Comment Re:Short version (Score 0, Redundant) 246
real men read the appropriate xkcd comic.
They also know when to stop a joke.
Comment Re:not going to work (Score 1) 288
What about songs like March of the Black Queen? I'd hardly say it's not worth listening to, but Queen considered it too difficult to perform live. There has to be at least a hundred examples of such cases. You clearly don't know much about music.
VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek 133
incuso writes "VisLab announced the most advanced challenge so far ever organized for autonomous vehicles. Two driverless electric cars will perform a trip from Italy to China to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous driving in real traffic conditions. Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser scanners, seven cameras, GPS, inertial measurement unit, three Linux PCs, and an x-by-wire driving system. The mission will start on July 10 in Milan, Italy, and will reach Shanghai, China, on October 10 (10/10/10) on a 13,000 km route though Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."
Comment Re:Oh great... (Score 1) 191
you just lost the game
Comment Umm... no (Score 1) 178
Either they already fixed it or the article is wrong, because I'm in Chile and Facebook and Youtube seem fine to me
Comment Re:Who are you to cast aspersions? (Score 1) 408
you do know that you can get porn for free online, right?
Comment Re:What About The Parents? (Score 1) 436
Problem: your daughter wants to have sex and doesn't want to become a nun.
Solution: make her as fat and ugly as possible to minimize the possibility that any given kid will want to have sex with her.
How to deal with pedophiles who like chubby girls is left as an exercise to the reader.
Comment Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score 1) 314
I bought a macbook pro four months ago and everything seems fine with cock... i mean me
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 345
Seriously? There's a way to test that every single piece of software works OK? Well, if that's the case just create a piece of software that tests if a certain code will stop no matter what its input is and win a turing award.
Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 335
Don't you mean a certain Austrian dictator?
Submission + - Chilean earthquake shortens days (businessweek.com)
ailnlv writes: According to TFA, days just got shorter. In brief, the recent earthquake slightly shifted the Earth's axis by about 8 cm and shortened days by 1.26 microseconds
"The changes can be modeled, though they're difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.'s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor."
"The changes can be modeled, though they're difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.'s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor."
Comment Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... (Score 1) 613
In Chile you open your browser, log in, click next a few times and then about two months later you get your tax return in your bank account and an email telling you that it's done.
Comment Re:Art? (Score 1) 372
Frank Zappa also said that all you need to be a real country is a beer and an airline. Maybe that's what's wrong with Haiti...
Comment Re:Programming without music? (Score 1) 1019
I have a similar problem. I can only tune out certain styles of music without any lyrics, so that cuts down my choices of background music heavily. I mostly listen to Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert and some Oscar Peterson stuff. Easy to tune out and lovely to hear when you're not tunning it out.
Comment Re:Fat chance, but... (Score 1) 56
Maybe the main character just isn't an ambiturner, like Zoolander. Have you tried turning left 3 times?
