Comment Re:And why would we... (Score 1) 562
Good point. Still, I assume that being more careful about our resources is not too much to ask.
Comment And why would we... (Score 1) 562
... want to live on the moon if we can't even properly live on Earth?
Comment Re:Desktop? (Score 1) 210
What is this "root window" you speak of? My basement only has roots.
Comment Re:Can we have this on comments too ? (Score 2) 257
{Yes/No}.
Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies 465
walterbyrd writes "Microsoft is among the world's most ethical companies, according to a list put together by the Ethisphere Institute in New York. Overall, 110 companies made the prestigious list, including Microsoft and 35 other newcomers. The complete list was reported by Forbes."
Comment Re:Wow, who wrote this summary? (Score 1) 554
They shouldn't: UK has DST, UTC doesn't.
BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education 139
drDugan writes "BitTorrent, Inc. announced this morning that they have launched a partnership with the Khan Academy to distribute open education videos. They launched with more than 2,000 videos, covering high school and college level curriculum, across science, math, history, finance and test prep. All of the videos are free to download and open licensed with Creative Commons."
Comment Re:230V 16A (Score 1) 497
He looked really shocked when we gave him one.
Insulation is important.
Big Brother Friends Facebook 82
storagedude writes "Clara Shih, who created the first business app on Facebook in 2007, is back with a new venture: Hearsay Social, which makes Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn more palatable to corporations by adding features like SEC and FINRA monitoring and compliance and analytics. Conversations are monitored around the clock, regardless of where employees access pages from — work, home or mobile — and workflow tools let companies approve or suggest content before it appears. Those features appear to be making financial companies a little more comfortable Facebooking, as State Farm and Farmers Insurance are two early customers. Shih is backed in the new venture by veterans of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube."
Comment No wonder they didn't want to update it (Score 2) 153
Sources/DANAE/ARX_Script.cpp is 13719 lines in size, most of which handles script parsing and evaluation simultaneously, in a uselessly convoluted way. It deserves a proper rewrite from scratch.
I do like how they used names from Greek mythology to refer to certain components of the source code: Athena handles audio, Eerie handles some graphics, Mercury handles user input, Hermes is probably there for communication or saving/loading, Minos is only there for pathfinding and Danae gets everything else.
Comment Re:No money (Score 2) 190
Averages don't say much here, we need more statistics. There could be more Linux users among the outliers, while the medians among users may be the same for all OSes.
Comment Stupid move (Score 2, Informative) 450
If the owners of a website are willing to get paid for using a CAPTCHA system, then I guess they're also willing to lose most of their users because of it.
There are other methods to keep your website clean.
Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' 212
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Microsoft might finally be realizing that Silverlight can't cover every platform, according to this conversation with Bob Muglia: '... when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, "our strategy has shifted," Muglia told [ZDNet]. Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. "But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple's) iOS platform," Muglia said.'"
Comment Re:Fuck Dubai (Score 4, Funny) 107
Yes! Penetrate all their firewall holes!
Comment Re:I knew that since 2008 (Score 1) 64
In other news: ACO is ancient. !news.
