Comment Re:Places Apple still have DRM. (Score 1) 264
I hear Apple is now making a special version of the shuffle for people who want controls on the player rather than through the headphones.
This version will have the traditional Apple click wheel controller, and will even include a small screen to see what's playing:
This is why one makes a product line. See, some folks want the smallest possible player. Other folks will want controls on the device. Whining that they're not making the exact device that you want suggests a simple course of action-- go into business & make it yourself. Or use one of the knock-offs. Or buy a used last-gen shuffle on Ebay. But for god's sake, please stop the whining.
Comment Re:D sucks (Score 1) 404
Visual Basic sucks. BASIC rules. Long live GOTO!
Comment Re:What? (Score 4, Insightful) 404
Why would Mac people hate somebody for that? I ssh into my macs all the time. I pretty much always have terminal windows open. A lot of the molecular biology software I use (the open EMBOSS set of programs ROCK) are command line only, take files as input & write files as output. It's a BSD box with pretty paint. Sure, it's nice to have the pretty screens & be able to run things like iphoto & etc, but at the end of the day the most useful stuff still runs from the > prompt.
Comment Re:MOD PARENT -1, UNFUNNY (Score 1) 104
Obviously only Barak Obama can hold them together.
And then only Ted Nugent could blow them apart again.
Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google 385
kzieli writes "Britannica is going to allow viewers to edit articles, with changes to be reviewed by editors within 20 minutes. There is also a bit of a rant against Google for ranking Wikipedia above Britannica on most search terms."
Comment Re:CDMA (Score 1) 153
8-10k (yes, that's thousand) minutes per month.
Jesus tapdancing christ, there's only 44,000 minutes in a 31 day month-- you actually spend almost 1/4 of your life on your phone? Wow.
Comment Re:Get directional antennas (Score 2, Funny) 451
Also, great for making popcorn.
Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 625
You can kill large-scale evolution much more easily than that. Simply falsify some of the major underpinnings & the whole thing falls down. Radioisotope dating, stratigraphic dating, spontaneous mutation rates, Mendelian inheritance, etc. Proving that any of these work significantly differently than we currently think they do would obligate a full-scale re-evalution of evolutionary theory.
Apple Announces MacBook Air 1218
Apple made four announcements at MacWorld Expo: the new MacBook Air, new features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and movie rentals via iTunes from a TV without a computer involved. The new portable gets most of the attention. It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16". It weighs 3 pounds and has a 13.3" screen and full-size, backlit keyboard. Its Intel chip is the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel. The MacBook Air will cost $1799 and up. Its storage is either 80 GB disk or 64 GB solid-state drive. 2 GB of memory. It has no optical drive (an external one is available for $99) and features a way to wirelessly use the optical drive of any nearby Mac or PC with the proper software installed.
Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs 293
A number of readers sent word of the hearing by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in which committee members raked two Yahoo execs over the coals. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," the committee chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said angrily after hearing from Jerry Yang and Michael Callahan about Yahoo's actions that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of a Chinese dissident. In 2004 Yahoo turned over information about journalist Shi Tao's online activities requested by Chinese authorities. In Feb. 2006, Yahoo's General Counsel Callahan testified that he had not known the nature of the investigation the authorities were conducting. He later learned that several employees of Yahoo China were aware at the time that the investigation involved "state secrets," but Callahan did not go back to Congress to amend his testimony. Committee members were withering in their disdain for Yahoo's refusal to help Shi Tao's family after his arrest.
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport 1547
SuperBanana writes "According to a report by the Boston Globe, MIT Student Star Simpson was nearly shot by Logan Airport police who thought she was armed with a bomb. She approached an airline employee wearing a prototyping board with electronic components, crudely attached to the front of her sweatshirt and holding 'putty' in her hand. She asked about an incoming flight, and did not respond when asked about the device. Armed police responded. 'Simpson was charged with possessing a hoax device and was arraigned today East Boston Municipal Court. She was held on $750 cash bail and ordered to return to court Oct. 29. "Thankfully because she followed our instructions, she ended up in our cell instead of a morgue," Pare said. "Again, this is a serious offense ... I'm shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport."'"
Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe 628
realwx writes "Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota. Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding. "What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.""
Share a News Story With Coworkers, Pay a Fine 243
An anonymous reader sends us to InfoWorld for news that Knowledge Networks, an analyst firm, has settled a copyright complaint, agreeing to pay the Software and Information Industry Association $300,000 for sharing copyrighted news articles internally with employees.
New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable" 554
Tuoqui writes "With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number, people may be ignoring a bigger weakness in the AACS armor, which emerged two weeks ago. Some hackers have figured out how to crack AACS in a way that cannot be defeated, even by revoking all the keys in circulation."
