Comment Re:Barring? (Score 1) 416
I knew I was gonna get that reference wrong. Oh well.
Comment Re:Barring? (Score 3, Informative) 416
Most major breweries in the U.S. (even Guinness - *SOB*) are owned and operated from overseas. Brew your own!
This may be one of the most (unintentionally?) funny things I've ever read on
Comment Re:I second that. (Score 1) 131
I'm pretty sure my gTablet would handle a USB floppy drive just fine. However, I've never touched one.
Comment Re:I use my iPad on the train (Score 1) 805
Um, you should perhaps not attend classes with so many meth-heads?
Submission + - "Nomad" Planets Could Outnumber Stars 100,000 to 1 (universetoday.com)
Nancy_A writes: "Could the number of wandering planets in our galaxy – rogue planets not orbiting a sun — be more than the amount of stars in the Milky Way? The latest research concludes there could be 100,000 times more free-floating planets in the Milky Way than stars. Even though the author of the study, Louis Strigari from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), called the amount “an astronomical number,” he said the math is sound."
Submission + - Southern California iPhone user successfully sues ATT for throttling iPhone data (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Following in the footsteps of another Southern California resident suing a big name company for misrepresentation of goods, Matt Spaccarelli has won a judgement of $850 from AT&T for data throttling.
Submission + - Arizona Law Would Require Disclaimers on Retouched Photos (azcentral.com)
An anonymous reader writes: An Arizona state representative has proposed a law, H.B. 2793, that would ban digitally enhanced images in advertising without a disclaimer alerting consumers to fact that the image has been changed. Although the text of the bill targets all advertising images, proponents of the bill say it is aimed at unachievable or unhealthy depictions of women, which they claim negatively impacts the self image of young women. Photographer Mark Meyer has pointed out some of the folly in adding disclaimers to something as ubiquitous as digitally altered images in advertising.
Comment Re:LaTeX? (Score 1) 87
He's right. Vi is a sucky word-processor. It's a phenomenal text editor and I fully expect it to last forever in that role.
Comment Re:woohoo (Score 1, Troll) 418
When they give up on greater security out-of-the-box?
Comment Re:Oracle and Java (Score 1) 372
I may be a simpleton, but your data seems to corroborate the GP's claim that Java demand is declining. It shows that GP is overstating the decline, but supports the base contention.
Disclaimer: I've been primarily a "Java Guy" for over a decade. Interestingly, the first place I used/learned Java was on a cross-platform project that ran on several UNIX variants, Linux, and Windows. The only cross-platform pain we had was a poorly thought-out installation process that needed to do *way* too much work during installation.
Comment Re:so wait (Score 1) 185
If cleanliness is the goal, surely a traditional keyboard is completely the wrong design. Touchscreen would be ideal and easy to clean with an inexpensive wipe. Who requires a high level of cleanliness but uses a keyboard enough that a traditional keyboard is required? Do neurosurgeons have their personal assistants 'take letters' during surgery?
Not familiar with computerized medical records, are we?
Comment Re:Kid's first OS (Score 2) 266
Kids these days! It was *AMAZING* when I upgraded to a PC w/ DOS. Third system, if I recall correctly.
Comment Re:Regenerate? (Score 1) 646
It's also already been deused.
Comment Re:Go retro.. (Score 1) 647
Well, that raises some interesting copyright questions. A quick perusal of Wikipedia did not make it clear how the copyright stands. Pretty strong argument that it went PD in 1980, regardless of wider distribution.
By modern standards, it was copyright as soon as it was "penned". The standard of the day required an explicit claim of copyright or it was PD by default. Three paths, all lead to PD no later than 1980. The university that published it in 2010 could only claim copyright to their derivative work, I'd think.
Hmm. Now I'm very curious.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 647
That's 2, maybe 3 novels without counting waiting-in-airports time. Each way.
