch, and folks who've already built games for XNA in VisualStudio shouldn't have much trouble with a port from the sound of things: "very, very easy," said Microsoft. Right now developers can do their testing in Windows, but there should be a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator out for devs eventually.'"
