Comment Re:Highlights Apple's Innovative Grab (Score 1) 149
Nope. Apple is a cunt. Everyone who buys apple products is a cunt. Don't be a cunt.
Nice to see another Australian in here?
Comment Re:Apple is the new Microsoft (Score 2) 393
It's never a slow news day when you can just make shit up.
Especially if it's about the raspberry pi, bitcoins, iStuff, or a few other old faithfuls.
Comment Re:We should know this already... (Score 2) 287
Hell, yeah - I'd eat a space rat burger so long as you put bacon on it.
Submission + - The Sweet Mystery of Science
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Biologist David P. Barash writes in the LA Times that as a scientist he has been participating in a deception for more than four decades — a benevolent and well intentioned deception — but a deception nonetheless. "When scientists speak to the public or to students, we talk about what we know, what science has discovered," writes Barash. "After all, we work hard deciphering nature's secrets and we're proud whenever we succeed. But it gives the false impression that we know pretty much everything, whereas the reality is that there's a whole lot more that we don't know." Teaching and writing only about what is known risks turning science into a mere catalog of established facts, suggesting that "knowing" science is a matter of memorizing says Barash. "It is time, therefore, to start teaching courses, giving lectures and writing books about what we don't know about biology, chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics." Barash isn't talking about the obvious unknowns, such as "Is there life on other planets?" Looking just at his field, evolutionary biology, the unknowns are immense: How widespread are nonadaptive traits? To what extent does evolution proceed by very small, gradual steps versus larger, quantum jumps? What is the purpose of all that "junk DNA"? Did human beings evolve from a single lineage, or many times, independently? Why does homosexuality persist? According to Barash scientists need to keep celebrating and transmitting what they know but also need to keep their eyes on what science doesn't know if the scientific enterprise is to continue attracting new adherents who will keep pushing the envelope of our knowledge rather than resting satisfied within its cozy boundaries. As Richard Dawkins writes: "Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.""
Comment Re:poor (Score 1) 378
This is a well-known problem when trying to use right angles
Surely you aren't suggesting that they should have used...gasp! rounded corners?
Comment Re:Ex-military, current paranoid schizophrenic (Score 1) 333
Free cookie to anyone getting that reference.
Is it a tracking cookie?
PS I'm not paranoid. And I have new socks on.
Comment That does not fempute! (Score 1) 224
The more tried method (That humans have done on animals for several thousand years.) is genetic modificaton through selective breeding
Oblig futurama... death by snu snu! http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/yttx80/futurama-death-by-snu-snu
(Sorry, it was the first thing that came to mind.)
Comment Re:Look at the bright side (Score 5, Insightful) 224
Why not make another Earth in our own solar system?
I'd prefer them to use Barnard's star for beta testing the process.
Comment Re:Helium?! (Score 4, Interesting) 150
Maybe they should fill it with hydrogen, fly it at very low altitude, and coat it with ball bearings to dissuade people from shooting at it.
Comment Re:that's assuming it didn't arrive (Score 2) 81
I sent some non-perishable food from mid-west USA to Great Britain...that was about 2 years ago...
Has it arrived yet?
Comment Re:Games? (Score 1) 90
I didn't know it could take 3D photos - thanks for the tip.
Comment Re:Can't wait for the North American release (Score 1) 90
Don't ask questions you don't really want to know the answer to!
Comment Re:Games? (Score 2) 90
The 3DS versions also play games written for the DS versions, so the libraries are extras on top of the regular DS library.
The 3D games/3D effect isn't a reason to buy a 3DS if you already have a DS. It's a reason maybe to spend a little more and buy the 3DS if you don't already own a console of this type at all, but the older non-3D consoles seem really cheap at the moment so now's a good time to get one for each of your kids if you have more than one child.
My son and also my nephew have a 3DS and they both turn off the 3D effect and never use it, because their eyes get sore after extended periods - as per the warning labels on the console box & games.
I don't have a good answer to your question because I haven't seen any apps on the DS consoles that I would call a killer app.
Comment Re:crash faster (Score 1) 563
Question: do you like eating cupcakes while working?
Alternatively, do any of your co-workers like to play practical jokes, and keep turning on one of the accessibility options like sticky keys? It may be possible to turn that on via policy, or remotely...
Or maybe you're triggering one of the keyboard shortcuts but that isn't easy to do, like pressing the left shift key 5 times quickly and then not seeing the prompt.
Comment Re:Worse by far. Ask why AD is used. (Score 5, Informative) 563
"I want my apps and my config to move with me if I have to work on another computer". NFS mounted home directories on UNIX means that this isn't a problem on those machines. It does it without AD, therefore why implement it?
However, windows wants it all on the C: drive and locally mounted, therefore they have to have this all reconfigured on boot/login.
Yeah it's a real shame windows don't have something that lets your profile roam with you.
- Roaming profiles
- Folder redirection (with or without mandatory profiles)
- Group Policy
- Group Policy preferences (can't remember how I managed without those, now. What's a login script again?)
And probably a bunch of other stuff I missed, that was off the top of my head. And it's click-and-drool to deploy for the most part, and troubleshooting is just right-click-and-drool.
