Comment Re:Um ... (Score 2, Informative) 142
NFL football is more like a blend of chess and raw violence.
No, chess boxing is more like blend of chess and raw violence.
Comment 64-bit Flash Player 10.1 (Score 1) 272
Is there 64-bit flash 10.1 available on any platform yet? Paul Betlem (Sr. Director, Engineering at Adobe) writes at their blog: "We're working on 64-bit versions, but I'm unable to share a specific schedule at this point. We do understand the incredibly strong interest in its availability."
I can't read anywhere that they gona kill Linux version, or Solaris one for that matter.
Comment Re:Steam on Linux (Score 3, Informative) 256
Well EA already pledged support for MeeGo platform so it's not that far fetched idea.
More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."
Comment Re:Apollo was a Hoax (Score 2, Interesting) 24
Apparently Japanese are included in hoax too as seen here. We all know that USA had better cameras 40 years ago than Japan today, so hoax it is. I'm sorry but I don't know about Russians at Nevada at that time, or at least I won't tell you. Have a nice weekend.
LRO Photographs Soviet Lunar Landers From the '70s 24
braindrainbahrain writes "Photographs of the Sea of Crises on the Moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Soviet lunar landers Luna 20, Luna 23 and Luna 24, which landed on the Moon in the 1970s. In addition to the landers, it is possible to see the tracks made by the Lunokhod lunar rover! The Soviet Lunokhod lunar rover predates the first successful Mars Rover by some 30 years. (Note: Very cool old-style artists' drawings of the Soviet craft at the Wikipedia links above.)"
Comment Europa this, europa that. (Score 2, Interesting) 237
I wonder why people always talk about possible life on Europa although for layman like me Ganymede seems better candidate: It's big as a planet, less radiation than Europa, molten iron core, water ocean, magnetosphere. All the good stuff and less of the bad.
Comment Re:Open source, steal? (Score 1) 159
And where did they get their time machine from? Plot thickens.
An Early Look At Civilization V 286
c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."
Comment Re:No matter where you are, 'remote' = poor servic (Score 1) 376
Meanwhile in Finland you can have broadband connection even if you live in a cave and cellphone works everywhere.
Comment Re:Conclusion (Score 5, Informative) 354
Just install AutoPager and you get the article in one long page. You find performance per dollar at page 17 and other interesting nuggets of information well before that last page conclusion.
Comment Re:Funny names (Score 1) 162
MeeGo is supposed to be the result of merging Maemo and Moblin
Who named these platforms, a Lord of the Rings fan with a speech impediment?
Be happy they didn't name it M&M.
Comment Re:Metric Everywhere (Score 1) 300
Here in Europe most countries changed their currency from something else to Euro lately. Learning new currency took some time but in the end the change from using one unit to another wasn't that painful, and it certainly didn't take decades to learn.
Comment Re:He hates mobile phones?! (Score 5, Interesting) 308
He has same pragmatic approach to the issue as you do. At his blog here he said:
everybody: my dad got himself a N900, so there's one in the family. Don't worry about it, there's room for more than one Linux phone.
I like the Nexus One, maybe I'd like the N900 too. But I certainly don't like cellphones enough to have two.
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 149
And also worth mentioning that their population is highly concentrated in a few areas. Like Alaska - very low density (very few people for a massive place), but 95% of the population is concentrated in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau. Much easier to roll out a technology.
. For example, Finland. Just over 5 million people in that very large country, but 25% of them live in Helsinki urban area. Or Sweden, with 9.2 million people in that massive land area, but 30% of them in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo urban areas.
Yet our mobiles work fine in the backwoods of North Karelia and hills of Lapland. See for example this coverage map and compare it to what ever you like.
