Comment Anagram (Score 1) 1091
It's a strange coincidence, but "Caster Semenya" is an anagram of "Yes, a secret man".
Comment Re:Outstanding. (Score 1) 454
Populist, yes; right-wing, not so much anymore. They have Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable as a prominent columnist, and his politics are centre-left as far as I can see.
They've also been running a campaign to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon. I've never been a fan of that particular paper, but they've been doing some good stuff recently.
Comment Re:Premium price, not premium PC (Score 1) 475
accelerometers to shut the hard drive off if the laptop falls
My dad's (fairly elderly) Thinkpad has this feature. It's a very good idea.
On that topic, Here's a cool little program for recent Mac laptops with the accelerometer chip that can measure the G force on the laptop. Has earned me some funny looks on trains
Comment Re:So what happens (Score 1) 388
I believe their slogan was "Lucas Electrics- Get Home Before Dark!"
Comment Re:Why This Article Is Stupid (Score 1) 227
It's like the Force- it has a light side, a dark side and it binds the universe together :)
Comment Re:About 2 Kilos (Score 1) 495
Human memory must have fairly lossy compression, at least mine does.
Comment Re:Anyone know the economics on these? (Score 1) 462
My mother has a Honda Jazz (the European name for the Fit) and it gets 45mpg (imperial) even if you drive it hard. Drive it with a light right foot and I reckon you'd get 55mpg (or around 45mpg US) no problem.
Comment Re:Apple Don't (Score 1) 200
It's bindun!
Sure, it's almost as big as the smaller MacBooks and ugly as hell, but 32 hours of battery life is nothing to sniff at if you're doing field work. Perhaps Ars Technica will manage a whole WWDC keynote next year without having to change out laptops :P
Sure, it's almost as big as the smaller MacBooks and ugly as hell, but 32 hours of battery life is nothing to sniff at if you're doing field work. Perhaps Ars Technica will manage a whole WWDC keynote next year without having to change out laptops
Comment Re:Even worse than you can imagine (Score 1) 296
Interesting you should mention classic cars. Jaguar adopted their name after the war for that exact reason; they were originally called S.S. Cars, named for owner William Lyons' preceding company Swallow Sidecars. Their logo actually resembled (to my mind) the German imperial eagle.
Comment Re:Model M Keyboard (Score 1) 622
IIRC AT was electrically identical to PS2, so it should be possible to daisychain adaptors and make it USB compatible.
Comment Re:What is so suprising about a 400mb update? (Score 1) 194
I was running 10.5.6 and my update was 449mb. I was almost entirely up to date aside from an iLife '09 update I've been putting off installing.
Comment Re:Mmm.. now these are some sexy chips (Score 1) 185
A masterbat, maybe.
Comment Re:where have I heard this before? (Score 1) 177
The phrase also frequently appeared in the newspapers within the game Simcity 2000.
Drug-Sniffing Drones Take To the Skies In the Netherlands 229
Ryan writes "Unmanned, drug-sniffing drones have been introduced in the Netherlands. They fly over houses (video), sniff for weed, and scan for grow lights. Police say they are not breaking the law because the samples can be taken without entering the building."
Atari Emulation of CRT Effects On LCDs 226
An anonymous reader writes "A group at Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a fun little open source program to emulate the CRT effects to make old Atari games look like they originally did when played on modern LCD's and digital displays. Things like color bleed, ghosting, noise, etc. are reproduced to give a more realistic appearance."
